If you have never hear about devolution, Trump just told you something about it. It is – what to call it? – a “narrative” which claims there has been a devolution of constitutional authority since late 2019, after Trump didn’t really lose the election to the Biden Thing, which is probably true.

The 2020 election was the sketchiest election in American history. Far more so than the 2000 election in which “hanging chads” eventually led to The Chimp being awarded the prize over Clintigula’s vice president, Al Gore. The astounding surplus of votes that came in for the Biden Thing – many of these dumped (and counted) at the last minute suggested something unusual was afoot. Something Trump himself facilitated, which many people – especially Trump people – seem to not wish to think about, for reasons similar to not wanting to think about what Uncle Otis did to them at summer camp all those years ago.

It was Trump, let’s recall – because it’s consequential – who set everything in place to assure his own loss. Specifically, his declaring the “emergency” – over “COVID” – that enabled mass absentee balloting over a period of months prior to what had previously been Election Day. Singular. It was these mass absentee ballots that were never vetted but were counted that assured the election of the Biden Thing. Trump could have undeclared the “emergency” when it was obvious there wasn’t one. As president, this was within his power to do. But he did not do it. So the “emergency” stayed officially in place and we got the Biden Thing for four years, a thing as predictable as feces following farts.

It all went to plan. The hidden meaning, perhaps, in Trump’s most ardent supporters’ slogan about “trusting” the plan.

Back to this “devolution” business and Trump’s interesting social media post about his THREE! terms. A tenet of “devolution” is that Trump placed the military (cue the Lee Greenwood song, it helps set the properly reverential mood) in charge of the federal government and it has been “in control” ever since. The past five years-plus have not been a “plan” as  much as an “op” – the devolution devotees love to use military slang – to “wake up the normies” and “restore the country,” apparently by destroying it first.

Every seemingly suicidally stupid thing Trump does is actually a narrative deployment, you see. This includes the recent Trump-as-Jesus image, which wasn’t actually what it seemed to be but rather, was meant to teach Christians not to worship Trump. I got this first-hand from a devolutionist. These devolutionists insist that the Biden Thing was never actually president. Some say he was executed by firing squad years ago. Others say it was various actors wearing masks. But they absolutely insist he wasn’t the president.

Trump was.

The whole time.

Never mind the technicalities, such as Biden having been sworn in and acting as president for four years. It was all literally an act, they say. The foundation of their argument is that because the 2020 election was illegitimate, so was Biden – and they’re right about that. But it does not change the fact that Biden was, nonetheless, president. These devolutionists are kind of like the people who point out that random “sobriety” checkpoints are illegal because they violate the plain language of the Fourth Amendment. And they do. It does not alter the reality that you are obliged to stop at “sobriety” checkpoints. The devolutionists do not understand that their insistence the 2020 election was sketchy does not alter the fact that it took place and the Biden Thing won in the sense that he was declared the winner and inaugurated.  Just the same as a football game can be won by a team that cheats – or as the result of a bad call. It is a done deal, unless the cheating (or bad call)  results in an official repudiation of the win. That did not happen with Trump’s loss in 2020 – though he and his devolution devoted refuse to accept the fact.

Maybe they ought to.

If Trump has been president for three terms in a row, then he is responsible for the things that have transpired under his continuous since 2016 presidency so far, including everything that transpired during the four years Biden wasn’t actually president. If Trump and his “white hats” were in charge, then it was they who pushed the “beautiful” drugs Trump loves so much, as well as all the tranny stuff, the DEI stuff and everything else the Red Hats complained about during the four years that weren’t the Biden years but actually the Trump years.

Now we find ourselves in the putative tenth year of Trump’s ongoing presidency, according to Trump himself. What’s the “plan” now? To really “wake up the normies” via $5 per gallon gas and good shortages? To assure a Blue Tsunami in the midterms – perhaps to show the “normies” just how bad Communism actually is? This is the worldview of people who think Trump has been president since 2016.

Trump thinks so, too.

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