My Presidential Platform by Scott Alexander gave me a good series of chuckles. It’s a truly inspiring combination of absolutely stupid and unusually clever, and should serve as a textbook example of “thinking outside the box”.
It was all worth it just for this:
The American rich already enjoy spending their money on exciting vehicles - yachts for the normies, rockets for the more ambitious, Titanic submersibles for the suicidal. Why not redirect this impulse towards public service? Imagine the fear it would strike into the hearts of the Chinese when the USS Musk enters Ludicrous Mode in the waters off the Taiwan Strait, with Elon himself at the wheel.