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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.

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.

Set up the guillotines

• 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

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.

trump said he would be a "dictator for a day"?

let's put it this way, the nazi republicans and the collaborating democrats who helped trump by voting to further his agenda are going to see me as a dictator for much, much longer than a day. a lot of those three letter agencies that only exist to enforce the police state are gonna be reeling or gone by the time they finally manage to assassinate me. it won't be like JFK, you'll know who murdered me cause I'll have been gunning for them from the start.

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

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.

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

I resign and go home

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.

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.

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

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.

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

First thing first, legalize herb

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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