So Now That Trump Isn’t Showing The Epstein List, What’s Up?
A lot of people are waking up.
About a week or two ago during my live tarot reading, I made some predictions about a sex scandal possibly involving Supreme Court people. I also made some predictions about something causing Trump to deal with a lot of crap on his plate.
Well, I was kind of right.
The sex scandal is the Epstein book and the fact that Trump won’t release it. (Don’t worry, it’s been leaked and the entire Trump family seems to be on it, according to the leaks. Maybe Clarence is too, per X.)
That much was something most of us expected to see. What we weren’t expecting to see was the tides turning against Donald Trump.
Even conservatives are angry about Trump’s refusal to show the Epstein papers.
We all know that Trump ran on transparency and had a platform about getting rid of criminals targeting kids. This was the excuse that Republicans have given for a lot of their less-popular legislation. And well? Their base ate it up.
After Pam Bondi said that she had the Epstein papers on her desk, officials overseeing the crime claimed that there was no evidence of there being any sort of evidence of an Epstein client list.
To make matters worse, Elon Musk, a longtime rival and former friend of Trump, also high-key warned the world that 47 was in the papers. No MAGA wanted to believe that their president, who was supposed to stop a “child trafficking cabal,” could be on those papers.
MAGAs were naturally in an uproar — as they should be. Speaking as someone who has spoken to MAGAs who believed the whole “cabal” spiel, it’s a massive betrayal.
People don't understand how bad this is for the Trump MAGA movement.
At the base of much of MAGA’s success was (and is) the Q-Anon movement, the most ardent corner of right-wing conspiracies. Q acts like a cult, and every cult claims to have a certain goal that they will accomplish. It’s a goal that every member cares about.
A lot of Q-Anons knew Trump did awful things, but (allegedly) kept choosing him out of concern for the child trafficking case. Whether it makes sense or not, many Qs believed they were helping pull apart an evil cabal by giving Trump power.
Qs (rightfully) lost friendships, family members, and even made life-threatening choices because of the propaganda pipeline. Some even swallowed literal bleach for Q and gave medical advice that killed their loved ones.
I can’t emphasize how much some MAGA adherents lost to this cult. And now…they’re watching their hero, Donald Trump, backpedal after swearing that he would release the Epstein files.
I’ve often had the feeling that many people were ready to quit the Trump train, but needed an “acceptable out” to do so.
The problem with cults is that cults villainize anyone who draws a line with morality. This “out” often has to be acceptable to people of the cult in order to soften the social blow of leaving — and that’s not always easy.
ICE agents? The cult painted them as people “protecting children,” with the kids deported with cancer just being “collateral damage” in the grand scheme. That and they could say Obama liked ICE too.
The awful economic ideas? The cult painted them as “good for the common man,” that they just needed more time to work. The political smear campaigns? The Democrats were painted as the enemies — and just you wait, it’ll come out.
Raping a “liberal” woman wouldn’t hit because it sounded like a smear campaign. Epstein? Epstein was different. Epstein was evil. He was treated as one of the big baddies of the cult for years. Trump even campaigned on releasing the Epstein list.
So, watching Trump go from swearing he’d go after Epstein’s clients to backpedaling and begging people to stop talking about it…
Yeah, there’s a huge difference there.
That’s the point where the cult can’t really defend their leader — and that’s why you’re seeing MAGA tear itself apart right now. This is the moment when you’re going to see some of the biggest “true believers” leave the cult.
In the next coming months, you’re going to see a lot of people leave the MAGA movement.
I’ve often gotten the feeling that certain people in the Q and MAGA movement wanted to leave, but couldn’t out of fear of what others would think.
The Epstein scandal might be the one thing that really gets them out of the cult — or at the very least, gets them to admit they were questioning it. There will be a lot of people, perhaps whole communities, who will backpedal on Trump for this.
So, what does this mean for our country?
Honestly, it can mean a lot of things. I’m going to be a little more optimistic than most…
I believe a lot of people are going to start deconstructing their Trump cult affiliation. This is one of those things (a lot like Jan 6th) that will make people hit the pause button and question their beliefs. You will start to see people you might have lost reach out for connections and help. If they reach out for help and admit they’re deconstructing, help them out!
Some may straight up admit they were wrong, though they will be a minority. Most will quietly take down their Trump flags and just brush it under the rug — provided we allow them to do that as a society.
Right-wing grifters are going to have to pick a new grift. You’ll see people shuffling around quite a bit for this. If you have people on the fence, warn them about this.
Authorities are going to clamp down in their power more. They don’t care. They got what they want out of the useful fools who voted them in. It will only stop when both the right and left say, “Enough is enough.”
At the end of the day, none of us know what will happen in these terrible times. All we can do is hope.
Gee. What a surprise! Trump ran for president to avoid punishment for being a rapist, so it was kind of inevitable for the Epstein files to be buried. Rapist apparently no big deal to his supporters, but even they might have frowned upon a pedophile… so it had to be buried.
I think that some might see the light, but until there's a 'drink the kool-aid' moment, not enough everyday Trumpers will break ranks.