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."

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Only in that they need to happen, I genuinely have no idea how the best ways to deal with that are. If I suddenly became president I would consult with experts on that issue, especially asking China for assistance.

    I’m not a climate scientist but I am a biologist so climate science is far closer to my realm of expertise than education, political theory, and related issues are. I know generally what needs to happen to stop climate change, I have no idea how to stop reactionary ideology aside from the obvious of making sure everyone has a baseline standard of living.

    And even then, my first step is “create a board of climate scientists with broad powers” which includes the power to tell me “That’s dumb don’t do that”