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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    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.

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      Solid points, but one point you didn’t mention I feel is important. Stop lobbyism! Corpartes shouldn’t have any direct influence in political decisions.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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      1. Don’t only focus on gerrymandering itself, it is just a symptom of a broken system, with proper proportional representation, they will become irrelevant.
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    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)
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    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.

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    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.