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A New Face to the Goldenblock
Topic Started: Aug 29 2017, 01:22 AM (583 Views)
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A New Face to the Goldeblock
Cat wins Presidency
Written by JayDee




(August 28, 2017) A new face has been introduced to the Goldenblock with the ascension of former Minister of Radio Cat to the Presidency. Following a fierce two weeks between tickets Cat/Writinglegend, Brunhilde/Rand, and Comrade Snowball/Aditya Republic, the Cat/Writinglegend ticket emerged victorious with 38 votes against Brunhilde/Rand and Comrade Snowball/Aditya Republic’s 16 votes and 5 votes respectively.

In her platform, Cat campaigned behind the idea of “rebirth” to Europeia’s political institution. “Now more so than ever we face the critical urgency to rebirth the way we tolerate and treat newer members within our region.” The message of Cat’s campaign comes from months of what many people believe to be a higher toleration of sub par performances from Europeia’s older members. As a recent poll suggests, many Europeians believe that our older members have an easier time obtaining political positions, and Cat’s platform campaigned behind the idea of breaking the status quo or “rebirthing” Europeia’s political institution with a newer face to the Goldenblock. Cat’s campaign ideas were highly received amongst the citizenry, securing her a strong base through which he eventually won her Presidential campaign.

Following her ascension to the Goldenblock, President Cat released her opening address. In her opening address, Cat alluded to the sense of community that contributed to her decision to stay and eventually run for President. “I truly love Europeia and all of the people here, together we have created cherishable moments that will last a lifetime, developed friendships with members in our community or abroad, and have worked tirelessly to build and develop our region into what it is today.” Cat would also lay down her campaign promise as previously mentioned in her platform, reaffirming that her intention of fulfilling her promises to Europeia.

Cat wasted no time in announcement her Cabinet following the release of her opening address. In the Swakistek Conference Hall, Cat announced her nominees for the Cabinet and the remaining Justice slot respectively. Sam111 for Interior, Kaboom for World Assembly Affairs, Calvin Coolidge for Grand Admiral, JayDee for Communications, Darcness for Foreign Affairs, Monkey for Culture, Siol Alse for Radio, Rand for Attorney General, and JayDee for Justice True to her word, Cat’s Cabinet included many newer players, with only 50% of her nominees having held a previous Cabinet post. Even her Justice nomination would feature a newer face to the Europeia’s most prestigious body.

As a new face to the Goldenblock with lots of energy, the pressure on Cat is high to set a successful campaign. For many, it has been a long time coming for one of Europeia’s newcomers to ascend to the Presidency, but now it’s time for a newcomer to prove herself to Europeia and to the NS globe.
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It's a bit weird to call Cat a newcomer when she's been here for over a year and a half.
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She's a newcomer to the rarified halls of power. Getting to the Goldenblock usually takes about that long if not more.
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Kylia Quilor
Aug 29 2017, 02:29 AM
She's a newcomer to the rarified halls of power. Getting to the Goldenblock usually takes about that long if not more.
Do we have numbers for that? I suspect Cat would have been in Goldenblock much sooner if she didn't have the obstacle of a multi-term Writinglegend who was almost always an incumbent in her way. The same could be said for many Europeians over these past two or so years.
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Aug 29 2017, 03:04 AM
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She's a newcomer to the rarified halls of power. Getting to the Goldenblock usually takes about that long if not more.
Do we have numbers for that? I suspect Cat would have been in Goldenblock much sooner if she didn't have the obstacle of a multi-term Writinglegend who was almost always an incumbent in her way. The same could be said for many Europeians over these past two or so years.
You know, not everything revolves around me being a multi-term President, despite how much you try and force it. :P
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Aug 29 2017, 09:46 AM
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Aug 29 2017, 02:29 AM
She's a newcomer to the rarified halls of power. Getting to the Goldenblock usually takes about that long if not more.
Do we have numbers for that? I suspect Cat would have been in Goldenblock much sooner if she didn't have the obstacle of a multi-term Writinglegend who was almost always an incumbent in her way. The same could be said for many Europeians over these past two or so years.
You know, not everything revolves around me being a multi-term President, despite how much you try and force it. :P
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".. Verteger was elected as the new Prime Minister. Verteger was debatably one of the worst Prime Ministers Europeia had yet to see. His term was so magnificently awful that King HEM proposed a reform of government right under his nose so that his term as Prime Minister would end." - A completely accurate account of what happened.

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She's a newcomer to the rarified halls of power. Getting to the Goldenblock usually takes about that long if not more.
Do we have numbers for that? I suspect Cat would have been in Goldenblock much sooner if she didn't have the obstacle of a multi-term Writinglegend who was almost always an incumbent in her way. The same could be said for many Europeians over these past two or so years.
Just my observations both when I was around and digging around to see? Nothing formal. It took both me and SD about a year and a half to get to the Goldenblock, for example, in terms of actual activity, on my part. I mean, sometimes this rule gets broken to varrying degrees, but that's just my guesstimate based on what I've seen.
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Aug 29 2017, 02:07 AM
It's a bit weird to call Cat a newcomer when she's been here for over a year and a half.
I understand the sentiment, but look at polls conducted in the region. They typically identify newcomers as those who joined in 2015 or later.
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It's a bit weird to call Cat a newcomer when she's been here for over a year and a half.
I understand the sentiment, but look at polls conducted in the region. They typically identify newcomers as those who joined in 2015 or later.
Gleg joined in mid-2014, so he's almost a newcomer by that standard.

