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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

Its fine. I barely remember doing it, think its a bad concept too, but by all means if you like it have fun with it.
I suppose a writer can basically do the same thing with the other opportunistic snakes who actually ran for the 1860 RNC like Salmon Chase so it's not like incredibly interesting. I think I just like like alternate 1860 stuff.
 
I suppose a writer can basically do the same thing with the other opportunistic snakes who actually ran for the 1860 RNC like Salmon Chase so it's not like incredibly interesting. I think I just like like alternate 1860 stuff.
Chase is a very complicated figure, the most complicated in Lincoln's cabinet I'd say, but I wouldn't call him a snake. I think that's the Shelby Foote school looking to oversimplify things for the dramatic like they always do. His machinations make far more sense when you realize just how moderate Lincoln was in his policies and how radically transformative a political revolution happened in the war.
 
Chase is a very complicated figure, the most complicated in Lincoln's cabinet I'd say, but I wouldn't call him a snake. I think that's the Shelby Foote school looking to oversimplify things for the dramatic like they always do. His machinations make far more sense when you realize just how moderate Lincoln was in his policies and how radically transformative a political revolution happened in the war.
I think Chase started out as a pious true believer and then got so caught up in the pursuit of power that gradually he and Kate started to believe in less and less until they finally were left with nothing but Salmon P. Chase to believe in.
 
I think Chase started out as a pious true believer and then got so caught up in the pursuit of power that gradually he and Kate started to believe in less and less until they finally were left with nothing but Salmon P. Chase to believe in.
I actually think the opposite is true. He blew everything because more so then the rest of his rivals he kept holding onto his true belief even as it shifted from a radical to a liberal position.
 
ATLF - Superman: Red Son

1953 - 1957: Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)
1952 (with Richard Nixon): Adlai Stevenson (Democratic)
1957 - 1965: W. Averell Harriman (Democratic)
1956 (with John F. Kennedy): Joe McCarthy (Anti-Communist), Harold Stassen (Republican), unpledged electors (States' Rights)
1960 (with John F. Kennedy): William E. Jenner (Anti-Communist), Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)

1965 - 1973: John F. Kennedy (Democratic)
1964 (with George Smathers): Ted Walker (Anti-Communist), Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1968 (with Terry Sanford): Ezra Taft Benson (Anti-Communist), George Romney (Republican), Martin Luther King Jr. (People's)

1973 - 1978: Alexander Luthor (Anti-Communist)
1972 (with J. Edgar Hoover): Terry Sanford (Democratic), Charles Mathias (Republican), Gus Hall (Superman), Ralph Nader (People's)
1976 (with William Westmoreland): Scoop Jackson (Democratic), Gus Hall (Superman), Elliot Richardson (Republican)

1978 - 1981: William Westmoreland (Anti-Communist)
1981 - 0000: Bruce Wayne (Democratic)
1980 (with Lloyd Bentsen): John K. Singlaub (Anti-Communist), Michael Harrington (Socialist), Gus Hall (Soviet)
1984 (with Lloyd Bentsen): Pat Buchanan (Anti-Communist), Carl Sagan (Socialist)


The emergence of the Soviet Superman in January, 1953 was the death knell for the Eisenhower Administration and the budding Russo-American Cold War. A nigh-invincible man, all under the control General Secretary Stalin, made a conflict with the Soviet Union unwinnable for the United States. Superman soon took to Korea and then Iran, and later Vietnam and knocked down three Cold War dominoes before spring began, humiliating Eisenhower in the opening months of his presidency. And then Stalin died in March. And Superman took his place as General Secretary.

The truth is a little more complicated than that and involves Stalin's lieutenants cutting each other down in the subsequent succession war until the military basically asked Superman to take control of the country at the end of the year. The Soviet people rejoiced, the perfect symbol of Soviet propaganda was now leading the country. Superman sabotaged American efforts in Guatemala and the Philippines and in 1955 helped China invade Taiwan. With the 'fall of Free China' American conservatives seethed and Senator Joe McCarthy waged a war against the 'fellow traveler' Eisenhower government as 'The Understanding' became the norm of geopolitics.

Eisenhower announced that he wasn't going to be running for a second term, completely disillusioned by the presidency. McCarthy and his nascent Anti-Communist Party rejoiced and gathered resources to fight a general election. Despite the funding and vitriol behind McCarthy, it would be the foreign policy expertise of Governor Averell Harriman that mattered most to Americans on election day. Harriman cemented 'The Understanding' as State Department and the United States turned inwards as social tensions began to boil over domestically.

