It is apparently true that a majority of Republican voters support Trump’s stupid, evil war. They just expressed their support – by voting to oust Thomas Massie, one of just a few Republicans who has criticized Trump’s stupid, evil war.

it is a dark day – morning, as this is written – for America.

Trump will – correctly – see the ousting of Massie as an endorsement of his stupid, evil war and it will embolden him to continue rather than end it. Whether the general public supports the war is irrelevant. Trump’s base – which seems to have been been distilled down to mostly 60-plus retirees who can afford to pay $4.50 per gallon and think (like Trump) that it’s “worth it” because Iran would otherwise acquire the nuclear weapons “Netanyahu” has been saying they are on the cusp of developing any day now since the 1990s. They buy into the criticism-of-Israel is “anti-Semitic” catcall, many of them on account of their End Times Darbyite/Scofield Bible beliefs that “Israel” – the modern state – is synonymous with the Biblical people and it must be supported without question because if not then you are contra the God of the Bible’s instructions.

This is terrible news for Americans who do not want the world to end just yet so that Jesus (whom the Jews do not believe is the messiah but regard as a heretic who is eternally boiling in shit for that) will come back and before he does, will gracefully Hoover them up to be with him in Heaven while the world ends in Hell below.

It is terrible news for the people who thought they voted to get to the bottom of the Epstein Business. Massie (and Marjorie Tayor Greene) tried to do just that, naively believing Trump supported doing that. Massie was pretty much the sole remaining national level figure demanding answers that we’re now unlikely ever going to get.

We are, however, likely to get laws that criminalize “anti-Semitism.”

It is also terrible news for MAGA because Massie’s loss will be seen as a victory (which it is) for Trumpism, which is not the same thing as MAGA – though the president insists (echoing Rudolf Hess at Nuremberg) that MAGA is Trump and Trump is MAGA. Which boils down to: MAGA has no principles; it is merely whatever Trump says it is. To question this is to not be MAGA. Which means, of course, that to be MAGA means one must be a rabid devotee of whatever Trump says is MAGA. This is a mirror reflection of what Woke is – and the irony of that is lost on the rabid devotees of the MAGA cult.

Massie’s loss could not have come at a worse time – because Trump is likely now to resume the bombing and maybe worse. Had Massie won, it might have served to restrain Trump or at least given perhaps some of the people in his immediate circle something to use to persuade him that resuming the bombing would further antagonize his base and bleed away political support that could result in a mid-term wipeout for the Republicans generally. A Massie victory might have served, in other words, as something like a Stalingrad Moment for Trump. Instead, Trump will probably – rightly – see the Massie loss as a great win and a great endorsement of his stupid, evil war. It is unlikely he will see it any other way.

So, it is likely we’ll be seeing $5.00 per gallon gas before the end of the month, if Trump does what he is almost certainly going to do and resumes the stupid, evil war. It is likely to cost the Republicans dearly come the midterms, because then comes the backlash against this stupid, evil war. The Kentucky primary that Massie just lost was a Republican primary – meaning only Republicans got to vote in it. The midterms are elections in which everyone else gets to vote – and everyone else (largely) opposes Trump’s stupid, evil war – especially the under 30 cohort that is suffering the worst as a result. And which is the cohort that may have to pay for it not just at the pump. It being the cohort that is of draft age. Overwhelmingly, this cohort is uninterested in being drafted to fight for Israel.

Never mind. The over-60 cohort is eager to see them sent to fight for Israel and thinks it’s “worth it” for them to be bankrupted by impossible gas prices, unaffordable rent and crippling inflation. The over-60s got theirs. The stock market is doing bangers!

There will be aa price to be paid for all of this and the over-60 cohort is deluding itself if it believes is immune from the butcher’s bill that’s going to be presented.

Perhaps there is a silver lining to this dark cloud. Massie is now free – and maybe a resuscitated America Actually First movement will coalesce around him. One that is openly anti-MIGA.

But then, I repeat myself.

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