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I thought it was a Cthulhu reference. The Pitcairn Islands are iirc the closest place to R'lyeh's fictional location.
Oh I just chose the Pitcairns because they're so isolated, I guess that makes sense though
Oh damn, British Utah.
British utah isn't real british utah can't hurt you
British Utah:
PrezZF
Banned
Unless there are British versions of Evan mcmullin…you could also do a multi party system, with analogues for progressive Utah Dems, moderate Dems with Ben McAdams, centrists with McMullin, moderate/ liberal conservatives with Romney, standard conservative with Cox, Religious conservatives with Lee, and trump style nationalists with Jason Chaffetz.
A series of unlikely victories for the Confederacy in the early stages of the Civil War led to warweariness and the stunning defeat of Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 election to copperhead Alexander Long. Long would sue for peace, recognising the independence of the Confederacy.
However, the Union’s defeat, and the embarrassment of the negotiated peace would serve to radicalise abolitionists and the Republican Party would come to incorporate a significant socialist element, with even Lincoln, at times flirting with socialist rhetoric. Lincoln would win a second non-consecutive term by a landslide in 1868 with an explicit mandate of ending the depravity of slavery by force.
The Union would ultimately prevail after five years in the bloody War of Liberation. The new nation post-War, which would come to be described as the Second American Republic would impose a new Constitution including civil rights for all African-Americans, women’s suffrage, and the move towards a semi-presidential system encompassing the abolition of the senate and the electoral college.
Lincoln would choose not to run for re-election under the first election of the Second Republic, for what would have been his fourth term. This election would be conducted under the de-facto conditions of a one-party state, with the Democrats banned for sedition, while independent candidates were tolerated to varying extents. The new constitution would also provide that all Americans over the age of 21 could vote and run for election, irrespective of race, gender or national origin. This impact would be seen immediately with the Republicans nominating war hero and Secretary for Reconstruction Giuseppe Garibaldi to succeed Lincoln. Garibaldi would win a landslide victory with only tokenistic opposition.
The aged Garibaldi would largely serve as a figurehead for the Republican House but would hold a long legacy with his administration adopting land reform and Garibaldi being personally remembered as a unique historical figure who brought about Italy and the New America. Nevertheless, owing to age Garibaldi would choose not to run for re-election, and would be succeeded by General Ulysses S. Grant who would again win with little opposition.
President Grant would largely continue the work of his predecessor and as a popular president in a glorified one-party state, fully intended to run for re-election but would withdraw from doing so in the summer of 1864 following his cancer diagnosis, leading to the first contested election of the Second American Republic. This election would be fought on not party, but factional lines and while the establishment prevailed it would reveal the first signs of the ideological fissures underlying the New America. Equally, Garfield would prove perhaps not to be as much of a team player as would have been thought.
However, the Union’s defeat, and the embarrassment of the negotiated peace would serve to radicalise abolitionists and the Republican Party would come to incorporate a significant socialist element, with even Lincoln, at times flirting with socialist rhetoric. Lincoln would win a second non-consecutive term by a landslide in 1868 with an explicit mandate of ending the depravity of slavery by force.
The Union would ultimately prevail after five years in the bloody War of Liberation. The new nation post-War, which would come to be described as the Second American Republic would impose a new Constitution including civil rights for all African-Americans, women’s suffrage, and the move towards a semi-presidential system encompassing the abolition of the senate and the electoral college.
Lincoln would choose not to run for re-election under the first election of the Second Republic, for what would have been his fourth term. This election would be conducted under the de-facto conditions of a one-party state, with the Democrats banned for sedition, while independent candidates were tolerated to varying extents. The new constitution would also provide that all Americans over the age of 21 could vote and run for election, irrespective of race, gender or national origin. This impact would be seen immediately with the Republicans nominating war hero and Secretary for Reconstruction Giuseppe Garibaldi to succeed Lincoln. Garibaldi would win a landslide victory with only tokenistic opposition.
The aged Garibaldi would largely serve as a figurehead for the Republican House but would hold a long legacy with his administration adopting land reform and Garibaldi being personally remembered as a unique historical figure who brought about Italy and the New America. Nevertheless, owing to age Garibaldi would choose not to run for re-election, and would be succeeded by General Ulysses S. Grant who would again win with little opposition.
