Stop trumps illegal war, would be a good start.

[u/Usual-Door5141]

[u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

I'm not American but I'd say not starting wars and having ridiculous tariffs would be a good start.

[u/TheDuck23 → u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

It's like the republicans think that asking democrats how they would put out a fire is an insult while they hold a can of gasoline and a burnt match.

[u/RhythmTimeDivision → u/TheDuck23]

Actively stop democrats from putting out a fire, refuse to acknowledge there's even a fire . . . while coughing from smoke inhalation.

[u/PineappleBliss2023 → u/RhythmTimeDivision]

“I will gladly burn in this fire if it means keeping America safe!!!”

[u/Blackdeath47 → u/PineappleBliss2023]

More like “sure tarrifs and the war increased prices but if Democrats were in office there would MORE tarrifs and wars”
Seen a few people say that, with their full chest.
The level of delusional these people have is just absolutely astounding, truly will be researched for decades to come

[u/SonOfIllicitBehavior → u/Blackdeath47]

my mother fully believes if we didn't have Trump we'd have been wiped out by nuclear arms from Iran, so... yea.

[u/argueranddisagree → u/SonOfIllicitBehavior]

Well according to those Russian bots which were sadly the casualty of a Ukrainian drone attack, Iran was a week away from from building a nuclear weapon! And they were making drugs in nuclear factories!

[u/Tricky_Football_6586 → u/argueranddisagree]

They've been a week away from building nukes for like 50 years now. It's been a very looooooong week for sure.

[u/Few_Lecture6615 → u/Tricky_Football_6586]

It's a leap week, ok?

[u/Blackdeath47 → u/argueranddisagree]

Been a week away from nuking the US for decades now.
Sometime hate the stupidity of humanity.
All the story’s of aliens or robots wanting to wip out all of man-kind for seeing its flaws and weaknesses, I get it.

[u/InsideAd2752 → u/SonOfIllicitBehavior]

My mom loves that kool aid too

[u/darkness-menma → u/PineappleBliss2023]

“I will gladly burn in this fire if it means keeping America safe white!!!”

FTFY

[u/Hagleboz → u/RhythmTimeDivision]

And if there was a fire it's actually fine because it will keep trans out of sports!

[u/Ragnar-Wave9002 → u/TheDuck23]

Just give us 2 more weeks. 

[u/Bubbly-Following-966 → u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

And an illegal war.

[u/YellowZx5 → u/Bubbly-Following-966]

It’s not a war though remember. It’s a confrontation inside the administration but outside it’s a damn war. They call it a war too. Congress just won’t do anything about it because they don’t need to.

[u/yusill → u/Bubbly-Following-966]

If Congress fails to follow through with their own mandate what can you do to make them other then waiting the years it will be till you can vote, while they change the rules of voting to protect their own power. Seriously what? Oh nothing in the constitution that does anything. Nope. Waiting years and voting is you only recourse because the framers never thought a man without honor would be placed in a position of power. It's been far to long since that document was updated to deal with today. They knew they didn't have all the answers. And left a way to fix it. Fun fact last amendment, the 27th. Ratified in 1992 started that process in 1789. It changed the rules on how Congress can change its own pay. In 1992 it finally hit the required number of states to ratify. The 26th? 1971. 55 years since a modern amendment was ratified. That changed the voting age from 21 to 18.

We need a 28th. The US Govt modernization act. Adding additional rules and stipulations. Requirements with automatic penalties for failure to adhere to mandates of the role of govt. Actual penalities for rules the Constitution has no penalties for because the framers thought we said no that should be enough. Auditing and public accounting for public office. Don't want your books exposed to everyone? Don't run. Your a public servant with power we have a right to know who you are beholden to as it should only be to the people. Limits to how much a campaign can spend. Which should be the lowest amount any candidate has. Canidaite A has 7 million. Candidate B has 600k. Only 600k can be spent. If they get another 200k then the A can add additional money. With additional rules and safeguards to prevent bad faith end runs around the rules. That should be looked apon as disgusting and a major defect if you can't stand tall and win fairly. This would be the tip of the iceberg that is the massive update that the US needs to move into the 21st century and safeguard from bad actors taking over key spots. I'd even be fine with the speaker and the president can't be from the same party. And no more send a email and a bill is forever blocked in the Senate. You wanna fillibuster? Get your ass on the floor of the senate and start talking. More mixing of people in branches. The opposition party gets to name half the cabinet. Positions drawn from a hat. Non partisan 3rd party oversight by forensic accountants over elected officials to watch for bribery or rule breaking with the power to remove and require new elections for that spot. The idea that this is a civil SERVANT job. It should be long and tiring and poorly paying. 0 people should leave with more money then you came into with. You should show up, do your service then leave and go back to help do good things with the experience you learned. The best and the brightest should fight to do it. It should carry great respect. It shouldn't be seen as a way to get rich.

[u/coheed33cambria → u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

You would think that removing the tariffs and ending the war would lower prices but it would probably just create record corporate profits and companies deciding they need to lay more people off.

[u/RoyalMaidsForLife → u/coheed33cambria]

We're still dealing with high prices six years after the "supply chain issues" of Covid. Those prices never went down.

[u/RoyalMaidsForLife → u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

They're not just ridiculous, they're also illegal. Only Congress has the authority to levy tariffs.

[u/cumwuatto → u/RoyalMaidsForLife]

Or start wars, for that matter

[u/ericsonofbruce → u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

For real. Anyone that votes republican doesnt have an opinion worth considering anymore.

[u/Ok-Astronaut1108 → u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

I'd also add some taxes to the tech bro billionaire class and create subsidies for farmers growing and support their local communities. That way healthy local foods can be a lot more affordable and abundant for everyone.

[u/Kankunation → u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

Normally it would be a hard question to answer, as it was for Biden. But Tariffs actually make this a super easy layup for Democrats. Easy to say you will end the taxes trump put on the economy and see rapid piece stabilization as a result.

