Sheldon Johnson, Jr. (Johnsonverse)

Sheldon Robert Johnson, Jr. (b. December 31, 1963) is an American activist, philanthropist, and politician. He was the CEO of Johnson Industries from October 11, 1991 to December 30, 2009, at which point his son Tim Johnson took over. He was the executive producer of The Price is Right from 1992 to 2010. He was the 39th Governor of California from January 3, 2011 to January 7, 2019, succeeding Arnold Schwarzenegger, and is running for President in the 2020 Democratic primaries; experts and strategists alike have predicted that Johnson will win the primaries and the election (both the popular and electoral vote). In 2015, Forbes Magazine ranked him as the richest person in the world, with a net worth of approximately $132.5 billion. His father, Sheldon Johnson, was CEO of Johnson Industries from 1967 to 1981, and ran for President in 1984, 1988 and 1992.

Johnson was also an actor, producer, director, and writer, beginning his acting career in the 1970s with the 1977 film adaptation of Richie Rich as Reggie van Dough, which won him a Juvenile Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1978. His debut as an author was the 1980 bestselling science-fiction novel Hotter Than the Sun!, which won him the 1981 Pulitizer Prize and acclaim. His directorial debut was 1983's smash hit Return of the Jedi, which he also wrote, and won an Oscar and Emmy for Best Director in 1984.

Early Life
At an early age, Johnson had a keen eye for politics; at five he memorized the names of every American President up until then, and the first seven amendments of the Constitution. His lifelong dream was to run for President; while he was CEO of Johnson Industries, Johnson studied American history and read copies of American documents, including the Bill of Rights, in his spare time.

Johnson Industries
After Stacker and Associates CEO Phil Stacker resigned from Johnson Industries on October 10, 1991, Johnson assumed control of the company. Under his reign, Johnson bought many companies, including PrimeStar, Yahoo!, YouTube, and Dog n Suds, and oversaw Monster World, the EarthBound movie series, and Detective Jenny. Johnson is often cited as "the greatest CEO in Johnson history", though Tim quickly became a contender for that title within two years of taking over.

Johnson hosted The Casino of Luck from its 1998 debut until 2010, and was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999.

Personal Life
Johnson has been married to Tammy Jo Johnson since December 29, 1990. They have four children, Timothy Daniel "Tim" and Chloe Elizabeth (b. July 9, 1995), James Walker "Jimmy" (b. May 19, 1998), and Jaya Leigh (b. August 7, 2007). He has five brothers: William Lex "Bill" (b. June 29, 1965), Oliver James "Olly" (b. January 30, 1969), Kenneth Jeffery (b. March 1, 1972), Mark Sheldon (b. July 8, 1980), and Craig Vincent (b. October 5, 1968), and three sisters: Linda Anne (b. December 31, 1963, five minutes younger than Sheldon), Olympia Destiny (b. January 30, 1969, eight seconds older than Olly), and Ashley Nicole (b. August 1, 1979). He also has four grandchildren, November Spring Luna and Richard Timothy (b. November 2014) and James Sheldon (b. June 21, 2016) from Tim, and James Walker "Jimmy" Johnson, Jr. (b. March 17, 2018), from Jimmy. Johnson also has three sheepdogs: Truth (b. 2004), and her puppies Bluebell (b. 2006), and Cliff (b. 2007), a saltwater fish tank, and three bunnies.

