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Yavin4

(35,446 posts)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 03:30 PM Feb 2018

What crazy shit would you ask for if you were president?

I don't mean major policy like a war, but something fun. I would ask for advanced screenings of TV shows, movies, and books before they were released. And I would tease the fuck out of the public with spoilers.

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What crazy shit would you ask for if you were president? (Original Post) Yavin4 Feb 2018 OP
$100,000 tax-free cash Weed Man Feb 2018 #1
Fresh off the printers. Yavin4 Feb 2018 #6
This amandae Feb 2018 #28
i'd want them to make me some fruzen gladje coffee ice cream. unblock Feb 2018 #2
Thats a great idea! PoorMonger Feb 2018 #33
And a bowl of Waffle-Os cereal. nt Codeine Feb 2018 #41
Just think Ohiogal Feb 2018 #3
You'd need to raise yesphan Feb 2018 #12
I would ask for a giant block of cheese. n/t PoliticAverse Feb 2018 #4
How "giant"? Yavin4 Feb 2018 #7
This big... PoliticAverse Feb 2018 #9
Haha!! That was a fun read. nt blaze Feb 2018 #18
Solid link. Thx JDC Feb 2018 #29
It's been done. n/t FSogol Feb 2018 #20
UFO files hlthe2b Feb 2018 #5
now that would be cool backtoblue Feb 2018 #8
The Book Of Secrets and Floyd R. Turbo Feb 2018 #10
I'd need three scoops... dchill Feb 2018 #17
A BBQ pit on the south lawn run my my favorite Memphis cooks Docreed2003 Feb 2018 #11
A holiday named "Golf is just a four letter word" Yonnie3 Feb 2018 #13
A small batch craft brewery setup next to the bowling alley bigbrother05 Feb 2018 #14
Copies from the IRS of trump's tax returns for the last 20 years justhanginon Feb 2018 #15
Rip up the floor in the press briefing room, ... JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2018 #16
Talking llamas and free waffles! FSogol Feb 2018 #19
I just want to know about the aliens! CanonRay Feb 2018 #21
I think they often getting early screenings. underpants Feb 2018 #22
I would quietly arrange to feed DC's homeless Generic Brad Feb 2018 #23
trump tower in NYC & Maralago be converted into senior & disabled housing irisblue Feb 2018 #24
Gold handcuffs crazycatlady Feb 2018 #25
A taco truck on every corner n/t hibbing Feb 2018 #26
Nom nom nom shenmue Feb 2018 #32
Id ask for a briefing on extra terrestrials MLAA Feb 2018 #27
Aren't most Jamaal510 Feb 2018 #37
I think Little Caesars is a generous Democrat 🙂 MLAA Feb 2018 #38
A Costco next to the White House so I could shop when I felt like it rurallib Feb 2018 #30
A keg fridge like we had in college... Still In Wisconsin Feb 2018 #31
I would want that closely held secret Ferrets are Cool Feb 2018 #34
First thing, I'd want an exorcism of the White House. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #35
A military parade.... Xolodno Feb 2018 #36
A big bowl of M&Ms gratuitous Feb 2018 #39
I'd have a White House Con... First Speaker Feb 2018 #40
Id make Harlan my Chief of Staff Codeine Feb 2018 #43
A reading copy of every single DC Comics Codeine Feb 2018 #42

amandae

(2,273 posts)
28. This
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:39 PM
Feb 2018

I like this. I'd add this not just for me, but for every person making less than $100,000/year.

unblock

(52,352 posts)
2. i'd want them to make me some fruzen gladje coffee ice cream.
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 03:34 PM
Feb 2018

damn i miss that stuff.

they're out of business but if i'm president someone's getting me that recipe!


PoorMonger

(844 posts)
33. Thats a great idea!
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 10:17 PM
Feb 2018

I have so many things I loved that companies changed or got discontinued. One that always comes to mind is the old recipe for ranch ruffles that was around when I was growing up in the 90’s. They still have ranch ruffles but they aren’t the same. There is a jalapeño ranch flavor now that is close , but obviously more spicy. In the same vein ; the old Wheatables , those choclate banana fudge bars ( that used to have Wiley E Coyote on them) lol.