By 1969, any pretense of a multipolar world was gone. Superman's Soviet Empire controlled all of Europe (except the UK), all of Asia (except China), all of Africa (except South Africa), and swathes of territory in Latin America. Meanwhile the United States desperately tried to hold itself together as President Kennedy found a way to piss off just about everyone through his fence-sitting civil rights policies. The 'Southern Troubles' occupied more American military manpower than any proxy war could have afforded. As the Democrats flailed trying to keep the country together and the Republicans continued their nosedive into obscurity, the Anti-Communists waited with bated breath.

Weapons magnate Alexander 'Lex' Luthor strove to use his fortune and two-decades worth of connections in far-right politics to seize the Anti-Communist Party presidential nomination. Luthor soared through the primaries and was rewarded with the party's nomination at the 1972 ACNC convention. The general election would be a cakewalk. Vice President Sanford struggled to defend his record, Mac Mathias barely campaigned, and nearly a tenth of Americans voted to have Superman take over the country.

Luthor's 'Second Cold War' reignited nationalist fervor across the nation. This would peak when Superman fought the American Superman clone known as 'Uncle Sam' in September, 1975. The fight, which nearly became a flashpoint for nuclear war between the United States and Soviet Union, was defused when Superman destroyed Uncle Sam at the cost of physical injury, sparing the continental United States from a retributive attack. Although Luthor's government was damaged by the affair they would be able to salvage their re-election campaign by saber-rattling over the recent Soviet annexations of China, South Africa, Argentina, and Mexico. In the 1976 presidential election Scoop Jackson and the Democrats would fail to match Luthor's jingoism and nearly a fifth of Americans voted to have Superman take over the country, even despite Luthor's crackdown on the domestic Superman movement.

By 1977 President Luthor knew that he was down to his last chance. The United States would begin a massive military build-up in the summer as Luthor brainstormed with his advisors to find a weakness of Superman's. In the spring of 1978 Superman denounced the American military buildup and threatened to intervene to 'save the American proletariat' and 'preserve world peace.' President Luthor challenged Superman to make good on his threats. In May, Superman gave the United States an ultimatum: disarm by July 1st or face the consequences.

July 1st, 1978 came and Luthor remained steadfast, the world was on the brink of war. The next day, Soviet shock troops poured into Alaska, Canada, and the Southwestern US. Superman himself flew to the White House himself, hoping to end the war immediately by dealing with Luthor directly. No one truly knows what happened at the White House that day but after a confrontation between Luthor and Superman in the evening, Superman ordered his armies to stand down before resigning as General Secretary and flying out of the atmosphere and Luthor announced his resignation by noon on July 4th. The world was shaken by the absence of Superman and the end of the Second Cold War. Within months Superman's Empire was divided by his lieutenants and a warlord period began throughout much of the former Realm of the Red Son.

Westmoreland, always a placeholder, could not placate a radicalized base disappointed by the anti-climax of the Cold War. But Westmoreland's intraparty opponents would not run the country in the 80s. New York City Mayor Bruce Wayne would become the Democratic Party nominee and later the President after the 1980 Presidential Election. Wayne, scion to a family of Republican donors, was elected mayor in 1977 and was able to alleviate the city's budget crisis and lower crime rates with the help of vigilantes likes the Batman. Wayne was popular across the country in the wake of World War III and moderate enough to receive both the Democratic and Republican nominations. The left were, of course, horrified by Wayne's fiscal conservatism and backed socialist leader Michael Harrington in his pursuit to lead Americans away from capitalism and Supermanism.

The world at the dawn of 1988 is very different from the world a decade before it. Waynonomics has given unprecedented government support for big business, now in the process of feasting on the various nations left behind by the fall of the Soviet Union. As the Democratic Party moderates and concedes to corporate power, the Anti-Communist Party radicalizes even deeper into proto-fascism without a clear antagonistic outlet. American interest in space has never been higher and the 1986 moon landing was a major victory for the Wayne Administration, still no trace of Superman though.
 
Shifting Tides


Political Career of Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke

2005-2011: Democratic member of the El Paso, Texas City Council from the 8th District
2005: Beto O'Rourke (Non-Partisan) Def. Anthony Cobos (Non-Partisan)
2007: Beto O'Rourke (Non Partisan) Def. Trini Acevedo (Non-Partisan)

2005-2006: Democratic Mayor Pro-Tempore of El Paso, Texas

2013-2019: Democratic United States Representative from Texas' 16th Congressional District
2012
Democratic Primary Def. Silvestre Reyes (Democratic)
2012 Def. Barbara Carrasco (Republican)
2014 Def. Corey Roen (Republican)
2016 Def. Jamie Perez (Libertarian)

