I was planning on making a more formal post - but for now, I can't go another minute without simply thanking all of you for helping me make history tonight. I just had one of the simulation's oldest members message me saying how he never thought he'd see a two-term President. Speaking purely as someone who thought it'd be a cool thing to try out for fun on the side, I had no idea how much impact I would end up having, and I hope this sets a new bar for future candidates to reach for. Someday I'd love to be the one to write to a victor, saying how I never thought I'd see so many two term Presidents. I saw a ton of dedication and emotional commitment tonight from so many people, so I'm positive that someday it'll happen, and that this victory is the first of a long stretch of record-breaking moments that will bring us together.

I also want to thank /u/Viktard for scaring the hell out of me this entire campaign and for his supporters doing the same. It was hard fought and there were legitimately so many moments where I thought I was down for the count. Despite the Electoral College difference, I personally think Viktard was a stronger candidate than my last major opponent, and I look forward to settling back into the normal swing of things with us playing chess against each other seated in the Oval Office and Senate Chambers.

Thanks to all my supporters who again, are the sole reason I'm even writing this to you now. And to my opponents, for offering your voices and challenges this election.

Most of all, thanks to everyone for keeping this simulation alive and well. You guys are the reason I want to keep doing this and to keep improving every day, because I really do owe it to you all for everything you do to keep this simulation thriving and evolving. The least I can do is keep pushing myself to be better, too.

Here's to you.

-/u/Bigg-Boss, President of the United States of America

The President of the United States of America Awards this Presidential Medal of Freedom With Distinction to /u/TopProspect17. An accomplished United States Senator, who did the right thing at the right time without thinking about the potential blowback and stood firm in their choice. A protector of equal rights for all Americans no matter who they are, they stood up with their fellow senators and fought back against clear wrong. Senator /u/TopProspect17 is the true embodiment of the Medal of Freedom and public service, for these reasons I am presenting this rewards to him today.

The President of the United States of America Awards this Presidential Medal of Freedom With Distinction to /u/CheckMyBrain11. An accomplished United States Senator, who did the right thing at the right time without thinking about the potential blowback and stood firm in their choice. A protector of equal rights for all Americans no matter who they are, they stood up with their fellow senators and fought back against clear wrong. Senator /u/CheckMyBrain11 is the true embodiment of the Medal of Freedom and public service, for these reasons I am presenting these medal to him today.

The President of the United States of America Awards this Presidential Medal of Freedom With Distinction to /u/Kingthero. An accomplished United States Senator, who did the right thing at the right time without thinking about the potential blowback and stood firm in their choice. A protector of equal rights for all Americans no matter who they are, they stood up with their fellow senators and fought back against clear wrong. Senator /u/Kingthero is the true embodiment of the Medal of Freedom and public service, for these reasons I am presenting these medal to him today.

The President of the United States of America Awards this Presidential Medal of Freedom With Distinction to /u/Gunnz011. An accomplished United States Senator, who did the right thing at the right time without thinking about the potential blowback and stood firm in their choice. A protector of equal rights for all Americans no matter who they are, they stood up with their fellow senators and fought back against clear wrong. Senator /u/Gunnz011 is the true embodiment of the Medal of Freedom and public service, for these reasons I am presenting these medal to him today.

From the desk of the President of the United States.

Good evening.

Having reviewed the bill heretofore approved and subsequently submitted by Congress for my review and signature. I am pleased to announce the following in accordance with the aforementioned request:

H.R.070: Prison Educational Promotion Act of 2018

Signed - /u/GuiltyAir

Comments on H.R.070

Representative /u/IV01d has proven himself one of the shining stars of this Congressional Session with all the good work he has done and continues to do. Thats one of the reasons I am immensely proud to sign the Prison Educational Promotion Act into law. This law moves away from the failed policy of getting tough on crime, we can no longer endlessly throw people into prison and hoping that they learn the errors of their way. For years now we've seen the endless amounts of evidence gathered that this approach does not work. With federal prisons having a recidivism rate of 44.7%, that number is just unacceptable. With the amount of funding, this law brings to in prison education; we as a country are finally giving prisons who made mistakes in their lives a meaningful way to improve themselves.