[u/Strange_Produce5601 → u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

nonononononoo. Have to pick fights with your closest allies!

[u/LocationTechnical862 → u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

It's really that easy

[u/Vibrantmender20]

It’s pretty easy actually.

Just undo basically every Trump policy.

[u/deepsquatter804 → u/Vibrantmender20]

Unfortunately, even that won’t be enough. If the war stopped today and the strait of Hormuz opened immediately, oil production wouldn’t return to prewar levels. Iran bombed processing facilities and those could take a long time to repair.
Trump’s war has caused long term damage.

[u/MasemJ → u/deepsquatter804]

Which part of a Democratic platform should be to educate the American public of what happen, who caused it, why it will not be a instant or return to what happened before, and develop a strategy to do as much relief as they can by clawing back at the military and DHS budgets.

[u/TwoStubborn → u/MasemJ]

Pretty words, but how would we educate the American public? The ones who desperately need remedial education are also the most likely to get all their “ information” from right wing media.

[u/Informal_Curve_1441 → u/deepsquatter804]

💯 and we will be lucky if we aren't pulled into WW3 as this spreads regionally.

[u/Pretty-Key6133 → u/Vibrantmender20]

The problem is the prices will never ever go back down. Look at how things were post covid.

We're thoroughly cooked.

[u/WynDWys → u/Pretty-Key6133]

Things will go down somewhat, just never to where they were. Although I bet a federal fund opening grocery stores like Mamdani is doing in NYC would make a dent in that.

That makes me a communist tho apparently.

[u/Loxatl → u/WynDWys]

Shut up and take your trump 5k check which definitely isn't socialism for some reason!

[u/WynDWys → u/Loxatl]

They're DEFINITELY going to happen! We're winning so much!

[u/SignoreBanana → u/Pretty-Key6133]

You're right, so we need to also restore buying power. That means requiring corporations to profit share with their employees to some specific percentage of profits or executive compensation.

This will make corporations poorer and common people wealthier. Most things are more expensive now because we're competing with entities who have millions of times the money we do. We need to shrink that gap.

[u/Pretty-Key6133 → u/SignoreBanana]

All utilities including gasoline and healthcare need to be nationalized as well.

Food production too.

Or if you want to go the liberal route we need a state run competitor to keep prices down through competition.

[u/Tristram19 → u/Vibrantmender20]

I’d pick right back up with renewable subsidies to start.

[u/Specialist-Jello7544 → u/Vibrantmender20]

Like getting rid that stupid Big Beautiful Bill that cut taxes to the rich. If we could get taxes back on the rich, that could generate some money. How about getting rid of ICE funding, too, and some of these enormous military contracts that the Trump sons are involved in?

How about taking back assets of all the Congressional thieves who are openly corrupt? And taking the assets off of the ultra wealthy corporations and individuals who are claiming record levels of profit while at the same time laying off thousands of people and not paying the remaining ones enough to live on?

I think if a corporation has employees who are relying on social safety net programs, those employees are not getting paid enough. So either pay them enough, or pay directly into to those programs that would help them, in other words, pay more taxes.

If there are billionaires who continue to make record amounts of money while so many people are struggling to make ends meet, something is wrong. Do these ultra rich really need that much money? What do they do with it? Why do they need 12 yachts and 15 mansions when 2 or 3 will do?

[u/TeaReasonable7909]

I’d ask her how Republicans are going to those things

[u/WoodwindsRock → u/TeaReasonable7909]

Someone should have asked them in 2024. They never said, they just said “prices bad” and then millions of idiots voted for them.

[u/starplain → u/WoodwindsRock]

“I have concepts of a plan” and they decided he was a genius

Fucking pathetic.

[u/NoCopiumLeft → u/starplain]

Beat me to it... They ran on: "no fact checking" and "concepts of a plan."

[u/FairyGoddess21934]

Super simple. Cancel tariffs, restore good relations with other countries who used to be allies, and stop the war in Iran. Tax billionaires back to their normal rate also.

[u/MissAmberR → u/FairyGoddess21934]

You forgot spend 10 years proving you can once again be a consistent and reliable trading partner , it feels like the world is moving on and leaving America behind

[u/FairyGoddess21934 → u/MissAmberR]

Oh I know it’s going to take time to recover our reputation. Many years if we can but MAGA need to be humiliated enough to go back to being quietly racist. This blatant disregard of human decency will take years to undo.

[u/Separate-Hawk1334 → u/FairyGoddess21934]

The south should have been punished after the civil war, not reconciled with…

[u/Grasshoppermouse42 → u/FairyGoddess21934]

Although restoring relations won't be easy. It won't just be a matter of having a sane president in the future, because we've already shown that we as a country are willing to elect an unstable madman twice. They'll know that no matter how good any president we elect may be, we're just one election away from going back to crazytown.

[u/Shadowchaos1010 → u/Grasshoppermouse42]

Addressing the money in politics and holding the likes of Elon Musk and Zuckerberg accountable for how their platforms are being weaponized by foreign governments to influence elections might help.

Trump was not natural. I'm not even saying "he stole it" or anything.

I'm talking about the blatant corruption of the richest man in the planet spending hundreds of millions to get him elected and foreigners flooding American social media with garbage to deepen divides and influence public opinion.

That's why Trump won. The first time, wasn't Russian interference straight up confirmed in 2016? And now Russian bot farms are blowing up and pro-Trumpism is dipping across the internet?

Fixing the purposefully fucked education system will genuinely be a generational endeavor, but "Stop the foreign misinformation, social media platforms" should be able to be done a lot more quickly. It's the lack of effort to do that which contributes to a lot of the mistrust.

At least, it should be. I don't have faith for the average foreigner to understand that big money in politics is so pervasive that getting rid of it might be the very check against another Trump. They'll just say "America bad."

