I just had a very strange notion come to me, kind of like when you are going around in a circle and you finally come to the end of it and everything you have been observing suddenly makes total sense.
Well, not total sense, but maybe, if I observed correctly, a whole lot more sense.
My wife and I both are Trump people. We believe in MAGA at face value. All those conservative values that Trump preaches at all his rallies resonate with us folks who, for sure, aren't "woke".
My wife's brother rants about how untrustworthy and ungrateful Trump is in reality but all we see is how much we wish Trump actually means it when he advocates for "we the people" control of government and fiscal sanity and constitutionally guaranteed rights and virtue.
Oh dear, there's that word - virtue.
My brother-in-law doesn't think Trump's virtue is real. He imagines it as false, fake. He imagines Trump has a large ego, that he is basically narcissistic.
Surprisingly just the other day I was trying not to pay attention as a lady, I think it was Trump's sister, spoke about the narcissistic side of Donald Trump. I tried really hard not to resonate with what she was describing. After all, I want to believe in Trump
A whole bunch of people are in the same boat that my wife and I are in. We believe that Trump is the champion of the conservative principles that we live by.
Back just before the 2024 election I read a book by a sportswriter who honors the game of golf about what it is like to play a round of golf with Trump, how he cheats and dishonors the game. Although I had no doubt about the truth of that book, I justified it as Trump just not taking this "game" seriously, that golf is a game and real life is real life and the two don't converge.
Along comes Elon Musk, a man whose intelligence leaves all the rest of us in the dust - a genius, someone we should at least listen to, probably show some respect for, someone who might be right concerning his judgment even when we don't get it.
Trump recognized that about Musk, realized that Musk was somebody that voters could resonate with.
So Trump used him, used Musk to convince not only the MAGA people but independent-minded voters as well to vote Trump in November 2024. And we did.
Now Trump claims that he would have won the election even without Musk's help. That may very well be true considering what a piece of sh*t his opponent was... still is... all three of them, Biden, Harris, and Tim Walz, Harris's VP choice. What choice did we have, really.
So we believed Trump and voted for him.
We believed that Trump had what it takes to end the stupid and dangerous war between Ukraine and Russia.
We believed Trump would reduce government spending, do something to keep the national debt from ballooning to ever higher levels.
We believed that Trump policies would help bring prices back down, the price of gas and electricity, the interest rates, the runaway costs for a new pickup truck, or even for a good used one.
And a whole lot more! We believed it all. We even believed that Trump would do something to keep public school officials from sexualizing and corrupting our children!
We believed Trump would see to the release of the names on the Epstein client list, names of public officials, politicians, judges, federal bureaucrats, business people, all those who are compromised by the threat of blackmail and who submit to the deep state, whoever that is.
We believed that Trump and Republicans in Congress would get to the bottom of what happened after the January 6, 2021 protest in Washington DC that led to the arrest of well over a thousand political prisoners - oh, sorry, I mean conservatives, political critics of the Democrats and RINO traitors and their theft of the 2020 election.
Trump won the election and we waited for noon on January 20, 2025 when Trump could finally end the Democrat nightmare.
And we waited.
And we waited.
And we are still waiting.
And it's beginning to look like it looked back in Trump's first term when so many of us hoped that Q-Anon was telling the truth.
Q-Anon wasn't telling the truth. Q-Anon was an intelligence community psyop designed to pacify those who oppose the takeover of the American government by this bureaucratic monster known as the deep state.
Q-Anon wouldn't succeed a second time around. Trump needed help pacifying his impatient MAGA base. So he brought in pacifiers.
Tulsi Gabbard
Robert Kennedy
Elon Musk
Kash Patel
Dan Bongino
and more, a lot more.
As soon as anybody enters prominent office in the American government, they immediately learn how government actually works. They immediately learn that their personal beliefs and even truths they will discover when they use their power to access government secrets are worth absolutely nothing, absolute zero. They learn obedience to the deep state. No matter what they say or do to convince citizens who actually care about the country that they are still real and relevant, they are no longer either real or relevant.
The one exception was Elon Musk, or so it appears anyway.
What made Elon Musk different was that he let his beliefs override the bureaucratic mandate that he compromise himself and faithfully serve the deep state - which at this point is basically a Marxist dictatorship.
Trump let Elon Mush follow him around, study him, learn about Trump's nature, see him for who he really is, watch how he treats anybody who isn't obedient.
Imagine the surprise when Musk realized that Trump isn't the nice guy that all his followers think he is! And if you can't believe this, look at all the trash that Trump has been throwing at Musk because Musk actually believed he could impact government spending. Musk was devastated when he found out all his work and all his personal and financial sacrifice, now measured in tens of billions of dollars or more of personal loss for him, was all in vain.
Most of Trump's base can't see this from Musk's perspective. They still trust Trump, or if they don't, they still believe Trump will fulfill his promises.
But Trump made a huge mistake.
Trump treated Musk, a dedicated ally, like shit and he hurt him financially to the tune of billions of dollars, all because Mush wouldn't keep his mouth shut about how Donald Trump betrayed him.
And we all had a front row seat while all this took place.
Meaning...
That now, if we so choose, we can see Trump for the brutal narcissist that he really is, the one my brother-in-law assured us was for real, the one Trump's sister warned about.
The reason Trump is powerless to end the war in Ukraine is that Putin has noticed that Trump could care less about the actual cause of the war. Trump wants a ceasefire, but he could care less about the future. Trump wants peace to boost his ego, to enlarge his image.
Meanwhile Trump favors the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Trump favors the submission of Muslims to secure Jewish dominance in the Middle East to boost his own ego, to enlarge his image.
Trump could care less about the national debt as long as government spending boosts his ego, his image.
Americans be damned. This is Trump's America now, his own personal kindergarten sand box, and he won't share anything equally. He dominates.
And it's all right there now, out in the open for anybody to see.
Mind you, this is just one man's opinion. I could be wrong.