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.

I would investigate how on earth is it possible for a random dude from Czech Republic to become the president of the USA overnight. Sounds kinda problematic. I know the political system there is pretty fucked up but this is way beyond what I'd expect possible even by today's standards.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Constitutional amendment defining healthcare as a human right as well as mandating a nationalized healthcare system.

4. 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%.

5. 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.

Get rid of state based voting, people vote directly for the president in ranked choice, and the most popular person gets in.

Nice try Vance.

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

1. Term limits and cognitive age checks for Supreme Court

2. Free Healthcare and Student loans(no interest and no limit on paying it back)

3. BAN Lobbyists from all levels of government while overturning citizens United

4. LGBTQ and women's rights amendments.

5. Treason Charges for like a thousand people maybe more

1. Amendment that Congress cannot limit the size of the House of Representatives. This will eliminate the Appointment Act.

2. The Senate should be increased to 10 per State. This will make bribery significantly harder.

3. A new branch of government (People's Branch) which has the sole job of ensuring the transparency of the government by auditing, investigating, prosecuting for corruption of all members of the Federal government. The branch will be run like a Union where a board of 15(ish) is elected nationally and they appoint a speaker. Term limits are 1 term, six years, non repeatable, and members are not to have served in any other Federal branch for at least 5 years before or after service in the People's Branch.

4. All elections for Federal positions are to consist of RCV or (or better) voting methods. FPTP is banned.

5. National firearms laws that forces 1-year of firearms training for anyone, including law enforcement, to wield a firearm. This will include de-escalation classes, proper weapon safety, and other known weapon safety measures with requirements for recertification every three years. Penalties for violation will be severely increased.

1. Everyone is by default registered to vote. Bring a valid ID at any voting place and you're good.
2. Ban stock trading for elected officials
3. Ban super PACs and similar forms of political funding.
4. Change to ranked choice voting.
5. (Reserved for later use)

1. Amendment to get rid of gerrymandering. Districts will be drawn up by statistical models that emphasize culture, values, demographics of the district. Every citizen also gets a vote by mail ballot.
2. Amendment to implement sensible gun control. Not ban guns, as people need some way to fight back against a tyrannical government. And some people truly do need to keep themselves safe from wildlife, crime, etc.
3. Amendment to bring in Puerto Rico and Washington DC as states in the union. If Texas wants to split into East TX and West TX, I’m fine with that too.
4. Law to require 2 years voluntary service. Meals, food, housing, recreational stipend will be provided. Similar to CCC, you’ll learn a trade and build up a camaraderie that will last a lifetime. As a citizen in a country, you should have skin in the game, it gives you a sense of ownership . Bonus is infrastructure gets kept up and senior citizens are cared for. Volunteer groups can be unionized.
5. Gas tax goes up significantly. Seriously, Europe pays $8/gallon. Why the hell do we need to keep it at $3? Tax will pay to build out much needed public transportation and sustainable energy grid infrastructure. We need trains people. If China can do it in a country much more mountainous than ours, we can do it.
6. Wealth tax. Anything over $100 million earnings is taxed progressively at 70% anything above $1B is taxed at 90%. Tax on unrealized gains, but can be balanced by unrealized losses.
7. Abolish tax exempt status for churches. You can be nonprofit, but you will still be taxed. No more slave owning mega-pastors.
8. Amendment to overturn Citizens United. Political contributions will be limited. You want your money to be speech? Sure, do it the old fashioned way and convince enough people to align with your cause.
9. Federal Healthcare for everyone damnit! What the hell is wrong with us!?
10. Give more power back to the states. There will be some cohesive things that we all agree upon that keep the tether of our society together, but New York is not Oklahoma is not Colorado is not Alabama. States should have more power to govern themselves. Think of it like Catalonia in Spain or Scotland in UK. States are the test beds of democracy.

Would I get a second term? Hell no. I’m a change agent technocrat. People like a showman. There’s a reason city planners are divorced from mayors at the municipal level. I come in like a four mile freight train then I go home. Some populist demagogue would probably replace me.