2018: Democratic Nominee in the 2018 Texas Senate Election
2018 Democratic Primary Def. Sema Hernandez (Democratic), Edward Kimbrough (Democratic)
2018: Ted Cruz (Republican) Def. Beto O'Rourke (Democratic)

2022: Democratic Candidate in the 2022 Texas Gubernatorial Election
2022
Democratic Primary: Julian Castro (Democratic) Def. Beto O'Rourke (Democratic), Chris Bell (Democratic)

2023-2025: Democratic Post Master General of the United States
(Appointed by Joe Biden, confirmed 61-39)

2025-2026:
Democratic Vice-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
(Serving Under Lovely Warren)

2026: Democratic Nominee in the 2026 Texas Gubernatorial Election
(With
Vanessa Fuentes)
2026 Democratic Primary: Beto O'Rourke (Democratic) Def. Al Green (Democratic), Ron Nirenberg (Democratic)

2027-2033: Democratic Governor of Texas
(With
Vanessa Fuentes)
2026 Def.
Dan Crenshaw (Republican)
2030 Def. George P. Bush (Republican)

2033-Present: Democratic Secretary of Energy
(Nominated by
Kwame Raoul, confirmed 53-47)

2021-2025: Joe Biden (Democratic)
(With Kamala Harris)
2020 Def.
Donald J. Trump/Mike Pence (Republican)

2025-2026: Mike Lindell (Republican)*
(With Tim Scott)
2024 Def.
Kamala Harris/Bob Casey Jr. (Democratic)

2026-2026: Tim Scott (Republican)
(With James Lankford)

2026-2033:
Tim Scott (Independent/endorsed by Republican)
(With James Lankford)
2028 Def.
Ben Ray Lujan/Alex Morse (Democratic) and Various "MAGA" Candidates

2033-Present: Kwame Raoul (Democratic)
(With Jon Ossof)
2032 Def.
Chris Sununu/Meghan McCain (Republican) and Various "MAGA" Candidates

*Resigned on March 11th, 2026 following the revelation that he had relapsed into hard drug use
 
Can Pop Save The World ?
1997-2007:Tony Blair(Labour)
1997:John Major(Conservative),Paddy Ashdown(Liberal Democrats)
2001:William Hague(Conservative),Charles Kennedy(Liberal Democrats),Kenneth Clarke(Euro Tories),
2005:Iain Duncan Smith(Conservative),Charles Kennedy(Liberal Democrats),Kenneth Clarke(Euro Tories),Derek Wall(Peace)

2007-2012:
Gordon Brown(Labour)
2007:David Davis(Conservative),Simon Hughes(The Democrats),David Musa Pidcock(Peace)
2012-2017: David Miliband(Labour)
2012(Coalition with The Democrats and Peace):John Redwood(Conservative),Lembit Öpik(The Democrats),Peter Tatchell(Peace)

2001-2009:Al Gore/Joe Lieberman (Democratic)

2000:John McCain/Alan Keyes(Republican)
2004:Rudy Giuliani/Rick Santorum(Republican)

2009-2013:Mitt Romney/Eric Cantor(Republican)
2008:Joe Lieberman/Bill Richardson(Democratic)

2013-2017:Patrick J.Kennedy/Jim Webb(Democratic)
2012:Mitt Romney/Eric Cantor(Republican)
 
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President of the British Republic.

1945-1953 - Clement Attlee
1953-1961 - Bernard Law Montgomery

1961-1963 - Harold Wilson
1963-1969 - James Callaghan
1969-1974 - Enoch Powell
1974-1977 - Alec Douglas-Home
1977-1981 - David Steel
1981-1989 - Michael Caine
1989-1993 - Stanley Johnson

1993-2001 - Tony Blair
2001-2009 - Boris Johnson
2009-2017 - Chuka Umunna
2017-2021 - Conrad Black
2021-Inc. - Neil Kinnock
 
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♫...All We Are Sayin'...♫

List of Secretaries for the United States Department of Peace

1979-1980: Pete McCloskey

- Department created by Jimmy Carter following enactment of the Department of Peace Organization Act of 1979.
- Representative from California, "Dove" Republican elected as bipartisan olive branch, renegotiated when Republicans fell in behind the more conservative Reagan.

1980-1981: Daniel Inouye
- Senator for Hawaii, decorated war hero and amputee, largely considered a token appointment by Carter.
- Recommended American-lead peace talks in Northern Ireland, as well as further restrictions on national exports.

1981-1982: Donald Gregg
- Former CIA officer, member of the United States National Security Council (NSC) as Asia policy and intelligence matters specialist.
- Focused largely on assisting smaller ally countries against Soviet Union interests, mainly the Philippines, South Korea, Nicaragua and Angola.
- Suffered accusations of corruption concerning the Iran hostage crisis.