H.R.042: Financial Literacy Education Act

Comments on H.R.042

I am honestly surprised that it took this long for our country to mandate financial literacy. I was lucky growing up that my parents made sure I learned everything I needed to know from how credit works to paying taxes, but not everyone had the chance to learn as I did. Many go into the adult world with a basic understanding of how finances work. We do a disservice to our youth if we do not teach them these important skills. Thats why I am delighted to sign this into law, and I am excited to see the results this classes with having on the future of our youth. Finally, I would like to congratulate Congressmen u/TheHarbarmy for authoring this important bill, and I hope to see more important bills from him in the future.

Signed - /u/GuiltyAir

H.R.064: Conversion Therapy Prohibition Act of 2018

Comments on H.R.064

The fact that this type of "therapy" happened at all in this country is a disgrace, even more, so that it took this long for the United States to federally ban. Because of that, I am happy to stand here today before you all to sign this bill into law and finally put the final nail in the coffin of this disgusting practice. To celebrate this important occasion I formally invite all the representatives and senators who voted in favor of this law to a dinner at the White House, along with that I am proud to award this bill signing pen to u/IV01d.

Signed - /u/GuiltyAir

H.R.062: Pollinator Protection Act

Comments on H.R.062

There's not much I can say about this act other than that protecting our Bees are important. Most people don't know how important bees are to our way of life, from the food we to the milk we drink. Thats why I am happy to support the banning of any harmful pesticides that negatively affect our nations bees

Signed - /u/GuiltyAir

Thank you very much.

Good Evening

I would like to preface this by introducing myself as the new Press Secretary. I think we are going to have some good times coming up. I don’t have much for you all today so we get a bit of a short introduction.

Onto the meat. First up we have the upcoming elections; we wish all candidates the best of luck in their campaigns and look forward to continued good governance in the best interest of the American people.

Secondly it has come to our attention that a publication named Judicial Watch has felt the need to compare this administration to the Trump administration. Firstly, the article is filled with inaccuracies about this administration and its decisions on the cabinet. The meat of it claims that we had tried to get around the oversight power of the Senate in cabinet appointments. If the Senate was trying to exercise oversight, then it had failed in its mission spectacularly.

The Senate specifically was using its power not to vet out corrupt cabinet members, but to try to win a policy victory on Social Security against the President and at the expense of Americans. The administration wanted to swiftly fill its ranks and get the best executives for the American people into office, so with an uncooperative Senate we took the legal route we had. Our appointments are legal, and we were able to get this government moving despite an attempt at partisan obstruction.

That will be all from this office for today, I will take any questions for the next 48 hours.

I nominate /u/Nothedarkweb as Secretary of State of the United States

/u/Notthedarkweb has shown great understanding of foreign affairs and international legal systems in his time in ModelUSGov. A long time member of the political community, Notthedarkweb will face the challenges facing the United States in today's world head on and will lead the US to safe and prosperous diplomatic relations

Recently, rumors of Dixie Lieutenant Governor DeepFriedHookers being appointed to the position of Secretary of the Interior have swirled thanks to an article from the Lieutenant Governor himself in the Dixie Gazette.

This article by the Gazette is completely, totally, categorically false, and the Administration denies each and every point of it.

Firstly, according to the Department of Defense Directorate of Homeland Security, Secret Service was able to confirm that on Friday, the President was with the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon receiving a debrief on the situation at the House of Representatives in the wake of the arrests of Reps. TrumpetSounds and PGF3. The President and Pentagon are confident in the ability of the Capitol Police, FBI, and Justice Department in their abilities to bring the congressmembers to justice, and confident in the abilities of the Architect of the Capitol to repair the House floor. As the President was at the Pentagon or in transit from 10:30 AM to 2:15 PM, and then was later meeting with the Architect of the Capitol to determine if they might require additional discretionary spending due to the damage to the House Floor from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM, it is impossible for the President to have snuck away from Secret Service or from the DC area.

