Well, to begin with, the slogan ought to have been Make America Better Again. “Great” smacks of empire – which is of course what we got (again). That aside, the reason why “MAGA” is becoming a kind of cuss word is not because this idea of making America great (or just better) again is disreputable. It is because Trump is disreputable.
Most of the people who voted for Trump thought they were voting for things that they believed – with some justification – would make America better, such as getting the rampant inflation triggered by “COVID” (specifically, by “COVID” stimulus checks) under control, lower – not higher – gas prices and a focus on this country’s problems rather than Israel’s problems. These are all reasonable (and so, unobjectionable) things. Nothing “radical” about them at all. In fact, they are remarkably modest asks that would not have been incongruent with the Democrat Party of the 1960s.
Most Americans just wanted a better life than the life they’d been living ever since “COVID” pretty much ruined everything. They voted for Trump in 2024 because they thought he might actually do what he said he was going to do. Or at least, led them to believe he was going to do. This does not make them bad people. Nor does it impugn the things they’d hoped for. The problem is that Trump is a very bad person who has managed to singlehandedly impugn everything they’d hoped for. He has made a mockery out of MAGA, which is now embodied by the AI-generated mascot of MAGA named Chudley – an obese imbecile who always finds a way to make excuses for whatever Trump does.
This may and probably is all deliberate and planned aforethought.
Trump was playing his role all along. At first, he was the face – wrestling-speak for the “good guy,” the one who gets hit over the head with a chair when he’s got his back turned to the heel, the “bad guy.” This was Trump in 2020. And also 2024, when he got up off the floor to battle the heel – or so he convincingly persuaded us he was doing. He put the heel in the camel clutch and made him (then her) humble, as the Iron Sheik – whose signature move was the camel clutch – would have done (and did to, to Hulk Hogan).
The crowd cheered.
Then it was time for a new act. Trump became the heel. He cozied up to the Tech Creeps. He told the people who voted for him because they wanted to see the other creeps – the Epstein creeps as well as the “COVID” creeps – held accountable for the creepy things they did that he didn’t really say (or mean) what he said.
He meant the opposite.
Not only was nothing done, Trump insulted the people who voted for him by about-facing on the Epstein Stuff, dismissing it angrily as a “hoax” after spending a year pretending it was very real. All of that was bad enough but then came the decision he made to start another war in the Middle East, something he repeatedly said was disastrous and pretended he would never do. And then he did it. The result of this has been every bit as catastrophic as “COVID,” in terms of the economic destruction it is causing – and likely to cause more of. Probably not one out 1,000 people who voted for Trump voted for this. They voted for the opposite of this.
Some will say that’s not true; that they did vote for this – by voting for Trump. This is true in a sense – in that all votes amount to a kind of giving over of unlimited proxy power to a “representative” who is in no way bound to limit his “representation” to what a voter specifically authorized and couldn’t do that even if he wanted to, because we’re talking millions of voters (at the presidential level) and it is impossible to “represent” even one of them exactly without not “representing” the others inexactly.
That is why voting is the larger problem.
The sense that matters is that most of the people who vote for Trump did not want this. They hoped for what they were led to believe Trump would do. That does make them party to the things Trump has done that are at odds with what he said he was going to do.
The trick now is to save MAGA – the ideas, not the acronym – while dumping Trump, the man.
That process begins by dumping Trump – so that the ideas can be defended.
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Seems like Peter Thiel’s butt boy Vance is the replacement they’re going with. All I know is that in my lifetime, each CEO of the U.S. inc. is worse than the last. I don’t expect that trend to be bucked.
A bit off-topic, but the Epstein files were mentioned in the piece. I doubt that many are aware that Epstein was responsible for more than mere human trafficking. Killing cold fusion, for one thing:
https://sayerji.substack.com/p/i-killed-pons-years-ago-epstein-files?publication_id=2878303&post_id=189725678&isFreemail=true&r=qbltf&triedRedirect=true
Drill, baby, drill! Right guys?
…
Voted for the promises THREE TIMES
got the opposite
WORST
PRESIDENT
EVER
But, iggy!
Iran can never have a nuclear weapon!
Last time I checked, Iran didn’t have one. Still, I heard a guy on talk radio tell the host the way to deal with Iran is to drop a nuke on Tehran. The irony…drop a nuke on the country to keep it from getting a nuke. That’ll teach ’em. /sarc
Indeed, Bill!
Looking forward to talking later this morning!
If they do it would be a very smart play. At the very least, they should be trying to squeeze in under either the Russian or Chinese nuclear umbrella. And who knows, perhaps they already are — just because the general public doesn’t know about it, doesn’t make it false. They aren’t exactly on the greatest of terms with either Washington or Tel Aviv, why would they tell them anything? The more you f— around, the more you’re gonna find out. Meanwhile Donnie Boy over here is using the simplest, dumbest blackjack strategy in the book: double your bet every time you lose. Keep going long enough and you’ll win big. Problem is, he’s running a little low on chips at the moment…
Well-said, Publius!
