Meppo's Electoral Molehill

[Meppo]

not quite a roman à clef list but I like playing around with names okay

2001 - 2009: Georgy Pushchin ml. (Democrat)

2000 (w. Sergei Chernykh) def. Arseny Gorin ml. / Boris Gelman (Trudovik), Martyn Nadyrov / Arina Sardayeva (Green)​

2004 (w. Sergei Chernykh) def. Ivan Korneyev / Ivan Ilyin (Trudovik)​

2009 - 2017: Mubarak Gareyev (Trudovik)

2008 (w. Boris Dorenko) def. Ivan Zherebkov / Sara Purina (Democrat)​

2012 (w. Boris Dorenko) def. Dmitry Romensky / Pavel Korolev (Democrat)​

2017 - 2021: Viktor Shakht (Democrat)

2016 (w. Mikhail Pankov) def. Raisa Klimkina / Artem Borodich (Trudovik)​

2021 - present: Boris Dorenko (Trudovik)

2020 (w. Kamila Novikova) def. Viktor Shakht / Mikhail Pankov (Democrat)​

2020 Russian Federated Republic presidential election (second round)



- fmr. Vice President Boris Bidenko (Trudovik | Tula)
- with Senator Kamila Novikova (Trudovik | Primorye)
57,224,580 | 51.31%

- President Viktor Shakht (Democrat | Saint Petersburg)
- Vice President Mikhail Pankov (Democrat | Penza)
52,254,587 | 46.85%

(inspired by the maps made by Saser Bubonicus on the other place, with some alterations inspired in turn by this beauty from Res Publica)

 

[Meppo]

2017-2022: Scott Walker / Marco Rubio (Republican)

2016 def. Hillary Clinton / Tom Perez (Democratic)​

2020 def. Bernie Sanders / Amy Klobuchar (Democratic), Mark Cuban / Bari Weiss (Independent)​

2022-2022: Marco Rubio / vacant (Republican)
2022-2025: Marco Rubio / Kristi Noem (Republican)
2025-2033: Jared Polis / Tammy Duckworth (Democratic)

2024 def. Marco Rubio / Kristi Noem (Republican), Kanye West / Lauren Boebert (Justice)​

2028 def. Kristi Noem / Josh Mandel (Republican)​

 

[Meppo]

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2017-2022: Scott Walker / Marco Rubio (Republican)

2016 def. Hillary Clinton / Tom Perez (Democratic)​

2020 def. Bernie Sanders / Amy Klobuchar (Democratic), Mark Cuban / Bari Weiss (Independent)​

2022-2022: Marco Rubio / vacant (Republican)
2022-2025: Marco Rubio / Kristi Noem (Republican)
2025-2033: Jared Polis / Tammy Duckworth (Democratic)

2024 def. Marco Rubio / Kristi Noem (Republican), Kanye West / Lauren Boebert (Justice)​

2028 def. Kristi Noem / Josh Mandel (Republican)​

 

[NVB]

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2017-2022: Scott Walker / Marco Rubio (Republican)

2016 def. Hillary Clinton / Tom Perez (Democratic)​

2020 def. Bernie Sanders / Amy Klobuchar (Democratic), Mark Cuban / Bari Weiss (Independent)​

2022-2022: Marco Rubio / vacant (Republican)
2022-2025: Marco Rubio / Kristi Noem (Republican)
2025-2033: Jared Polis / Tammy Duckworth (Democratic)

2024 def. Marco Rubio / Kristi Noem (Republican), Kanye West / Lauren Boebert (Justice)​

2028 def. Kristi Noem / Josh Mandel (Republican)​

I remember me and Oppo came up with something like this like 2 years ago. It’s weird but I genuinely think this is the closest to what OTL would be like if Trump didn’t run. The assassination part is the only thing that I’m iffy about but other than that this is dead on.

