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A character post I have wanted to put out for some time, fitting well into the present context.

I'm going to scrap up a prog together, maybe, because I really don't understand those people.

They are simply democrats seduced by Walton trying to be a little more left on social issues. It would be interesting to see socially conservative, economically left prog, if such thing is even viable.

The Free Territory of Makhnovia wrote:They are simply democrats seduced by Walton trying to be a little more left on social issues. It would be interesting to see socially conservative, economically left prog, if such thing is even viable.

Eh, that's not really the best explanation. They're not just a few Democrats a little farther left, they're the former Green party, they always were farther left social and economic, and they had some left-wing Dems flock over after the WAC fallout and followup

A socially conservative prog would get dashed from the party instantly I'm pretty sure

Potential options from Kramer?, after the NY senate race he doesn't have any political options.

Jamie Johnson is going to introduce a foreign policy disaster of a bill.

Waiting. Prazek will have a fit probably.

The Free Territory of Makhnovia wrote:Waiting. Prazek will have a fit probably.

It is something that sounds good on paper though.

Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi wrote:

The Free Territory of Makhnovia wrote:Waiting. Prazek will have a fit probably.

It is something that sounds good on paper though.

Prazek is foreign politics historian. He knows that ideas that sound good on paper are to be blamed for many catastrophes.

NS Nation Name: Sudardes
Character Name: Edmund Reynolds
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 56
Character Height: 6’1
Character Weight: 174 lb
Character Position/Role/Job: Senator of Texas
Appearance:
Character State of Origin: MA
Character State of Residence: TX
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Excellent debater, oratorical skills, popular with Middle America
Main Weaknesses: Alienates upper class/coastal voters, anti elitist, polarizing figure for the party, arrogant, absolutist
Biography:

Born to Albert and Erika Reynolds on 16th June 1962 in Lowell, MA, Edmund Reynolds grew up with an avid interest in history and sociology. He spent his childhood years in the town surrounded by the working poor. Lowell at the time was an industrial center, with most men being employed in factories with wages high enough to support a family of four.

Reynolds read avidly from a young age; as early as three he could "read reasonably well". Despite the Reynolds family having to budget their income, they always had enough money for books and their home included a room known as the 'library'. Reynolds was heavily influenced by the German philosopher Nietzsche; he initially adopted Nietzsche's concept of God is Dead but became religious again later on in life.

He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, where he was one of the few pupils in the school's history to attain 100% in an end-of-year English examination and later Harvard University, where he studied classics. He also began to study German as many of the classic scholars were Germans. He took no part in politics at university. As well as his education in Cambridge, MA, Reynolds took a course in Chinese, because he felt that his long-cherished ambition of becoming the Ambassador to China would be unattainable without knowledge of the Chinese language. Reynolds went on to learn other languages, including French, Italian, and Spanish. Reynolds stayed on at Harvard College as a fellow, spending much of his time studying ancient manuscripts in Latin and producing academic works in Greek and Chinese. In 1987, he was appointed Professor of Greek at Rice University aged 25 (failing in his aim of beating Nietzsche's record of becoming a professor at 24). He revised Loeb's edition of Cicero's De Re Publica for the Harvard University Press in 1989, and his most lasting contribution to classical scholarship was his Lexicon to Confuscius, published the same year.

He resigned as professor in 1992 to fight in the Bosnian War, believing that “It is imperative that the stability of the region be maintained.” He joined as a volunteer on the side of the Bosnians. A colleague told Reynolds that going to fight in the Civil War out of some sense of obligation or guilt was 'sheer stupidity,' and that the his ideas 'about combating Communism, defending democracy, etc., etc., were all baloney.' A few days later, in Sarajevo, Reynolds met Kemal Delic, commander of Bosniak volunteer forces who quoted him: "I've come to fight against Communism". He was sent to a relatively quiet front near Kosovo. There was very little military action, and Reynolds was shocked by the lack of munitions, food, and firewood, and other extreme deprivations. He was then assigned to the much more violent outpost in Sbrenica. There, he was wounded in the throat by a sniper's bullet. At 6 ft 2 in Reynolds was considerably taller than the Bosniak fighters and had been warned against standing against the trench parapet. The bullet had missed his main artery by the barest margin and his voice was barely audible. It had been such a clean shot that the wound immediately went through the process of cauterisation. He was returned to America in 1994.

It was in Sbrenica that the beginning of Reynold's distrust of the United Nations began. After socially mixing with senior UN officers that he met and exploring their cultural views of the world, he became jaded at the UN for being just a poster for human rights, never being able to do anything in the face of conflict. The Sbrenica Massacre in 1995 confirmed Reynold's suspicion of the demeanor of the UN's. His distrust of the organization continued for the remainder of the war and into his subsequent post-war political career.