The President was not in Dixie on Friday, nor has he been to Dixie any time after the Secretary of the Interior resigned.

The President is also not begging the Lt. Governor for a position in his cabinet. Though the President is conducting interviews, all interviews are confidential, and a breach of trust such as writing an article on the interviewing process would cause an immediate, no-questions-asked discharge from the interview process.

This being said, the Lt. Governor was not, and is not currently, being interviewed for the position of Secretary of the Interior, though the President does commend him on his work in Dixie on land rights.

The President has not golfed at any Trump golf courses, but is a fan of the Golf Club at Landsowne, as it is not far from the White House and he is able to get much of his work done without a multi-day excursion, as well as the golf course at Andrews AFB, where he has golfed with his cabinet secretaries and certain esteemed members of the military.

The President truly appreciates the hard work of soy and vegetable farmers and would never turn down a veggie burger or soy milk because of this fact. The President dined at the Navy Mess with White House staffers on Friday, asking them about ways his administration's White House efficiency can be improved, and ate dinner with Attorney General SHOCKULAR, discussing criminal justice system reform.

As acting Ambassador to the United Nations, I can announce that the U.S. will be rejoining the U.N. Human Rights Council. Despite the body's many flaws, we recognize that, in the field of global human rights, progress can only be made through cooperation with the world. The U.S. loses nothing from membership of the U.N.H.R.C., so, instead of remaining outside to grandstand, we will do what we can from within. Thank you.

Secretary of State Kerbogha

Ask the new Press Secretary anything.

About a hundred and five years ago, the world changed forever. The Great War, World War One, the War to end all wars, it began. And as we who have the benefit of hindsight know, the war wasn’t over by Christmas. The war never really ended at all, its effect, its consequences still weighing on our merely human minds, which can perhaps never truly comprehend this unholy event. And yet, within that great tragedy, there lies something even greater, a tragedy that we Americans can only hope never to face. And with all tragedies, the words of history books, of analyses and dry papers, they can never account for the tears shed by the victims, the anguish of the survivors, and the dread of the doomed. One hundred and four years ago, the dictatorial rulers of the Ottoman state, following an ideology of toxic Turkish nationalism, decided to violate all moral laws known to man and God and attacked their Armenian population.

Genocide is a touchy subject for perpetrators as well as victims. For it is commonly accepted, but amongst the most vile of our flawed human species, that the annihilation of an entire people, the elimination of their memory from the dusty scrolls that recount past events, is a crime unmatched by any other. Yet, those who descend from perpetrators will defend, will deny and will attempt to discredit the accounts of those who felt the pain of their attacks. This was the case of Turkey in its approach to Armenia. Why, why do you ask that they did so? Why did they not accept and move on? Because the very fact, the cold, hard, brutal fact that such an event was perpetrated by their forefathers’ willing abetment, is an insult on their pride, their humanity and their presumptions of innocence. And soon enough, men start believing their own lies, their own dogmas, the falsehoods turn to truth, and all that truly happened, is relegated to the shelves of cultural and historical dissidents who attempt to go against the prevailing attitude to such a tragedy. Unfortunately, in Turkey, they have always failed.

When the Genocide happened, the world did not look away. We looked at the Armenians’ plight, their pleas of help and their cries, and then, we chose to do nothing about it. We were young then, the War had ripped out the very humanity of us, and we were molded anew, as not humans, but machines, technological entities that lost any compassion for our fellow beings and became obsessed with mere geopolitics, with stratagems and tactics and whatnot. We refused to acknowledge from our high seats, from our pedestals of power that there was someone so very human out there, dying, starving, killing. For to kill is a death in itself, however, justified that killing might be. It kills the old self and makes another. For millions of people, however, the only death was cold and muddy.

