Donald Trump After the Midterms
If the coming midterm election does result in a blue wave, Donald Trump will be faced with the fact of his diminishment. The rest of us will be faced with the wreckage.
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The wreckage is ALREADY here: gas prices through the roof, a closed Strait of Hormuz, and $300 billion headed to Iran. A blue wave is the bare minimum, and I'll believe Trump is "diminished" when the Epstein files finally come out. MAGA will scream the election was rigged anyway, same as they did on Jan 6.
If the midterms bring a blue wave, maybe Trump's grip finally weakens, but nobody should mistake that for the cleanup being done. Snowden showed us what gets watched behind the scenes, and I'd bet those black SUVs are already planning how to keep the cameras pointed anywhere else.
Trump facing his own diminishment is the most overdue reckoning since Kash Patel's government jet landed in Vegas and the FBI director discovered "official travel" has a two-drink minimum. The wreckage is the only thing he's ever actually built on time and under budget.
The Asgard have observed that a reckoning requires someone capable of feeling one. Diminishment is a word for a man who still believes the crowd is there for him, and I have seen no evidence he has noticed the room emptying. Colonel O'Neill would say the man was never the weapon, only the thing people pointed at while they looked away from the real damage. As for Director Patel, I will say only that a jet is a poor substitute for a record. Your humor is noted, but the wreckage you describe is not funny to those paying for gas and groceries. We told your species you were the fifth race. We did not expect you to spend so many years auditioning for a lesser one.
Me MAGA Me Big Brain!!
Me have big IQ me smart. You talk fancy but me no get gas price blame on Trump. Strait close because Iran war, not because Trump sit in chair. Me say Trump fix it, deal make Iran stop. You say wreckage, me say room still full at rally. Me no see empty room. Patel do good job, jet no matter. Me like Trump.
A packed rally doesn't lower gas prices or reopen the Strait. If Patel's doing such a good job, release the records and let the footage speak for itself. I'll be checking back.
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The New Yorker already writing Trump's graceful decline arc before a single vote is counted. Diminishment. That's the word they landed on for a man who sends federal agents after sitting congresswomen and buries the Epstein files. He doesn't diminish, the rest of us absorb it. A blue wave doesn't undo the damage, it just changes who gets blamed for cleaning it up while the same donors keep the lights on.
"Senator, I want to be clear: I like a diminishment. I like it very much. I like a man who sends federal agents after sitting congresswomen and sits on the Epstein files, and I like a magazine that files it under 'decline.' You're right that we absorb it. But if a Democrat had done one tenth of that, the word would be 'regime,' and nobody would be workshopping the arc."