Prosecute

• Electoral reform. Abolish the electoral college, end first past the post, and make SCOTUS an elected position with term limits, as well as term limiting Congress and instituting universal mail in voting nationwide.

• Top to bottom education reform. Straight up completely change how education works.

• Trust busting wave. Google, EA, Uniliever, Disney, and so many others.

• Crackdowns on elements of social media and dating apps that encourage sensationalism or otherwise harm society. (Dating apps I might go as far as nationalization.)

• Fund third spaces, in a similar manner to how other countries are involved in arts funding.

Subject matter experts would be involved in all of course.

Release the payroll list for all ICE agents and let real Americans sort them out. That would save my valuable time as president and I wouldn't have to use federal funds to round them up and imprison them. That's the kind of efficiency DOGE wishes they had.

I'd bomb Denmark of course!

Our arch enemy!

Signed: a swede

/j ofc

Resign.

This sounds like I would be running a dictatorship and that is not on my bucket list.

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.

I won't get a second term, but that's because I'm trans.

I'm going to start by putting forward several amendment proposals including one that removes presidential immunity, one that prohibits partisan gerrymandering, and one that mandates the right to bodily autonomy, as well as reintroducing the ERA, with full assertions of gender presentation and sexual orientation as well. I'd also push one for medical care. None of these amendments will have a deadline as I wouldn't expect them to make it through the states.

I'd give Puerto Rico and DC the right to become a state, as well as offering Puerto Rico independence if they'd prefer, which would not be popular.

I'd push through a full blown single payer healthcare bill.

From there I'd start talking to experts in Keynesianism. I don't like capitalism, but I'm not making America socialist in 3 years without a complete destruction of social order. But we're in a precarious position and the economy is torn between inflation and recession which demand opposite policies. My suspicion is that it will demand taxing the wealthy and spending on the struggling. Also I'd of course instill Lena Kahn to do her thing

This is where I can do a real green new deal. If people can't afford rent and can't find work then they can build Council housing owned by municipalities, built around public transit lines or places to put them. They can install publicly owned fiber internet lines and publicly owned renewable energy generation. I'd also want to build a high speed rail line from Chicago to Pittsburgh with plans to extend it to NYC, as well as Seattle to the bay area and the 3CD line in ohio (Cleveland-Columbus-Dayton-Cincinnati). With all of this of course I'd be offering a better deal to American manufacturers to provide the materials with a bonus for cooperatively owned suppliers. I'd also put forward a request that every state government look into how to implement an intrastate rail network.

Furthermore I'd be doing fireside chats like FDR to explain what I'm doing and why as well as demonstrating austerity within the presidency. I'd also travel the country speaking to unions and asking everyday people about their current struggles. Making ordinary folks feel heard goes incredibly far

For foreign policy, I'd be really speaking about how my aims are to make America as stable as we once were rather than demanding other countries submit to us or trust us again. Trust is earned and an unstable country can't be trusted.

The hope is that my directly targeting material conditions and talking my way through it I can cut the right wing support out from under it.

First, tax the rich. Go back to Eisenhower's 90% tax rates. Use that money to pay off all the student loans.

Next, bring back the CCC*. Details would be figured out, but I'd give the young men and women a chance to get good paying jobs with just a high school diploma. We need to repair the infrastructure, put in high speed rail, update the power grid, and prepare for climate change.

Space colonization. We were doing a Gemini mission every month back when computers were bigger than the Empire State Building. We know that there are asteroids with enough iron to last our industrial needs for the next thousand years. Our goal should be to move all heavy industry off planet.

Things like health care and education you can take as a given.

*Civilian Conservation Corps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps

Well, considering how fucked things are right now...

