Some Escaped

In Jonestown, not everyone in the cult drank the poison.

Some had already defected and left when Jim Jones gave the death order.

Some were away from the compound.

When the order came down, some were forcibly injected with poison, or forced to drink the cyanide-laced Flavor Aid.

Some tried to resist and were shot.

Some escaped into the jungle.

And hanging over it all was the fact that Jonestown was physically isolated from the rest of the world.

But MAGA cultists are not physically isolated from the rest of the world, are they?

Quite the opposite: they live in one of the most technologically advanced societies on the planet, during an era of instant communication and instant access to information unlike anything that has ever existed in history.   There are no barbwire fences or guards with machine guns forcing them to swallow increasingly hateful and ludicrous propaganda every day. 

They choose this life.  Every day they choose to believe liars who laugh at them as they take their money and their votes.  Every day they make a grotesque mockery of the Christianity they claim to believe in.  And every day they have to work just a little bit harder to make sure that nothing of the outside world and the horrendous consequences of their electoral decision leaks into their tiny, suffocating, self-imposed cave.   

And now, after a decade of Trump ordering them to swallow all kinds of toxic garbage in the name of Jebus and Freedumb,  he is ordering them to drink straight cyanide.  No additives.  Nothing to make it go down easier.  Just shut up and drink it.  

From CNN:  

Trump lashes out at ‘weaklings’ who believe Epstein ‘bullsh*t’ amid building GOP pressure to release documents

From ABC: 

Trump blasts 'stupid' and 'foolish' Republicans amid calls to reveal more Epstein files
The president made baseless claims that Democrats created a "hoax."

From NPR:

Trump tells supporters not to 'waste time' on Epstein files. They're not happy

From NBC:

Trump can't stop MAGA from obsessing about the Epstein files

MAGA-friendly media has been torn over how to respond to a base that wants more on the Epstein files and a president who wants it to move on.

And now they're praying to Republican Jebus like they've never prayed to him before to please let this cup pass from them.  But it won't.  Because it can't.  Because faith in their insane conspiracy theories is, at the moment, synonymous with their faith in the pope of their Church of Insane Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump.

So, in then end, most will drink from the cup Trump offers.  Rather than admit they were wrong, they will swallow whatever stupid hellbrew of transparent lies, deflections of supplementary conspiracy nonsense it contains.  They will shout whatever deranged bullshit he commands them to shout.  They will do this because they really are nothing more than reprogrammable meatbags.  And however humiliating it might be to go along with Trump Pedophile coverup, the alternative -- admitting they had been wrong about Trump all along -- is literally unthinkable.  To extend the "reprogrammable" metaphor, the Epstein Files are an "app" but their blind faith in Trump is their operating system, so do not make the mistake of expecting better from these dregs of humanity.

In the end, most of them will drink from the cup Trump offers... 

... but not all of them.  And that is where hope lies.  

Those who stay in the cult are lost, damned souls.  There is no saving them so stop wasting your time trying.  

But because they live in one of the most technologically advanced societies on the planet, during an era of instant communication and instant access to information unlike anything that has ever existed in history, no matter how diligently they work to keep the blinding nova daylight of Trump's complicity in his dead best friend's child sex trafficking ring from leaking into their tiny, suffocating, self-imposed cave, some of it will break through and some of them will be thrown into panicked confusion.

Some will resist and be cast out. 

Some will flee.  

And that may be enough.  

Do not expect the few MAGA meatheads who make a break for it to show up at our doorstep offering to knock doors for Zohran Mamdani, Kat Abughazaleh or Ro Khanna.  Decades of relentless Conservative media slander has done its work: to MAGA meatbags, Democrats are nothing but a Soros-funded cabal of commie baby-killers, and nothing but the erosion of mortal demography is going to change that.

But for those few MAGA meatheads who flee the cult, the Both Sides Do It lie they've used to keep Reality at bay through all previous Republican scandals may finally pay some unexpected dividends. 

 Whether they opt to scream "Uniparty" until they burst a blood vessel and throw their vote down Musk's third party rathole, or they just quit politics altogether and spend the rest of their miserable lives hunkered down in their doublewides, getting drunk watching NCIS, and weeping themselves to sleep listening to a Lee Greenwood cover of "Didn't We Almost Have it All"... I don't fucking care.  

If enough of them take French leave from MAGA to give Democrats enough leverage to start to drive a stake though the heart of the Trump presidency, that will be enough of a first step to warrant a toast.

Not be enough to win the war, obviously. Because this is a war.  But maybe enough to give democracy some breathing room. 

Burn The Lifeboats