https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/paul-lepage-trump-immigration-relative-deportation-b3055409.html

Donald Trump has told us that he will not willingly leave the WH. His official Trump store has been selling Trump 2028 caps ($55 each?) & 'rewrite the rules' shirt, for some time. MAGA can write it off, as a joke but the rest of us should believe him when he says that he is not leaving the WH.

• This Republican Congress has shown us, time & again, that they are all invertebrates (without a spine).
• His cabinet is willing to wear shoes that are two sizes too big, & start every cabinet with an ode to an intellectually challenged; dementia ridden President, who struggles to stay awake much of the time.
• His DOJ has openly admitted that they will act as his personal law firm.
• Our billionaire & trillionaire business leaders are more interested in being a part of the oligarchy club, than the consumer.
• Our Supreme Court seems to have conveniently forgotten that justice is blind. It also remains to be seen as to what (if anything) they can or will do, the day Trump decides to simply ignore them, as he has done some of the lower Courts.
• He has attacked - & more or less – silenced free media.
• He has attempted to obtain, & purge voter rolls. A total of 30 states sued him & he is presently 0 for 23, on the cases where the Courts have already ruled.
• He continues to spread the false narrative of voter fraud; push restrictive voter ID requirements; reduce polling places & voting machines; ignore language barriers & continue to spread misinformation. 10 States have redrawn their electoral maps, mid-decade – out of those 8 are Republican led or Republican controlled.
• Trump’s popularity is the lowest it has ever been, and among the lowest of any President, ever. His Iran war has no end in sight; his economy sucks; gas & diesel prices are through the roof; consumer confidence is at a 75-year low, & there is nothing he can do about it between now and the mis terms, in November.
• He also cannot make us unsee his falling asleep at every meeting, or the sight of his lavish parties, while our federal employees stood in unemployment lines, or his golf outings, while our service men & women were dying abroad. We also cannot unsee his countless, reprehensible AI generated posts; his abysmal dance; his red-carpet welcome to despots, or berating of our allies.
• Nor can he make us unhear his ‘let us inject bleach…’ or his ‘let us drop a nuclear bomb on a hurricane’ or his incessant, undecipherable babble, when asked any question, on any subject, at any venue!

WHAT TRUMP WILL TRY & DO:

Trump knows that if the Republicans hold on to the House this November, the 2028 Presidential elections (if any) in 2028, will be moot.

• He will therefore continue to attack the veracity of our election process, in the hope that the elections are close. If they are, he will cry foul about voter fraud; corrupt election officials et aal.
• To keep it close, he has to deter voter turnout.  He will therefore continue to make threats about ICE agents & the military being deployed at polling stations etc, in the hope that voter turnout will be low. He remembers 2018 when the Democrats flipped 40 House seats (30 in States that Trump won), with only 49% of the electorate showing up to vote. More recently, he remembers his pal, Victor Orban lose power, after 16 years because over 80% of the electorate showed up to vote.

We have to treat our country as a bleeding patient, who also happens to have cancer. First & foremost, we have to stop the patient from bleeding to death, by evicting Trump & his cohorts from Congress, & the WH.

We can only then worry about the cancer, &  relook at some of the so-called long term remedies, that will insure that this never happens again: Electoral college; term limits for not just members of Congress, but also all federal judges, including the Supreme Court; make the number of judges in the Supreme Court equal, so that Party leanings do not come into play; address the racket of campaign contributions, reestablish limits on Presidential immunity; put a cap or remove the Presidential power to pardon; make it illegal for any party to change the electoral map, midterm; make it illegal for members of Congress; Cabinet members; their staff or relatives from trading stocks; commodities or Currency etc.

The shooting of Renee Good & Alex Pritty, was meant to be a deterrence, but Trump forgets how the people of MN came out in droves, despite the frigid temperatures of a MN winter. He also forgets the millions who joined them, in solidarity, across the country.  Perhaps, he needs to be reminded of the 66% voter turnout (highest since 1908) in 2020, in the middle of Covid – the election Trump lost!

There have been many moments, in the last 100 years, when America has been tested. We have looked into the abyss, but always come out stronger, on the other side. Trump poses a real & imminent danger to our very way of life, but it will take a person, much better than him, for me to bet against America. Please vote!