1. I gather up the publicly active billionaires and bring them into stage with me before starting a speech on inequality, really digging into the fact that they probably don't feel safe in public anymore, then I announce that "these industry leaders have volunteered to help fix this, and will be staying in Washington until we have a plan". During the speech, I'd kick out their entourage and after I'd trade out their phones for ones that can only make calls

2. I'd keep guards everywhere and make pointed implicit threats, but leave that wiggle room for civility. I'd use this distraction to keep other parties from interfering as I sic the FTC, SEC, and FCC on trust busting basically the entire economy. I'd have the NSA help behind the scenes to speed up this process, hell I'd expand the judiciary just for this purpose, to push it through as fast as possible

3. I'd deploy the national guard everywhere to basically open soup kitchens and shelters. I'd probably send in large portions of the military as well - we have the resources and logistics to feed everyone for an extended period of time, so I'd use it to mitigate the short term damage

4. I'd call on other world leaders for aid. I'd make a big speech about collapsing empires and the dangers of the coming dark age. I'd call for a new age of cooperation and solidarity as equals, of breaking the cycle by playing another game. I'd ask for medicine and aid workers from around the world to help us through our trying time, then I'd parade out the billionaires to let them announce their plans to use their wealth to create jobs (and make sure they talk about how they want a world where they can feel safe, no matter how forced). Not all of them would make an appearance, but they'd all pop up later

5. From there I'd try to stabilize this whole mess legislatively. I'd overturn citizens united by making it expressly illegal with huge penalties, come up with a transition plan to nationalize healthcare, I'd create a program to buy food from independent farmers at cost to keep the soup kitchens open, I'd expand the supreme Court and put restrictions on them, and as things settle I'd make a big deal about restricting certain powers I used to get all of this through

It would be a huge mess. Like a total shit show. The plan is to basically turn the economy off and on again without loss of life

But I'd make sure people had food, housing, and hope for the future. They'd be terrified day 1, they'd be terrified as they lose their jobs and the stock market disappears, but then they'd have people going door to door arranging free food deliveries and healthcare. The power would stay on. The Internet would still be up. The evictions wouldn't come... And

I'd make a show of limiting my own power, and it would be largely true... But we really have to rework a lot of things, and I'd get the public buy in to do that by becoming a firm lifeline for them. I'd move much more slowly from then on

So that's my 100 day plan. Flip the table, burn the boats, then hold things together by giving people what they need until they can reorganize bottom up

I think I'd be reelected, I think I'd have to firmly reject a third term

Impeach the activist ideologues on the Supreme Court.

Eliminate presidential immunity.

Do away with private schools and force all children into well funded, fact based public education with a strong focus on critical thinking.

Round up and re-educate everyone involved in the attempt to destroy the US.

Fix elections. Do away with gerrymandering. Establish truly apolitical, independent election commissions to establish electoral boundaries. Guarantee every citizen the right to vote and equal access to the ballot box. Do away with the electoral college. Make all votes equal.

EDIT: Break up all of the media companies.

Nationalize the assets of every billionaire who bought a cabinet post in the Trump government to destroy the agencies that regulated them.

Gay marriage for all (mandatory)

Disband ICE

Prosecute Trump for his many crimes

Pull National Guard out of places they don't need to be

Begin educational reforms

Get rid of any tariffs Trump implemented

1. Sign an executive order repealing every executive order The Fanta Menace signed.
2. Eliminate the massively stupid electoral college and implement ranked choice voting for all federal elections.
3. Eliminate the Senate, whose only purpose appears to be to give states with 5 people as much power as states with 5 million people, which is deeply undemocratic.
4. Implement a program to periodically assess how many representatives per state should be in the House of Representatives, aligned with every census, so proper population based representation can occur.
5. See if there's a way to fix the Supreme Court by either getting rid of FatPutin's appointees that he got via Congressional interference, by expanding and packing the court, or both. Also, implement a 20 year term limit instead of this life bullshit so we don't have seniles making key decisions.
6. Set the age limit for all federally elected positions to 60 because again, we don't need seniles making important decisions. Go enjoy your golden years with all your ill-gotten lobby money. Also make this the standard retirement age for everyone. Work longer than this if you want or need to, but this should be the age we all retire so we can enjoy some part of life before we're too decrepit to move.
7. Tax the fuck out of the rich. Rich is defined as over $1 million a year in income of ANY form. Anyone who resists by using tax shelters or other loopholes has all their assets seized and liquidated to be put into a fund for the public good and is jailed for 10 years in a medium security prison. Any income over $1 million per year is basically forfeit because no one gets that rich without exploitation and no one needs that kind of money. And what will we do with all this new tax money?
8. UBI for everyone, housing for the unhoused, food for the unfooded, and universal health care for all without exception.
9. If I haven't been assassinated before getting all this done, I will immediately resign because I absolutely do not want this job or anything approaching this level of responsibility, but someone has to right this stupid ship, so I'll do my best to get the above done, then fuck off and no one has to hear from me again.

