I would like to preface my article here is to say my dear Republican friends have no idea what will be in store for them and for the country as they supported a rapist, a criminal felon, a fraudster and made sure that he reached the White House. It was not a fluke. He not only acquired the electoral votes to become president, he also had the popular vote, so there is no question that he won fair and square in 2024. Project 2025 did not scare the Republicans. Donald Trump’s first term didn’t scare them. His obsession in working with dictators like Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin didn’t scare them.
Do any of my dear Republican friends have their eyes open? Donald J. Trump, a man that only wanted to save himself from prison, is now President-Elect and will be our 47th President. He gets an out of jail for free card, for now. But in 4 years, when he can no longer run for president of these United States, Donald J. Trump will be sentenced to prison. He has been convicted in a court of 34 counts of felony. It was a unanimous decision. There was no question of his guilt. For the first time in Donald Trump’s life, he was being held accountable for his actions. The only thing left was his sentencing, and I got to give him credit, he pulled the biggest political trick on the American people, mainly Republicans, to have ever been seen in modern times. The Republicans showed their ignorance as at least half of the country voted for this criminal felon as their president. So, the people of the United States will now take a back seat and watch a want-to-be dictator destroy this county and he will have some success.
I made the previous statements because now the American people must deal with Donald Trump’s regained power as president, and they will pay the consequences for at least the next 2 years. In the midterm elections in 2026, I predict that the Democrats will regain control of the House of Representatives, and maybe control over both chambers to include the Senate. But what do I know? I was 100% wrong, believing the Kamala Harris could win the election. Since Trump literally beat her in this election as he never once lost the lead when the voting was being held, I’ve struggled since then to try and determine why Kamala Harris lost to Trump. I’ll try to explain my thoughts on this later in this article.
But, let’s start from the top.
Trump’s disastrous pick for Attorney General, Matt Gaetz, a test to Senate Republicans, was withdrawn as Republicans in the Senate say NO to Gaetz as the nominee for a position that needed to be confirmed in the U.S. Senate. That was never going to happen. Why? Because the Republicans in the Senate are joining the resistance, and there are a few of them left that will stand up for the right thing, but there IS enough of them. So what did Donald Trump do when he couldn’t get his number one choice to become Attorney General, he then picks a woman who most likely will be confirmed by the name of Pam Bondi, who is just as bad as Gaetz for the position. Remember Trump’s pick for the leader of the next Senate didn’t get chosen, as in a secret ballot, the Senators chose John Thune to replace McConnell who did not want the position in the next Senate.
Another great Trump pick, Pete Hegseth, nominated by Trump to lead the Department of Defense, has been accused of rape and is a know drunkard. You can’t make this stuff up, but only Donald J. Trump has the balls to try and pull the wool over the eyes of the American people, but at least for now, the Republicans in the Senate will have nothing to do with it. If he even makes it to the Senate confirmation process, he will most certainly fail. From all the reports that I read about him, he is the least qualified. Lloyn J Austin III is Biden’s Secretary of Defense is a retired military officer and is very qualified in the position. PeteHegseth left FOX News as co-host of “FOX and FRIENDS” to take Trump’s nomination as Secretary of Defense. If this was a joke, it would be truly funny. But nominating Hegseth as the next Secretary of Defense is not a joke, but very scary. This man will be in charge of all men in uniform.
I thought I would never say this, but Rand Paul, who is a Republican from Kentucky whom I’m no fan of, but over the years he has proven himself to be a principled libertarian. He is a pretty respectable person. He ran for president in 2016, he is a doctor, he’s been vetted in the past, and I doubt if you will find any facts that he raped someone, or anything negative that would force Paul to bend to the will of Trump like the two nominees already mentioned for Trump’s choices. Rand Paul is aware of the fact that as soon as Trump becomes president, he will declare a national emergency and will use the military to round up undocumented people around the country. Trump always gives us an idea of what he is about to do, and just last week he mentioned that he will begin to round up people as soon as he becomes president. Rand Paul is not in favor of having the military go to the cities and hunt for people. It’s actually been illegal for the last 100 years to bring in the Army to our cities.
So going back to my initial points in this article, why were the Republicans so desperate in choosing Trump to become president? Well, they say he is the best person to fix our economy. And I get it. Prices have gone up substantially since Joe Biden has become president. But the ignorant Republicans do not realize that it didn’t make any difference of who became president in 2020, that the economy was going to take a hit. But economists around the world will tell you that if they had a choice today, they would trade their economy for our economy without question. We literally have the best economy in the world, and we have Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to thank for it.
