You have a super majority in all branches of government, you don’t need to consider other parties.
Where do you start, and what is your overall stratergy?
Will you get a second term?
Gay marriage for all (mandatory)
immediately implement ranked choice voting at all levels of government and implement UBI
I resign and go home
As president, I run the executive branch.
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Remove Trump’s cronies from positions of power in the executive branch. Re-hire the people he fired/layed off/quit.
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Review currently effective executive orders. Cancel any which don’t directly deal with national security. Orders which might be supporting some significant aspects of large numbers of peoples lives will be ramped down slowly but predictably so no one suffers undue economic hardship.
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Attend a bunch of boring meetings, occasionally decide the fate of Ukraine.
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Respect the boundaries of my branch of government by not acting like a king and issuing a bunch of decrees without the agreement of congress.
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Respectfully prod congress to reign in the executive branch’s power, implement reforms in the electoral process, and create term limits for supreme court justices.
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- age limit on public representatives, probably the same as retirement
- voting is completely changed to a ranking system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
- hire a bunch of actually qualified people to run each office and governmental positions
- a bunch more shit that I dont feel like writing
Universal healthcare.
Release the un redacted epstien files and prosecute every last pedofile
Impeach the Supreme Court and add term limits
Overturn citizens united and making all private funds illegal in campaigns
Ranked choice voting for all elections
Abolish ICE
Go back to the 1950’s tax rate of 90% on income over 1 million and capital gains
Free college
Immigration reform
Strengthen labor laws for workers
Strengthen the EEOC for workers
Strengthen the NLRB for workers
Strengthen osha for workers
Pass laws to make it illegal for congress to hold stocks
Have the fbi, cia and DOJ crack down on white supremisist terrorists organizations
Remove the social security income cap
Strengthen social safety nets
Make it illegal for corporations to buy up housing for shareholder profits
Divest from Israel
Cancel palantir
Cancel all subsidies to elons companies
Only give taxpayer subsidies to small business or companies who have high ethical standards
Demand employers pay a living wage
Hold corporations to account
Demand employers pay a living wage
The start of this would be raising the minimum wage and indexing it to inflation. When inflation is at 4%, minimum wage also rises 4%. The problem isn’t that minimum wage has always been too low; When it was introduced, a single person could afford to live modestly while supporting a spouse. The problem is that it takes a literal act of congress to change. Instead of requiring congress to act again every few years, just tie it directly to the average of several different inflation calculations, (so a single one can’t be gamed by a future administration to keep wages low). Make it so that the adjustment is automatic.
Also, while we’re at it, make it free to file your taxes online. Have the IRS send a “here’s what we think you owe, and how we calculated it. Let us know of any corrections” letter to every single person. They’ve already done the calculation, and know how much you owe. And that’s what many other countries to. The US tax system is only complicated because the tax filing software companies lobby congress to keep it convoluted. They want to force people into using the software.
This is an easy solution. Any corporation who has full time employees that fall below the poverty line and require assistance get fined out of existence. We also hit them with all the regulatory agencies for extra oversight. You know we do to them what has been done to workers for decades except now our system will work for the taxpayers instead. Ride their ass. Also if corporations are people we should start charging more of them for murder.
I agree taxes should be transparent and free
And make the C suite personally liable too. Make them put their own skin in the game.
Yep
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Term limits and cognitive age checks for Supreme Court
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Free Healthcare and Student loans(no interest and no limit on paying it back)
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BAN Lobbyists from all levels of government while overturning citizens United
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LGBTQ and women’s rights amendments.
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Treason Charges for like a thousand people maybe more
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I flee the country taking as much money as possible with me and then spend my remaining days drowning myself in hard drugs and pussy. I die three months later with a smile on my face, having made a much wiser decision than having anything to do with that shit show.
Seize all assets of the rich that put them over 100mil in estimated wealth.
Redistribute that wealth through a UBI that perpetually redistributes all wealth over 100mil.
End citizens united, end the filibuster, end the electoral college, expand SCOTUS to include 1 ELECTED rep from each state.
Force employers to offer union access to all employees if an employee ran union isn’t already available.
Codify Rowe v. Wade and Obergefell v. Hodges into federal law.