Upon his return to Texas, he used his connections with various universities to start an organization called Veterans Fund that sought to put combat veterans to university for degrees. He also taught at local prisons, being a strong believer in Nozick's notion of restorative justice. He declined his old position at Rice University, instead choosing to teach English in Fort Worth Public Schools after his return, saying that kids in the public school system need all the help they can get to secure their future.

In 2000, he unsuccessfully bid for the congressional seat in his district. In 2006, he was successful for his bid to office as a congressman. In 2012 he was elected to the senate, where he remains today.

His stance on issues is not dependent on day-to-day events and a transient national mood. His approach was based on first principles, extraordinary learning and a rigorous understanding of the US constitution. He is a staunch defender of the second amendment, going as far as to push for the repeal of the 1934 Firearms act. He is unnaturally hard on immigration, wanting to almost seal of the southern border completely and only take in a finite number of immigrants annually (~100,000) based on skills and more importantly, values. He is pro life. He believes in universal basic income, seeing to to be a superior form of welfare compared to Johnson’s plan formulated in the 1960s. He also believes that abolishing all barriers to trade would be net beneficial to the economy. However, he breaks from party lines there. He pushed for universal healthcare in the form of the Swiss model, stressing its effectiveness compared to UK’s NHS and Canada’s healthcare service. He also believes in a stronger central government, feeling that states rights have been widely abused by blue states, hurts the Union overall by subverting federal law, and drives polarization that divides the country. He has criticized the 03 invasion of Iraq, calling it a travesty. He has repeatedly called for higher taxes for the rich and reinvesting in American infrastructure, citing the abundance of single point failures as a national security concern. He identifies as a “classical British conservative.” He is also surprisingly pro-union, being a union member whilst teaching in the public school system. His voter base consisted of mostly blue collar workers and paleoconservatives. He avidly opposes US foreign intervention in civil wars and preemptive attacks, citing "it's not our damn business what they do to each other." Post 9/11 he was very adamant about striking down al qaeda, but opposed the toppling of Iraq's dictator.

As senator, he has sponsored multiple educational reform bills, infrastructure renewal projects and border control provisions. He has an A+ rating from the NRA. However, a viral interview on CNN with Anderson Cooper about his position on immigration landed him in hot water when he was asked if he was a racist. He responded "It depends on how you define the word "racist." If you mean being conscious of the differences between men and nations, and from that, races, then we are all racists. However, if you mean a man who despises a human being because he belongs to another race, or a man who believes that one race is inherently superior to another, then the answer is emphatically "No."" In the 2000 election, white nationalist think tank American Renaissance endorsed Reynolds as their candidate. Reynolds has tried to distance himself from these organizations but his opponents have pointed out his positions on immigration and patriotism mirror those of the far right. His defenders however argue that by examining Reynolds voting record in the Congress and Senate, he was anything but what his critics claim. He cosponsored the Homosexuality Law Reform bill in 2003, wildly hailed as a milestone for LGBT rights, and supported the demilitarization of police. Organizations like the ACLU and SPLC brand his as an "alt-right sweetheart pandering to blood and soil nativism."

Other Info: Reynolds is married to Anna Reynolds. They have 5 children. The whole family is Catholic.

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Looks like Breck didn't get into MIT at 13 for his rhetorical skills

Tallahassee News Station wrote:Looks like Breck didn't get into MIT at 13 for his rhetorical skills

15, swine.

Straight and to the point is effective for the liberal part of the base when it comes to Kramer types.

Sudardes wrote:

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Sudardes
Character Name: Edmund Reynolds
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 56
Character Height: 6’1
Character Weight: 174 lb
Character Position/Role/Job: Senator of Texas
Appearance:

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Character State of Origin: MA
Character State of Residence: TX
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Excellent debater, oratorical skills, popular with Middle America
Main Weaknesses: Alienates upper class/coastal voters, anti elitist, polarizing figure for the party, arrogant, absolutist
Biography:

Born to Albert and Erika Reynolds on 16th June 1962 in Lowell, MA, Edmund Reynolds grew up with an avid interest in history and sociology. He spent his childhood years in the town surrounded by the working poor. Lowell at the time was an industrial center, with most men being employed in factories with wages high enough to support a family of four.

Reynolds read avidly from a young age; as early as three he could "read reasonably well". Despite the Reynolds family having to budget their income, they always had enough money for books and their home included a room known as the 'library'. Reynolds was heavily influenced by the German philosopher Nietzsche; he initially adopted Nietzsche's concept of God is Dead but became religious again later on in life.

