WTF is happening?

 So...there's two news stories I want to touch on tonight that are kinda making me go wtf. Like, these are two things that I didn't expect. 

First was the Mamdani-Trump meeting. Now, I expected this to go badly. As in, I expected Mamdani to meet with Trump, Trump to try to bully Mamdani, it to not work, and then Trump to be furious and go on an angry bender on truthsocial about it. Instead, they're getting along like they're best friends now. Wtf? it's weird. What exactly...happened? Is...Mamdani "Bubba" if you know what I mean? I have to ask. It's weird. I rarely see Trump so happy and cordial. 

One commenter on a post about it pointed out something that Steve Bannon said in regard to this stuff though a few weeks ago when he was first elected. he said, "game respects game", and that Trump might respect Mamdani because they're both anti establishment outsiders trying to fight against the establishment from opposite ends of the spectrum. As I said, I think trying to form any alliance with MAGA is dangerous, even if I am anti establishment. We ARE on the opposite end of the spectrum, we have little in common with MAGA outside of being "anti establishment", and my issue with the establishment is they're too conservative. The establishment of the democratic party is half evil because they're half conservative. That doesn't mean that MAGA is better, from my perspective they're fully evil. Still, Mamdani clearly has 100 speech skill here and it's amazing how good he is at persuasion here. I really just have to wonder...wtf happened? 

So...that's that. The second story...MTG is gonna resign. Well...that's sudden. It's weird. MTG has been in a weird spot since the whole MAGA civil war thing. Trump turned on her because she stood her ground on the epstein thing. She got some death threats, and suddenly she's like super pro 'civility". Like, after years of being the cackling...I wont way the word antagonizing AOC and seemingly cheering on the protesters, it's like the past week or two has suddenly gotten "too real" for her and she's shaken up so bad she wants to resign.

But I do have to wonder if that's all there is to it. Vaush said today it's like someone is coaching her, and I kind of have to agree. Like, her words dont seem hers. They seem like they're written by someone else for her to say, and it just comes off as fake as hell. I have to wonder if some shadowy group offered her a lifeline somewhere after Trump turned on her and if this is truly the last we'll see of her. She might be priming herself for some future run on something, or maybe she'll join a think tank or start a podcast. Who knows? Either way this is jarring.

If we take it at face value she could just be saying she's tired of politics and after Trump razed her career to the ground, she's basically just trying to save face. She mentioned not wanting to drag her district through the embarrassment of a primary challenge, and then have to support trump after trump turned on her. So maybe she just deciding to end it here and retire. Maybe there isn't a deeper meaning. It just seems awfully sudden and feels very jarring. I really have to wonder if there's more to this we're not seeing.

I just wanted to report on those two things.