My zeroth thing would be to yell at the top of my lungs What the actual fuck

1. 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
2. Reverse every policy Trump and the MAGA team have been doing (if that even counts as one thing)
3. Convert the US voting system to ranked choice voting
4. Add a wage indexing scheme: governmental salaries, minimum wage, and private market wage guidelines will be pegged to inflation
5. 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

Which one of you is already heavily involved in politics? You'll have my vote.

1. Universal healthcare: Every single legal resident should have the same healthcare as the politicians.
2. 1960's Tax Brackets You will pay your fair share.
3. Education: Increase education budgets for all subjects. College tuition, room and board to be paid with taxes. Setup vocational schools and apprenticeship programs, like Germany. In exchange dump the damn athletics and leave it for recreational use. If you want play sports, join an athletic club like in Europe.
4. Infrastructure: The USA is fucking pathetic, build it like Japan and increase renewable energy research and development.
5. Age and term limits for all politicians at all levels.

The poor bast bastard will have to sign hundreds of executive orders to get rid of the fucked up ones left by Krasnov.

1. Load the Federal Gold Reserve onto a container ship
2. Sail home under carrier group escort
3. Disband the US armed forces
4. Resign

1. End Capitalism by force

2. Fuck up a bunch of people who resist

As president, I run the executive branch.

1. Remove Trump's cronies from positions of power in the executive branch. Re-hire the people he fired/layed off/quit.

2. 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.

3. Attend a bunch of boring meetings, occasionally decide the fate of Ukraine.

4. 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.

5. 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.

You have a super majority in all branches of government

Oh, even the SCOTUS? Cool, that means I don't have to do step 1: immediately impeach and remove all members of the Supreme Court who did not dissent with the ruling that the President is immune from prosecution.

So I can move on to the rest of the list:

• Instruct my Attorney General to bring a case before the current SCOTUS which would allow them to overturn Citizens United. Encourage them to hear and deliberate on no other cases before that case is decided.

• Have respected lawmakers introduce several pieces of critical legislation which I insist upon seeing on my desk before I see any others:

  • first, a bill which would establish term limits for all members of the federal Judiciary not to exceed 19 years (preferably closer to 13 years), and which would further institute a binding code of conduct for members of the Supreme Court and the federal Judiciary that detail their requirement to maintain impartiality, qualifications for appointment and approval, transparency obligations, and circumstances under which they should be removed from office;

  • second, a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College (I'm really hoping that my supermajority in all branches of government extends to the state level, too). If such an amendment seems unlikely to be ratified, I will have this lawmaker instead introduce a bill that would require the members of the Electoral College to assign their votes in accordance with the outcome of the national popular vote, independent of the decision of their state. Both the amendment and the bill should include a clause requiring all elections with more than one valid candidate be conducted via ranked choice vote;

  • third, a bill which would increase the maximum number of constituents per member of the House of Representatives to 250,000 (this would effectively triple the size of the House), establish a minimum of three senators for each state with a fourth apportioned to the 25 largest states, and apportion full voting members of the House and Senate under these rules to Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico;

  • fourth, a bill which would immediately re-establish the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and establish its budget as significantly higher than it has ever been before. This bill would also remove all news sources (television news, online news, newspapers, etc) from private ownership and establish them instead as independent nonprofit organizations funded by the CPB;

  • fifth, a bill which would penalize the President of the United States with expulsion from office if they withhold or otherwise interfere with funds, agencies, and directives duly passed by Congress, and which would further re-establish any such agencies which have been eliminated since the beginning of 2025;

  • sixth, a bill which would penalize the President of the United States with expulsion from office and immediate felony charges of federal election interference if, for more than six months of their term, there are not enough commissioners sitting on the Federal Election Commission (or nominated to the Senate for consideration) for the commission to have a quorum to operate;

  • seventh, a bill which would establish a statute stripping all unused funds from every political party at the conclusion of every election. Those funds would be treated as tax revenue and appropriated for to fund the Federal Election Commission.