 

[Meppo]

I remember me and Oppo came up with something like this like 2 years ago. It’s weird but I genuinely think this is the closest to what OTL would be like if Trump didn’t run.

Thanks! There are quite a few things left out because of time crunch and my own lack of confidence in my infobox-making skills, but I am glad to get this out of the system.

I'm not quite sold on Scott Walker's electoral strengths, having listened to a few of his speeches and having read about his low-key persona, but I do think he could pull off a win and run a, frankly speaking, fairly vicious administration, particularly in regards to polarization, exploiting congressional loopholes and especially approach to unions among other things.

Scott Walker’s Strategy for Winning the White House: Divide and Conquer

By the somewhat tamer standards of the Midwest, Scott Walker’s speech to the Iowa Freedom Summit last Saturday was a smorgasbord of red meat. In just...

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My general gist for this post was that the Walker administration's intervention in Venezuela and increased infringement upon unions and LGBT rights sees a lot of increased left-wing radicalism, especially in a digitalized age of increased attention towards police brutality — not to mention more aggrieved relations with China and, to some extent, certain European countries. At the same time, Scott Walker does not fully embrace the full-throated far-right rhetoric and circles that abounded with Trump ITTL, and as he and Rubio promote increased powers for CIA and FBI right-wing radicalism increases as well.

I think I've seen your and Oppo's take on a hypothetical Walker presidency, but unfortunately I cannot find it. Could you provide the link to it, if possible?

The assassination part is the only thing that I’m iffy about but other than that this is dead on.

I see your point. Assassinations are, however, fickle things that occur very unexpectedly. For the most part, I can say that it provokes quite a few lasting conspiracy theories.

 

[NVB]

I think I've seen your and Oppo's take on a hypothetical Walker presidency, but unfortunately I cannot find it. Could you provide the link to it, if possible?

It’s on his test thread on the other place

 

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How was he assassinated and what happened?

 

[Meppo]

How was he assassinated and what happened?

Pipe bomb explosion during a campaign rally for the midterms.

 

[Oppo]

Wagner Group in Venezuela is such an insane thought (yet not one too far out from reality)

 

[Meppo]

Wagner Group in Venezuela is such an insane thought (yet not one too far out from reality)

I think they were already alleged to be there even IOTL, albeit as security.

Russian mercenaries reportedly in Venezuela to protect Maduro

Contractors linked to the Wagner group, which has carried out missions in Ukraine and Syria, reportedly travelled to Venezuela

www.theguardian.com

 

[Meppo]

 

[Meppo]

dumb copypasta, don't take it too seriously

any The Owl House fans in here?

I'm sick and fucking tired of the sheer vitriol and hate I get for being one of the few ACTUALLY reformist people out here. Because the anti-revisionists ARE reformists, yet every single time I try and compromise my position and rally behind a Coven official half-way between my beliefs and the Hexsider clique, I get treated like an invader whose destroying the Boiling Isles from the inside, and responsible for all your problems.

I'm fucking tired of the vitriol reformists have towards anti-revisionists, to the extent that they'll back Raine Whispers just to fucking spite us, blame on us the Boiling Isles' inevitable collapse to liberalisation and savagery, claim we're destroying THEIR realm and that they apparently have an empirical right to destroy the status quo, and treating us like toxic trash to be discarded because we don't support removing the entire architectural legacy of the Emperor, or people dying from lack of qualified healers.

You know whose going to win this cold war if it comes between the Coven Heads and the CATs? The Archivists. Because our only chance of having a united Boiling Isles which actually builds peace for the Demon Realm will be fucking ruined.

Dear wild witches, Dear revisionist traitors: You may start noticing that you're being haunted by the ghosts of dead hand demon children, starved in the ongoing total war waged by the Human Realm on the Boiling Isles society.

Any future wild witch riots are your fault. Our lapsed support of the Feet in their struggle against the Titan Trappers will be your fault. The next Exile of the Giraffes will be your fault. That's what you get for uprooting the existing order of society. You get the Savage Ages.

