What is this?
It's a joke. It is also, in a few places, not a joke, and I have not been able to get the ratio to resolve.
I am not running for president.
There is no exploratory committee. Nothing has been filed with the Federal Election Commission. There is no staff, no money, no donations accepted, and no plan. What there is: a regular dude, five things he thinks about more than is reasonable, a phone, and this website.
The videos are satire. This site is satire. Nothing on it should be read as a factual claim about any real person, and the one plank that concerns a real criminal case is deliberately written as a demand for a process rather than an accusation against anybody — because I don't know who is in those files, and neither does anyone else arguing about it online.
The part that isn't a joke is that I would genuinely like four of these five things to happen, and I think the fifth one is a good way to ask a serious question about who pays for the data centers.
Jason Anton
I dropped out of high school to be a rock star, got close enough to open for an artist who had won an MTV Video Music Award, and then had that chapter end for reasons outside my control. I went into software instead and have been doing it for more than fifteen years. I still play drums though.
Most of that work has been unglamorous and public-facing: federal health systems, government modernization, the first AI platform for data scientists at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. During the pandemic I was the primary developer on a Code for Baltimore project that let the Baltimore City Health Department reach five hundred senior facilities at once, which got me named to Technical.ly's RealLIST Engineers in 2020.
I live in the mid-Atlantic area with my family. The photo at the top of this page is us, walking. It is doing exactly the job it would be doing on a real campaign site, and I want to be upfront that I know that.
I am exactly as qualified to be president as the premise of this website suggests, which is to say the planks should be evaluated on their own merits and not on mine.
Why these five
They are the things I will not shut up about. That's the whole methodology. There was no polling, no focus group, and no attempt to build a coalition.
What they have in common is that each one is either obviously correct and somehow never done, or obviously absurd and pointed at something that is obviously correct. Two of them are small enough to finish, which is why those two are the ones that end the presidency.
- 1. Abolish Daylight Saving Time ends it
- 2. End Summer Vacation
- 3. Human-Powered Compute
- 4. The Lunar Readout
- 5. A Full Public Accounting ends it
Housekeeping
- Are you going to run?
- No. Maybe. Probably not.
- Can I give you money?
- No, and there's nowhere to put it. Give it to St. Jude.
- Can I use the clips?
- Yes. Repost them, stitch them, dunk on them. That's what they're for.
- I'm named in something on this site and I'd like that fixed.
- No real person is named anywhere on this site except me. If you believe otherwise, email jason@jasonanton.com and I will fix it the same day.