There are signs happening all over MAGA world right now. One was earlier today when Laura Ingraham interviewed Donald Trump on her show and asked why there were still Chinese students in America, why couldn’t they just stay home so that American kids could fill the slots in the universities now held by Chinese? Trump hemmed hawed and went on about “talent” and “you can’t just pull somebody out of the unemployment line and put them to work building missiles.” Granted, BUT there is a middle step called “training” which is the key factor that Trump never mentioned. Simply, Ingraham wasn’t happy with his answers and she wasn’t even happy with the gold in the Oval Office, which she asked if it came from Home Depot?
The intriguing thing that is going on now and which spiked last week when the off-year election took place and it ended up a bloodbath for Republicans, is that people are now either challenging Trump or making excuses for Trump. Now here’s a comical piece: Trump’s all we’ve got. Scuse the hell out of me, wasn’t he the Messiash a few short months ago?
In 10 months MAGA went from “He’s the new messiah!” to “Look, we don’t have anyone else.” pic.twitter.com/PUmt1Imksh
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 12, 2025
That’s one hell of an endorsement for a leader, “We don’t have anyone else.” Wow. Talk about giving somebody the kiss of death without giving them the kiss of death. And here’s another commentary from Steve Bannon. Bannon is on top of these developments. On election night last week he threw in the towel early and pre-blamed Donald Trump for losing the election.
Some people thought that precipitous but no: it turned out that Bannon was as right as rain. He is worth listening to as long as the topic is reading MAGA tealeaves. On anything else, he varies. But the base he does know. Here’s his weak tea.
Bannon is panicked. MAGA spearheaded going after the Epstein pedophiles. Asking them to let Trump slide, because God sent him, is nuts.
— Make it Stop! – Liberty and Justice for All 💙 (@mcarr2021) November 13, 2025
Be clear on what’s happening here: yes, the Epstein files issue is just now starting to come to light. And that’s extremely worrisome. BUT it’s not the big picture. And Bannon knows it. The big picture is that Trump can’t control what’s going on and he needs to. In a previous piece I wrote about how the Bureau Of Labor Statistics is still not reporting jobs numbers and won’t be, and this is being blamed on the Democrats.
The economy is going to hell. And Trump can lie about “trillions” coming in from tariffs and all his nonsense but without cold hard data, we don’t know what’s really going on out there. And don’t expect the cessation of labor statistics to last for too long. That’s going to become a hot button topic and by the beginning of 2026, it’s going to be a real five-alarm fire if it hasn’t been addressed by then.
The crack to Ingraham about “talent” in America and what America needs went across like the proverbial fart in church. MAGA is not happy and the keepers of MAGA (Ingraham, Hannity, that lot) have bent over backwards to lead Trump on the right path but to no avail. He still keeps putting his foot in his mouth. And then there’s this:
Nick says that every week. MAGA is dead when Putin says their dead. pic.twitter.com/YqVq3aaxjY
— Going with the flow. Living in the Now. (@vGoWithTheFlow) November 13, 2025
Most of the histrionics today have been centered on Epstein, which is just now getting rolling. But don’t fall for that. The rift goes ever so much deeper. The salient difference between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 is that during his first term he did have some adults in the room with him. He wasn’t disabling the Bureau Of Labor Statistics willy nilly and he didn’t have Pete Hegseth out shooting fishermen at will. There were some guardrails.
Not in Trump 2.0. Trump’s just reacting to everything every day and making one bad choice and one stupid crack after another. That’s why MAGA is unraveling. And then of course along comes Epstein and the files and now it’s match, meet powderkeg.
For the orange dolt in Florida, there are possibly, and finally, some well deserved and not too insignificant consequences coming down the line, from over the horizon. A rejection of his ways of doing what he has done, and also what he continues to do, is hopefully starting to take form. Any consequences, hopefully, will be a combo of general deterrent message to others, and a specific punishment metered out. He’ll be rejected by some of those that had fallen for his mendacious barmecide – hollow promises, bare faced lies, blatant grifting – in conjunction with the consequences of other systems – legal, moral, ethical, and of faith. These all unite to inexorably chew the face off the blatherskite, in their own unique and telling way. He’ll, as long as his mortal coil use-by-date does not trip, come to suffer a well deserved rejection and punishment that penetrates every fibre of his ill woven DNA. All this is, as you know and appreciate, is quite simply speculative and fingers crossed wishful thinking, but it’s juicy.
I would love nothing more than to see him get his “well deserved rejection and punishment.” I hope Lady Karma will do that for us. If he fouls things up badly enough and unemployment and hunger is bad enough, and people are homeless, that could do it. God, I hope we’re not going to see Hoovervilles (Trumpvilles) but we might.
“Trump’s all we’ve got.”
After Trump is gone (whatever way it occurs), woe betide anyone who tries to become the new Trump. We hope he will be immediately and summarily rejected as a leader. Anyone with such thoughts should think twice about it. One cannot do Trump without the hollow promises, bare faced lies, legal, moral, and ethical attitudes. The American people are on to it.
Trump got where he did for a number of reasons which cannot be duplicated. First and foremost, The Apprentice created his persona. No other politician is going to come in with a TV show behind them, creating a persona, for fourteen years. That’s the first thing. Also, nobody else is as mentally ill as Trump and his MAGAs love that about him. He’s unstable and he can get away with everything and they wish they could to. That’s why they vote for him. He’s a dummy living the high life, like they wish they could do (and would be able to if they inherited it all.)
i think vought, miller and that lot are smart enough to not try to receate trump once he’s gone. they’ll have vance as a figurehead and will set their own tone. that said, trump has been allowed to do a hell of a lot that he wanted. he’s grifted billions (and billions more by his family) and pursued all the revenge crap. that’s all very enticing and there are people who think they will be able to grab that for themselves but it’s the project 2025 people who have the real power and they will crush anyone who doesn’t advance their agenda with them at the top even if in the background. if you think we have a dictatorship now you ain’t seen nothin. the mere grifters and posers should be careful. the other side, that is us on the left, are just that. the other side, the enemy whatever. it’s people on their own side in other factions who are traitors and will be first against the wall. remember the brown shirts (these days the red hats).
It’s tragic we are so polarized. We have not been this split in two since the Civil War. We are having a Cold Civil War right now. That’s the only difference. And if you want to consider the actions of ICE, it’s debatable how much of a Cold Civil War it really is.