So let’s try and determine how Trump is going to make the U.S. economy better. Let’s start with California.
In California, undocumented people comprise up to 2-million people who contribute to the U.S. economy, but they comprise half of the state’s agricultural industry. For example, to demonstrate their clout, 30% of all construction workers in Los Angeles are undocumented. About 18% of all manufacturing jobs in southern California are performed by undocumented workers. Trump made a promise during the election to deport at least 5% of the undocumented workers from this county. THIS ACTION WILL DESTROY THE AMERICAN ECONOMY. The entire economy of southern California runs on undocumented workers. Is this Trump’s way to punish California for being a sanctuary State?
It is fact, that in 2022, undocumented people paid billions of dollars in Federal, State and local taxes. They pay into Medicare, Medicaid, employment insurance and Social Security, even though they are not entitled to any of it. They subsidize our benefits. Furthermore, they are not the takers of our tax revenue, but the makers of it. They receive very little in return. In my eyes, there is no migrant or an immigration crisis. If anyone believes that the crisis exists, they are believing in lies. This country is a nation of immigrants. Our roots began in other countries. But let’s see what happens to the U.S. economy if mass deportations begin in January, as Donald J. Trump promises. One thing is for sure, he will close the southern border in January. He will begin deporting people from families that voted for him. That’s how Trump is going to show thanks to his voters, because he has nothing to lose while he is in office. He can’t run again, so his decisions will be taken right out of the Project 2025 playbook. God help us all!
Yes, Donald Trump, who is nothing less than a lunatic, hasn’t even been sworn in yet, but his administration is going to be a disaster. Just for starters, we have 3 sexual assault scandals in one week. Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, and we cannot ignore Linda McMahon who gave a blind-eye of the child rape over the WWE is now poised to be the head of the Department of Education. What a role model. All of Donald Trump’s picks, from Tulsi Gabbard to Robert Kennedy Jr. is a mental defective. The biggest disaster of them all is Donald J. Trump, and as the saying goes, it takes one to know one. Trump is incapable of nominating decent human beings to run his government. So this is what the American people wanted, is it? Well, this is what we got, and we got to take the punishment for at least the next few years.
What do we have to look forward to? Well, there is going to be another tax cut for the rich that will add trillions to our national debt. The Republicans are going to try to make cuts to medicare, medicaid, food stamps, aid to dependent children and unemployment insurance and Social Security, even though they cannot benefit from it in their future. Trump will fire at least 50,000 Federal employees, or at least he will try to. The EPA will become part of the Fossil fuel industry. That’s if Donald Trump has his way. He will try and roll back a lot of what Joe Biden accomplished in his four years in office. But his number 1 target will be the undocumented people, because he will want to satisfy the bloodlust of his supporters by destroying the lives of innocent people. Then it’s the LGBTQ community. What happened to the hearts of the Americans that voted for him. Each one of them is responsible for what Trump will do in his tenure as 47th President of the United States. Most ALL of my friends must take the blame too.
So let’s look back to the past four years. We did not get medicare for all, the oil companies were not outlawed and billionaires were not taxed as they should have been. But my thoughts for why Kamala Harris lost the election is not because of Donald Trump, although I would love to make that argument, but it’s because Joe Biden successfully put in motion the most progressive legislation since Lyndon Johnson and she is Biden’s Vice-President. Biden did most of it within the first 2 years in office. He passed the Chips Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, the bi-partisan infrastructure deal that Donald Trump claims he was going to do in his first term, but never got done and the Stimulus bill. Joe Biden will be known in history for great things, not like Donald Trump will be remembered for. Some will argue that Joe Biden did more good in his first 2 years as president than Obama did in eight years. Getting back to Kamala Harris, this is one of the main reasons she did not get elected as president. Now in hindsight, she didn’t stand a chance to win. I can’t even begin to tell you how much it pains me to say that. But it’s true. As another saying goes, “Let the Truth Be known”, and now we know it. But we should also know what is about to come. I just hope that this country is ready for it. The disasterous term of Trump’s presidency will be witnessed for the world to see. Hopefully the eyes of my Republican friends will be opened, as another saying goes, “Will they see the light?”.