That’s one of the things about Trump that’s so frustrating. He acts stupidly – on top of being evil. It’s like a mix of Yucko the Clown and Ted Bundy.
At least Nixon & Kissinger, as deeply flawed as they were, played smart.
Also this kind of crap fuels antisemitism (the real kind), and they are making it worse by deliberately tarring reasonable critiques of Israeli politicians as hatred. This is supposed to make the critics look bad, shut up, and fall into line, but what it actually does is drive healthy criticism underground to fester into a toxic stew until it boils over. Which is part of why free speech is so damned important. As a society we knew this once, we seem to have forgotten it, and as such we are doomed to suffer until we learn it again…
Very well-said, Publius –
Nixon – for all his flaws – was an intelligent man with some depth to him. Trump is a lout. A white trash bully. He is Bif from Back to the Future. I doubt he has ever read a serious book – to the end, I mean – in his life. He is everything meant by the term, ugly American. It sickens me that I voted for him again after everything he did during 2020. I ought to have known better.
Col. MacGregor has some thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eieJEQsJtRQ
I still agree with Trump The Candidate. Trump The President…………
Trump attacking Iran sends a message to any of the Abraham Accords signatories: You’d better stick to the deal or else!
1. Iran already has nuclear weapons according to the military talk host Daniel David Deep Dive and guest.
2. It is not Trump’s decision who gets to have nukes.
3. The Amerikan people would rather have cheap gas, not caring one fuck about Iran or what the do.
4. Trump created this shit storm because he foolishly follows the commands of Israel like some big fat stupid orange Golem
5. Trump keeps doubling down and keeps losing, so expect Trump to continue to FUBAR the situation until the whole nation revolts
6. Truckers go on strike Oct.1st, they say they will stay on strike until fuel comes down, well Virginia, I can tell the fuel wave is going to keep going up probably for the next 2 years, like lumber did.
7. Once diesel hits $10, the strike won’t matter, most truckers won’t be able to drive, nor half the people in cars
8. this upcoming midterm election should prove to be the perfect storm:
a. rising interest rates and another Fed rate hike
b. record gasoline prices
c. trucker strike, diesel shortage
d. food shortages, record high food prices
9. deep throat revelations as those behind the throne decide to take down the mad orange caligula (there are thousands of powerful players who have all kinds of dirt on trump, expect a whole lot of new skullduggery coming to light soon)
eventually trumpenstein will be driven from office, jews will decry antisemitism, JD Vance will be a wave repeat of Gerald Ford, VP sworn in. Vance will prove quit sane, but like Herbert Hoover, the new great depression will overwhelm his office and a socialist or communist like FDR may take office, or even Massie/MTG ticket, it will be a nexus in time for which way we the people decide to go
If I was Iran I would get many nukes and aim them at the Jewlandia, tell those Jew pricks if they attack I will lay waste to their evil talmudic shitstain nation.
The IRGC Behind Iran’s Nukes /Col Lawrence Wilkerson & Lt Col Daniel Davis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLXs_ovA8wQ
In case you don’t know, Iran had already built all the nuclear components for nuclear tipped missiles, but because of the Ayatollah fatwa, were prohibited from assembly. When Trump assassinated Khameni, they immediately did the final and easy enrichment, and probably had the missiles ready in 2 months or less.
Treasonous Trump needs to be locked away in a mental institution for the criminally insane, then tried and executed for treason. Good to see the MSM, including Fox, has shut him out so he doesn’t get a big audience for his rants.
Now he’s selling his obscene ‘Arch’ as necessary for that BS catch all of “National Security”, going to have snipers up there. For what, exactly? To shoot the families attending the funerals of their service members who died in Trumpenstein’s illegal war for Israhell? The Orange A*hole better have plans to be buried in Fort Knox because otherwise I will find his grave and piss a keg’s worth of beer on it.
Morning, Mike!
I think Trump is either losing his mind or this is purposeful demoralization. His real “plan” being to help usher in outright socialism by casting anything associated with MAGA into disrepute. He is – to use his word – winning big on that score.
“National Security” is truly the last refuge of a scoundrel, over the last 80 years this has been the constant refrain to pull the wool over the eyes of US citizens.
If we truly knew the full extent of what has been done in the name of “National Security” it would make anyone with a conscience seriously ill.
MB,
I’ll fork over the cash for that keg party….
We can have a week long “hoo down”…
And hopefully approach Philadelphia City Hall
Urine Stink scent …..
Really kool city hall, too bad it reeks of piss😳
Going back to 1945? The Frankfurt School Long March says no.
That was a supermajority white America 1.0 version.
One nation under Israel should be on the victory arch.