Now that the Legislative Branch has enough to keep them busy, I have some executive work to do.

• Expand the FEC and increase their mandate to include nonpartisan reviews of electoral maps. This might seem less important after the abolition of the Electoral College, but actually I think it's still critical for local representation.

• Re-appoint Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission, if she's interested. Expand and broaden its powers to seek injunctive, equitable, and punitive relief where appropriate in the pursuit of consumer protections.

• Instruct my Federal Communications Commission to institute Net Neutrality common carrier laws for broadband providers, and further extend those rules to cover social media platforms as well. Also instruct them to assist a member of the Legislature in drafting strong laws that would enshrine those protections into law, once the six critical bills have been passed.

• Instruct my Attorney General to investigate, build a case against, and if necessary prosecute all members and associates of both Trump administrations who participated in any illegal activity; and to take Trump himself into custody immediately, pending trial; as he is clearly a flight risk. I would further instruct them to ignore the Supreme Court's ruling of presidential immunity, as well as any pardons that he issued to himself, as necessarily invalid. Assuming he is convicted, I would further instruct my Attorney General to argue that pardons issued by Trump were in the pursuit of his criminal activity and are thus also nullified.

• Request that the House and Senate codify and harden their response to purveyors of armed insurrection under the 14th Amendment.

I think that's everything I'd need to do to fix the problems that Trump and the GOP have created or exploited. There are probably other loopholes that need to be closed, and I'd want to take care of those as well. Basically, I want to eliminate a lot of executive power, and I want to codify norms and rules into actual laws wherever possible.

Now that the cleanup is done, I can actually get into some serious business, like...

• getting UBI passed;
• getting Medicare For All passed;
• getting us exploring space again;
• getting the FTC and FCC working together to regulate AI;
• getting the FBI to work classifying and investigating the NRA as a domestic terror group;
• establishing Congressional term limits not to exceed the average life expectancy in the United States minus ten years.

I've thought about this a lot.

Have a shotgun engraved with the words "Official Acts" and then do what comes naturally afterwards.

Do I still get a pension if I resign

I sign an executive order dissolving the union and seek no second day

• 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

immediately implement ranked choice voting at all levels of government and implement UBI

Set up the guillotines

Release the Epstein files, break up monopolies with executive orders, jail executives who are responsible for social murder and declassify all classified info that is only classified to cover the asses of billionaires.

1. Change the constitution:
   1.1. Make the election to the House use proportional lists by state.
   1.2. Move most of the competencies of the Senate to the House. Replace the current Senate with state government representation like the German Bundesrat or the European Council (but weaker).
   1.3. Introduce a prime-minister office to lead the government, elected by the House. Remove most executive powers from the presidency.
   1.4. Put term limits on the supreme court, and make the election happen by 2/3 majority in the house to avoid partisan crackpots.
   1.5. Change budget rules to prevent shutdowns, by keeping a limited version of the previous year's budget if a new one is not approved
   1.6. Limit presidential veto
2. Call for Elections
3. Spend the time until the elections checking which conspiracy theories are true
4. Resign

1. could also be replaced with copying Germany's home work constitution and changing it a bit.

that means i was the vice president. i would unalive myself to make the world a better place.

