Campaign Promises of Sheldon Johnson, Jr. (Johnsonverse)

The following are promises made by Sheldon Johnson, Jr. for his 2020 United States presidential election campaign. Johnson has stated that he plans on making "hardcore changes" to America to make it "the best of the best".

Politics
Johnson seeks massive reforms to the politics of the United States, including how elections are carried out, corporate influence in politics, etc. Among these reforms include:


 * The complete dissolution of the electoral college. All future presidents would be elected on the popular vote. Johnson has stated that the electoral college is "too susceptible to corruption, blackmail, and foreign influence", and that it gives the middle and working classes absolutely no say in who leads the country, leaving them "at the mercy of politicians who are easily bought off, coerced, threatened, cajoled, and brainwashed into voting for a certain candidate by either the corporate lobby or foreign countries seeking to turn America into a puppet that they can use to influence international politics in their bid for world domination and I'm not gonna name names, but you know who you are, Vladimir. In other words, the electoral college could single-handedly undermine our democracy". He has also referred to the electoral college as "voter suppression".
 * The illegalization of corporate lobbying. Johnson has stated that Johnson Industries never has, and never will, interfere in politics to get its way, citing the construction of Continental Rail's various lines such as the Sierra Line as examples of massive projects built without federal backing. He went on to state that too many corporations have influenced politics for their own gain due to "somehow seeing themselves as entitled to money and above the law, and the middle class as essentially slaves". He finished this statement by saying that, if elected, any continued lobbying would see that company seized by the government for trying to create monopolies and skirt or bypass laws.
 * Reduction on the influence of the automobile and airline lobbies in Congress (conservatives have criticized this change, stating Johnson is only doing so to benefit Continental Rail).

Military
Johnson also seeks major reform to the military, including:


 * The construction of a new class of battleships. Johnson stated that, in a war with Russia, the amount of attack submarines possessed by the US Navy would be insufficient to effectively cover a wide enough range to stop enemy convoys, shipping, and resupply tenders the way they did against Japan in World War II. The new class, tentatively named the California-class, would be a six-ship class based on the cancelled Montana-class battleship, and would have a more clearly defined role of commerce raiding, close-range port bombardment (with air support), and heavy shore bombardment in cases where the accuracy of Tomahawk missiles is not needed, only a massive amount of firepower. The ships would be the largest battleships ever built, displacing the Japanese battleship Yamato. Four ships would be assigned to the Pacific, with two based in San Diego and two in Okinawa, while the remaining two would be assigned to the Atlantic and based at Norfolk.
 * The RAH-66 Comanche would resume development, with the goal of replacing the aging AH-64 Apache family.
 * Total global nuclear disarmament, and failing that, introducing a treaty to only use nuclear weapons against extraterrestrial threats such as asteroids and hostile alien races.
 * The development of new submarines dedicated to sinking enemy shipping. These boats, tentatively named the Orca-class (in a return to the tradition of naming US submarines after marine animals instead of states and cities), would work in tandem with the California-class battleships to destroy enemy shipping and convoys.
 * The repealment of Memorandum-19-004. Johnson called the directive a "stain on our country that had been getting more open" and claimed that it was "motivated by Trump's closed-mindedness".
 * A redesign of the Space Force seal. Johnson has gone on record as calling the current logo "the result of designers trolling the Trump administration" and pointed out that the stars in the logo are taken from the logo for NASA, as well as its similarities to the seal of the Starfleet from Star Trek. He also plans on rebranding it as the "United States Space Guard", as he saw the current name as "a name that wouldn't sound bad for a cheesy Saturday morning cartoon, but completely cheesy for a military branch".

Law enforcement

 * A complete reform of the police (this was added to the plans in the wake of the George Floyd protests). This includes

Education

 * Complete education reform, with the aim of actually teaching kids, not indoctrinating them into what he has referred to as "Corporate America's way of thinking".
 * Later start times for high school. Johnson believes that high school is starting way too early for teens' natural sleep cycles, believing that start times were moved back because high schools don't care about their students, only grade point averages, and thus came to what Sheldon described as the "insane" conclusion that longer school hours translate to higher grades. He went on to say "this is why Tim and Chloe were homeschooled".
 * The illegalization of homework. Johnson stated that "homework is a waste of time and paper, and does nothing but satisfy the demands of parents", also adding that "this is another reason why Tim and Chloe were homeschooled".
 * The shutdown of Sallie Mae and renationalization of student loans. Johnson stated that the company is incredibly greedy, racist, and overall unethical, with unrealistic loan rates and charging higher rates to non-whites.
 * Instituting a less-than-zero-tolerance stance on bullying. Johnson said that intense investigations would be launched at all schools nationwide to weed out bullies and punish them accordingly; he stated that bullies would only be expelled and, in extreme cases, arrested, which he emphasized after Tim said on MySpace that "all bullies should be publicly executed, and their heads mounted on pikes as an example to other would-be bullies", a post he later deleted when he realized it was "Trump language", even though many commenters agreed with his line of thinking.

Climate and environment
Johnson is the most-vocal opponent of the Trump administration's environmental policies, going as far as to call Trump a "Captain Planet villain". He not only plans to completely reform the EPA, he also plans to:


 * Return to the Paris Climate Accords.
 * Illegalize nuclear power (except for naval vessels), citing Chernobyl and Fukushima-Daiichi (the latter of which Johnson was sharply critical of due to the incredibly-poor response by the governor of Tohoku).
 * Begin intense research into clean energy, including clean synthetic coal and oil substitutes, increased use of wind and solar power, and the development of hydrogen power plants.
 * Increase the use of fuel cells in vehicles, ships, and planes, as well as research the feasibility of converting steam locomotives to hydrogen power.
 * Heavily tax the fossil fuel industry.

States

 * Johnson plans on persuading Congress to grant statehood to the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, as he feels that "D.C. has been taxed without representation for too long", and "Puerto Rico needs to be given the support Trump doesn't think they deserve".



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 * Johnson plans to 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"
 * The illegalization of loot boxes. Johnson has criticized them as "a way to exploit people with gambling addictions for selfish gain".
 * A roll back of Trump's travel ban on Muslims
 * A crack down on state-sponsored terrorism
 * Johnson plans on codifying Roe v. Wade into statute.
 * A public option for health insurance would be put into place.
 * The decriminalization of recreational cannabis.
 * Johnson plans on passing the Equality Act.
 * Free community college.
 * Johnson plans on a $1.7 trillion climate plan embracing the framework of the Green New Deal.
 * A roll back of Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and split Jerusalem into two
 * Illegalization of racial profiling and excessive use of force
 * Reduction of the list of deporting immigrants to members of violent gangs and other criminals
 * A heavy crack down on actual fake news and Russian bots
 * A crack down on terrorists buying guns, including forcing every American gun store to use a "do not allow" list containing American criminals
 * Making Juneteenth a national holiday.
 * The creation a standard for expiration dates on food and drink
 * A fight on political correctness
 * He plans on ending capital punishment, citing the risk of executing a wrongfully convicted person.
 * Johnson also plans to repeal the Patriot Act, stating, "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".
 * 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. The other exterior statues include: Christopher Columbus, John Jay, Woodrow Wilson, and Harry S. Truman, with additional statues of soldiers representing the Civil War, the Vietnam War, both World Wars, and the Revolutionary War. The Christopher Columbus statue was later deleted from the plans in favor of Nathaniel Banks once Tim showed Sheldon this Adam Ruins Everything segment.
 * 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. Susan B. Anthony was added to the plan in June 2020.
 * He also plans to 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 Phil, and he gave me the 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. 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."