Ask Lemmy

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

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

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

Resign.

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

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.

Set up the guillotines

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.

• 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

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.

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.

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

Pay off Germany's national debt and then resign.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

First thing first, legalize herb