- Resigned to become Reagan's National Security Advisor.
1982-1985: Richard Pipes
- Polish-born naturalised citizen, former advisor to Washington Senator Henry M. Jackson, Harvard lecturer, head of the CIA's Team B and staunch anti-communist.
- Forced greater pressures on East Germany and greater assistance to Soviet satellite states. Maintained that "lasting peace" was only possible with the downfall of the Soviet Union.
- Highly criticised for recommending retaliatory nuclear bombardment during the 1983 NORAD nuclear false alarm incident.
1985-1994: vacant
- Department abolished by Reagan following federal budget cuts, until its restoration by President Clinton.
1994-1998: Dennis Kucinich
- Former Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, radio talk-show host, lecturer, and consultant.
- First Secretary in almost 10 years, attempted revitalisation of the Department.
- Domestic peacekeeping continued by way of crackdown of militia movements following the Oklahoma City Bombing.
- Survived assassination attempt by former Special Forces officer and conspiracy theorist Bo Gritz.

- Resigned in outrage over the Clinton administration's intervention in Yugoslavia.
1998-2001: Joe Lieberman
- Senator for Connecticut, quickly fell in lockstep with the Clinton administration.
- Impetus behind the push for upholding 'moral hygiene' by industry-wide video game rating system, introduction of the 1999 Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, and eliminating certain union-friendly civil service and labor protections for employees.
 
Green Britain

2019-2022: Boris Johnson (Conservative)
2019 (Majority) def. Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrat)
2022 Scottish independence referendum: 54% YES, 46% NO

2022-2024: Rishi Sunak (Conservative)
2024-2031: Keir Starmer (Labour)
2024 (Majority) def. Rishi Sunak (Conservative), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)
2029 (Majority) def. Kemi Badenoch (Conservative), Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrat)

2031-2040: Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour)
2032 PR referendum (first round): 38% MMP, 33% STV, 29% FPTP
2032 PR referendum (second round): 57% MMP, 43% STV
2033 (Majority) def. Matt Hancock (Conservative), Adam Dance (Liberal Democrat), Amelia Womack (Green)
2037 (Majority) def. Matt Hancock (Conservative), Alexandra Phillips (Green), Adam Dance (Liberal)

2040-2048: Jess Barnard (Labour)
2040 (Majority) def. Alexandra Phillips (Green), Elena Bunbury (Conservative), Lēoht Steren (Liberals – Wessex Regionalists)
2044 (Majority) def. Adrian Ramsay (Green), Lēoht Steren (Liberals – Wessex Regionalists), Nellie Gawne (Conservative)

2048-2054: Shaan Ali (Labour)
2049 (Majority) def. Adrian Ramsay (Green), Lēoht Steren (Liberals – Wessex Regionalists), Nellie Gawne (Conservative)
2054-2054: Tom Hazell (Green)
2054 (Coalition with Conservatives) def. Shaan Ali (Labour), Casey Byrne (Conservative), Lēoht Steren (Liberals – Wessex Regionalists)

The 2031 Labour leadership election was a campaign most notably marked by journalists constantly confusing Abena Oppong-Asare with deputy leadership candidate Bell Ribeiro-Addy while being perfectly able to tell Blake from Blakeley. Chancellor of the Exchequer Bridget Phillipson was the first to go, then the (ex-)Lexiteer MP for Basingstoke, before the foreign secretary won a respectable margin over Olivia Blake in the final round. The new prime minister announced that her government's priority would be the exciting subject of constitutional reform. Tired comparisons to Gordon Brown (and of Starmer to Blair) followed, as did a two-round referendum on proportional representation. There was reform of the Lords ('Nations and Regions') and devolution to a hotchpotch of mayoralties, county councils, and assemblies.

It remains unclear why Tynemouth became part of the city of St Albans, but Frances Weetman is the mayor of Hertfordshire now.

If not for the introduction of proportional representation, the thirties and forties would likely have seen the destruction of the Conservatives. Its increasingly hollowed-out rural constituency found itself torn between the rewilding and agricultural interests, ending with a mass exodus of (actual, because there isn't a '-shire' in 'Surrey') shire Tories to the Greens and the defection of the Daily Express. Instead, the Conservatives were just largely reduced to regional list seats with a base in the more affluent areas of Northern cities and London, helped by the rebranded Lib Dems becoming more West Saxon than West Country.

