Exactly. Even if the "elder" is a life-long, thoroughly-committed asshole.

A split among MAGA voters may not mean much, especially after Vance & company make Trump a martyr. Within the reigning power clique - Miller, Heritage Foundation, billionaire technocrats - I think their interests are still too well-aligned (thru Vance) for serious schisms to develop until 2028.

While that may be true, it seems he doesn't understand the real-world impact (and doesn't care, as long as he's able to enrich himself). I really don't think he's running the show.

Governor William J. LePetomane.

Only if you assume that Trump himself actually knows what's going on and isn't being manipulated by his "advisors". That's not to say that he shouldn't ultimately be held accountable, but we need to keep in mind who's driving the bus.

Maybe needed a vet with KR experience more than an athletic rookie at the moment.

Not sure why they're hanging on to D'Ernest Johnson, though, since he's out of his three elevations. Can he be elevated again during the playoffs?

More like "ChudGPT".

Doesn't need to be any cold, calculated plot. Similar intense emotions are being triggered every day by ICE raids and statements from Regime mouthpieces, even among non-immigrant citizens. Maybe this guy was just one of the first to lose it, but more violence seems inevitable.

3/ The hellhole of Taliban infested Aghanistan is being re-created in front of his eyes. PTSD? Whatever he's compelled to lash out. Guns are easy to obtain. But, he can't get close to Langley or the WH, so he vents his hate and horror on random soldiers.

2/ Sudden uncertainty about his future turns frustration with broken promises into anger/rage at everything US govt/military related. Then cadres of armed, masked plainclothes "agents" start harrassing & disappearing brown skinned people and uniformed troops show up on the streets.

1/ Guy gets rewarded with evac during the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Maybe he's been promised that family left behind would also be evac'd but it never happens. Tries to leverage his CIA contacts, but get stonewalled. Frustration.

Trump regime then cancels TPS for Afghan refugees.

Reportedly a former CIA contractor.

I'm old enough to remember that, and also to remember that some of my neighbors in a lily-white, tract-house suburb of Detroit weren't too happy about it and that none of them could explain to nine-year-old me why.

The public players - Noem, Hegseth, Rollins, Patel, Hassert, et. al., - are the idiot faces. Miller, Vought, Vance, Thiel, are the ones actually running things quietly.