CALL IT KINDEPENDENCE DAY

Write in Kin & Ring it in

America turns 250 on July 4th, 2026 the day that marks our independence a quarter millennium.  What are we gonna be celebrating? C’mon visualize it with me.. right down to the frosting. What’ll we wish as we blow out the candles? Or are we just gonna snuff out the bunsen burners on the American Experiment? Not if you Write in Kin on the ballot for President of the United States of America on November 7th, 2028 the only Millennial with the shear moxie, grit and ingenuity to get us out of this jam and into the lives we were destined for. I’m not Running for President as a joke, I’m Walking for President for real. Walt Disney said it’s fun to do the impossible. Let’s run it.

Nirvana Covered it, David Bowie Wrote it.. I'm gonna

Sell the World.. Peace

Currently 1/3 of all our treasure goes to defense. We can still flex on 1/5th of that spend, still flex, and free up resources to for a grand new bargain. Might sound naive but I’m convinced I know the 3 keys to world peace and it’s less than a decade away from being within reach.

Bridge the "Great Big Misunderstanding"

“Hi Kin here.. you’re local bridge retailer. Have I got a bridge to sell you!” What if it was all just a big misunderstanding? Like a really BIG one.. all human pain, warfare, fear and uncertainty. What if we’re at the turning point in history? 

Fixing the Money Will Reinvent Civilization

We now have the means to harden the dollar, begin to decouple your earning potential from your time and make money while you sleep. It’s all possible with my “Save the Penny – Honest Abe” concept to  rethink value exchange.

Only You Hold the Key to World Peace

It’s in each of us, yet it takes all of us. We might not all be on the same page, but if we find the right tune, and sing from the same sheet of music, we could unlock a symphony of prosperity for generations to come.

🚧Warning🚧 Citizenship may cause feelings of purpose and community, even delusions of hope. Talk to your doctor if your silhouette turns blue and red.

I'M A WEB3 REVOLUTIONARY

An Independent & An Original. Name's Kin.

I legally changed my name Kin, just Kin – think Cher or Prince – no last name, for this express purpose to win on the write in. Just write Kin on the ballot. And if my name ain’t Garett Thomas Laugavitz Paine, you’re gonna see some common sense action outta Washington when I’m posted up.

FIRST ORDERS OF BUSINESS

Get it Together

Tune Into the Sausage House - Legislative Deli

Currently, lawmaking is a meat grinder in a dimly lit storeroom with a rodent problem. We need to make re-factoring the law easier, politically popular and fun. Enter “The Sausage House” remaking the meat grinder, a Reality TV show that makes civic engagement a wild, entertaining and productive journey.

"Get the 'F' Out of the FDA" & Get Lifesaving Drugs Right

Did you know the FDA regulates cheese pizza but not pepperoni? Howsa bout we move the F to the end of the USDA to make it the United States Department of Awesome Food (USDAF) and safely streamline lifesaving drugs. Remaking one small part of the Health & Human Services Department.

Regulate Big Tech by Regulating the Pixel

Reagan said, “It’s the economy stupid” now “it’s the data dummy.” When you accept cookies on websites a single pixel drops them onto your device. We’re going from tracking Cookies to Baking M.U.F.F.I.N.S. Monetized User Focused Feedback Information Systems. A tiny tweak, big deal for privacy and progress.

What I learned in Kindergarten

Take the Oath

We need to get back to the basics if we’re to thrive so let’s take it back to kindergarten. Imagine if we rekindled those lessons as adults today, not just in theory but in practice. I call it the Kindergarten Oath: 

  • Try your best (show up for your community and participate)
  • Show & Tell (be proud of your work and take feedback)
  • Clean Up (everybody do your share, environmentally too)
  • Golden Rule (Treat others as you’d like to be treated)
  • Remember to Have Fun (cause it’s fun to do the impossible)

This isn’t a huge ask, but it’d make a world of difference. In Kindergarten, I also learned that knowledge is power and that anything’s possible.  “One day you could be president” was a standard line from teachers (albeit with many unspoken asterisks*). Well I took that assignment way too seriously and am leaning into the required delusion to make it possible. I stand a non-zero chance by “walking for president” and at least I stand for something.