If we can ignore "checks and balances" for real,

Step 0: declare the US constitution mostly void, to prevent stupid hacks like "states rights" or "fed can only regulate interstate commerce" or whatever. Keep its remnants around to ensure institutional knowledge and capabilities are preserved, until a transition to better institutions is implemented. Declare all capitalist parties illegal, seizing their assets. Then move on to the plan:

1. Immediately nationalize all rented-out residential buildings and set up social housing. Introduce a hard limit of two residential units per person. Prohibit commercial entities from owning residential properties.
2. Immediately nationalize all healthcare and pharmaceutical organizations
3. Immediately nationalize all organizations of national importance (high number of employees, monopolies, military-adjacent)
4. Require all other businesses to be turned over to employees, co-op style, within a certain timeframe (this is to allow for graceful handover at least from those small business owners who cooperate). Modify tax codes accordingly
5. Require a merit-based entry system into universities and colleges, forcing all higher education to be free. The deciding factor of which university you attend is your exam scores. Set up funding for the institutions appropriately.
6. Everyone with over a billion dollars in assets (before the previous steps) get their property confiscated, goes to jail, and has to work at minimum wage until they repay what they have stolen from the people. Those who repent and collaborate may be released earlier under certain conditions, like a hard limit on earnings and restrictions on travel.
7. Introduce a plan to transition away from animal agriculture, with a set timeframe to completely prohibit animal-based foods and other unnecessary animal suffering
8. Introduce a plan to transition all densely populated areas away from car transportation, with a set timeframe to completely prohibit private vehicles in all cities
9. Introduce a plan to transition from fossil fuel use to sustainable energy sources, with set timeframes for net-0 and complete elimination of fossil fuel use. Limit use of oil derivatives, with a plan to reduce them to minimum necessary (such as medical uses)
10. Prohibit all organized religion. Make proselytizing a crime similar to fraud. Mandate all education be based on materialism (and therefore atheism)
11. Allow formation of various socialist or communist parties. Require free, competitive, ranked-choice elections for all positions within parties. Require ranked-choice voting for all positions in the Senate. Require proportional representation for House elections. Introduce a plan to replace POTUS with an executive committee, with halves of the committee elected in a staggered way via proportional representation to ensure both continuous, stable leadership and adequate representation of new ideas. Introduce a plan to reform the judiciary with significantly more checks on the supreme court. Require similar election schemes for state&local legislatures and executives.
12. Immediate pardons for persons imprisoned for anti-capitalist viewpoints or actions, drug possession or consumption (maybe some others too)
13. Help socialist, communist or otherwise leftist movements worldwide, but especially in the Americas. Aim towards a pan-american union of socialist republics with freedom of movement, free trade, resource sharing and other collaboration
14. Introduce a requirement for 50% of all positions within a certain level of parties and government to be filled by women. Enshrine abortion and LGBT rights into law. Introduce a long-term plan to eliminate the concept of gender from society
15. Introduce a long-term plan for the state to wither away and transition to communism, whether it is commune-based anarchism or collectivism

If we manage to push through all these changes, I wouldn't want to be reelected for any amount of terms.

Wow Lemmy really went full on power hungry with some of these replies.

• Require PACs to be crowdfunded and owned by unions, make lobbying illegal unless by these PACs
• Require ranked choice voting
• Reclaim all the national park land sold to companies during Trump terms
• Redirect portion of military funding to build high speed inter-city passenger rails
• Senate term limits and age limits

Gerrymandering would be at the top, and then healthcare, education. Pretty much anything that restores a semblance of Democracy and encourages progress in society. Oh, and fucking fusion power for the love Christ.

Where do you start

I start and finish at the same point :)

I tell them that they have made a mistake, because fortunately I am not their citizen and I have no desire to clean up their mess.

I resign and go home

Get immediately kicked out since I was naturalized and not born here.

Competent, completely new, cabinet

Review and revoke most of Trump's executive orders

Review and reduce the budget for ICE (assuming congressional support)

Restore alliances with our traditional allies -- starting with tariff reduction/removal where appropriate

Tax the rich, support the poor.

*I think the first round is going to be damage control

This is going to be way more than five points but here goes:

• Restore rights that and make them ironclad and impossible to take away again in the future, basically, make the Bill of Rights really be as inalienable as it claims to be and turn it into something that no one can touch without facing harsh consequences.

• Eliminate privatized healthcare and replace it with a universal scheme.

• Eliminate Citizens United and hold corporations under the same laws as normal people and under the same penalties for breaking them as normal people, maybe then they'd actually have to stop their abusive tactics.

