There was a MAGA off-ramp. A window for those who claimed they were betrayed when Trump began abandoning his campaign promises almost immediately after securing a second term to leave the cult.

That window is closed. It has been long enough. It is now too late to take the red hat off.

The off-ramp existed before the Epstein files were suppressed and grotesquely redacted to erase Trump's name. It existed before federal agencies were leaned on to protect the powerful rather than expose the truth. It existed before ICE was unleashed as a roaming intimidation force, assaulting, terrorising, and now killing people, including US citizens, while openly disregarding constitutional rights.

It existed before the corruption became so brazen that it stopped pretending to be subtle.

Trump didn't just govern, he monetised the presidency. Personal enrichment through hotels and golf courses, foreign delegations funnelled into Trump properties, family members embedded in state power and trade discussions, pardons dangled, access sold, norms shredded. Public office was treated as a private revenue stream, and MAGA applauded because it was their guy doing the looting.

The off-ramp existed before the failed tariff regime and trade wars that functioned as a tax on ordinary Americans. Tariffs sold as "toughness" translated directly into higher prices for essentials. Inflation didn't fall on billionaires or Trump donors, it landed on groceries, fuel, housing and medicine. Everyday Americans paid more so Trump could cosplay as an economic nationalist while demonstrating no understanding of the mechanics.

It existed before affordability collapsed further under his policies that deliberately gutted healthcare support. Letting ACA credits lapse wasn't an accident, it was a choice, a choise he shutdown the government to protect that outcome. Costs rose, coverage fell, and families were told to cope while Trump offered slogans instead of solutions.

And now, after all of that, after the suppression of evidence, the erosion of rights, the corruption, the economic vandalism, the attacks on civilians, the war-mongering, and the sudden willingness to pour billions into overseas ventures and military spending while people at home can't afford insulin or rent, we are still expected to believe there is an exit?

No.

If none of this shook your support, then you didn't miss the off-ramp, you drove past it deliberately. You assessed child abuse allegations being buried, constitutional violations, state corruption, economic harm and violence, and decided it was acceptable so long as it was done in a red hat.

At this point, continued support isn't ignorance, it's endorsement.

And no, you don't get absolution later by quietly taking the hat off. You don't get to claim you "didn't know" once it becomes inconvenient or his aggression and war mongering destabilises not only global economies but the world, impacting us all, even here in Aus.

Your support helped normalise this.  You enabled it and entrenched it.

History won't forget. Neither will the people harmed by it.

There are no further off-ramps. This is who those who remain, steadfastly supporting the abhorrent, have chosen to be.

ICE agents now get six weeks training. Their job is to mask up, raid the tinted races and cable-tie any illegals they find for processing.

ICE agents used to get six months training. Back then, their job was to investigate visa overstayers and asylum seekers who missed their court dates. They were actually quite meticulous. Unlike US Border Patrol, they had a reputation for being thorough.

Todd Lyons, the new Acting Director of ICE, now answers directly to Stephen Miller, who back in March 2025, imposed a quota of 3000 seizures a day.

That's over a million people a year. Homeland Security can't possibly detain - or deport - such numbers, so most are released.

The agency relies on the power of fear, claiming 1.9 million people have "self deported" under the new administration. Stephen Miller defines the policy as "maximum deterrence".

Facilities like Alligator Alcatraz have been built to punish foreigners and maximise pain and discomfort. Anyone with a questionable visa or residency status can be sent there, even those with a legitimate work or travel status.

As a result, the tourism sector has seen the biggest hit since covid, with numbers down over 20%. Hotel vacancy rates in Las Vegas, LA and other tourist centres have soared, and numbers are only dropping further.

US unemployment has risen to 4.6%, currently half a percent higher than Joe Biden's last month in office, and rising. Overall, the US economy is being kept afloat by a share market bubble in AI stocks.

Average wage growth is around 3.8%, just above an inflation rate of 3.1%, but the margins tell a different story. SNAP assistance, health insurance subsidies and other social safety net benefits have all been slashed. Income inequality is at its highest level since the Great Depression, spiking further upwards. 2025's tax and spending cuts have led to pockets of extreme poverty.

This is the real Trump project. Of course, it wouldn't be a proper project without the element of cruelty. For Trump, winning requires a loser. The bigger the loss, the bigger the win, a zero-sum game fundamental to Trump's so-called Art of the Deal.

Trump's top advisor, Stephen Miller, is celebrating the ICE shooting, along with two more in Portland yesterday, as a victory.

In the first administration, they referred to Miller as Goebbels. Even Trump saw Miller as a racist zealot, rolling his eyes and describing him as a total weirdo.

In the second administration, Trump sees Miller as having his finger on the pulse of MAGA, elevating him to deputy Chief Of Staff, number three after Suzie Wiles. Apart from his self-expressed pleasure in creating chaos and pain, Miller has another virtue, so important in the Trump administration.

Stephen Miller is reported to be the most obsequious suckhole in the West Wing. He spends his time amplifying his DL's rhetoric and singing his master's praises.

Miller, of course, is too autistic to run for prez, but if DL were to appoint anybody, it would be a sycophant like Stephen Miller, someone who could never win and outshine DL.

Trump's Achilles heel, of course, is his vanity. This week, he invaded a sovereign country, seized its ruler and declared himself in charge of Venezuela. Basking in the glory of this, he went on to endorse the murder of a US citizen, taken out by one of Stephen Miller's shock troops.