THE HIGHEST RETURN ON INVESTMENT

Rewriting Education

Build the S.T.E.A.M. Engine

Unleash Knowledge

Considering "School Work"

Education has the highest return on investment by far and it needs to be treated like an infrastrastructure project. It’s time we build “The S.T.E.A.M. Engine” and the Wiki-Curriculum to mitigate the political pitfalls of school board politics to get teachers back to teaching.

PAPER IS STILL A TECHNOLOGY

Reinvent the Mail

Micro Digital Postage Fee for Commercial Senders

SPAM is the result of the “Tragedy of the Commons” problem in economics where Free is a Flaw in that it gets abused. We can rework this system to capture revenue and pioneer email with “value ads”, money as “attachments” and more while moving away from the dynamic of farming people’s eyeballs.

USPS Everything App, Unofficial for Now..

Reinventing the mail requires an app capable of  managing your digital-physical mailbox with emails of value you can have printed and delivered. Imagine automatically sending physical letters by talking or texting, securely receiving cash in the mail and interfacing with all public services (see next blurb). 

You Have the Right to a Robot Attorney Butler & Alderman

There is a litany of public services available to people but our current systems are fractured and difficult to navigate while resources rot on the vine. Meanwhile the law is weaponized against us. Now you can have an autonomous economic and legal agent working on your behalf 24/7 (or 21/8 with “Someday”).

More Time Engaging with Neighbors & Growing USPS

The USPS is the 3rd largest employer after the Federal Government and Walmart. By freeing them up to focus on high quality interactions and community engagement through training in conjunction with Delivery Pals (next) in order to use this workforce for good.

Trusted On-Demand Printing Semi-Autonomous

A semi-autonomous Delivery Pal that cruises with the Mailman or woman, in order to bring a personal touch back into the community while securing sensitive deliveries such as cash (a mobile ATM essentially). Get up to date printed publications and even hot/cold post (next).

Hot & Cold Post, Instant Leftovers to Solve Waste

We need to mitigate food deserts and stop wasting food. Hot and cold post through a refrigerated sub-unit, loaded by the mailman and receivers of mail outside (as this is a community building tool, not replacing people) could move mountains to solve hunger.

15 DEPARTMENTS DOWN TO 5 CORE AREAS

Built for the Next 250 Years

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S.E.T.T.L.E. Economic Interface Layer

Secure Exchange for Tax, Trade, Licensing, & Enforcement

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F.A.B.R.I.C. Civic Society Stack

Families, Access, Benefits, Rights, Infrastructure, Care

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S.H.I.E.L.D. Security & Resilience

Sovereignty, Homeland, Intelligence, Emergency, Logistics, Defense

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R.A.D.A.R. Security & Resilience

Relations, Aid, Diplomacy, Alliances, Research

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C.O.R.E. Meta-Governance Layer

Coordination, Oversight, Records & Enablement

American Government IS the joke

I'm Only Half Kidding

Give a Metric 💩 Ton. Convert to Metric!

Give a sh#t and join the movement to convert to metric growing company profits by upwards of 10% while saving the country billions of dollars annually. It’s easier math, it’ll make us more compatible with the world standards for smoother trade deals while improving education and more.

Introducing the Booty Strike: Pioneering not getting laid

Women are told what to do with their bodies, are told “nice job” while getting significantly less pay than their male counterparts. How about “no lay till equal pay.” A nationwide sex suffrage movement could be the key. When men in leadership positions capitulate, another baby boom is possible, saving social security.

Drop Down to 21-Hour Days for an 8th Day of the Week

What if we just… dropped down to 21-hour days? That would free up an 8th day of the week — it’d fall right between Saturday and Sunday. I call it Someday… and someday’s gonna come. I’m only half kidding here. Why not biohack our circadian rhythm? It at least gets us thinking about wild possibilities.

