No Stupid Questions

The fact you guys are still treating Trump as a "one off" is wild.

To the rest of the world that's the image of Americans, for decades now.

Round up Trump, his cabinet, and advisors and then ship them to Iran so they can face justice.

Make a heart felt apology to the world and cut the military budget in half with plans to wind down military spending completely thus eliminating US standing army.

Massively increase the amount of representatives in Congress, eliminate the Senate, triple the size of SCOTUS, remove dark money from politics, remove all insider trading by passing strict laws against it, remove the revolving door public/private regulatory capture nightmare, bring in ranked voting for all federal elections, force all politicians to only campaign on policy, hold all authority to stricter and much higher standards, ratify the equal rights amendment, create sound privacy laws, breakup all mega corps, and increase taxation beyond total worth of 10 million to 99.999999%.

Within America would be pretty easy, you just have to listen to your constituent demands and acknowledge them publicly with proper respect. Like how Mamdani was literally the only candidate who wasn't shilling for Israel and actually explained his policy which people wanted.

Internationally, lol it was already down the gutter post WWII. Kind of hard to realive foreign leaders you already assasinated.

Do you mean within the US or trust internationally?

The rest of the world has begrudgingly let the US dominate world commerce, culture, and morality. Now they're realizing how much of their own identity they've given away, and are struggling to recover from it. Critically, even if the US ever gets their shit together again, nobody else wants to go back to the same relationship they had. We've been forced out of an abusive relationship, and now we're free.

That'd be my step 1, personally

Step 2 is proving it

1. Hang every person on the Epstein list.
2. Abolish lobbying and any level of secrecy for politicians
3. Reclaim all private property owned by anyone with more than 5 million dollars and fairly redistribute it.
4. Disband the CIA.
5. Make all documents in the government public record.
6. Write a new constitution listing all possible ways the government could be exploited to be reviewed anually with lifetime Incarnation and labor for violations and compounding punishment for each individual involved.

Next? This is gonna be a generational problem. Once trust is broken you can't buy it back.

Simple: refrain from doing any stupid shit for half a century. Any stupid shit will kick the timer backwards 70% of the elapsed time.

(There really is no other way)

By throwing the last one under the bus. Literally.

It has to be in phases, most importantly, it has to be consistent.

First President-Elect after Shitstain, would have to spend their entire first year, rolling back what they're capable. They'd have to figure a way to permanently codify long-debated issues to settle the score 'once and for all' so that nobody, not even Congress or the Supreme Court or themselves, can ever roll it back. It would have to be a series of votes and passes to make it this way. Once it's done, it's done, no take-backs.

Second year in, they would spend that time prosecuting, chasing and holding accountable, all and any traitors to the country from government to other branches. America should be about weeding out the traitors.

Third year in, they can spend that year, trying to remedy fractured allies that Shitstain ruined. America should still be America first, after all, there's a lot of work to be done to fix itself, but it should also be lenient to the globe as well.

Fourth year in, campaign time and see and hope that they remain.

Regardless of any scenario, it's still down to the people to even get someone who is like this and to keep up supporting and voting people like this. We are always one general election cycle away from all of the effort being undone because people are intentionally ill-informed and that gullible to buy into manufactured lies.

I've been thinking about it. It's not good enough to say "Sorry, last guy was a dipshit." Especially since the majority of people in the US think he is a dipshit right now.

I think we would need to remove said dipshit from power, and prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law. Then remove anyone who knew he was a dipshit and had responsibility to say/do something about it, and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law where appropriate. Then find anyone that supported the dipshit in exchange for favors from the dipshit, and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.

After all that, then we need to get laws in place that prevent this kind of dipshittery from happening again. Specifically, we need heavy penalties for election campaign finance and ethics violations. Ranked choice voting seems like a pretty good way to prevent us from having to a choose between the two least likeable assholes in the country to lead us. Big money needs to be out of politics, remove Citizens United, remove the ability of corporations to make campaign contributions, and maybe even make campaign finances be paid out of a government fund where each a candidate gets an equal amount.

Once we've removed the dipshits, and prevented the possibility of a dipshit getting elected again, the last ingredient for this redemption recipe is time. People aren't just going to forget what has happened. We need to demonstrate consistent stability and sanity in both our foreign and domestic politics for at least a decade or two.

I don't think all of this will happen TBH. A more realistic redemption is a complete restructure of the United States, and probably a separation into a few different countries, varying in sanity from a solarpunk future state to the religious-zealot-lead redneckistan.

Trust amongst your allies is absolutely fucked. Itll take years for you to get it back

It just won't happen. Our institutions are weak and very subject to outside influence. Everyone in the world can see it.

If our corrupt oligarchs allow an election, the next president will still have to deal with their financial power, the private electronic surveillance state they control, their overwheming control of our very corrupt court system, etc.

If the dems were interested in fixing the problem it would take focused effort over multiple terms. The dems are not interested in fixing the problem. This is just who we are as a nation-state.

put current administartion in jail to a man, abolish both parties, start extensive campaign rooting out the corruption and influence of the rich from your country. 2/3 of those at least.

Practically, there's little they can do to win back the USA's soft power at this point -- bridges take seconds to burn, generations to build.