[u/Affectionate_Tax3468 → u/Shadowchaos1010]

Well, "America bad" because Trump shows two things:

1. There is a considerable amount of people that would vote for Trump a third time, because they are a cult and shit on decency, constitution, law, as long as somebody offers them a scapegoat.

2. The systems in the USA are shit if a single person can act like Trump, basically killing separation of powers and checks and balances with a hand wave. Its too much power on a single person with the only thing that reigns him in is the idea that he will act like a gentleman.

[u/whiter4bbitz → u/Grasshoppermouse42]

I have seen a lot of evidence floating around that the American people didn’t in fact elect this embarrassment into office possibly both instances… we’ve all been had.

[u/FairyGoddess21934 → u/Grasshoppermouse42]

No it won’t. It’s like Germany- it took them many years to be trusted again. They had to completely disavow Hitler and Nazis and had to have the Neurenberg trials. If we don’t prosecute the people who caused this, it will repeat.

[u/InsideAd2752 → u/FairyGoddess21934]

Since when is fixing all of Trumps problems the job of a Democratic Party?

[u/Green-Inkling → u/InsideAd2752]

would you trust them over the repub party who enabled this in the first place? would you trust the repubs to clean it up when they have shown they would rather line their pockets and accept the muck over cleaning it up?

[u/FairyGoddess21934 → u/InsideAd2752]

Seriously I agree. It’s maddening that it will take years to undo it and MAGA will just complain about it.

[u/Background-Run → u/InsideAd2752]

It's always been the job of the Democratic party to fix things. It's the job of the Republican party to break them.

[u/Snellyman → u/InsideAd2752]

Always has been.

[u/Bubbly-Following-966]

MAGA projecting again. Their pedophile in chief is the reason we are in this mess right now. F MAGA.

[u/Old_Ebb939]

- Eliminating the tariff taxes

- Stop the idiotic Iran War

- Stop Trump Crime Inc. corruption

- Stop meddling with wind and solar projects

[u/RowanTree739 → u/Old_Ebb939]

Taxing the wealthy could sort out a lot of things.

[u/Federal_Sympathy4667 → u/RowanTree739]

Mm.. before Reagan the rich paid near 75% tax over certain wealth, down from 90 some odf % after ww2. It got dropped to about 28% during Reagan's 2 terms. And a few percent every republican term since, the notorious "Trickle down effect" that never happened. Bring it back up to 75% atleast. Would solve alot of problems paying education and free healthcare. Will the rich leave? Some? Sure but many will stay and operate in the US still. Moving a buisness out of a country is not easy nor cheap and will cause losses for few years.

[u/Aggravating_Pop3180 → u/Federal_Sympathy4667]

They don't remember this or know this. And they say he was a great president. And don't forget before him there was no tax on SS benefits. The only people who benefit from Republicans in office are the rich but 60% of thier voters are poor and almost 40% are in poverty.

[u/Fragrant_Cod_5242]

Lowering grocery and gasoline prices in the United States requires increasing competition, reducing production and transportation costs, and improving domestic supply. Grocery prices could be reduced by supporting American farmers, lowering tariffs on essential goods, improving supply chains, and preventing excessive market concentration. Gas prices could be lowered by increasing oil production, improving refinery capacity, reducing transportation bottlenecks, and reviewing fuel taxes. Investing in renewable energy and fuel-efficient transportation could also reduce long-term dependence on gasoline. While the president and Congress can influence these costs through economic policies, global markets and private businesses ultimately play significant roles in determining prices. The goal should be to make everyday necessities more affordable through greater competition, efficient production, reliable energy supplies, and policies that reduce costs for American families.

[u/Emillllllllllllion → u/Fragrant_Cod_5242]

For gasoline, you could also reduce the demand by making the economy less car reliant by encouraging remote work, improving public transportation and building less car centric infrastructure, but that's more of a long-term solution alongside encouraging ev use.

[u/Funwithagoraphobia → u/Emillllllllllllion]

Remote work? But how would property owners meet the rent on office space? Someone think of the downtrodden landlords! /s (obviously, I hope. Please tell me it was obvious sarcasm.)

[u/GrimbyJ → u/Funwithagoraphobia]

I've been working remotely for 5 years and not having to buy as much gas is nice. I got a new car in 2023 and I just hit 30k miles on it

[u/Shadowfox186 → u/Emillllllllllllion]

Or not start stupid wars. It is the simple fact that Trump could of literally sat in office and done nothing and we would be better off.

[u/Emillllllllllllion → u/Shadowfox186]

I mean, that should be the bare minimum.

[u/E_equals_m_c_hammer → u/Fragrant_Cod_5242]

I pity the poor farmers who got caught in a catch-22. Trump started a tariff/trade war will countries they sell their crops to, so now they have all these crops they can't get rid of. Normally, with an excess of product, the prices would drop. But farming doesnt work like that; its not a factory where you can control production...the crops were planted in anticipation of a market the govt took away. Now they actually have to raise the price to break even, knowing they aren't going to selling all...but they'd vote for the guy who caused it again

[u/Good-Trouble6869 → u/E_equals_m_c_hammer]

F**k every single farmer!! They almost lost everything in Trumps first term because of his tariffs, until we bailed them out. So what do they do? They vote for him twice more!!! Now they are crying like babies!! Screw them!’ One bailout per lifetime!! And they would vote for him again in a heartbeat!!

[u/E_equals_m_c_hammer → u/Good-Trouble6869]

I disagree with one bailout in a lifetime...zero! Being a farmer is no excuse for being a bad businessman; you should hav3 voted in a manner that was best for your business interests (like wall street does) and only for that. Like when govt bailed out banks and CEOs got millions in bonuses...huh?

