The chaos created by incompetent ideologues and toadies had to lead inevitably
to something going horribly wrong. Some things have already gone horribly but expectedly wrong, or are about to - like the damage to the economy from unnecessary and random tariffs and the deportation of the work force of the agriculture, service and construction industries. But the Epstein debacle came out of nowhere. Epstein is dead, Maxwell is in prison, and nobody was talking about them except MAGA, which flogged the conspiracy theory that The Files contained dirt on prominent Democrats. If Trump and AG Barbie hadn't gone along with the conspiracy and promised the release of the files and then suddenly said, Oh no, there's nothing to see, never mind - apparently upon learning Trump's name was all over the files. And MAGA goes nuts, the GOPers freak out and the whole thing blows up. Of course Trump did it to himself, but the sudden explosion of this thing came out of nowhere and seems to be about to derail everything else Trump is up to. Maybe it's at least a gray swan.
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