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."

  • BoldTake [e/em/eir, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I would immediately order the military to purge everyone in the federal government / executive branch who isn't loyal to me.

    Following that:

    • Arrest every billionaire and multi-millionaire before they can flea the country. Use the purged FBI / CIA to do this.

    • Free everyone in Guantanamo bay and ICE prison camps.

    • Abolish ICE, execute everyone who was a member of it

    • Put all the billionaires / multi-millionaires into Gitmo or what were previously ICE prison camps. Begin interrogating them for information on where they've hidden their assets.

    • Declare universal healthcare as a constitutional right, this includes abortion and trans healthcare.

    • Begin distributing free insulin immediately

    • Announce that Covid quarantines were back in affect

    • Vaccinations are now mandatory

    • Withdraw all American troops from foreign soil, purge anyone disloyal as soon as they arrived back

    • End the war on drugs

    • End all embargos on AES countries

    • Dissolve the American Supreme court, execute all the conservative justices. They couldn't protect abortion rights so they are useless.

    • Fold the senate into the house of representatives, each state gets an extra two "at large" reps.

    • Publicly execute every republican in the house of representatives for crimes against humanity + fascism. Announce plans for new elections for the available seats.

    • Send the military into Florida and Texas. Arrest and then publicly execute Gregg Abbott and Ron DeSantis for breaking federal law

    • Order the house to put together immediate plans for reparations

    • Order the house to immediately begin planning a land back process

    • Declare all businesses are now worker-owned co-opts and must form unions. Have all CEOs of large companies arrested. The workers of each company will vote on whether the CEO should be folded back into the company as a normal worker or put on trail for wage theft.

    • Appoint Richard Wolff as head of labor + the Fed, give sweeping permissions on economic reform.

    • Declare Hawaii and other nations occupied as "territories" (eg Puerto Rico, Guam, etc) free of American rule.

    • Public broadcast on all stations announcing these changes have already occurred and that the United States is now a transitional socialist state. Tell everyone to read the communist manifesto until we can put together something directly related to these current material conditions.

    • BoldTake [e/em/eir, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I would do all this assuming I am still going to be murdered by end of day, end of week max.

      This is also why I would want to dismantle as much shit as possible while still leaving at least some structure intact so that a full on fash couldn't just take over as easily.

      • BoldTake [e/em/eir, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Some of the worst moderates like Pelosi would get purged. Any that tried to get in the way would also be dismissed from office.

        progressive liberals deserve a chance to review and amend their ideology. Most of them held the line this election cycle on abortion and trans rights, so there is at least something there. They would not be allowed to maintain institutional power.

        Conservative reactionaries in power have no redemptive value and are already ideologically committed to fascism. Fascists aren't people, they're tumors.

        Would also need at least some structure in place even temporally while a coherent vanguard was formed.