[u/Good-Trouble6869 → u/E_equals_m_c_hammer]

I just said “ one bailout per lifetime” because they had already received the one. I think we should remove every subsidy that they enjoy. Stop making a business successful and profitable no matter what. They voted against welfare, so let’s give them exactly what they want!!

[u/SuccessfulPiccolo945 → u/E_equals_m_c_hammer]

And he eliminated USAID and many of the food programs that bought excess produce, dairy, and meat from farmers. A fallback many could and would count on.

[u/Unique-Coffee5087 → u/E_equals_m_c_hammer]

The final line eliminates all pity for them.

[u/dsteazy80 → u/Unique-Coffee5087]

Exactly.

If anyone should understand “reap what you sow,” it’s farmers. They overwhelmingly voted for this shit because they wanted to hurt immigrants and marginalized communities. Zero sympathy from me.

[u/JulietKiloNovember → u/dsteazy80]

Which is so fucking laughable, since immigrants are working predominantly as farm laborers. How anyone involved with food production thought this attack on immigrants would in any way benefit them boggles the mind. The mental gymnastics required are far beyond my comprehension.

[u/justified_egg → u/E_equals_m_c_hammer]

The catch-22 of most of them voting against their best interests because they are gullible enough to buy the culture war bullshit conservatives are selling?

[u/Disastrous-Row1429 → u/E_equals_m_c_hammer]

Don't forget that fElon got USAID shut down. USAID bought a lot of farm products.

[u/ErikaKirkasInsideJob → u/E_equals_m_c_hammer]

I hope the poor farmers get raped by trump. Lose their house truck and farm. Have to move to the city and work 80 hours to afford rent. 

Fuck the pedo loving farmers. To stupid to water thier crops

[u/FunkyLobster1828 → u/Fragrant_Cod_5242]

Do you honestly think this dimwit who posted the question could follow a competent answer?

[u/Other_Log_1996 → u/FunkyLobster1828]

It's a bot, so no.

[u/Master-Crazy6454 → u/Fragrant_Cod_5242]

Anything but ending the war with Iran right 🤔 It's only doubled the price of diesel needed to transport EVERYTHING.

[u/Flash234669 → u/Fragrant_Cod_5242]

Common sense measure like exercising the powers that Congress holds to end a war of folly and having good faith negotiations to end a different war of folly would go a long way toward lowering prices and restoring faith in markets.

[u/Cho-Dan → u/Fragrant_Cod_5242]

Additionally, I'd say higher taxes for the rich and lower ones for everyone else. Wouldn't reduce the prices directly, but with higher purchasing power the effect would be similar

[u/Nice-Chemistry-7957 → u/Fragrant_Cod_5242]

Price controls on gas, breaking up food and oil monopolies. Nationalize food and resource production. The only reason prices are this high is because food suppliers, grocery stores and oil companies have been making record profits.

[u/LearnedHandJob2088 → u/Fragrant_Cod_5242]

Must not be a dem, not dead in your tracks 

[u/Theodoxus → u/Fragrant_Cod_5242]

Yes, but start with ending the stupid war to get the ball rolling...

[u/Hot_Context_1393 → u/Fragrant_Cod_5242]

Isn't US oil production at an all-time high?

[u/DraculasDog → u/Hot_Context_1393]

Think about how many clean energy projects Trump axed.

Free handout to the oil companies.

[u/Rishtu → u/Fragrant_Cod_5242]

We could start by ending the tariff war. I mean....

[u/Moist-Explanation-91 → u/Fragrant_Cod_5242]

It mostly would just require pricing regulation and arresting a handful of people for profiteering. Inflation is a given, but prices are ballooning past what inflation accounts for simply due to greed.

[u/Abacabisntanywhere]

Im a regular Republican…you might call me a RINO. I’ll call you an idiot.

Don’t start illegal wars.

Don’t impose foolish tariffs.

Don’t work with dictators..work with allies.

Why can’t you see that none of this is working? It’s all a lie.

[u/BoingBoingBooty → u/Abacabisntanywhere]

Being a regular republican? There is no longer a regular republican party anymore, only a maga party. So if you're genuinely not a trumpling you're now an independent with no party representing you.

[u/OldScratch1865 → u/Abacabisntanywhere]

How many times did you vote Trump? That is the bar for republicans these days.

[u/10biggaymen → u/Abacabisntanywhere]

youre a rino if youre not a pedophile, the most core belief of all conservative thought

[u/GrilledCheeseMnky → u/Abacabisntanywhere]

I think you’re what we called “kitchen table republicans”, we could have different opinions on things and still be friendly and civil. We understand that we basically want the same things, but can argue over how to get there.

[u/Sidewaysgts → u/GrilledCheeseMnky]

When politics come up I often like to tell people that to fly a plane you need a left wing and a right wing.

No one’s always going to be happy - but we need to work together to move forward.

We also need a pilot not actively trying to rip the wings off the plane however.

[u/svick → u/Sidewaysgts]

Except that, in many respects, the US has two right wings (and one of them is completely structurally compromised).

[u/NumberSelect8186 → u/GrilledCheeseMnky]

Reactionary thinking to a magite! I like it. Centerist Republican until 2015. My party no longer exists so I’m an independent voter. However there hasn’t been a GOP candidate worth supporting.

[u/Consistent_Wave_2869 → u/Abacabisntanywhere]

You helped create this situation. Congratulations on destroying America.

[u/NeonPhyzics → u/Abacabisntanywhere]

Hey Mr “Regular Republican”

Have you ever heard of George W Bush ?

[u/CowabungaCthulhu → u/Abacabisntanywhere]

As a self proclaimed RINO, do you still vote R down the ballot, despite what Republicans have done and are doing to this country?

[u/CoinsForCharon → u/CowabungaCthulhu]

Self professed RINO here: no. I vote for candidates that I agree with and it's impossible to agree with these bootlicking asshats.

[u/Plenty_Feeling_8013 → u/Abacabisntanywhere]

your one republican i probably could talk to

[u/midnghtsnac → u/Abacabisntanywhere]

So who did you vote for?