As a true coven witch, I have to say: I fucking hate all of you. All of you are as bad as Terra fucking Snapdragon. The chauvinists are going to keep building up unlimited, unquestioned power to terrorise demons and witches with, demon thorps you can't even point out on a map will start wanting independence.

Enjoy the slow decline in to dissolution that the Boiling Isles have been facing for decades now. Hope you enjoy cleaning floors for humans. And when the time finally comes that all the war and poverty and insurrection is too much, and chauvinist paramilitaries start bombing children in their schools, because of the unchecked power of wild witch wreckers is what causes all that fucking shit: You could have stopped this, but instead you chose to be savages.

 

[Yokai Man]

dumb copypasta, don't take it too seriously

any The Owl House fans in here?

Here.

 

[Meppo]

Here.

Nice

I have so many dumb takes on this show that I could share

 

[Yokai Man]

Nice

I have so many dumb takes on this show that I could share

Shoot away.

 

[Meppo]

Shoot away.

Spoiler: Massive spoilers for Season 3

- The Hexside/Kikimora & Boscha scene was the only part of For the Future that I actually liked
- TOH has some of the dullest plant magic in fiction
- Philip Wittebane is only a British colonizer in the sense that he grew up in a British colony
- TOH should've had at least a single mention of Emperor's Coven ships colonizing other parts of the Demon Realm
- It's extremely probable that there'll be a large contingent of witches and demons thinking that the Collector was brought about by the Draining Spell and/or that the Draining Spell happening as it did was the result of a wild witch conspiracy
- There are not enough Coven official villains and/or wild witches in the series
- Hunter should have had a wolf palisman
- Odalia doesn't factor into anything in the series

 

[Meppo]

format experimentation, I'll be honest I kind of fudged much of the Hoover-Allred section and the post-Sverdlovist Soviet Union states but it is what it is

1913-1916: Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
with Thomas R. Marshall (1913-1916)

'12 def. Theodore Roosevelt / Hiram Johnson (Progressive), William Howard Taft / Nicholas M. Butler [replacing James S. Sherman] (Republican), Eugene V. Debs / Emil Seidel (Socialist)​

'16: Pres. Wilson, Vice Pres. Marshall resigned after appointing Hughes Secretary of State to ensure steady post-election transition​

1916-1921: Charles E. Hughes (Republican)
with Charles W. Fairbanks (1917-1918)

'16 def. Woodrow Wilson / Thomas R. Marshall (Democratic)​

'17: American entry into the Great War​

1921-1923: Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
with Edwin T. Meredith (1921-1923)

'20 def. Charles E. Hughes / Warren G. Harding (Republican), Eugene V. Debs / Seymour Stedman (Socialist)​

'23: Pres. Wilson died of stroke​

1923-1925: Edwin T. Meredith (Democratic)
1925-1929: William G. McAdoo (Democratic)
with A. Victor Donahey (1925-1929)

'24 def. Frank O. Lowden / Miles Poindexter (Republican), Robert La Follette Sr. / Victor Murdock (Progressive)​

1929-1933: Alvan T. Fuller (Republican)
with Charles Curtis (1929-1933)

'28 def. William G. McAdoo / A. Victor Donahey (Democratic)​

1933-1937: James M. Cox (Democratic)
with John Nance Garner (1933-1937)

'32 def. Alvan T. Fuller / Oscar Carlstrom (Republican), Norman Thomas / James H. Maurer (Socialist)​

1937-1949: Herbert Hoover (Republican)
with Henry Wallace (1937-1941), William J. Donovan (1941-1949)

'36 def. James M. Cox / John Nance Garner (Democratic), Huey Long / Elmer Lundeen (Share Our Wealth) ​

'40 def. John Nance Garner / Paul V. McNutt (Democratic), Robert La Follette Jr. / James W. Ford (Popular Front)​

