Convicted felon former President Trump’s campaign raised over $1 million during Monday night’s livestream with drug abuser billionaire Elon Musk, RealClearPolitics’ Phil Wegmann reports, adding “A million dollars is a million dollars, but not exactly a huge haul when you consider that Harris left a San Francisco fundraiser with $12 million earlier this week.” Wegmann, who might be an alright guy stuck with a shitty right wing outfit, could have kept going further with such context, like the fact that Elon Musk claimed 78 million people watched/listened to their lengthy cyber-circlejerk. While we have no way of knowing whether or not that’s accurate, we have to assume it was a significant enough fraction of that, maybe in the 10 to 20 million range. Which makes $1 million pretty pathetic.

Then there’s these guys, the one in the top left box Benny Johnson, among the most ballsuckery of all the Trump fanatics on the MAGA internet, nodding along and agreeing while one of his co-hosts seems almost resigned over their Orange Messiah’s extremely light campaign schedule these days.

Update: Largest Trump Boat Parade ever planned Sunday October 13th – Jupiter Florida Lighthouse! I’ll post an official event page in the coming days!

— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) August 13, 2024

Here’s this dipshit just going through the motions. By this time four years ago there were multiple big Trump boat parades every weekend. He’s announcing one fucking two months from now?

Here’s his asshole father, posting a screenshot of that Pizzagate dipshit tweeting to his followers to reply “to every blackpill post you see” (meaning they’ve given up any hope of victory) with an electoral college map based on RCP’s rigged average system, filled with dogshit numbers by right wing pollsters you’ve never even heard of AND STILL he’s saying Wisconsin and Michigan are off the map for him. We’re not even close to saying that yet and this is what Trump’s posting.

*Also note the “trending” hashtags: #FireLaCivita (meaning fire the campaign manager as if that’s going to solve the problems) and #IsraelFirstAdelson (as in Old Lady Miriam Adelson, now labeled as a malign influence on Trump in some corners of MAGA world because she’s Jewish).

Then there’s the whining. The endless, insufferable whining…

Kamala simply could not do a two-hour running interview without seriously harming herself. Everyone knows it. She won't even talk to Time magazine while they write puff pieces for their cover.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 13, 2024

All these statements, yet nobody ever puts their name on them.

Fucking cowards. https://t.co/X5Xdp2gQLo

— Steven Cheung (@TheStevenCheung) August 13, 2024

So for real now…

Is Kamala going to ever do an actual interview, or nah?

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 13, 2024

It all seems very beta. Soy. Low T.

Something’s very off here. It’s not just Trump himself, though of course his increasingly manic-depressive state is absolutely a factor, if not the factor, from which this malaise flows.

As we wrote recently, anti-MAGA voters nationwide just went through a trauma that remains largely unprocessed simply because it was reversed so swiftly and decisively with the rise of Kamala Harris as not just a candidate but verging on a phenomenon. There is now no doubt at all whether the tide has turned in the polling – irrespective of whether or not you’re inclined to actually believe the topline numbers are an accurate representation of the electorate’s intent.

That’s where we’re at after spending the better part of a year tuning out the polls due to demoralization and seeing them consistently underrate Dems in special and off-year races (the Midterm misses weren’t that bad). Maybe some of them will regain our trust after November. That’s evidently the easier place to be in than what the MAGA kids are experiencing now after having fondled themselves to every disastrous new finding for Joe Biden against their Orange God Emperor.

Fake polls

— Jinee (@jineeminee) August 14, 2024

Polymarket isn’t even a fucking poll, lol. It’s a betting site (backed by Silicon Valley psychopath and JD Vance patron Peter Thiel) and Trump is now down 28 percent in the last month.

Anyway this is the typical weak and directionless response you’ll see to the kind of shit fanboys LOVED until they didn’t – polls, betting odds, Van Jones crying on CNN, etc. What’s actually sort of genuinely shocking is the contrast between this and how they were acting a year ago.

https://t.co/MlIKklPSJT pic.twitter.com/Mcbf2xozsY

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2023

A year ago this month we anti-MAGAs were all giddy, loving every minute of it. Trump was SO fucked after four indictments, 91 felony counts, doomed to spend the rest of his life in prison because the hard fist of the law was going to crush his tiny balls. No way he could win after at least two trials when he was supposed to be on the campaign trail. Voters would abandon him and so on.

That we were wrong and we’ll be lucky if the Supreme Court doesn’t toss his Manhattan conviction before election day is beside the point: His fanboys were fucking FIRED up over the indictments, the arraignments, the civil cases he all lost in embarrassing fashion and got ruled to be a rapist by a federal judge, the 14th Amendment disqualifications that got overturned, the guilty verdict in New York City. All of that “lawfare” was like rocket fuel for these maniacs who saw it as tantamount to a declaration of civil war. Tens of millions in donations poured in to Trump’s campaign.

They saw accountability as an existential threat to them, that Trump being legally indisposed one way or another and then losing the 2024 election was the apocalypse. Now at this point it is significantly more realistic that Trump is going to lose the election on his own, without Jack Smith, Letitia James, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, Juan Merchan, Tanya Chutkan, or Arthur Engoron helping.

And his fans kicked in $1 million on Monday – $33 million less than after he was found guilty.

Maybe the shock will wear off and they’ll snap out of it. Still it’s just weird how exhausted and directionless they seem when this danger of their center of their universe collapsing under the weight of his own flaws is as real as it gets, realer than it’s ever been since January 2021 when they were already talking about a comeback – when a comeback was actually possible.

It still is, in theory. Let’s see how it goes in North Carolina:

The crowd already seems kind of subdued while they wait for their Lord and Savior.