[u/MsRebeccaApples → u/Abacabisntanywhere]

Remember when the campaign ads were things like “A balanced budget…”? I miss those days

[u/NeptuneOverlord43045]

Holy shit the right is dumb as rocks. God damn.

[u/SCP-2774 → u/NeptuneOverlord43045]

Listen pal, the bots are all working overtime right now since the Ukrainian army fired a bunch of them.

[u/Game_Knight_DnD]

Stop the war.

Stop the tariffs.

That undoes a good chunk of the economic damage Trump has done in the past couple years.

Then we can work on actually making improvements. Get corporate influence out of DC. Tax the wealthy at a VERY HIGH percentage. Tax the churches like for profit charities. Overhaul the tax system so they tell you what you are supposed to pay or what your refund is, no work for you unless you dispute it. Then focus IRS agency efforts on tax enforcement and fraud of the richest and work your way down.

Medicaid for all. Mandatory retirement age for all, including and especially politicians and judges. Social Security for all. Then lets work on universal basic income and housing for all. There should not be any homeless, either you are provided mental medical help you need in a clinic or are provided temporary housing. We can use those for profit prisons, as we will be no longer using those. Decriminalize so many things, mostly drug use. Hard core drug trafficking still a crime but personal use is community service or drug treatment or both.

So many good things could happen in America if we got rid of conservatives.

[u/descendency → u/Game_Knight_DnD]

I would aim to also increase the SNAP benefits, helping more people afford groceries, funded of course by taxing the rich.

[u/danielsangeo]

I'm not a Democrat, but here's my plan:

End the war in Iran, and get Russia to leave Ukraine.
End the tariffs.

This will have an immediate effect of lowering gas prices, which will lower grocery prices and other prices as well.

[u/yusill → u/danielsangeo]

Step 1 might be doable after Iran takes the US to the ICC for money to pay for all the civilian damage we did without cause.

Step 2 is fantasy land they have been attacking the Ukraine for about 15 years now and have no desire to stop and we have no means to make them.

Step 3 is fine and dandy and in about 12 years after you repair the long term distrust that has set in for how quickly and wildly our govt can swing and the lack of meanful checks and balances with our 2 party system. After setting up iron clad assurances and change the basic structure of how our govt handles treaties and give them such great deals that they would be insane not to trade with us maybe we can re enter the world stage hat in hand.

The damage is beyond oil. It's a basic distrust for our govt structure if 1 person can cancel a treaty someone else signed. No one wants to go back to square one every time someone else moves into the white house. That causes disruption. And they have all reset new supply lines and deals. Trump has single handedly removed the US as a global trading power. We are now the asshole who tries to change the deal after it's been agreed and no one likes that guy.

[u/danielsangeo → u/yusill]

Oh definitely. It's very easy and very quick to damage things. It's a lot more difficult to repair the damage! Basically take what I said and add an implicit "easier said than done". 😑

[u/Visual_Exam7903 → u/yusill]

There is a lot of truth to all of this, and it was directly caused by Orange Jesus.

The world is wise to our style of government now. We signed a deal with Iran, we didn't go back to amend the deal, we simply tore it up. we cannot have long agreements with countries if the very next guy can fuck it up without congressional approval. Trump literally destroyed 100 years of international trust in just a matter of minutes.

[u/ShrodingersArmadillo → u/danielsangeo]

You're going to have to do a lot more than that sadly

The discounts the US got are gone thanks to trumps trade wars and constant stream of threats.

You're going to have to fix so many things in international relations and you'll never get it back to what it was because frankly the trust is gone. US relations are transactional now.

The options the US have are abandon trump and try to make amends

or

Continue along the trumpian path and end up a failed state.

Getting rid of republicans this election cycle isn't enough.

trump will have to be handed over to the ICC at bare minimum for starters.

[u/Quote_the_Bloodless]

I never understood how people could trust trump, who had absolutely no politicies outlined and a history of economic buffoonery, over Harris, who made it a clear part of her campaign.

https://apnews.com/article/harris-economy-inflation-food-prices-campaign-c3bbfd8aa3bfd2be3e98d021f0a182ac

[u/Haunting-Ad788 → u/Quote_the_Bloodless]

I heard Harris had no clear policies so many fucking times while Trump literally had nothing.

[u/G-dog121 → u/Haunting-Ad788]

I literally listed her policies to Trumpaholics who said that to me and it was though no sound ever came out of my mouth. They just kept saying the same things. I knew then it was never been about policies.

[u/Paraxom → u/Haunting-Ad788]

it was honestly infuriating, Trump was allowed concepts of a plan but never said anything concrete, meanwhile Harris had her plans on her site and was just ignored

[u/LarkinToWinnipeg → u/Haunting-Ad788]

As soon as I heard him say "concepts of a plan" for healthcare and there was no major backlash I knew he was gonna be reelected. My god we're stupid here.

[u/some1guystuff]

Easy … 🤣🤣… don’t continue forever wars in a region on the planet you have no business being in in the first place .. simple

[u/Multiple__Butts]

Literally just undo the tariffs and you'd be halfway there.

[u/The_Monarch_Lives]

Stop unecessary blanket tarriffs. Increase green energy initiatives. Raise fuel efficiency standards. Improve infrastructure... I mean we can keep going. Each of those so far have proven to improve prices across the board along with giving us a cleaner environment that improves health and reduces some chronic conditions, so it also lowers Healthcare costs.

[u/GlykenT → u/The_Monarch_Lives]

Reinstating all the cancelled renewables would be good too, but investors might have been scared off as any investment could be lost on a president's whim.

[u/Ted_Rid → u/GlykenT]

What's that line which is always trotted out, when anyone dares mention taxing corporations and oligarchs more?

"They'll just take their business elsewhere!"

i.e. other countries will reap that investment into renewables.