President Grant would largely continue the work of his predecessor and as a popular president in a glorified one-party state, fully intended to run for re-election but would withdraw from doing so in the summer of 1864 following his cancer diagnosis, leading to the first contested election of the Second American Republic. This election would be fought on not party, but factional lines and while the establishment prevailed it would reveal the first signs of the ideological fissures underlying the New America. Equally, Garfield would prove perhaps not to be as much of a team player as would have been thought.
The Not-So American Century
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TotalEnergies is a French multinational integrated solar energy company founded in 1924. It is one of the seven supermajor energy companies and its business covers the entire solar energy chain, from the building and installation of photovoltaic cells, to energy infrastructure, transportation, and marketing. It is also a large-scale manufacturer of photovoltaic batteries and charging stations.
The company was founded in 1924, when energy security was regarded as important in the face of military and diplomatic rivalry with Germany. The then-premier Leon Blum rejected the possibility of forming a partnership with the Anglo-Dutch company Royal Dutch Shell, in favour of an entirely French company. The French solar energy industry was well-established and had long held a competitive advantage over other countries, but was split between numerous competing industries and it was believed that rationalisation under government oversight would be of benefit to the whole industry. As per agreement between the government, industry and over 50 French banks, the four largest French solar power companies – including the first such company, Mouchot & Co. – were amalgamated into the French Solar Company (Compagnie francaise de solaire, of CFS). Although a public company traded on the Paris Bourse, the French government is the owner of a guaranteed 25% of the company’s share capital.
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TotalEnergies is a French multinational integrated solar energy company founded in 1924. It is one of the seven supermajor energy companies and its business covers the entire solar energy chain, from the building and installation of photovoltaic cells, to energy infrastructure, transportation, and marketing. It is also a large-scale manufacturer of photovoltaic batteries and charging stations.
The company was founded in 1924, when energy security was regarded as important in the face of military and diplomatic rivalry with Germany. The then-premier Leon Blum rejected the possibility of forming a partnership with the Anglo-Dutch company Royal Dutch Shell, in favour of an entirely French company. The French solar energy industry was well-established and had long held a competitive advantage over other countries, but was split between numerous competing industries and it was believed that rationalisation under government oversight would be of benefit to the whole industry. As per agreement between the government, industry and over 50 French banks, the four largest French solar power companies – including the first such company, Mouchot & Co. – were amalgamated into the French Solar Company (Compagnie francaise de solaire, of CFS). Although a public company traded on the Paris Bourse, the French government is the owner of a guaranteed 25% of the company’s share capital.
So she was a mad prophet of some sorts that turned out to be right? What is the Humberverse Timeline about?
The fully-finished version of that collage from earlier.
Exactly; the timeline itself is the course of events seen in Get to the Top (of the Pops) by @Caprice and @LawfulInsane.
President Garfield entered office as a popular president and would embark upon a number of anti-corruption reforms, a necessity given the Second American Republic was a one-party state, while also seeking for the greater inclusion of African-Americans and Women in the civil service. President Garfield and Congress would also implement the first nation-wide minimum wage of any country, currying him favour with his party's left.
The Panic of 1887 would come to overshadow Garfield's achievements, especially as his unwavering commitment to the Gold Standard would only, especially with the benefit of hindsight, worsen matters. While both factions of the Republican Party would circle the wagons around the embattled Garfield in the name of party unity, he would still face two unexpectedly strong opponents.
In the wake of the Panic, little-known author Edward Bellamy became a national sensation, with his book Looking Backwards depicting a utopian future becoming the third-highest selling book in American history at that point behind The Bible and Lincoln's memoirs. Bellamy would eschew the socialist label, decrying it as un-American, yet nevertheless proposed an economic platform that in his words, 'out-socialized the socialists' with the 'elimination of the tyranny of the market' and the nationalisation of the commanding heights of the economy. Bellamy would see an incredible outpouring of public support with hundreds of Bellamy Clubs propping up around the country. Bellamy Club meetings were rather odd affairs, with Bellamy adopting his cousin's suggestion of having the crowd pledge allegiance to the American flag while raising their arm in a roman salute, something that President Garfield would mock as un-American.
