The MAGAverse Right Now

Here's Charlie Kirk working pretty hard to walk back the calls he and others have been whistling to the rubes for a good long time.

And like others in this new-but-not-at-all-new "conservative" thing, Charlie is terrified by the monster he's helped create.

He knows it's just a matter of time before they turn on him - because he's too soft - or he's not really committed - or he's a CINO, or an infiltrator. Happens every time with purity movements.

"everybody in the whole world is fucked up 'cept you and me -

and I've got my doubts about you"

Previous to this questioner, there was at least one guy asking about "The National Divorce", which is the euphemism these asshats use so they can deny calling for secession and a civil war do-over.

If you're a real glutton for heartache, you can skip to about 58:50, where he tells the nursing school student basically to shut up and muddle thru ("you can outlast them"), and less than a minute later, he brags on himself, saying he'd make a stink.

Translation: "You're weak and I'm strong. You can't do the wondrously courageous things that I can do and blah blah blah." This is a slap across the face, but dressed up in a kind of subtle sales pitch to get people to follow quietly and keep sending him money. "I can always do to you what you want me to do to them - and I will unless you stay in line behind me."

So in the end, all of this nonsense points to the usual grift we've been seeing for years - mostly from Republicans - and we keep getting more confirmation that there's a cult of maybe 20 or 30 million rubes, each with a few bucks to spend on this kind of political masturbation, and Charlie Kirk is among many who're trying to carve out a niche for themselves so they can continue living comfortably at someone else's expense.

Think about a Venn diagram showing the overlap of the MAGArubes at this little confab in Idaho, and the audience at Pro Wrestling.

Now think about Trump's frequent appearance at WWE "matches".