[u/KahlessAndMolor]

I could talk for 2 hours straight on my economic plan actually 

[u/KinkyBAGreek]

First Democrats don’t promise to lower prices.

Second Democrats promise to make things more affordable. So maybe increase the minimum wage, maybe go after greedy corporations who price gouge.

Third Democrats try to make things like healthcare affordable and actually cover what it should.

Where are Donald Trump and the GOP on healthcare ?

[u/Mikenmikena2025]

1. End this war.
2. Negotiate and reestablish trade partnerships with Europe, Canada, and even Iran.
3. Reestablish programs axed by the previous administration such as USAID, the Dept of Education, justice, FDA, NIHS, Agriculture, etc 4.Expand the supreme court and chalenge citizens united.
4. Demonopolize food production
5. Renew incentives on green energy to lessen presure and reliance on oil imports.
6. Impeach this administration and begin to reestablish good will with our allies.
7. Stop taxing americans with needless tarrifs
8. Establish set pricing for farm subsidies like WIC and SNAP to reduce costs and ensure farmers and ranchers do not go bankrupt.
9. Force all social media to show location for created accounts so people can see how russians manipulate them online.

[u/factoid_]

End the tariffs.  End the war in Iran.  Engage in actual good faith trade negotiations.  

Stop arresting the farm labor force with ice raids.

[u/jeepedge]

Maybe not rape the American people for self gain. Just an idea.

[u/gdoubleyou1]

I remember when Democrats wanted to look into all these places that raised prices during the global supply chain issue and Republicans voted it down.

[u/TheTinyMaus]

It's so simple. We'll fix it on Day 1. The prices are going to go down so fast you won't believe it. Because everyone before has been stupid, not like us, our uncle taught at MIT. You'll come up to us, tears in your eyes, big strong men, never cried a day in their lives, and say, "Sir, you did it."

[u/18ekko]

As befuddling as it is that the cult can't admit that a global tariff war and a war in the gulf are actually causing this shitshow, do they really not think that anyone else can connect those dots?

[u/MindFucker79]

First off, we stop attacking Iran. Secondly we work with Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Bab al-Mandab. Shift our focus on Ukraine and not Israel. Thirdly, revoke all of the tariffs except those that actually help support our economy. Fourth, invest in renewable energies to make the US less reliant on foreign energy and economics. Fifth, reduce the amount of military spending redirecting all spending to reflect the new era of war and defense. Sixth, stop subsidies to corporations and industries that are already profitable. Seventh, get rid of ICE, set up new and better border policies to encourage the migrant workers to return to the US. Additionally developed a policy in the payment procedures and policies so farmers cannot take advantage of these people. Eighth, establish the Biden CHIPS act. That’s a start.

[u/Talusthebroke]

Ending the war in Iran and reopening the strait of Hormuz largely solves all of the problems in question. Cutting military and financial aid to Israel massively cuts costs, and increasing wages and funds available to the average person increases consumer confidence and strengthens the economy in nearly every possible way

[u/Slade_Riprock → u/Talusthebroke]

Don't forget rescinding all the dumb ass tariffs

[u/FaeTheWanderer]

Ah! So, DSA socialist here, buuuuut maga think we are all communists anyway, so I'll give this a go from the socialist angle!

Ok, step one! End the fucking wars in Iran and Palestine and remove funding for the Iron Dome as well as any weapons for Isreal! Force Netanyahu and his far right government to have to either play nice with their neighbors, or learn to get kicked in the teeth without demanding the American people give up our Medicare and Socila Security to keep funding the middle east's biggest crybully!

Step two! Nationalize the nation's oil supply ensuring that all that fracking and drilling everyone is so keen on doing, despite it harming our beautiful lands, is going into the fuel tanks of the American people and not just being shipped over seas so it can be sold by the same billionaires price gouging us at the pump! As a bonus, that leads us to my next point!

Step 3, baybee!! We pass laws that put a cap on how much you can overcharge the people to buy your products! Price caps! They freaking work, and the only reason inflation is so bad is because the billionaires have spent millions convincing the American people that having laws that prevent them from getting ripped off is somehow bad for them! End that shit and make sure the laws have teeth! If we catch a company trying to price gouge or otherwise rip off ths people, the punishment CANNOT just be a fine! Otherwise that's just the fee you pay to legalize robbing the people! Instead, we go ahead and charge a fee that goes directly into funding the social safety net, but we also impose prison time on the folks controlling the criminal corporation! Toss a few pampered CEOs and boards of investors into federal prison, and watch them suddenly start taking our laws seriously! And as a bonus, they learn what REAL Americans live like, without their sycophantic yes men huffing their farts all day and telling them they smell like lavender, and have never had a bad idea!

Fourth step! We open up local government run grocery stores with gas stations, and we sell that shit at cost, and also employ locals to run the stores, stations, and the warehouses and trucks needed to keep all that going!

BONUS PROBLEM SOLVED!! By warehousing, distributing, and selling our foods and fuel locally, while of course shipping things to areas that can't produce it on their own, obviously, we can eliminate the middlemen, and pay our local farmers and ranchers to grow our foods and veggies, preventing morons like Trump from simply flooding the market with cheap (possibly tainted) beef from Argentina!

That's right! My plan also helps save the local farmers!

Here's the funny part, remember how the MAGAs were hooting and hopping around puffing out their chests like a pack of rabid howler monkeys about using DOGE to destroy USAID?

Yeaaah, my plan there is essentially what USAID did for our partner nations, and really was the backbone holding up all of our agricultural industry! It was the counterweight that kept the factory farms from fully taking over, but yeah, the MAGAs got duped by the billionaires who own those factory farms into voting to give them all the money and power.

See why you should NEVER vote to let billionaires run everything?