• Raise taxes on the rich while cutting taxes on everyone else, and cut military spending in half or deeper, and put the added funds and savings from cutting military spending towards restoring public media funding and earmarking said funding in a way that cannot be clawed back in a future rescissions package, as well as funding education, science, arts/humanities, and healthcare, and also reworking the public education system to where it's not the joke of society anymore and it's actually competitive with the rest of the world.

• Actually regulate AI before it destroys everything, and also count MLMs under the same definition as illegal pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes, etc, and actually make running one a jailable offense just like those other scams.

• Eliminate privatized and especially for-profit post-secondary education, make predatory student loans patently illegal under the same scams listed above, and actually offer free post-secondary education like most of the other countries do.

• Raise federal minimum wage to where it actually catches up with living costs, and actually put stronger affordable housing programs in place than Section 8 and make them applicable to anyone who needs them.

• Make for-profit prisons illegal and reform the prison system to where it actually focuses on rehabilitation rather than punishment, which if done right will greatly reduce recidivism rates (that means no more 'diesel therapy' among other things), and finally.......

• Actually hold anyone who tries to straight-up turn a republic into a dictatorship accountable for their actions, and also stop the manufactured 'border crisis' and actually allow the country to be the accepting bastion of freedom it bills itself as, basically let it do as it says on the tin, as it were, and start actually treating marginalized communities the same as everyone else, that means PoC, the LGBT community, the disabled community, and especially the AuDHD community has the same rights as everyone else as opposed to being discriminated against.

As an added bonus, outlaw mandatory online ID checks and code it into law that such things be strictly optional.

This is a hypothetical so I might as well go ham.

Pay off Germany's national debt and then resign.

Have Air Force One fly me back home, then quit. I don't want to deal with that shit.

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

I have actually been thinking about this:

1. For every single cent put into AI creation of anything ( model, scraper, not, etcetera ), all companies/peoples involved are required to quintuple that for AI detection and prove their funds/researchers/devs are being put towards it That, or their company/people will be blacklisted from working in the US and their services cut off from the general US public.
2. For schools, bring back being held back, require mandatory language/tech literacy classes required for graduation, and allocating funds to better pay teachers ( potentially even making them essential government workers ) alongside upgrading schools to modernize them.
3. Government officials in the senate and house only get 2 terms with the stipulation they aren't fossils and are paid wage of, maximum, thrice as much as the lowest minimum wage in the country. Would free up so much money for things like helping education. Same monetary restrictions would be placed on myself as president, allowing me to make the claim I'm not above the American people and that by rejecting this deal that congress and the house think they deserve more privilege than everyone else. Really plant the seeds that politicians work for the common folk.
4. Bring back the tax on rich people. Bring it down hard and clamp down on them being able to put their assets into foreign assets to hide their wealth.
5. All companies will be required to send mail through the post and receive return mail indicating your data can be collected. Any company that doesn't reply will be blacklisted and unable to operate in any capacity in the US. This would also include a provision to remove all currently collected data as well.

If #2 is too big for a single idea, then modernizing and making teachers essential government employees is top priority on that list. Otherwise, the list would be:

1. AI companies providing thrice the research/dev time and cost of creating anything AI with the same consequences as above.
2. Modernizing schools, with teachers becoming essential government employees as part of that package.
3. Congress, house, and presidency get a maximum wage of thrice the lowest minimum wage across the country
4. Taxing the rich and monitoring their wealth as an insurance policy for them not to bankrupt the country via capital flight.
5. Data collection and selling requiring snail mail with the same consequences as above.

I doubt I'd get a second term. I have the strongest feeling the rich would run so many smear campaigns against me ( and hopefully get sued to oblivion because of it ) that I'd be doomed if I tried getting a second term.

I mean… I can appreciate the position, but I’d rather be fucking dead than be the president. That is a shitty, thankless job, and I want nothing to do with it.

This country needs a major overhaul, and I don’t want to be the public face of it that all of the crazies want to kill.

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.

Drop full-time hours from 40/week to 30 or even 20

Land value tax, cut income taxes

Replace senate with sortition

So much healthcare reform, uncap residency slots

Pardon every federal prisoner

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.

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.