Bellamy would not be the only opponent to President Garfield. John Harvey Kellogg was a strange man. He was highly devout, in his own way, his beliefs rather syncretic. In the wake of the Panic, and the ensuing American turn to spirituality, Kellogg garnered quite the following with his religious fervour. Some of Kellogg's views such as his promotion of vegetarianism, a healthy diet and abstinence from alcohol and tobacco to cleanse the spirit seem downright forward thinking, others such as the promotion of routine enemas and his vigorous opposition to the 'degeneracy of masturbation' seemed bizarre. Kellogg was an economic progressive and a nominal Republican, but would come to be expelled from the party over his unwavering promotion of re-segregation. But it was this that saw him gain a surprising amount of support in some quarters of the former Confederacy.
The Second American Republic was a one-party state, and Bellamy had, by far, the strongest campaign infrastructure of any non-Republican candidate the new state had ever seen. While he was unquestionably popular, many were suspicious over how professional his campaign was. In an October Surprise, Republican newspaper the New York Herald-Tribune revealed that foreign states, primarily France under far-right President Georges Boulanger had financed the Bellamy campaign, believing that his proto-socialist views would undermine American industry. Bellamy would deny the allegations, and there was no evidence that he had solicited or knowingly accepted the funds, but it would wound his campaign. Nevertheless, he still performed admirably well and many Republicans were scared for the future of their party's dominance given they only just broke a majority with a unified party.
The Panic of 1887 would come to overshadow Garfield's achievements, especially as his unwavering commitment to the Gold Standard would only, especially with the benefit of hindsight, worsen matters. While both factions of the Republican Party would circle the wagons around the embattled Garfield in the name of party unity, he would still face two unexpectedly strong opponents.
In the wake of the Panic, little-known author Edward Bellamy became a national sensation, with his book Looking Backwards depicting a utopian future becoming the third-highest selling book in American history at that point behind The Bible and Lincoln's memoirs. Bellamy would eschew the socialist label, decrying it as un-American, yet nevertheless proposed an economic platform that in his words, 'out-socialized the socialists' with the 'elimination of the tyranny of the market' and the nationalisation of the commanding heights of the economy. Bellamy would see an incredible outpouring of public support with hundreds of Bellamy Clubs propping up around the country. Bellamy Club meetings were rather odd affairs, with Bellamy adopting his cousin's suggestion of having the crowd pledge allegiance to the American flag while raising their arm in a roman salute, something that President Garfield would mock as un-American.
Bellamy would not be the only opponent to President Garfield. John Harvey Kellogg was a strange man. He was highly devout, in his own way, his beliefs rather syncretic. In the wake of the Panic, and the ensuing American turn to spirituality, Kellogg garnered quite the following with his religious fervour. Some of Kellogg's views such as his promotion of vegetarianism, a healthy diet and abstinence from alcohol and tobacco to cleanse the spirit seem downright forward thinking, others such as the promotion of routine enemas and his vigorous opposition to the 'degeneracy of masturbation' seemed bizarre. Kellogg was an economic progressive and a nominal Republican, but would come to be expelled from the party over his unwavering promotion of re-segregation. But it was this that saw him gain a surprising amount of support in some quarters of the former Confederacy.
The Second American Republic was a one-party state, and Bellamy had, by far, the strongest campaign infrastructure of any non-Republican candidate the new state had ever seen. While he was unquestionably popular, many were suspicious over how professional his campaign was. In an October Surprise, Republican newspaper the New York Herald-Tribune revealed that foreign states, primarily France under far-right President Georges Boulanger had financed the Bellamy campaign, believing that his proto-socialist views would undermine American industry. Bellamy would deny the allegations, and there was no evidence that he had solicited or knowingly accepted the funds, but it would wound his campaign. Nevertheless, he still performed admirably well and many Republicans were scared for the future of their party's dominance given they only just broke a majority with a unified party.
MRI in the seventies, that's...very early.
The fully-finished version of that collage from earlier.