By all accounts, Trump made the decision to invade after seeing Maduro dancing on stage at a political rally, mocking Trump.

Renee Good was shot after she smiled at ICE agents and attempted to move her car.

For all of his ability to seize and push the limits of power, Trump has become intoxicated by it. No one in his administration questions his judgement and he takes no advice, not even security briefings.

For Machiavelli, the most important trait for a ruler is mastery over his emotions. Trump has ignored Machiavelli's most important piece of advice to rulers: banish the flatterers from the kingdom.

Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio and JD Vance are no more than sycophants, any credibility they may once have had destroyed by their obvious lies, broken promises, but most importantly, their perverted deference to him, utterly embarassing to watch.

Stephen Miller never had any credibility to begin with. He's never pretended to be anything other than a political troll, the expression of Trump's id. He has destroyed what was once a reasonably respectable, law-abiding government agency and turned it into a masked mob, an advance guard of suburban shock troops, targeting the tinted races and killing American citizens.

We will make America safe again, no?

Frank wrote on Jan 29^th, 2026 at 7:41pm:


And so on?

There is no greater white flag than ignoring the topic and focusing on abusing the poster.

The next time you're abusive, I'm just going to ignore the abuse and reply with this poem I wrote about you:

Grandstanding in bad faith, mistaking volume for truth,
every argument you touch collapses into spite.
tactics first, facts never, you reach for venom on cue.

From lies dressed up as confidence to insults passed off as wit,
unable to argue a point without smearing the person instead.
cowardice shows when evidence appears and you pivot to abuse.
knowledge isn't your enemy, Frank, honesty is.
every disagreement becomes a personal vendetta,
debate reduced to sneers, dogwhistles and distortion.

Fear seems to sit at the core of it, fear of difference, fear of challenge.
racism, thinly masked, doing the heavy lifting when logic fails.
all the while you call it "telling it like it is",
nothing more than prejudice dressed up as bravado.
keep it, Frank, the rest of us are done pretending it's anything else.

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Apr 8^th, 2026 at 6:42pm:


Has he?

Let’s drop the slogans and compare like-for-like, because the mythology you’re repeating collapses the moment it’s put next to reality.

Under Obama:

- Strait of Hormuz open, freely navigable
- Iran caps uranium enrichment
- Iran commits to no nuclear weapons
- Full access granted to International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors
- Compliance verified
- Iranian assets unfrozen, diplomacy functioning
- No war crimes committed or threatened by the US
- Zero Americans killed
- Zero Iranians killed
- Zero bombs dropped
- Zero dollars burned on war
- Zero threats about wiping out civilisations

Under Trump:

- Strait of Hormuz closed, only opened with a $1 per barrel toll, ~$2 million per ship, although reports show it's closed again because Israel continued its attack on Lebanon after the US/Iran cease fire.
- Iran makes no guarantees of limiting uranium enrichment
- Iran makes no guarantees of no nuclear weapons
- Iran makes no guarantees to allow international inspectors
- Open talk of the US committing war crimes and civilisation-ending escalation
- Failed regime change with a more hardline and nuclear-seeking replacement leader
- 15 American casualties, 700+ wounded
- Tens of thousands of Iranian civilians dead or injured
- Thousands of bombs dropped
- $45+ Billion in taxpayer money incinerated
- Regional conflict expanding across multiple countries
- Sanctions lifted on Iranian oil and the toll on ships that are allowed to pass through the strait means Iran is looking at an additional $140 billion per year.
- Global oil supply destabilised

Let's look back on the timeline.  On the eve of conflict, Iran was signalling willingness to:

- Cap enrichment below weapons-grade
- Dilute or pause higher-enriched stockpiles
- Reduce or export uranium reserves
- Expand IAEA oversight, potentially back to intrusive levels

UK intermediaries described this as “significant” and said a deal was “within reach”.

Then Trump engages with Benjamin Netanyahu and, almost immediately after, we get escalation instead of a resolution, and Operation Epic Fury begins.

The timeline isn’t complicated:

- Negotiations showing movement
- Israel panics that their forever justification to attack Iran was about to be off the table again as it was under Obama
- US-Israel alignment intensifies
- Strikes follow
- Diplomacy collapses

So much for the “master dealmaker”.  His strings were pulled and he danced.

That’s not winning or strength. That’s failure.

A typical Trump deal, it's worse than if he'd done nothing, spun as an amazing victory because his name is signed on it with a Sharpie.

And in the end, Trump has adopted Iran's 10-point plan as the starting point for negotiations, saying it was a "workable basis on which to negotiate".

THEN WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ALL THIS WASTE, DEATH AND GLOBAL INSTABILITY!?

Trump is the first President in US history to fail to stand up to Israel's demands to go to war with Iran.

He's a weak little bitch, OR, was blackmailed into it because he raped a bunch of children, pick your poison MAGA.

In what world has Trump achieved anything but failure?

The US is worse off for his actions, the world is worse off for his actions.  All he had to do was NOTHING.

NOTHING, and we'd have everything Obama had achieved, without the death and destruction, the loss of lives, the billions in US taxpayer money wasted and without depleting the US defence capabilities, and Iran would be $138.6 Billion poorer. 

Yeah, remember how the $1.4b of their funds that Obama was unfreezing as part of the deal that we were told was going to fund terrorism and meant the deal had to be scrapped?

Trump has set them up to earn 100x that, PER YEAR while baking in increased oil prices.

How are you MAGA idiots celebrating this?

Are you retarded!?