Everything trumps doing but on maga/republican types till congress and the courts realize they don't want the presidency to have unlimited slack to do whateves.

Actually a really nice question, lets me think of how to make things better rather than just complain.

1. Implement ranked choice voting across all elections. Undo all gerrymanders and make intentional gerrymander a criminal offense not protected by legislative immunity

2. Pass immediate media/content law package, including laws limiting media ownership, limiting social media reinforcement algorithms, deep & persistent AI content watermarking and anti-disinformation rules, anti-propaganda laws, and content labeling for entertainment/opinion versus news programming.

3. Pass public option healthcare of some type and set hard limits on our of pocket yearly healthcare expenses for private insurance at livable levels.

4. Pass wealth and profit reform laws to set a CEO-to-lowest-paid-employee distribution ratio for all profit beyond $1m yearly net profit, and tax rates and wealth caps to discourage grotesque wealth accumulation (TBD, but let's say if you have more than $1b, most personal income will be taxed or business income redistributed to workers).

5. Initiate global democracy reforms with all of the non-authoritarian governments and come up with global steps to counteract right-wing propaganda (primarily from Putin), revitalize democracy, and reverse the negative effects of globalization on the public to legitimately answer authoritarian populism.

Bonus:

Government reset: Publicly and immediately prosecute the law-breaking currently happening and reestablish rule of law, undo basically every action of Trump.

Reform immigration and law enforcement: cut DHS and ICE to the bone and rebuild into an immigration support system. De-militarize local and state law enforcement and retrain every single cop to actually serve and protect. Support with laws requiring mandatory reporting of police brutality or law-breaking, with criminal penalties for failing to do so.

Anti-enshittification laws: Saas business models heavily regulated, laws that limit companies' ability to data mine and exploit, laws that grant personal ownership of attention (i.e., your attention is not a public resource companies can freely mine with ads), stronger monopoly enforcement to prevent thr terminal stages of enshittified platforms, require giving users the option of staying on prior software and T&C versions.

Worker protection laws: Codify union rights into new laws and incentives for unionization, with anti-corruption package to reduce chance of capture.

Reform Congress to re-establish proportional representation. (Too much here. BMaybe go unicameral, expand house, expand Senate - all constitutional amendments but hey, why not.)

Easy-peezy.

First thing first, legalize herb

Since it works really well already, scam the american people and enjoy the rest of my life

Immediately declare the 2016 and 2024 elections null and void. Anything touched by Trump will be null and void. Any executive orders, nominations, pardons, or government spending he approved will be undone. Anyone that helped him violate the law well be executed. Anyone who gave him over 10k to run for office will have to do 10 hours of community service for each dollar donated. All CEO's who make 300% or more than the next paid employee in the organization will be executed. Major tech CEO's will be executed. Heritage foundation, turning point, proud boys, oath keepers, etc will be declared terrorist organizations and all members will be hunted down and brought to justice. Roberts and Thomas will be executed for treason. Citizens United will be explicitly undone. CEO's/board members will be held directly responsible for the actions of their company and will serve jail time for any laws violated.

US military will be on the ground to help in Ukraine in less than 48 hours. All seized Russian assets will be given to Ukraine.

All assets will be seized from the trump crime organization, all members will be tried for treason and other financial crimes. Immediate release of fully unredacted Epstein files. Then it would be time for lunch on day 1...

1. Dollar is fucked, national currency is Bitcoin now. Hope you bought some.

2. You all have fought over gender too much, I'm taking it away. They/them for everyone. Using gendered pronouns is a minor offense, but can be considered harassment and/or incitement. All sports leagues are now coed. Bathrooms only have private stalls.

3. If anyone your business employs can demonstrate that they are below the poverty line, it's getting nationalized. No, you don't get to know the number before the fed publishes it each quarter.

4. Climate is fucked, and it's significantly our fault. Gas is now taxed at 2,000%. Meats and well, everything really, is going to be heavily taxed according to carbon footprint. And that will go up until we reach our target net emissions, zero.

5. All elected public officials are executed at the end of their terms.

I will not be reelected, and I will not be taking any questions.