November 11, 2024
Presently, the U.S. House of Representatives is set to be controlled by Republicans, and it will give Democrats no control over the Federal Government. Donald Trump will hire his minions to slave under him to run the Federal Government and King Trump will commit crimes as President under the umbrella of his office which will allow him to create these crimes and TOTALLY get away from being prosecuted because of them, thanks to presidential immunity given to him by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Republicans are presently on track in the House of Representatives, with a present tally of only 209 seats filled by Democrats and 216 filled by Republicans. The Republicans only need to gain 2 more seats in the upcoming House of Representatives, as there are 10 more seats up for grabs. The party to first reach 218 Senators chosen to serve in the upcoming House will gain control of it for at least the next two years.
The Senate has already fallen to Republicans, as they take control of the Senate on January 3rd. The present Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell will be stepping down as leader, so there will be a new Republican majority leader in the Senate. Mitch McConnell will still serve just as a Senator representing Kentucky. My guess will be Senator Rick Scott of Florida will become the new Senate leader. Why do I say that? It’s because Trump would like it and Elon Musk supports it. Also, Mitch McConnell doesn’t support Rick Scott. Trump despises McConnell, so whatever McConnell wants, Trump will do the opposite. So, I feel that it’s a sure bet that Rick Scott will gain the position of Senate Majority Leader because the minions under Donald Trump will give Trump what he wants. Most Republicans believe that Scott may be the only Senator out there that would be able to achieve Trumps goals in the Senate. The leader needs to be chosen by a simple majority in the Senate. To me, this is a sure bet. But I have been wrong before.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: November 13th, 2024
As usual as has been the case with my choice for President, The Republican Caucus has chosen Republican Senator John Thune of South Dakota, Mitch McConnell’s pick to be Senate Majority leader, instead of Senator Rick Scott of Florida, whom I thought would get the job. Presently, he is 2nd in rank as the whip, but with a secret ballot by Senators so Trump cannot know who voted against his pick for fear of retribution by Trump, he will take the reins as the Senate Majority leader on January 3rd, despite what Donald Trump wants. Trump was open on who he wanted as the Senate leader, and that was Senator Rick Scott of Florida.
Regarding Trump, never in my wildest imaginations did I believe that a two-time impeached president Trump, a convicted felon and rapist, would be America’s choice for President of the United States, especially what he caused 4 years ago on January 6. Police and rioters lost their lives because of him as they stormed the Capital, and he just sat down in the White House and watched the scenes unfold on a TV. His own vice-president was being attacked in the Capital, and he did nothing about it. Trump has wiggled out of accountability time and time again for the things he has done in the past that is a clear show of breaking the law.
So, if you are a supporter of democracy, the future of America seems to be grim. But again, the electorate has chosen Donald J. Trump, a sexual predator, a fraudster and last but not least, a convicted felon, to be their leader for the next four years. I push that thought home many times in the future, as the country wreaks of Donald Trumps corruption. The government that looks more and more of an autocracy every day, will be run as Trump will rule as king for the next four years with no guard rails, except for democratic State governments that will continue ruling under the rule of law and oppose Trump any way they can. Donald J. Trump will govern just as dictators do around the world. The only ones that can and will keep Donald Trump in check will be state Democrats that obviously will have no power in the Federal Government. These states will do everything in their power to protect their states.
What will Trump and the Republican Party do in the next four years? I can only imagine presently, but my imagination, unfortunately in most cases, will become reality.
For starters, Trump will close the borders as he has promised on January 20th, to be his first act as president. He will instruct ICE to round up and jail and remove millions of people, possibly up to 11 million, who are now in this country. The dreamers, who have been here for most of their lives, may also be rounded up and deported. Trump is fixing to break up families, send back immigrants who desperately want to live here because they will be prosecuted if they return to their own country and in many cases face death. But this is the world we will be living in for the next four years.
Other things to look forward to will be Trump rolling back Biden administration policies on education, firing potentially thousands of federal employees he believes are secretly working against him, and pardoning people who were arrested for their role in the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Look for the immediate firing of Special Council Jack Smith, as Trump will make most of his criminal cases just go away, at least the federal ones. But Trump cannot pardon himself when it comes to his state conviction in the New York hush money case, but he could seek leverage with his status as president-elect in an effort to set aside or expunge his felony conviction and stave off a potential prison sentence.