He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, where he was one of the few pupils in the school's history to attain 100% in an end-of-year English examination and later Harvard University, where he studied classics. He also began to study German as many of the classic scholars were Germans. He took no part in politics at university. As well as his education in Cambridge, MA, Reynolds took a course in Chinese, because he felt that his long-cherished ambition of becoming the Ambassador to China would be unattainable without knowledge of the Chinese language. Reynolds went on to learn other languages, including French, Italian, and Spanish. Reynolds stayed on at Harvard College as a fellow, spending much of his time studying ancient manuscripts in Latin and producing academic works in Greek and Chinese. In 1987, he was appointed Professor of Greek at Rice University aged 25 (failing in his aim of beating Nietzsche's record of becoming a professor at 24). He revised Loeb's edition of Cicero's De Re Publica for the Harvard University Press in 1989, and his most lasting contribution to classical scholarship was his Lexicon to Confuscius, published the same year.

He resigned as professor in 1992 to fight in the Bosnian War, believing that “It is imperative that the stability of the region be maintained.” He joined as a volunteer on the side of the Bosnians. A colleague told Reynolds that going to fight in the Civil War out of some sense of obligation or guilt was 'sheer stupidity,' and that the his ideas 'about combating Communism, defending democracy, etc., etc., were all baloney.' A few days later, in Sarajevo, Reynolds met Kemal Delic, commander of Bosniak volunteer forces who quoted him: "I've come to fight against Communism". He was sent to a relatively quiet front near Kosovo. There was very little military action, and Reynolds was shocked by the lack of munitions, food, and firewood, and other extreme deprivations. He was then assigned to the much more violent outpost in Sbrenica. There, he was wounded in the throat by a sniper's bullet. At 6 ft 2 in Reynolds was considerably taller than the Bosniak fighters and had been warned against standing against the trench parapet. The bullet had missed his main artery by the barest margin and his voice was barely audible. It had been such a clean shot that the wound immediately went through the process of cauterisation. He was returned to America in 1994.

It was in Sbrenica that the beginning of Reynold's distrust of the United Nations began. After socially mixing with senior UN officers that he met and exploring their cultural views of the world, he became jaded at the UN for being just a poster for human rights, never being able to do anything in the face of conflict. The Sbrenica Massacre in 1995 confirmed Reynold's suspicion of the demeanor of the UN's. His distrust of the organization continued for the remainder of the war and into his subsequent post-war political career.

Upon his return to Texas, he used his connections with various universities to start an organization called Veterans Fund that sought to put combat veterans to university for degrees. He also taught at local prisons, being a strong believer in Nozick's notion of restorative justice. He declined his old position at Rice University, instead choosing to teach English in Fort Worth Public Schools after his return, saying that kids in the public school system need all the help they can get to secure their future.

In 2000, he unsuccessfully bid for the congressional seat in his district. In 2006, he was successful for his bid to office as a congressman. In 2012 he was elected to the senate, where he remains today.

His stance on issues is not dependent on day-to-day events and a transient national mood. His approach was based on first principles, extraordinary learning and a rigorous understanding of the US constitution. He is a staunch defender of the second amendment, going as far as to push for the repeal of the 1934 Firearms act. He is unnaturally hard on immigration, wanting to almost seal of the southern border completely and only take in a finite number of immigrants annually (~100,000) based on skills and more importantly, values. He is pro life. He believes in universal basic income, seeing to to be a superior form of welfare compared to Johnson’s plan formulated in the 1960s. He also believes that abolishing all barriers to trade would be net beneficial to the economy. However, he breaks from party lines there. He pushed for universal healthcare in the form of the Swiss model, stressing its effectiveness compared to UK’s NHS and Canada’s healthcare service. He also believes in a stronger central government, feeling that states rights have been widely abused by blue states, hurts the Union overall by subverting federal law, and drives polarization that divides the country. He has criticized the 03 invasion of Iraq, calling it a travesty. He has repeatedly called for higher taxes for the rich and reinvesting in American infrastructure, citing the abundance of single point failures as a national security concern. He identifies as a “classical British conservative.” He is also surprisingly pro-union, being a union member whilst teaching in the public school system. His voter base consisted of mostly blue collar workers and paleoconservatives. He avidly opposes US foreign intervention in civil wars and preemptive attacks, citing "it's not our damn business what they do to each other." Post 9/11 he was very adamant about striking down al qaeda, but opposed the toppling of Iraq's dictator.