Politics
Just like all of his predecessors at Johnson Industries, Johnson is highly liberal, a member of the Democratic Party, ran for President in 2000 with Linda Anne Johnson as his Vice President (his wife Tammy Jo ran the company from August 1, 1999, when the campaign was announced, to August 18, 2000; Johnson himself lost the nomination by only one vote in his campaign, and assured his supporters that he would open the door for a future Presidential run "maybe in 20 years, who knows."), and is running for the Democratic presidential nomination again in 2020 on a platform of making "hardcore" improvements to America, with Craig Johnson as his Vice President. Johnson has said that he began considering a second presidential run following Hillary Clinton's surprise defeat by Republican nominee Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Already, polls are stating that around 97% of Americans would vote for him due to his success and fame. Despite this, Trump himself has been quoted as saying on his Twitter account, "I assure you, I have a far better chance of winning the 2020 Election than Sheldon Johnson, Jr. and the Dems. They will definitely be crushed by me and the Republicans in 2020, no question about it. Johnson's just made the biggest mistake of his life". Johnson rebutted in a speech at Sioux City, SD on September 12, 2018, to which the crowd applauded and cheered. One of his MySpace speeches also came with a GIF of the Angry Video Game Nerd drinking his beer and screaming into a pillow from his review of the NES adaptation of the 1990 film Dick Tracy. The post was liked and reposted by the Johnson Twins themselves, both of whom added their own commentary; Tim added, "You will win, Dad. And IF you don't, I'll ensure you do anyways. With the Howard Johnson’s Navy. Remember, people: if you see me post the hashtag #vivalarevolution, THAT IS THE CALL TO RISE UP AND REBEL. Further instructions will be given after the hashtag is sent out on both MySpace and WBC.", while Chloe added, "If you don't win, Dad, which I just know you will, Tim will just overthrow America's first dictator. Good luck!"; Tim later added to this post "Right, Chloe. I'm not going anywhere if Trump wins. I'll fight tooth-and-nail to overthrow him, and I won't be gentle"; Johnson himself backed this up with a "Hear hear! America needs hardcore changes for sure: social justice, better jobs, education and housing, and a drop in homeless.". Craig and Tammy Jo Johnson, and Phil Stacker all liked the post as well. On June 15, 2018, at 8:35 PM, he submitted an FEC Form 2 in compliance with the Federal Election Campaign Act. Johnson frequently begins his speeches with "My fellow Americans...". Johnson has been cited as the de-facto leader of the Democratic Party after Hillary Clinton's loss in the 2016 election, and his age (57 on inauguration day) has been cited as Johnson "bringing a fresh face to the party".

Johnson believes that the Democratic Party needs to be a big tent. He intends to appeal to voters that are dissatisfied with the increasingly radicalized stances which both parties have adopted. In addition, Johnson has promised that, if elected president, he will bring unity to a confused and divided nation. Among other things, his platform will illegalize smoking and dismantle the tobacco industry, as he has been quoted saying said industry killed great people such as Walt Disney, Bill Cullen, and George Harrison, causing criticism from the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, which notoriously tried to defend the industry by saying, "Our products never did anything to our customers, who we care for deeply. We love them", illegalize loot boxes, referring to them as "methods of exploiting gambling addictions for the companies' selfish profit gain", legalize abortion, roll back Trump's travel ban on Muslims, crack down on state-sponsored terrorism, roll back Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and split Jerusalem into two, try to get back in the Iran nuclear deal, illegalize racial profiling and excessive use of force, abolish the Electoral College, on the grounds that "it's too outdated, complicated, susceptible to corruption, bribery, and hacking, majority deserves to rule, and if not for the College, Al Gore would be our 43rd President", reduce the list of deporting immigrants to members of violent gangs and other criminals, commission a new class of battleships to fill the roles of heavy shore bombardment, port raiding, and commerce raiding (tentatively called the California-class, with six ships), heavily crack down on actual fake news and Russian bots, crack down on terrorists buying guns, including forcing every American gun store to use a "do not allow" list containing American criminals, create a standard for expiration dates on food and drink, renationalize student loans and dismantle the Sallie Mae company, end the decency standard on art, saying, "That day in 1998...I was having a Big Mac with french fries at the McDonald's with Olly...he gave me terrible news...the moment the Supreme Court ruled on the decency standard on art being 'constitutional', I knew a bunch of shady conservative justices bribed the liberal justices to undo what artists successfully fought for in '96, 'cause apparently, according to conservatives, 'the future is bad, and we should return to the past', which I call bullshit. I was so pissed, I painted on a canvas all six members of Team Jenny cutting off the penises of human traffickers and cooking them for Louise's dogs; I coined the name, 'Get Them Therapy', and sold it to an adult store in Texas. That painting says, 'Go ahead, government! Deny my grant and repeal the first Amendment!'. I was shocked Clinton and Obama never once tried to fight it.", fight political correctness, heavily tax the fossil fuel industry and begin moving towards clean energy sources and synthetic substitutes for coal and oil, root out corporate lobbyists and make such a practice illegal, and curb the influence of the automobile and airline lobbies in Congress (conservatives have criticized the latter, stating Johnson is only doing so to benefit Continental Rail). Johnson also plans to repeal the Patriot Act, stating, "As Mel Gibson says, thanks to the Patriot Act, the SCOTUS' Citizens United decision, and a complacent electorate, our First Amendment rights of free speech and free assembly now only exist on paper. In the government's mind, every citizen, even the most patriotic, myself included, is a potential terrorist planning to bring down America and everything American in order to impose their own will on the people". He also seeks to dig deeper into whether or not the Trump administration, or even Trump himself, colluded with Russia and helped them meddle in the 2016 election in Trump's favor to "undermine public faith in the US voting process" and "convince people they no longer have a voice in politics". Johnson also promises to build a Tower of Freedom in New York, as a tribute to all the people who were influential to American culture, and as a complete museum of American history, with statues of Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Thomas Jefferson, Ronald Reagan, and other famous American figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Walt Disney, Neil Armstrong, Steve Jobs, Martin Luther King Jr., Susan B. Anthony, the Wright brothers, Frank Sinatra, Dale Earnhardt, Stanley Kubrick, and Hirohito, Last Emperor of Japan, among others, topped with a statue of George Washington. Finally, Johnson has said he will finish the Mount Rushmore monument as originally planned by Gutzon Borglum, along with the additions of Ronald Reagan and Harriet Tubman saying, "If I could personally give the Ziolkowskis $10 million to finish the Crazy Horse memorial, which I did back in 2007, I can give $10 million in funding to make Mount Rushmore better".