A starting point would be to hold the various people from the previous administration accountable for what's gone on. That's practically impossible, as we've seen them unable to hold people like Trump accountable for a literal attempted insurrection/coup the last time he was defeated at the polls. Putting people like Hegseth in front of the Hague, to answer for his war crimes in regards to killing civilians near venezuela, for example, would be a step in regaining trust from the international community (basically "We committed international crimes, and we'll allow the international community to determine the punishment"). The USA would never do that, and has never done that historically. The democrats would never sign off on it, no matter how nazi-like the republicans may get -- and the American people, even now, view themselves as exceptional/special to the point that they feel no 'real' accountability for the shit their government is doing.

Trade relations/integrations are screwed, as every western partner of the USA now knows/sees very clearly that the USA is just "one election cycle away" from using those very integrations to attack and destabilize their "allies". The USA spent decades/generations building up that trust, it'll take decades/generations of similar effort to try and rebuild it. I don't imagine it'll happen in my life time.

Electing Trump once may've been an outlier, but Americans re-elected him even as he was being transparent in his intentions to become a dictator and to dramatically re-orient America's international position - the current administration people published project 2025, and numerous other "pro fascism" essays/books prior to the 2025 election. Vance, their VP, literally lauds people like Posobiecs work, wherein he calls for democrats to be hunted/targeted/killed. The Americans voted in favour of fucking over western allies, voted in favour of alienating the EU, Canada, Mexico, etc. They voted in favour of a guy wanting to be buddies with Putin, Kim Jong, and any other ruthless dictator he met / exchanged love letters with. They voted for a literal convicted criminal, who any person with an IQ above room temperature would realise would conduct themselves like a criminal in office -- no one is shocked that he openly takes bribes and there's overt corruption going on, because America quite explicitly voted for those things. Why would the world forgive and forget that?

To quote/paraphrase the previous person thought to be the bottom of the barrel of American leaders: "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice.... uh... well you can't get fooled again, right?". Part of that sentiment, is that if you do it the second time, knowing how things went the last time around, you're basically accepting the result of being made a fool -- you're not getting 'fooled', but instead you are accepting your role as a fool by trusting the same untrustworthy group again, you're complicit in your poor treatment. Other countries cannot trust the states again, because we've all been shown the states is untrustworthy, and that they're intent on harming our people/countries. We cannot go back to 'trusting' the states, unless we want to do harm to our own citizens/interests.

Besides, there's still a few more years of insults and bullshit to come from the USA. We haven't even hit the bottom for this massive betrayal of western allies. It's a bit early to be pretending like they have a hope of digging themselves out of this pit, while they're still actively digging deeper.

This is a downfall, you guys haven't even reached the lowest point yet. You already talk about getting back up. This is what's great about America. But the real answer is: Trump isn't alone and was openly racist, misogynistic, dumb and indecent about it all. It's the fact that he was able to even start considering a career in politics that needs to be addressed.

Showering the world with gifts and promises isn't going to change anything. If we're all just waiting for the next fucker to arrive. You have to do something far more substantial like giving up veto rights, or something stupid like that. Which would be completely idiotically desperate lost-the-war type of concessions in peace time.

The fact of the matter is that this isn't going to happen and all the world can hope for is that things calm down and the internal temsions in the country come to a conclusion the world can support.

As a unitedstatesian: I genuinely do not believe the trust we’ve squandered with parts of the world that (previously) didn’t mind us / considered us allies is going to be recovered in my lifetime. Our idiocy has put far too many things in motion that are going to have irrevocable consequences for the very long term. For instance: just today, the US is apparently considering suspending Spain for disrupting operation Epstein Fury, despite the fact that there is absolutely no mechanism within the NATO charter to unilaterally do that to Spain.

To gain back Americans' trust? Almost nothing.

To gain back other countries' trust? Quite a lot.

To actually be a good president and make the country a reasonably decent place to live? Not realistic for one presidency.

Severe and thorough retribution.

Republicans MUST pay.

That would be a good start. Continue with fixing your country, and be nice to those outside your borders. Even the US cannot survive on its own.

Restore the rule of law, and make sure traitors like Trump end up behind bars. No mercy for those who had no mercy with others.

• New Nuremberg trials for all in, and allies propping up, the former regime

• Transparent audit of everything trump broke and real-time checklist of process to restore critical needs, prioritizing human lives.

• A lasting and appropriate punishment for trump himself

• Recovering the funds to do all of the above from trump and complicit billionaires in the private sector - starting with musk for his own crimes against humanity.

• A job corp to employ all of the AI layoffs, similar to the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps. Needs a healthy vetting to avoid left over trump chuds

• Expand the Supreme Court

• End Citizens United

• All trump appointees, in all positions, are removed from offices immediately. If not convicted in new Nuremberg trials, they can still reapply for positions and be consists as any other

• The demolished east wing will be rebuilt as a simple building and used as a museum to the attrocities that trump committed and the people and institutions that enabled him. An artist will be commissioned to design a pitch black facade, perhaps in the shape of the old building. It should look out of place and awkward, and stand forever as a sort of black eye on America. To show how the nation was injured and not cover it up. There will be legislation to perpetually fund the museum and make admission free to all.

The future will require a simple understanding - there was not an equivalency here, no two valid sides. The was objective wrong and right. No more pretending

Just start treating people with kindness and respect and show that your word is your bond. That's it. The rest takes time, like any healing does.