Not all states deserve representation. Maybe the top 10 states in terms of academic achievement get a seat on SCOTUS. Elected SCOTUS judges is a good step though.
I’ve always felt we should have one judge from each court district, voted on by judges from that district. Districts already are equal population size, cover the entire country, and judges are better able to determine if someone’s qualified on law matters than the general public, which is important to prevent a populist making promises they can’t deliver on since these people would know the limits of judges power and responsibility
Guillotine every MAGA politician and anyone who still flies a Confederate flag.
Forced conversion therapy for anyone who voted MAGA. (It can be gay).
Enshrinement of equal rights amendments, gay marriage, abortion and right to gender affirming care in the constitution.
Yearly federal minimum wage updates and really automatic updates to anything pertaining to money based on inflation rates.
Nationwide ranked choice voting.
Start looking for smart objective people to hire. I know enough to know that I don’t know enough to make decisions in a vacuum. At the end of the day, the president is the face of the government, but the people behind him are what should really matter.
My zeroth thing would be to yell at the top of my lungs What the actual fuck
- Increase security personnel for myself and the White House. Sadly this will have to be necessary given the hostile nature of the US at the moment… hopefully this is temporary
- Reverse every policy Trump and the MAGA team have been doing (if that even counts as one thing)
- Convert the US voting system to ranked choice voting
- Add a wage indexing scheme: governmental salaries, minimum wage, and private market wage guidelines will be pegged to inflation
- Increase governmental budget especially in areas like health, science
I’d probably be voted out by the time my term ends, but I hope at least some of the changes are permanent
I would immediately begin searching for and hiring the smartest people in every field to help me to make my decisions. The best economists, scientists, biologists, climatologists, foreign policists, etc. I am not smart enough to be POTUS and that’s exactly who the POTUS should be, someone who is willing to listen and do what is best based on proper advice.
Counterpoint:
I do think USA would benefit from a giant dome, don’t you?
Absolutely. Make it so.
My mentor always said: “If you are the smartest person in the room, you need to find another room”
I always remembered that
Also: You described Plato’s Philosopher King
That is my life motto as well, although I say, “if you are the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room” and I live by that.
How would you determine who those are?
First I’d hire the best recruiter in the country…
But seriously, with difficulty. Lots of research.
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Pass an act that declares infrastructure to be part of national security. Billions in military spending would then be redirected to the Army Corps of Engineers to repair our roads, bridges, water, sewer, electric (especially solar and wind), railroad, and other systems of infrastructure. This would provide a large amount of jobs and make out country safer and more efficient. It would also reduce wasted military spending.
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Pass the USPS modernization act. Internet service would be considered to be under the purview of the Postal Service. They would be enabled to operate low cost high speed Internet service nationally, with a focus on isolated rural communities. This would provide competition for private ISPs, keeping the prices down and the quality of service high. Amazon would also be nationalized and put under the USPS through this bill. This would eliminate the defacto monopoly, allow regulation of product quality, and prevent market manipulation.
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Constitutional amendment defining healthcare as a human right as well as mandating a nationalized healthcare system.
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Pass the Wealth Disparity Reduction Act. It would remove the annual income cap on paying into Social Security, tax inheritance 100% over 1,000,000 times the federal minimum wage, tax stock dividends as income, add tiers above the current top marginal tax rate escalating 5% per tier until there is a top tax rate over 80%, and tax political donations by any person or entity by 1% per $1,000 capped at 90%.
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Labor Rights Act. “Right to work” laws are illegal, federal anti-union activity watchdog empowered, mandatory sick/vacation leave, mandatory parental leave, mandatory employer health insurance contributions to national healthcare system, time and a half over 8 hours at work, double time over 40 hours, no scheduling shifts within 12 hours of the end of previous shift, corporate tax subsidies for work from home and 4 day workweeks, mandatory paid 30 minutes lunch plus two 15 minutes breaks included in 8 hour shift.
I expect I would be assassinated pretty quickly after that.
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Become a commonwealth realm and submit to King Charles III
Mandate all social media companies to have activitypub federation
Introduce universal healthcare
Organise a USA vs Canada Chess game at the Haskell Free Library with the border intersecting the chess board
Organise a North Korea vs South Korea chess game at Panmunjom with the border intersecting the chess board