As senator, he has sponsored multiple educational reform bills, infrastructure renewal projects and border control provisions. He has an A+ rating from the NRA. However, a viral interview on CNN with Anderson Cooper about his position on immigration landed him in hot water when he was asked if he was a racist. He responded "It depends on how you define the word "racist." If you mean being conscious of the differences between men and nations, and from that, races, then we are all racists. However, if you mean a man who despises a human being because he belongs to another race, or a man who believes that one race is inherently superior to another, then the answer is emphatically "No."" In the 2000 election, white nationalist think tank American Renaissance endorsed Reynolds as their candidate. Reynolds has tried to distance himself from these organizations but his opponents have pointed out his positions on immigration and patriotism mirror those of the far right. His defenders however argue that by examining Reynolds voting record in the Congress and Senate, he was anything but what his critics claim. He cosponsored the Homosexuality Law Reform bill in 2003, wildly hailed as a milestone for LGBT rights, and supported the demilitarization of police. Organizations like the ACLU and SPLC brand his as an "alt-right sweetheart pandering to blood and soil nativism."

Other Info: Reynolds is married to Anna Reynolds. They have 5 children. The whole family is Catholic.

Do Not Remove: 84721

Nice comprehensive start. He would be 54 though, and 44 on getting elected to the Senate, which is a very young age.

Biggest thing though is that I can't see this guy getting elected in Texas, surviving the primary. Pro-LGBT might kill him on its own, universal healthcare, tax hikes on the rich, UBI, anti-war...he's pretty screwed.

Also not sure how free trading breaks from the party line.

Vaquas wrote:

Tallahassee News Station wrote:Looks like Breck didn't get into MIT at 13 for his rhetorical skills

15, swine.

Straight and to the point is effective for the liberal part of the base when it comes to Kramer types.

Actually, I was wrong

If he applied in the spring he got in at 12.

Tallahassee News Station wrote:

Vaquas wrote:
15, swine.

Straight and to the point is effective for the liberal part of the base when it comes to Kramer types.

Actually, I was wrong

If he applied in the spring he got in at 12.

We've gone over necessary changes relentlessly, TNS.

Give me a bit to fix my Palmer app, I gotta figure out his career stuff and add his political positions.

Vaquas wrote:

Tallahassee News Station wrote:
Actually, I was wrong

If he applied in the spring he got in at 12.

We've gone over necessary changes relentlessly, TNS.

Doesn't stop from having fun

Latvijas Otra Republika wrote:Potential options from Kramer?, after the NY senate race he doesn't have any political options.

He doesnt have any now, no offense but Kramer 100% bungled the announcement, no one would touch him with a ten foot pole

Tallahassee News Station wrote:Nice comprehensive start. He would be 54 though, and 44 on getting elected to the Senate, which is a very young age.

Biggest thing though is that I can't see this guy getting elected in Texas, surviving the primary. Pro-LGBT might kill him on its own, universal healthcare, tax hikes on the rich, UBI, anti-war...he's pretty screwed.

Also not sure how free trading breaks from the party line.

to be fair he doesn't have to be pro LGBT to sponsor a pro LGBT bill. My thinking was that he is very libertarian on the issue, in that he doesn't necessarily support same sex marriage but doesn't want the state meddling with that. As for the war thing, he's not anti war, he's just anti unnecessary war. Intervention in foreign countries like Iraq in his opinion is unjustified whereas retaliatory strikes against terrorist groups is not only justified but also a moral imperative.

Regarding that free trade thing i forgot this is a timeline where trump didn't go full trade war

and he would be 44 in congress, 50 in senate

But i see your point about the primaries. I'm not too sure what the political climate in the state is like IC. I see your point about the tax hikes on the rich. I'll remove it. However the UBI thing i was thinking more like welfare reform considering that it would appeal to fiscal conservatives that don't want to splurge on welfare. Universal healthcare to replace medicare and medicaid, once again cutting costs. if that won't work i can just put him in another state say new york, where there is a significant rural republican voting demographic.

Dentali wrote:

Latvijas Otra Republika wrote:Potential options from Kramer?, after the NY senate race he doesn't have any political options.

He doesnt have any now, no offense but Kramer 100% bungled the announcement, no one would touch him with a ten foot pole

Williams would tho.

Latvijas Otra Republika wrote:

Dentali wrote:

He doesnt have any now, no offense but Kramer 100% bungled the announcement, no one would touch him with a ten foot pole

Williams would tho.

No actually Kelvi is on record saying he would not

Jamie Johnson do the introducing of disaster

It is just a symbolic bill, Congress cannot actually recognize foreign countries.

Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi wrote:It is just a symbolic bill, Congress cannot actually recognize foreign countries.

Yang is in favor of recognition of Taiwan but thinks this bill is a joke, because it is.

Vaquas wrote:

Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi wrote:It is just a symbolic bill, Congress cannot actually recognize foreign countries.

Yang is in favor of recognition of Taiwan but thinks this bill is a joke, because it is.

It is a Johnson bill. What did you expect, well thought out policy?