I would bring back Obama’s beer recipes to the WH and expand it - maybe even see if we could get it distributed as some kind of non profit. If that’s too crazy I would just expand the offered recipes to include more stuff.

In my presidential library I would have a gigantic music section that would fuction like a museum and we would have free exhibits with live shows and themed sets to educate people about music history.




Ohiogal

(32,104 posts)
3. Just think
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 03:34 PM
Feb 2018

If you had the power to tax the rich enough so that you could give every man, woman, and child in the United States $100,000 lump sum! (limited to those who are not millionaires, millionaires can go suck it)

yesphan

(1,588 posts)
12. You'd need to raise
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 03:44 PM
Feb 2018

about 30 trillion dollars, give or take several trillion.
I'd like mine in $50 bills please.

Docreed2003

(16,878 posts)
11. A BBQ pit on the south lawn run my my favorite Memphis cooks
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 03:44 PM
Feb 2018

And I’d probably ask for all kinds of esoteric presidential memorabilia for the Oval...for example, “I’m gonna need LBJ’s whiskey decanter.”

bigbrother05

(5,995 posts)
14. A small batch craft brewery setup next to the bowling alley
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 03:54 PM
Feb 2018

Then invite the Dude and John Goodman over for a few frames.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,372 posts)
16. Rip up the floor in the press briefing room, ...
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 04:26 PM
Feb 2018

... and fix the swimming pool that's beneath it.

Press briefings can be done via Skype, and be as effective as today's briefings.

Unless the press pool wants to join me in the swimming pool ...

irisblue

(33,036 posts)
24. trump tower in NYC & Maralago be converted into senior & disabled housing
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 08:12 PM
Feb 2018

With all the richy rich amenities....daycare for kids, post school tutors, rides to school, dry cleaners, (cold) storage for delieveries, secure bike storage. In building grocery.
And free spay & neuter for pets.

crazycatlady

(4,492 posts)
25. Gold handcuffs
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:29 PM
Feb 2018

To be placed on Trump. HE wants everything gold plated, and if having gold plated cuffs gets him behind bars, then let's do it.

MLAA

(17,338 posts)
27. Id ask for a briefing on extra terrestrials
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:39 PM
Feb 2018

And declare Thursdays pizza night (except no Papa Johns, cause he is a major ass republican)

Ferrets are Cool

(21,110 posts)
34. I would want that closely held secret
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 10:50 PM
Feb 2018

of how you can eat all the food you want and not gain weight.
I know they have that under "highly classified clearance" files.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,879 posts)
35. First thing, I'd want an exorcism of the White House.
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 12:05 AM
Feb 2018

After that, I'd issue EOs making free ice cream available from federally-operated ice cream trucks all summer. I'd make Mardi Gras a national holiday and I'd have some carnival rides installed in the Rose Garden. Maybe a Tilt-A-Whirl.

Xolodno

(6,406 posts)
36. A military parade....
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 12:56 AM
Feb 2018

...of course I'm kidding.

I would want two things;

1. Make Surge the official, unofficial soft drink of the Federal Government.

2. Repaint the White House.....other than white.

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
40. I'd have a White House Con...
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 05:21 PM
Feb 2018

...for SF/Fantasy, Comics, Trek, Mystery, you name it...if there's a fandom, I'd want it. It would last for three days over the Fourth of July, and I'd have as many great names from the 20th century as are left as guests. Guest of honor, of course, would be Harlan Ellison. With a huge costume party on the South Lawn as the centerpiece. Let our national hair down, and party for three days!

 

Codeine

(25,586 posts)
42. A reading copy of every single DC Comics
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 06:56 PM
Feb 2018

trade paperback ever published, a comfy chair, and a bottomless iced tea (with no sugar, because putting sugar in iced tea would be a federal crime).

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