Had some fun speculating this morning. My picks so far:

  • Instruct Surgeon General to reschedule marijuana. If he refuses, fire him and find someone who will.

  • Withdraw all US military presence on foreign soil. Military equipment is to be handed over to the host country, with the exception of relatively bad actors (e.g. Israel), in such case it is handed to their opposition. The influx of soldiers will be converted into a military engineer force to repair and develop infrastructure nationwide, including affordable housing and public transit.

  • Close Guantanamo bay, end the embargo on Cuba.

  • Withdraw from NATO, halt all NATO funding.

  • Halt all arms sales to foreign powers.

I'm keeping it to whatever I can do unilaterally, but go wild if you like. To (selectively) quote Flannery O'Connor, "You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much."

    • RION [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Was thinking about destroying CIA/FBI but apparently that can't be done unilaterally. I guess next best thing is firing the deputy director of the CIA, appointing one who agrees to destroy the org as much as possible, then fire the actual director and let the deputy take over. Presumably the same process would work for the FBI.

      I was going to say universal health care could never happen unilaterally, but according to this article you could literally do medicare for all using COVID as a justification. Thanks for continuing to not do this every single day, Joey :^)