Wait, wait, I know, there might be a trans girl who wants to be a cheerleader or something, so we HAVE to vote in the guys who have been robbing us blind for generations! Flock and Palantir are toootally gonna keep us safe from (checks notes) that scary immigrant who came to the country with the dastardly plan to. . . Trim the grass and maintain our lovely flower beds! Criminal scum!!

Aaah, anyway, I'll be over here trying to fix the democratic party and hopefully push all the centrist corporatists like Schumer, Jeffries, Pelosi, Letterman, and any leftover Clintonites out, and we can come back after the midterms and see how the republicans are enjoying being owned by Elon Musk, a South African who broke our immigration laws, Peter Theil, an open gay man who works with Sam Altman, a clearly closeted gay man who works with Theil to make AI that will take away the last of the jobs they couldn't outsource to sweat shops overseas!

It'd be cool to have help from populists to bring populism to the democratic party, but I get it! Conservatives are too scared to help us stick it to the billionaires by voting against the billionaire backed candidates because their millionaire lapdogs on TV told them to fear the same people the establishment of both parties fear! Its cool! Its cool! Bravery is scary and defending freedom from your own political party is hard work!

[u/DawgPound919]

1. Not starting a war in the Middle East.
2. Repeat 1.

[u/RepresentativeCow241]

Jesus, is this really their best gotcha?

[u/Hagleboz → u/RepresentativeCow241]

It's not even a gotcha, I can list about 20 different things for this bitch right of the top of my head. Of course she wouldn't understand any of them so why the fuck bother?

[u/bj_my_dj]

Who has time to ask Democrats? We're too busy asking Republicans, who are in power and should have already done so about it. But they have no answers so we have to keep asking. We'll ask the Dems when they take over.

[u/Big_Interest7333 → u/bj_my_dj]

You’ll have to ask Democrats because Republicans have tried nothing and are out of ideas.

[u/mr-hank_scorpio]

Stop the illegal war, remove blanket tariffs, tax billionaires.

[u/Araz728]

Maybe start by… I don’t know… ending the fucking war the president illegally started against the country that controls the waterway through which 20% of the world’s oil flows? Just a thought.

[u/rip-rock-1949]

Those people are arguing for the government to control the economy.

Do they know what that is most commonly known as (in political theory)?

they couldn't think in a straight line if you bound and shackled them and dragged them down that line.

[u/Budget_Village_8377]

In a sense you’re right. How do you fix the 40 yr concerted effort by republicans to transfer all the wealth to the 1%? It might be too far gone at this point.

[u/Amazing_Entrance_888]

Not a Dem but smart enough to admit it’s a complex issue. No one is as stupid as Trump who went around saying prices would be lower on day one even though he had no plan to make that happen. And instead implemented illegal tariffs that the American public paid AND started a war that had global effects on the cost of everything. Yet his followers give him a pass while blaming democrats. Moronic.

[u/Grundlestorm]

Yeah, explaining actual policy changes requires actually stopping to discuss at length. 

Actual plans for complex problems can't be explained in an offhand, single sentence empty catch phrase while you just keep on doing what you're doing.

[u/TheAgedProfessor]

Stop Trump's idiotic aimless war(s), for one. Gee, that was simple. Or am I dead in my tracks and don't know it?

Stop Trump's idiotic tariffs and get back to actually trading amicably with our neighbors near and far. Oop. I did it again.

Stop Trump from manipulating the market and skimming billions from governmental programs into his own personal wallet. Whoops. Dead. Tracks.

[u/toothy_mcthree]

End the ridiculous tariff wars is a great second step.

[u/60Hertz]

When you think everyone else is as dumb as you are.

[u/snakebite2017]

Dumb B should be asking republicans. They're in charge.

[u/foomadelica]

Ann Stone......Hey democrats, how do you put out this fire we started?

Democrats.....stop lighting new fires and pour water on it, obviously.

Ann Stone......errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr does not compute!

[u/kjellwanger]

I guess somebody forgot to bomb this bot farm.

[u/Superseaslug]

Dont rip up perfectly good deals because you don't like Obama's name is a good start.

Quite literally trump could have done nothing and it would have been better

[u/freedfg]

If only we had positive trade relations and no pointless war in a global trade passege.

Weird. Say, what WERE gas prices in December of 2024?

[u/Franknbeanstoo]

jail the pedophile for starters

[u/No-Conversation-1216]

Vote Republicans out of office. That's how.

[u/Super_Rando_Man]

Taxing the rich , forcing us oil producers to sell domestically for capped rates, instead of selling to South America at market price. Making churches that recievw 200k+ annually no longer completely tax exempt, getting rid of tariffs. Just off the top of my head.... im not even a dem. Just a humanitarian.

[u/MarzipanLast6502]

We were doing pretty good when Biden left office. Tell me otherwise

[u/indomike14]

Step 1: Not withdraw from the JCPOA.

Step 2: Don't start an unnecessary war with Iran.

Step 3: Invest in renewables.

[u/SvartrKukkSceand]

Stop attacking Iran, open the straight. Get the Houthi's to agree to stop their blockade.

Quit ilegally tarriffing and/or trade-warring with our allies that we buy food from

That should cover most of it.

[u/FOX-WARREN]

Housing prices. Dems figured it out. Biden specifically. Covid. Build back better again Biden. The debt? With what Trump put in the credit card his first term and what he’s charging up this time it’s not going to be easy. But history proves republicans screw it up and the Dems improve it. But often not fast enough for stupid people. Let’s say at this point in time Maga’s. These people the 36% are the stupidest of the stupidest of the stupidest. Last the only reason they even have a chance the republicans is because of the money they are spending not to help but to keep you stupid.

[u/NoRagrats_LK]

Just do the opposite of what Trump had done. Eazy peezy.

[u/No_Obligation_3568]

This is actually a really easy fix.

Get out of the Middle East. Let them fight their own wars.