In addition, Johnson believes that the Republican party went downhill, saying in a 2013 interview, "Nixon tried to destroy the Dems, Ford wasn't great, Reagan was a bright spot, George H.W. Bush had a simple-minded VP who can't spell potato, George W. Bush invaded a country that didn't do anything wrong to us simply so he could monopolize their oil, endorsed against same-sex and betrayed our country, Republicans really went downhill". However, his opinions on both Bushes changed after Trump's win, stating, "Sure, H.W. would've had a chance in '92 if not for Quayle, and W. stabbed the American Dream in the back and tried to monopolize Iraqi oil by stealing it, on a side note, those 9/11 Truthers are nothing more than mere, mere anarchists trying to find an excuse to overthrow the government to build a terrorist-led police state; I hope they fry, but at least they tried to actually run our country, were well-meaning, good-intentioned, and didn't try to make America a communist-led fascist state or even attempt to make America the exact antithesis of what it once fought for". His favorite Presidents include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Theodore Roosevelt, and Barack Obama. He also believes that Americans "no longer know how to be decent citizens", and intends to "do something about it".

Governor of California
On May 1, 2010, Johnson announced his intentions to run for Governor of California in 2011 with Phil Stacker as his Lieutenant Governor. Critics thought Johnson would not win unless he "pulled a (Tonya) Harding" and use vicious tactics against the person ahead of him. However, his vow to run a positive campaign and refusal to stoop to dirty tricks, coupled with his fame, were factors that led to him being nominated over Jerry Brown, who was also the 34th Governor, and then elected over Meg Whitman. He got reelected for a second term in 2014.

Under Johnson, California saw an uptick in jobs and housing, a mass tax cut, a downturn in crime, a decrease in pollution, and a rise in economic growth. His approval rating among Californians is 99% as of November 2018, the highest of any United States governor. Despite this, some conservatives, notably Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson, have criticized Johnson's left-wing policies, calling them "foolish and crazy". In response to this, Tim gave a very short, very blunt statement to Limbaugh on MySpace: "F*ck off". Johnson has stated that, once his term is up, he will boost his presidential campaign efforts and visit more major cities.

With the end of his term, Johnson endorsed eventual winner Gavin Newsom in the 2018 California governor elections.

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