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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?

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[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

And make the C suite personally liable too. Make them put their own skin in the game.

[-] canofcam@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

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

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Counterpoint:

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago
  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

[-] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago
  1. End Capitalism by force

  2. Fuck up a bunch of people who resist

[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Fucking up your political opponents or dissenters sounds a lot like fascism, but I really hate capitalism so I can't stay mad.

[-] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Lol, exactly. Just give me a little time with reverse fascism. It'll work, I promise I won't be like every single other person who came into power

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

It's sparkling authoritarianism

[-] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Do I still get a pension if I resign

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

There is no undoing some of the damage. The dollar will never be a reserve currency again. Petroleum-dollar recycling is dead. Our trade position is unrecoverable and millions will die because of it.

So to minimize the damage longer term; deploy ranked choice or STAR voting across the country. Strip as much power from the executive branch as possible, allow the post office to provide banking services to everyone and authorize them to issue home loans to everyone at 2x their annual income at Federal bond rates. Then authorize Medicaid part D to be available to all citizens at cost (thus providing a single payer healthcare option).

Change corporate tax into a graduated revenue tax model, which would make too big to fail to become too unprofitable to survive; (higher revenue => more taxes because you can’t hide revenue but you can game profits) thus cutting the tax burden on small businesses and giving Wall Street an economic incentives to rip massive corporations into spreads.

Then there are a fuck ton of targeted policies that will have to be deployed to help repair the economy and rebuild industries in the country.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

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

[-] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • 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.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Best one so far, hits it the very roots of our issues. Education for example; We wouldn't be where we are at if we were properly educated.

Not sure what you have against dating apps. I've read so much hate and I just don't get it. You pay your subscription, you get people's words and pictures and various ways to sort them. I expect nothing more or less.

[-] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Dating apps as a business model are incentivized to not actually be good at matching people so they keep paying the sub fee.

For example, when Match Group (a company that would absolutely be a part of the trust busting wave, might actually be the most blatant monopoly in the US) bought OKCupid, they got rid of a whole host of features that made it easier to find someone who shares interests with you.

And I think Red Pill getting popular is part of the end result of this: they encourage a monolithic view of how humanity and human attraction work.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Pay off Germany's national debt and then resign.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Germany literally always trying to get other people to pay their bills

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago
  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
[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Nice try Vance.

[-] tyrant@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

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

[-] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

Accusation in a mirror, Mr. Tyrant?

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