Yes, when the Armenian Genocide, and it was a genocide, occurred, we looked on and did nothing. It made us uncomfortable, but we said to ourselves, what were we to do? We could have done a lot, but that is not what this is about. This is about rectifying the crime of the United States, the crime of the world in truth, of coming to terms with our eternal shame: Looking at the annihilation of the Armenians, doing nothing……….and then, refusing to recognise the very criminal nature of the act, in subordination to base and immoral geopolitical concerns.

The United States has been responsible for many things in the past that we ought to be ashamed of, so many crimes and so many of our own annihilations. I shall not proselytize here, but if we are to recognize the crimes of others, we must, once again I shall restate, come to terms with our own atrocities, the ones that built America. But I shall not talk of that, for it degrades the very gravity of the genocide inflicted upon the Armenian nation.

The Turkish people must recognize their role in this crime, they must realize their complicity in the vilest of all possible crimes. The army of historical revisionists will deny, I am sure of it. But maybe, maybe, this will sow doubts in the minds of Turks, who will bring about the charge of responsibility, of the understanding of their leaders’ and their government’s complicity in not only killing millions but also suppressing the memory of the fate of the Armenians.

For me, personally, the recognition of this infamous tragedy is more important than any concerns related to NATO, to geopolitics and otherwise. If the Turkish people are truly our friends, they shall, rather than attacking us externally, continue with our relationship and introspect, introspect so that they can learn from the past to make better the future. The Young Turks are all long since dead, their graves forever cursed to be memorials to inhumanity. Yet, they may arise again, anywhere and anytime. So I say, let us not repeat our past shames. And say together, this time not as a feel-good slogan, but truly and honestly- այլեւս երբեք

-/u/Ninjjadragon

Acting President of the United States

U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

Press Release

Restarting Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks

Under President /u/nonprehension, Democrats, Republicans, and Bull Moose in Congress came together to help the United States begin to renegotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an agreement for free and fair trade that supported our workers, our businesses, and our economy as a whole. When more than 95 percent of our potential customers live outside our borders, we can’t let countries like China write the rules of the global economy. We should write those rules, opening new markets to American products while setting high standards for protecting workers and preserving our environment. With all of the parties above and some new voices including the Socialist Party, we should be back in the TPP—not observing from afar with over 18,000 separate foreign taxes hitting our farmers, ranchers, and workers hard.

That’s what the agreement reached in Atlanta four years ago now does for the 11 nations that make up the Trans-Pacific Partnership, except the United States. As Speaker u/Shitmemery has called for, the time has come to finish renegotiations on this trade agreement, that reflects America’s values and gives our workers the fair shot at success they deserve. Our close friends in Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany all believe in our renewed vision, in the important work of healing wounds by tearing down the many trade barriers erected in recent years. Our global economy and security demand it of us.

Once USTR negotiators have finalized the text of our renewed partnership, Congress and the American people will have time to read every word before we sign it. I look forward to working with lawmakers from all parties as they consider this re-entry into the 21st century economy.

Let’s get this partnership to President u/GuiltyAir’s desk, so we can help our businesses sell more Made in America goods and services around the world, and we can help more American workers compete and win.

Ambassador Carib

U.S. Trade Representative

From the desk of the President of the United States.

Good evening.

Having reviewed the bill heretofore approved and subsequently submitted by Congress for my review and signature. I am pleased to announce the following in accordance with the aforementioned request:

H.R.130: Human Administration Center Act of 2018

Signed - /u/GuiltyAir

Comments on H.R.130

While the Huber H. Humprey Building has been the home of the Department of Health and Human Services for a long time and carries with it a lot of prestige, the building has deteriorated to a point where it can no longer be repaired. With H.R.130, we allow the Department to purchase and develop a piece of land that the department can later move into as their new base of operations.

H.R.138: Election Reform Act of 2018

Signed - /u/GuiltyAir

Comments on H.R.138

I spoke a lot about election reform during my State of the Union a couple of months back, and in that, I mentioned automatic voter registration. I am immensely proud that Congress has done its constitutional duty to act in the interests of the American people, and I am proud to do mine by signing this into law.