Then force the U.S. oil companies to sell a certain percentage of their exported fuel at wholesale price back to the U.S. in exchange for continuing the tax incentives they already get. Otherwise you get rid of their tax incentives.

This shits really not all that complicated.

We produce more fuel and diesel than we use per day. It’s just that we export a huge portion of it. The oil companies get mega deals from the U.S. government and the U.S. population gets nearly nothing in exchange. The U.S. taxpayers subsidize oil companies and then pay higher prices at the pump. Stop subsidizing those companies if the taxpayers get nothing for it.

Oh, but that’s not capitalism. Guess we can’t do that and we should just continue letting citizens of this country get gouged for the betterment of billionaires.

[u/bloodmagik]

Not tariffing the global economy, (including what can’t be produced domestically), as well as avoiding wars of choice and funding Israel would be a fine damn start.

[u/YogurtClosetThinnest]

End the war in Iran.

End dumbass tariffs.

Invest in alternative energy.

Invest in public transport.

State run grocery stores.

[u/_Mamushi_]

Psssttt for all of Kamala’s flaws she did say she would go after corporate price gouging on food items and MAGA said that was communism lol

[u/TeaHot9130]

Easy , just the opposite

[u/webbslinger_0]

Just because conservatives are too dumb to know basic economics doesn’t mean liberals are as well.

[u/Proper-Salamander-84]

How about let’s focus on the issue, democrats are not in power and have not been for some time. MAGA owns the risen cost(s) in all sectors. Why should democrats continue to balance the budget for the GOP?

[u/Covfefe45killls]

Aside from stopping the Iran war and apologizing for starting it, we could invest in a green economy with solar panels on roofs and more electric cars (not Teslas).

[u/Dhaupin]

Ya'll should be posting this on her fb profile... https://www.facebook.com/ann.stone.9/posts/pfbid0eyCe6WGQ2FbVWr5qhwgBwGCui6mny31jqLgzHwP4fPbRdxdCvhxqcunvookW2xRPl

[u/SocalKM]

Stopping the war, rolling back the Billionaire tax cuts, Unwinding the DOGE idiotic layoffs where we’re still paying people who aren’t working, eliminating the stupid Tariffs (which are 100% funded by consumers), Stop the construction projects where we’re paying to build Trump monuments- I think that’s a pretty good start!!

[u/ConfidentDatabase157]

EVERYONE is wrong with grocery prices. No matter the suggestions proposed here, once prices rise, they will NEVER be reduced. NEVER. Shrinkflation maybe. Instead of 16 oz. For $1, it will be 14 oz. Never have food prices, or most other consumer goods dropped in price. Anyone show me an example of when it did. Between inflation and greed, it won't happen PERIOD

[u/danimagoo → u/ConfidentDatabase157]

That’s not always true. Egg prices are lower today than they were in early 2025. It just depends on the specific product and what caused the price to go up. But for prices overall, that’s correct. Lower inflation doesn’t mean lower prices.

[u/Mrb50k]

Stop the tariffs

[u/Frequent_Theme_5352]

The same way the Democrats been cleaning up Republicans mess every single time they’re in the WH.

[u/AZNM1912]

And how are republicans going to lower prices again?

[u/OM-Scam]

Tax billionaires

[u/pokethrowaway4]

Change tax law so that unearned income (investment return, etc) is taxed at higher rates than earned income, with the sole exception of retirement accounts (with limits on yearly contributions obviously).

Then change the law so that all compensation must be 95% paycheck, and maximum 5% stock options, for all positions, including CEOs, etc.

Then change the tax brackets to be more inline with how they were between 1945 and Raegan.

Close tax loopholes for unnecessary expenses like golf trips, fancy meals, etc. you can write off worker pay, benefits, and necessary costs.

Now all the sudden the “path of least resistance” is paying the average worker way more, and the average CEO way less.

[u/ArdenJaguar]

Ah… Ending the war and eliminating the tariffs?

[u/xtalgeek]

War? Needless tariffs? Antagonizing trading partners? This is a rich life to mine.

[u/subby_puppy33]

Opening the strait. More investment onto EV’s. Higher taxes on the rich while lowering sales tax

[u/Kaffe-Mumriken]

Yeah it would stop me dead in my tracks because I’d be lecturing you for six hours

[u/ande9393]

Prices are never going down again.

[u/VastOk864]

They stop dead in their tracks because they can’t believe how stupid a republican is to NOT know how to do these things.

[u/NerdyTimes_IDK]

Stop the war, lower tariffs, try talking to our old allies about reinstating our old trade agreements

Here: How will we lower them by raising tariffs

[u/SignoreBanana]

Well, definitely harder now that Trump fucked the pooch so hard, but restoring our trade agreements to pre-Trump and trying to make a deal with Iran would be a good start. Also, stop sending so much money to Israel.

[u/daytimefungi]

National the oil companies

[u/IgnisFlux]

Don't send billions of dollars to other countries and stop being Israel's pet

[u/uber-judge]

Fucking easy. First don’t start war of choice in the Middle East second don’t tariff everyone third promote green energy fourth help Ukraine win the war, so Putin can be toppled, and Russia can rejoin the world stage.

[u/Harrypoooooter41]

Ask the red states how come the blue state funds everything.

[u/Man-o-Bronze]

The abject stupidity and lack of common sense these people exhibit is mind-boggling.

[u/StrattonPA]

Get rid of Donald Trump,..problem solved.

…and I’m alive in my tracks.

[u/KrustyRox777]

Stop the grifting of this current regime

[u/TwoWrongsAreSoRight]

1. Stop the pointless war in iran that only served to inflate trumps ego and allow him to bomb more brown people

2. End this trade war bullshit and renormalize relationships with the rest of the world.

3. Label republicans in congress enemies of the people and execute them

[u/granolabranborg]

End tariffs, end the war….

[u/birdhoppe]

With a democratic administration, this question wouldn’t have to be asked.