Victory over MAGAtard drooling sloth the happy mutants.
Sorry a lot of bad shit happened during “supermajority white America 1.0” so I am getting sick of that being referred to as some lost golden age. Prohibition? 2 World Wars? Conscription? Company Towns? Robber Barons? Sharecropping? All were the product of so-called “heritage Americans”, and that doesn’t even get into what was done in the name of “Manifest Destiny”.
Once does not have to be “woke” to understand that the past was a far cry from sunshine and rainbows, and that white people have done a lot of very bad things just like everyone else.
‘The trick now is to save MAGA while dumping Trump.’
This is impossible. Trump has done his job perfectly. He was installed in power to exactly that: discredit everything good that MAGA might have represented and discredit the people who voted for him.
Trump is an uber prostitute, a show business goon, he always was a NYC democrat and they used him to lure conservatives, nationalists, patriots and even libertarians into putting him in power.
It was clear already in 2020 that he was controlled opposition. he launched ‘operation warp speed’, he supported Fauci all the way and he launched the death-vax and was proud of it.
Of course, after 4 years of Biden (which was manufactured too), anyone with a bit of love for his country would never have voted for the democrats.
Trump was the only ‘populist’ choice (the correct meaning of populist, that is for the people).
Now, what has Trump done since 2025, except serving technocrats, zionists, israel and keep building the control grid started by his predecessors?
Where are the numbers for illegal aliens who were deported (real ones not the pro-Palestine students?)
Is DEI, wokeism gone? Answer: no, it’s more alive than ever.
Are American richer: no, they are poorer but Trump billionaire cronies are richer.
Are American freer: of course not, they are the boiling frogs and in this Trump is not exceptional, all globalist stooges like him unroll the same agenda from central bankster Carney to Blackrock stooge Merz, to Rothschild puppet Macron, etc… The all West is under the same totalitarian build-up. This is not by chance, it’s a global agenda.
part of this agenda are the wars Trump wages for his globalist and israeli masters: Russia, Iran, Yemen. The goal here is to end cheap energy and therefore access to affordable food.
Trump doesn’t give a damn about losing the mid-term, like in 2018, his handlers probably decided that it was time for him to lose. The destruction is done, like he did in 2020 with covid.
At the moment Europeans are taking to the streets to fight the tyrants and protest against manufactured hyper-inflated gas prices, Americans, as usual, do nothing. They just reach their shallow pockets and pay to their racketeers.
The real surprise would be that Trump’s party is not annihilated in November.
Their goal is probably to facilitate a take-over by socialists. Trump has been their greatest ally both in 2020 and 2026.
This malevolent idiot, most likely a rapist and a pedophile has not only sold his soul and his ass to the lowest bidders but has betrayed his country and the price for such high treason from a ‘president’ is the death penalty.
I don’t want to sack Trump, he must be executed for his many crimes.
Fuck trump.
Fuck aipac.
Fuck zionists.
Fuck israel.
I think that about captures it.
Pastor Chuck Baldwin’s 9/20/26 sermon: “The Days of the antichrist zionist state of israel are Numbered”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nMndElkUlA
Could have just been America First. No foreign aid, no foreign wars, no money to NGOs, no foreign lobbyists, No lawyers, no one over sixty serving in Clown/gress. America first, easy peasy.
Nazis or Feminazis are all thats on the ballot. A Bolshevik supremacy, or a Jewish supremacy. In all honesty, if I was still voting, I would still be voting for this. It’s the fastest way to end the empire at this point. Maybe not so 2, or 6 years ago. But if Donks take over, I got a bad feeling the civil war will be waged against Heritage Americans only. Not that thats the worst thing, and that it isn’t going to happen anyway, but, as things stand, DollahDollahBillYo will kick the bucket sooner under trump than under a bunch of communist manginas. I prefer to fight an enemy that cant pay their police and requires assistance from the UN. Think things are bad in the US now? If the radical feminazis take over we’ll look like Not Great Britain in a few years.
“The trick now is to save MAGA wile [sic] dumping Trump.”
Is it even possible to “Make America Great Again?”
I doubt it. One might be able to make it “less bad” — MAYBE.
What does it even mean to Make America Great Again? A return to the Constitution of 1787? That ship sailed in 1865. Limited government? Not gonna happen, that ship sailed in 1932. Return to the Monroe Doctrine? We abandoned that in 1917.
What are America’s problems today?
-$40 trillion indebt
-oligarchy
-illegal immigration
-a bloated military and police budget
-decades of imperial military intervention around the globe
-racial conflict
-feminism, abortion, and low birthrates among whites
-inflation
-Weimar-level sexual perversion
Basically, America is ruled by the Seven Deadly Sins: Greed, Gluttony, Lust, Envy, Wrath, Pride, and Sloth.