'42: American entry into the Anti-Soviet War​

'44 def. Paul V. McNutt / John J. Bennett Jr. (Democratic)​

1949-1953: William J. Donovan (Republican)
with Dwight H. Green (1949-1953)

'48 def. George H. Earle III / Alben Barkley (Democratic), Strom Thurmond / Benjamin T. Laney ("Southern" Democratic)​

1953-1954: James Allred (Democratic)
with Frank J. Lausche (1953-1954)

'52 def. William J. Donovan / Dwight H. Green (Republican), Charles Lindbergh / Dewey J. Short (Independent)​

'54: Pres. Allred shot in apparent assassination plot on Cuban President Álvarez; DOI suspects Italian involvement​

1954-: Frank J. Lausche (Democratic)

(some of the) Leaders attending the First Congress of Sovereign States, c. 1954:
Second Armenian Republic: Prime Minister Simon Vratsian (Armenian Popular Democrats)
Azerbaijani Democratic Republic: Prime Minister Mustafa bey Vakilov (Musavat)
Belarusian People's Republic: Prime Minister Mikoła Abramčyk (Belarusian Party of Christian Democracy)
Republic of Finland: Prime Minister Juho Paasikivi (National Coalition)
Federal Republic of Georgia: President Shalva Maglakelidze (National Union)
Federal Republic of Kazakhstan: Prime Minister Mustafa Shokai (Alash - "Right Tendency")
Russian Republic: Prime Minister Nikolai Voznesensky (Russian Labor Bloc)
Republic of Tajikistan: President Abdulkodir Muhiddinov (Ittifok)
Republic of Turkmenistan: President Karash Yomudsky (Independent)
Ukrainian Republic: President Danylo Skoropadsky (Union of 29 April)
Republic of Uzbekistan: President Usmon Xoja (Young Uzbeks)

 

[fanofeverything25]

a belated "here"

 

[Meppo]

Posted because I wanted to see if I could

Spoiler

Presidents of the Russian Federation as of 2053

1991-1999: Boris Yeltsin (Independent)
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of RSFSR, directly elected
1999-2008: Vladimir Putin (Independent)
Prime Minister, succeeded Yeltsin following the latter's resignation
2008-2012: Dmitry Medvedev (Independent)
Prime Minister, directly elected
2012-2023: Vladimir Putin (United Russia, then Independent)
Prime Minister and former Russian President, directly elected
2023-2025: Mikhail Mishustin (Independent)
Prime Minister, succeeded Putin following the latter's painkiller overdose-induced death
2025-2026: Marat Khusnullin (Independent)
Prime Minister, succeeded Mishustin following the latter's assassination by far-right radicals
2026-2027: Vyacheslav Volodin (United Russia, then Independent)
Prime Minister, formerly State Duma deputy representing Saratov Oblast, succeeded Khusnullin following the latter's "forced" resignation
2027-2032: Valentin Konovalov (CPRF, then Independent)
State Duma Deputy representing Republic of Khakassia, appointed following Volodin's impeachment over high treason and numerous assorted crimes
2032-2036: Ksenia Sobchak (Independent endorsed by Constitutional Democrats)
State Duma Deputy representing St. Petersburg, directly elected
2036-2040: Sergei Boiko (Independent endorsed by Coalition '36)
State Duma Deputy representing Novosibirsk Oblast, directly elected
2040-2048: Vard Cholakhian (Union of Labor Democrats)
Governor of Tomsk Oblast, directly elected
2048-present: Darya Kheikinen (Homeland of Elephants)
Governor of St. Petersburg, directly elected

 

[Meppo]

(image edit provided by allpresidentsmen, for which I am very thankful)

Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (October 4, 1982 – November 3, 2058) was an American politician, diplomat and East Turkestani stateswoman who served as the first president of the Republic of East Turkestan from 2046 to 2051. Omar had previously served as the first U.S. Ambassador to East Turkestan from 2041 to 2046, appointed by Yvanna Cancela.

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