Media Broke? Call Kin's TV & Repair!

The information superhighway.. ahh “we paved paradise, put a paywall block.” We can fix the underlying business model of journalism, slow down the groundhog’s day 24-hour news cycle and restore sanity to the public discourse.

Rebuild the Union, Renew the Dream

Turn Debt into Destiny

The H.E.I.R.  is Homeland Expansion for Intergenerational Resilience, a vision to shore up the national debt through a hybrid land trust that carves up states and cements legacies. There’s upwards of $100 Trillion in wealth being transferred over the next few decades by our beloved Baby Boomers. This is an unprecedented opportunity to restore our country, re-align our values and pay homage to our elders.

HOW TO BETTER "GRADE" AND CLIMB

Maslow's Topology

We’ll never fully “level” the playing field we can’t “even the odds” just as you cannot “odds the evens.” Disparity is a reality of life, we all simply put do not have the same "lot." But that doesn't mean we can't build new pathways of upward economic mobility so the journey up Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is less steep.

I KNOW MY ALPHABET

Policy Alphabet

I mapped a key issue or cause to every letter of the alphabet, A – Z, starting with Affordable Housing is Where the H.E.A.R.T. Is: Home Equity Accessibility through Residential Tokens, creating fractional ownership so that anyone can get in on the action of real estate appreciation. We quite actually need to work across the public sector refactoring the letter of the law.

WALK WITH ME

I SEE ABUNDANCE AHEAD

Governance is NOT rocket science

Write in Kin

The theme of this campaign is that what we learned in Kindergarten could not only save the public discourse and in turn, our country, but that anyone even myself stands a fair chance at taking up residence in the White House. Frankly, I think I can just walk right in, “skip the line” so to speak, hence I’m walking for President now and beginning to run when the time is right. I was told I could make the rules when I’m older, so.. here I am, 38 years old. I’d like to drive please. 

Here’s the Kindergarten level interpretation of what’s important to achieve:

GOVERNANCE

Make Good Choices and Work Together. Team work makes the dream work people!

Laws & Rules

Play by the Rules (or pay consequences). Rule of Law is Order and Order is Stability.

ECONOMY

Add Value. Be Resourceful. Grow, grow, grow!! (responsibly though) Self-reliance, yet it takes a village.

FINANCE

Be smart with money. Mind the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.

PUBLIC GOODS

Asking for Help is OK. Share a little. Parks and Bubblers are nice. Sunscreen too.

DEFENSE/SECURITY

Stick up for yourself. Deal with bullies wisely. Good offense is good defense.

FOREIGN RELATIONS

Treasure your friends, find your allies. Carrot and stick. I love sticks by the way.. like a lot.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Build cool stuff (to last). Take good care of your things. Don’t be afraid of change. 

I'm over 35

Can I drive?

THE GREATEST GUMBO EVER TOLD

Gumbo Tells a Story

Gumbo tells a story, it’s the culinary melting pot, drawing on several cultures from West Africa, French, Spanish, and Native American traditions — all of which came to life in Louisiana in the 18th century. The name’s derived from the West African word for Okra, Kingombo. The Choctaw Indians brought the sassafras to thicken giving it its unique flavor. Gumbo represents the diversity of America, when done right, is like nothing else in the world. It’s a dish that transcends prejudice in the spirit of harmony and respect for different cultures — something greater than the sum of its parts.

IF THIS IS YOU RIGHT NOW

I Don't Blame Ya..

We bury our heads in the sand, at times, out of self-protection mentally and emotionally from all that’s wrong in the world. You don’t have to care about everything. Part of what makes America great is we are actually running a relatively tight ship where citizens can just live their lives and enjoy it while sidestepping the struggle. However, turning a blind eye to injustices at least, entirely, is to divorce ourselves from our values. I challenge you to take one baby step today and either take the Kindergarten Oath or leave a voicemail at 419-KIN-VOTE in order to give voice to your unique, valuable perspective.