Sure, I would like to return to a simpler, hardier, Spartan-like America of the Jacksonian period — a nation populated by self-sufficient rural yeomen.
But it’s not going to happen unless the entire shitshow collapses under its own weight like the USSR did. And maybe not even then.
“What are America’s problems today?”
All good points but you forgot about demographics. Currently White European are about 57% of the population and shrinking. White school age children are already under 50%. Yes there are still some enclaves where White people comprise the majority but that too will come to an end in another 30 years or so. Can the browns and blacks maintain a western style civilization.There are many instances where the results are very dismal.
The Tower of Babel story is a warning. Our rulers are the Internationalists who control the world. Unfortunately, the USSofA is leading the way.
‘People don’t want
IranISRAEL to have nuclear weapons.’It’s the height of chutzpah to attack Iran (which does not have nuclear weapons) in league with Israel, which has had illegal, uninspected nuclear weapons for about sixty years now. Israel stole its initial supply of nuclear fuel from the Numec plant in Pennsylvania, run by fellow zionites who turned a blind eye to the large-scale theft.
US statute law (the Symington amendment) makes it illegal to arm nuclear proliferators. And belligerent little Israel is the world’s worst. Every president since Nixon has criminally conspired to evade this law by refusing to acknowledge Israel’s nuclear status.
What I don’t want under any circumstances is criminals running the country: criminals who conspire to cover up Israel’s nuclear weapons; criminals who arm Israel as it commits genocide; criminals who start a war of aggression without a declaration of war.
Criminals must be booted out of government, regardless of party or ideology. This is axiomatic and non-negotiable. Currently, the criminals in charge are Republicans. They must be ruthlessly ejected, and then mercilessly prosecuted for their grave offenses.
Donnie Fubar canceled the JCPOA deal, which provided for IAEA monitoring of Iran’s nuclear enrichment. He did that in 2018, because the Jew Lobby ordered him to. And it blew up in his fool face.
Eight years on, Donnie started a disastrous war of aggression on Iran — because the Jews ordered him to. And once again, it blew up in his fool face.
How much longer is America, 340 million strong, going to grovel at the stinky feet of a shitty little apartheid colony of 9 million, whose Jew master race regards us as subhuman cattle to be enslaved?
What the fuck is wrong with this messed-up picture?
Trouble is, in the eyes of most MAGAtts, the things that made America great were: A huge military that tramples other countries so we can get what we want; Socialistic programs like Medicare and Food Stamps, as long as they’re for “Americans only” (and not “illegals”); Respect for ‘authoritehh’, etc.
Much like most Germans in the 1930’s, they’d love a dictator, as long as that dictator enforces their desires, or at least appears to. And that is what they indeed have gotten. Explains why so many MAGAtts are still supporting the Orange Prick.
These people, and their “representatives” whom they empower are just as abhorrent and just as dangerous to liberty as are the Harris/Biden/Obama creeps.
Funny, too. The one medication I take, I get from Canada (Or rather through Canada, as it is internationally sourced and just handled by a Canadian pharmacy, as they’re ‘allowed’ to do so.)
Today I get a notice that as of next month, they will no longer be doing this thanks to a new Customs law designed to stop it.
Ironic. There was fear that this would happen under Obama, and then Biden, under the expansion of Obamacare, but in-fact, it ends up happening under the the Gas Bag who vowed to “repeal Obamacare on my first day” in 2016 (Even though he had no such power to do so.
This medication that costs me $25 sourced through Canada, costs $284 here!!!! Time to wean myself off of it! (Which I had been in the process of doing anyway).
I didn’t vote for this piece of shit….I’ve never voted for anyone, ever.
Trump’s tariffs and executive order repealing the de minimis exception for Customs entries have wreaked havoc with overseas shipments. This is what it’s like living in backward LatAm, where every small shipment gets tariffed and tied up in red tape.
My vendors in India now tack on an explicit 5 percent US Customs surcharge. It’s not big money, on medications that cost 5 to 10 percent of US prices. But it does make me seethe with rage at Tariff Man, who is a throwback to Congress Clowns Smoot and Hawley who sent the world spiraling into depression with their disastrous 1930 tariff law.
Trumpstein is the Enemy of the People.
p.s. You might want to check out alldaychemist dot com and buy-pharma dot md to see whether they offer your med. I have received multiple shipments from both, with no lost items or billing issues.
Thanks for the recs, Jim!
If I have any trouble weaning-off, I’ll definitely give the latter a try.
Spot-on about Shit-head and the tariffs and all- and this BS could not have come at a worse time- Clearly, these bastards are on a mission to destroy this country, or what’s left of it. One can vote for whomever they want, but we will never see anything like the America we had prior to the 21st century.
For those of us who have followed conspiracies for decades, this is exactly what we were told was the plan, and it all began to move into high gear in ’01….Sept. 11, 2001 to be exact. There’s no going back.