This is with no doubt in my mind the greatest expansion in voter rights that our country has seen in a long time. By making voting as easy as possible for any American we expand the number of citizens who can participate.

H.R.182: The Cadillac Tax Repeal Act of 2019

Vetoed - /u/GuiltyAir

Comments on H.R.182

I'm saddened to see once again that the Republican Party is continuing its attack against the American health care system, if this bill were to be signed into law it would have untold negative effects on our country's health care system for the future when in 2022 this plan comes into effect. I am proud to have the chance here today to stand up for every American's right to have affordable healthcare.

H.R.227: No Nuclear Weapons for Saudi Arabia Act

Signed - /u/GuiltyAir

Comments on H.R.227

Signing this into law should be a no brainer for any American who values human rights and the values at which our country is founded upon. While Saudia Arabia is considered an ally of the United States, we can not let that get in the way of human rights and justice. For too long the Saudi Family has ignored human rights and continues to commit atrocities against the press and others. We shall never reward this kind of behavior thats why a few months ago, the United States officially ended for Suadi military action in Yemen, and I'm proud to continue this stance by ensuring that Saudi Arabia will never gain access to nuclear technology until there is major reform the country.

S.316: Prisoner Educational Opportunity Act

Signed - /u/GuiltyAir

Comments on S.316

I've always been a hard supporter for criminal justice and prison reform and with this I know we are finally heading in the direction that our nation should've been in years ago. When we got tough on crime we forgot about rehabilitation and focused on locking them up and throwing out the key. With this act, we bring back the focus of rehabilitation to our nations justice system. There is increasing evidence that when you focus on helping prisoners improve themselves the likelihood that they would commit a crime once released is greatly decreased.

Thank you very much.

The second Treasury directive can be found here.

The directive pertains to the abolition of the penny, which costs taxpayers more to make than it is practical to use. Therefore, it makes the most sense to discontinue the circulation of the penny.

Signed,

ZeroOverZero101 Secretary of the Treasury

My fellow Americans,

I have received the following bills, approved by Congress and submitted to me for my review and signature. In response, I hereby announce that:

H.R. 768 - State Voter ID Availability Act

Is reviewed, approved, and signed into law. I am very supportive of making identification which may be used to prove voter eligibility as accessible as possible.

Signed,

/u/Bigg-Boss

/u/Bigg-Boss, President of the United States

Additionally,

H.R. 780 - The Water Management Regulation Act

Is reviewed, approved, and signed into law. A good step in securing the integrity of at-risk towns and cities which could potentially be flooded with limited resources to combat it.

Signed,

/u/Bigg-Boss

/u/Bigg-Boss, President of the United States

Additionally,

H.R. 772 - Educational Citizenship Act

Is reviewed, approved, and signed into law. Happy to see that this was amended to a soft option for students with attached benefits for incentive, rather than made mandatory to graduate. Definitely addressed my major gripes with the original legislation. It's been defanged for the most part of potential propagandistic influence and bottlenecking of certain students from entering the university educational system.

I have noted the potential violation of this as a state issue, but I do believe after some consideration that it is within the scope of the federal departments being employed in its execution, especially with it being non-mandatory.

Signed,

/u/Bigg-Boss

/u/Bigg-Boss, President of the United States

Additionally,

S. 762 - Improvement of Security for Private Information Act

Is reviewed, approved, and signed into law. Not a whole lot to say here other than I appreciate the author's changes to the original legislation, which I was supportive of. Happy to push these tweaks to it forward.

Signed,

/u/Bigg-Boss

/u/Bigg-Boss, President of the United States

Additionally,

S. 784 - The Interstate Highway System Act of 2017

Is reviewed, approved, and signed into law. One of the most comprehensive honest to God pieces of legislation I've seen in my life. Had nearly an entire body of Congress co-sponsoring it for a reason, very happy to sign this into law.

Signed,

/u/Bigg-Boss

/u/Bigg-Boss, President of the United States