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.

This reads, once again, like a denunciatory letter to the Stasi circa 1952.

It’s far too late now to claim buyers remorse. After all, it’s not like you weren’t warned what Trump was like or what he’d do if elected for a second term. If you were stupid enough to vote for him, too bad - you’re stuck with him now until either 2028 or his removal from office, whichever happens first.

Frank wrote on Jan 8^th, 2026 at 6:42am:


You're not a victim here, Frank. You're bound by your choices.

Since you can't dispute a single fact I posted, the corruption, the abuses, the suppression, the violence you cheer on, you retreat into Cold War rhetoric as if invoking it grants immunity.

You missed the off-ramp, and you did so deliberately. Cry all you like, but the consequences of your decisions are yours alone.

Everything you now defend, every argument you make in this thread, reveals more about you than any critique ever could.

And no, I don't see redemption for you. No forgiveness. This is who you are, and it will remain so until you cease to be.

It's a similar thing faced by the rest of the TDS cultists, still faithfully cheering him on, ignoring everything they're told to, including those in the US who are hurting now more than ever thanks to Trump, dutifully shaking their fists at Biden.

If they, like you, are too stupid to see the light, they're not worth redemption either.  They had their chance.  It's time for their find out moment.

I get that they're troglodytes but this kind of sentiment frightens me.

There is always redemption. In fact, throughout the ages, many of the most potent agents of change have been those to walk dark places.

I'd hate to see the Trump fueled zeitgeist go on to punish absolutely anybody more than it already has. He's preyed on the most vulnerable, let's not join ranks.

It's never to late to see the light.

Unless of course Trump gets us all killed ... which looks more likely with every passing day.

ProudKangaroo wrote on Jan 8^th, 2026 at 7:21am:


The most alarming thing about Frank is his love of violence.

That, and his unwillingness to condemn any of his fellow MAGA cult members who are rapists and/or kiddie fiddlers.

Leroy wrote on Jan 8^th, 2026 at 7:33am:


Wrong. It's more along the lines of "you wanted it, you got it". You can't complain now that your health insurance costs have exploded. You can't complain now that when a natural disaster hits, FEMA won't be there to help. You can't complain now that nearly everything you buy is more expensive because you voted for Trump and he's enacted these tariffs. You wanted him, you got him and you're stuck with that decision to vote for him.

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 8^th, 2026 at 7:41am:


Yep - the US is now suffering through its worst flu season in more than 25 years thanks to the moron in charge of HHS. He has also seen fit to continue his attack on vaccinations by changing official advice on vaccines that had, until now, been commonplace. America really is going down the crapper under this administration.