Those designations do have their purposes -- as someone who arrived here in 2010, my perspective is different from newer citizens, and also different from the folks who have been here more or less from the beginning. But there's not much merit to the notion that Cat is a newcomer and Gleg is an old-timer; they're basically from the same generation.

I think the issue, to the extent there is one, is that Gleg has been the dominant political figure of his generation, to an extent we haven't seen before. In time, perhaps other members of Gleg's generation will build résumés that rival his -- just as Mouse and Mal eventually matched or surpassed Vinage (who was the closest I've seen to a generationally dominant figure for a time) -- but we're a long way from that.
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She's a newcomer to the rarified halls of power. Getting to the Goldenblock usually takes about that long if not more.
Do we have numbers for that? I suspect Cat would have been in Goldenblock much sooner if she didn't have the obstacle of a multi-term Writinglegend who was almost always an incumbent in her way. The same could be said for many Europeians over these past two or so years.
You know, not everything revolves around me being a multi-term President, despite how much you try and force it. :P
As Skizzy said above me, you were arguably the most dominant political figure of your Europeian generation. I'm not faulting you for serving, but to say that you weren't an impossibly-difficult figure to overcome during any elections is laughable.

You weren't just a "multi-term President."
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but to say that you weren't an impossibly-difficult figure to overcome during any elections is laughable.

You weren't just a "multi-term President.

What is laughable is your ignorance regarding Cat's history in the region. Her time of service actually started off due to my Presidency, where I campaigned on creating the Ministry of Radio and later appointed her to that position. This was her first Cabinet position, and gave her the opportunity to prove herself politically. Your premise you tried stated in which Cat would have been in the goldenblock much sooner if I hadn't been an obstacle in her way is woefully ignorant.

No where did I insinuate that I wasn't an impossibly-difficult figure to overcome during elections, so I am not sure why you are saying that is what I stated. In fact, my response to you was. "You know, not everything revolves around me being a multi-term President, despite how much you try and force it." I am not sure where you are garnering such a quote from me.

This is not the first time you have tried to insinuate that I have stagnated the presidential career of many Europeians, and I doubt it is the last I will hear of this silly rhetoric. The fact of the matter still remains that careers were still generated under my Presidency that we are now reaping the results of today, and will reap results of in the future. Cat, Boomer, and Rand are three examples of individuals who took opportunities under my six terms of Presidential service and are now seeing such results in, hopefully, future presidential service. Several people took initiative under my presidencies to run their own presidential campaign. Boomer, Darc, and Rand are the three that remain active today, and all look to be future leaders of our Republic. They gained high political visibility because they ran against myself. Careers take initiative, they aren't simply given to you on a silver platter. A popular incumbent or someone "difficult to beat in elections" does not mean all initiative should be thrown away. This is a game of politics, sometimes it takes a leap to get your name out there.

I assume your public responses would be much different if the candidates you supported in the last several elections had not lost against tickets I were on. If, say, Rand/Darc beat me in the presidential election four months ago, Boomer beat me in my third term election, or if someone ran against me last November and won, you would be hailing me as someone who inspired electoral competition and allowed for prominent electoral success of others. Instead, due to their electoral defeat, you now paint me as a competition killer and an obstacle to careers.
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I assume your public responses would be much different if the candidates you supported in the last several elections had not lost against tickets I were on. If, say, Rand/Darc beat me in the presidential election four months ago, Boomer beat me in my third term election, or if someone ran against me last November and won, you would be hailing me as someone who inspired electoral competition and allowed for prominent electoral success of others. Instead, due to their electoral defeat, you now paint me as a competition killer and an obstacle to careers.
Yes, if the facts were different, how people would characterize your candidacies would be different.

An astute observation.
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I'll make this more clear: I think that a lot of Europeians simply didn't run for President who could have run sooner because, more often than not, they were running against a highly-successful incumbent President instead of a revolving door of one-term Presidents. And that group of Europeians includes those groomed under you. Whether or not they came from your administrations has nothing to do with your status as a political obstacle.

Think of it like the NFL: quality coordinators and players often-times have to move to different teams to blossom when they are sitting behind or coaching under other players/coaches with much better resumes and much longer careers. I don't know why you're dismissing this reality out-of-hand because you simply disagree with me (unless you changed your name to Rach :P ).

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I assume your public responses would be much different if the candidates you supported in the last several elections had not lost against tickets I were on. If, say, Rand/Darc beat me in the presidential election four months ago, Boomer beat me in my third term election, or if someone ran against me last November and won, you would be hailing me as someone who inspired electoral competition and allowed for prominent electoral success of others. Instead, due to their electoral defeat, you now paint me as a competition killer and an obstacle to careers.

Except I didn't vote for most of the tickets that have run against you, so :emb: Even if I have had qualms with your decisions or past policies, I'm not going to vote for tickets that I feel are inferior and cannot guide Europeia in the right direction.
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Writinglegend is president too much...

and if he wasn't, the Europeia we have known and loved would no longer exist. We're in bigger trouble than many of us acknowledge and it's time to address it head-on.
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