Then the peats went, the Fens flooded, East Anglia became a dust bowl, and flash floods in the north killed hundreds. Given the mood, the 'celebrity' endorsements from the stars of some old meme likely hurt more than helped the government of 'Shaandforth Ali'. But the surging Greens still fell slightly short of a majority; and so, for the first time in thirty years, the Conservatives returned to government.
 
For want of a percentile

Gyula Horn, Hungarian Socialist Party, 1994-2000

Sándor Lezsák, Hungarian Democratic Forum, 2000-2002

Sándor Nagy, Hungarian Socialist Party, 2002-2007

Miklós Nemeth, Hungarian Socialist Party, 2007-2009


Péter Ákos Bod, Independent, 2009-2011

Ibolya Dávid, Hungarian Democratic Party, 2011-


Basically what if Fidesz failed to hit the threshold for the 1994 elections and going from there
 
"Comrade Secretary Bernie Sanders Will Make Vaporwave Real!!!" I Shout To Myself As My Last Brains Cells Fade From This Earth and I With Them or How Bernie Sanders Accidentally Made Liz Bruenig The Leader Of A Christian Socialist Cyberpunk Society

2021-2027: Bernie Sanders (Democratic)

(With Barbara Lee)
2020 Def.
Donald J. Trump/Mike Pence (Republican)
2024 Def. Ron DeSantis/Todd Young (Republican)

2027-2029: Barbara Lee (Democratic)
(With Rashida Talib)

2029-2034:
Allison Ball (Republicans)
(With Josh Revak)
2028 Def.
Shemia Fagan/Julian Castro (Democratic)
2032 Def. Stacey Walker/John Fetterman (Democratic)

2034-2037: Allison Ball (Republican)
(With Joseph Cao)

2037-????:
Liz Bruenig (Democratic-Water Rights and Green-Libertarian-"Alliance to Save The Planet")
(With Gina Ortiz Jones)
2036 Def.
Austin Knudsen/Will Hurd (Republican)
 
Donkey Kong Says Trans Rights

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2019-2025: Boris Johnson (Conservative majority)

'19: defeated Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrat), Jonathan Bartley/Siân Berry (Green), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National), Nigel Farage (Brexit)
'24: defeated Keir Starmer (Labour), Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat), Jonathan Bartley/Siân Berry (Green), Humza Yousaf (Scottish National), Lance Forman (ReformUK), Zarah Sultana (Peace & Justice)

2025-2035: Priti Patel (Conservative majority, then Conservative minority w/ ReformUK c&s)
defeated Keir Starmer (Labour), Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat), Jonathan Bartley/Amelia Womack (Green), Humza Yousaf (Scottish National), Lucy Harris (ReformUK), Colum Eastwood (Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre)
2035-2040: Wes Streeting (Labour/Liberal Democratic coalition w/ Green c&s)
defeated Priti Patel (Conservative), Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat), Phélim Mac Cafferty/Amelia Womack (Green), Humza Yousaf (Scottish National), Lucy Harris (ReformUK), Luke 'Ming' Flanagan (Saoirse Shóisialta Cinnte)

Results of the 2039 Irish Reunification Referendum
Should the countries of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland be consolidated as a single sovereign state independent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain?
[Ar chóir tíortha Phoblacht na hÉireann agus Thuaisceart Éireann a chomhdhlúthú mar stát ceannasach aonair neamhspleách ar Ríocht Aontaithe na Breataine Móire?]
Yes: 48%
No: 41%
Ruined ballots/abstaining: 9%

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
2035-2040: Bim Afolami (Tory minority w/ Liberal Democrat
c&s)
defeated Wes Streeting (NuLabour), Siobhan Benita (Liberal Democrat), Sam Tarry (Socialist Labour), Phélim Mac Cafferty/Carla Denyer (Green), Kirk Kus (ReformUK), David Linden (Scottish National)
2040-2045: Lily Madigan (Socialist Labour/Scottish National/Green coalition, then Socialist Labour minority with Green c&s)
defeated Bim Afolami (Tory), Emma Hardy (NuLabour), Siobhan Benita (Liberal Democrat), Carl Benjamin (ReformUK), Phélim Mac Cafferty/Carla Denyer (Green), Kate Forbes (Scottish National), Cris Chesha (Classical Liberal)

Results of the 2043 Scottish Independence Referendum
Should the country of Scotland begin negotiations to become an independent nation apart from the United Kingdom of Great Britain?
[Am bu chòir do dhùthaich na h-Alba tòiseachadh air còmhraidhean gus a bhith na dùthaich neo-eisimeileach ach a-mhàin Rìoghachd Aonaichte Bhreatainn?]
Yes: 54%
No: 39%
Ruined ballots/abstaining: 7%
 
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