give us your petty, your cruel, those who see revenge...
I'm going to point out the obvious here for a moment...
A huge section of the population of the United States is lower middle class to the poor (which I'm a member).
much of which have marginal critical thinking skills. And solely operate from a "gut" level of instinct.
we have all met them at one time or another: the dept store manager who acts like a tyrant, the petty supervisor who welds power as if he were king, the forgotten middle manager in the huge corporation that gleefully holds sway of his subordinates as if he were some sultan, or the employee whose marginal thinking ability believes that they are an unrecognized "genius", or has always felt slighted by some minor thing or felt passed up for a promotion that they were grossly unqualified for.
we all know them.
then there are the others, the ones that blame their self made problems on other people. Taking out their angry angst against anyone not of their own background or race as an excuse for their own shortcomings.
then there are the randos whom we meet daily in stores, on the road and in life who take offense at anyone or anything that doesn't agree with their very narrow views on the world.
And finally, family members, who have always been a type of "marginal" character that goes on unfounded tirades based on nothing but conspiracies or the word of some fool YouTuber or tv talking head.
why do I bring this up?
these are the hardcore base of the orange asshole.
these are the unbending army of the gullible. the knowingly cognitive dissonance brigade. the self-righteous warriors of stupid. the ever hopeful nincompoops of thinking they will finally get their pony of revenge.
And those of us on the thinking side of the isle, watch as these fools flail about justifying one thing after another to maintain that bizarre world view as the last straws of the revenge fantasy slowly drop from their hands.
They will then try to twist themselves into creative knots to keep the lie going otherwise they will have to face the reality that they were wrong, but worse than that, taken completely advantage of by the very same person they put their faith on to deliver them to the "promised land". A land where all libs are owned and everyone one of them will become millionaires if not billionaires. Not the land of milk and honey but the land of smug self-righteousness and pointless cruelty.
this is their wanton state of comeuppance they so desperately want. That everything will magically be corrected in their lives. All the wrongs righted, all the clever comebacks now become timely and many think they will enter automatically into some realm of instant forgiveness by some deity.
However, reality is slowly sinking in via measured amounts.
up until the big beautiful bill, everything that wasn't exactly what they wanted from the trump, was just another reason to move the goal posts. "he was only kidding, he didn't really mean that, he will do better, he is trying to save us with a little pain, etc". we've all heard and read those proclamations.
but then there was the big beautiful bill. and a hard dose of reality hit many of the hardcores. From farmers, to people on Medicaid to family members in nursing homes, to doctors, nurses and various medical support people losing their jobs. The list is almost endless because there will be some much more misery added as time goes on. and what happened? these various hardcores were suddenly indigent, "this isn't what I signed up for, I didn't vote for him to do this!", yadda...yadda...yadda. They thought that trump was some sort of magical governmental/economic surgeon, that would carve away "waste" that only pertain to the "left" of this nation. That his magic wand of "doge" and efficiently, will make their lives fan-freaking-tastic while simultaneously "destroying" the libs. Clearing out the government of "waste" aka Democrats.
That was the first big hit to their concept of "reality".
And since the first trump admin, there had always been this conspiracy by the right that the left was part of a huge human trafficking ring. From pizza places to emails to coded messages to whatever they chose to fit their narrative, the left was front and center to killing, eating and trafficking kids.
That is why they all eagerly awaited the Epstein file release. Finally, they would be vindicated! Finally they would get their pound of flesh. finally, they could truly own the libs and make us all eat our words.
then what happened? poof! gone. look over there, because there ain't nothing to see here
something snapped.
sure, there are still a bunch of these nuts that still enjoy moving the goal posts. That will make all sorts of excuses still, the sycophants that will go groveling back to "daddy" trump, but I honestly think, that while these gullible fools try to justify things, they will now always have doubt.
but, a huge chuck of the nuts was just carved off by this willful cover up by Trump, Bondi, Kash and the other dopes in the room.
don't get me wrong, they won't suddenly admit we were right, or they will become dems, but they will stop supporting trump and willfully defend him no matter the cost to themselves. it's almost as if, this latest betrayal to them, awoke a sense of partial reality, not full reality but a proto-reality, if you will.
And this now were things start to get really interesting.
this means the trump is losing grip onto a portion of his base that his narcissism really depended upon to justify his massive ego.
in other words, we are entering into a new dangerous phase of his mania.