Track Trump: The First 100 Days
Readers might be interested to know that Sam is one of the people behind this project (http://www.track-trump.com/about). The submitted title made that explicit (“Sam Altman Presents Track Trump”) but we've reverted that in accordance with the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
You may hate the messenger, but some of these are worth getting behind:
- Propose a constitutional amendment that imposes term limits on all members of Congress.
- A five-year ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service.
If he were to get these passed and get nothing else done as president, he would go down as one of the most important presidents in recent history.
Good design and execution. I'll revisit this as the Trump presidency plays out.
Question: Can bias come into play when evaluating statements, and how will that be handled?
For example, taking the first item - building the wall and Mexico is fully reimbursing us - What if a US citizen chips in $10 to help? Is the promise broken? What about $100, $1,000, $1,000,000?
Another anecdote that's kind of relevant: I followed along with Politifact's 'Obameter' for awhile, and realized that making definitive and objective statements can be difficult. I think the most troublesome aspect was the claim that a promise was broken (creating negative connotations that come with a "Broken Promise" label) when the reality was that obstructionism prevented the promise from being fulfilled.
TPP withdrawal isn't on here yet even though it has already been announced.
As bad as Trump is, we should celebrate the good policies and fight the bad ones. I'm optimistic about the TPP withdrawal, the policy removing two pieces of old regulation (a policy that's been implemented successfully in Canada[0]), FDA reform, cutting down on corruption, and cutting back lobbying. I'm pessimistic about the climate related policy, immigration policy, and especially scared about foreign policy.
[0]: http://www.npr.org/2015/05/26/409671996/canada-cuts-down-on-...
Free idea - why is there no public official who runs on a digital strategy? Like a localized reddit for policies and issues on local, state, and federal levels. If you add in some ML and AI, you could come up with truly direct democracy, that is 100% open and transparent.
Yes, this would be technically hard in that making it secure would take effort. But, in my mind, less effort than it would take to dismantle the electoral college, which has resulted in the opposite of direct democracy.
Sam - if you did this, I'd vote for you.
Holding government to account is a good thing, thanks Sam.
I have to wonder though if we'd see the same level of scrutiny if HRC had won.
One wonders if we want to encourage him to tick off these boxes.
There is also trumptracker.io (Github repository [1]), which was posed here two months ago but flagged [2]. It includes sources for each entry.
> End common core
Absolutely necessary. This is one of the most important one on the list.
If Trump does even half of these items, America will be on track to greatness again. It will be awesome.
I suspect he may achieve 90% of these.
Sources for each bullet point would be nice
> A requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations be dropped.
> Under Chief of Staff Reince Priebus issued a memorandum (pg. 1, pg. 2) asking federal agency heads to postpone or freeze any new or pending regulations, with some exceptions noted in Sec. 3 of the memo.
From the memo:
""" Notify the OMB Director promptly of any regulations that, in your view, should be excluded from the directives ... because those regulations affect critical health, safety, financial, or national security matters ... The OMB Director will review any such notifications and determine whether such conclusion is appropriate under the circumstances. """
I agree that non-elected policymakers have too much power to enact regulations with criminal penalties under force of law, but I feel that this measure will just lead to more policies being labeled "health" or "national security" etc., and not amount to any real reduction in regulation.
I love this, maybe instead of track-trump.com should be track-potus.com - it would much less polarising/partisan... Now it looks as if it is run by the DMC...
Is this plan any good? Another way to say... If Obama came up with this plan, would it be well received?
I'd like to see a site track Trump's Truthiness as well. But I fear we'd need long long ints to avoid overflow...
I just don't like the feel of this.
> [announce] Withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Didn't trump do this already?
Would be much better if each point was linked to a relevant video or videos.
Does this offer anything that trumptracker.github.io doesn't?
The doodle Trump should be updated w/ gold colored drapes.
The facebook share button doesnt work on the site.
TPP is now officially person non-grata.
Is flagging this post a bad idea? I mean, these months the world is following trump presidency with a lot of uncertainty and fear and that's why politics was almost forbidden from HN. This post contradicts the previous HN position and will ignite a lot of hate.
This is very cool. I am not American but I hope Mr. Trump delivers on these. It'll show the rest of countries another world is possible.
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Cool page. Do I remember correctly that there was a similar tracker for Obama?
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