The Georgia case against Trump involving election interference will most likely be the only criminal case left standing. But nothing will be done in the case until at least 2029, not until Trump steps down as president. The question is, what grips of government will Trump have in four years, and will he be able to be forced to leave office?
Trump will pardon supporters who attacked the capital. Approximately 1,500 people have been charged for what they have done 4 years ago at the U.S. Capital. The convicted felon president calls the rioters “unbelievable patriots”.
In his demented mind, Trump wants to dismantle in what he thinks as a ‘deep state’ of government workers. He will strip tens of thousands of career employees of their civil service protections so that they can be more easily fired. These people working in these positions are apolitical, meaning they do not support political parties, and are usually the last guard rails to what would be ill-advised political decisions of the president. Instead, Trump plans to replace them with people of political status that would support his wishes.
Trump wants to impose tariffs on imported goods, especially those from China. He thinks that’s a way to shrink the federal deficit and help lower food prices. In general, he proposed at least a 10% tariff across-the board on imported goods, a 60% import tax on goods from China and 25% tariff on all goods from Mexico. Trump does not need U.S. Congress to implement tariffs, so here comes the higher prices on merchandise made in China or around the globe on EVERYTHING that is not made in the United States.
Trump claims that he will inform the new president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum “I’m going to inform her on Day 1 or sooner that if they don’t stop this onslaught of criminals and drugs coming into our country, I’m going to immediately impose a 25% tariff on everything they send into the United States of America.”
Just as a reminder, for Americans to purchase these goods, American citizens will be paying the tariff, not China, and not Mexico. So if inflation was on the ballot in 2024, and Americans believe they made the right move by electing Trump to protect them from inflation, they have a rude awakening coming when higher prices hit the markets on ALL foreign goods, especially from China.
Trump promises to roll back protections for transgender students. He plans to roll back the Biden administration action seeking to protect transgender students from discrimination in schools on the first day of his new administration. Trump plans to roll back new Title IX protections of transgender students from their classmates. Trump plans to cut federal money for any school “pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content onto the lives of our children.”
Trump has pledged to dismantle the Department of Education, which has been a cabinet-level agency since 1980, cut federal funding for schools teaching critical race theory, and bar transgender female athletes from participating in school sports. Donald Trump may close down the Department of Education, but the functions of the Department of Education will need to continue. The department houses the office of Civil Rights, which enforces federal civil rights laws across schools to protect students against discrimination. Regulation by the Department of Education also affect college sports, which is one thing that Republicans would not want to see impacted.
The rights of LGBTQ+ students would suffer under a Trump Administration due to the changes that would likely be made to Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in education. Trump’s policies will welcome sex-based discrimination in education.
Trump wants to “Drill baby Drill”, with the intention of reversing climate policies aimed at reducing planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. He can do this on Day 1, as he can roll back environmental protections, halt wind projects, and scuttle the Biden administration’s target that encourage the switch to electric cars and abolish standards for companies to become more environmentally friendly. He wants increase production of U.S. fossil fuels, and wants to open the Arctic wilderness to oil drilling.
Trump claims he will settle the war between Russia and Ukraine in one day. I can say now that this will be impossible to happen. Trump’s best chance is to get Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table to end the war. But Trump claims he can do anything. We will see what he gets done on day one. There will be a lot of damage done, and little good will come out on day 1, especially if he carries out his threat to be “a dictator on day 1. ”
Mass deportations from the U.S. to Mexico is a sure thing. Trump claims that he would invoke the ‘Alien Enemies Act’. It is a 1780 law that allows the president to deport anyone who is not an American citizen and is from a country in which there is a ‘declared war’ or a threatened or attempted “invasion or predatory incursion.”
He claims that he may deploy National Guard troops to nearby states that refuse to participate in mass deportations of people living in their states. Trump is inviting mass riots and dissention into his immigration policies. What’s not so funny now is that people who voted Trump into office will be affected negatively when it comes to deporting their relatives who are not yet citizens. That was a smart choice, America…?,./{/??.
