12 April 2026

Daddy, what is a "late night rage tweet"?


Here you go, sweetheart.  Read this and weep.  This is a spontaneous public rant by a person who is supposed to represent the dignity of the United States to the rest of the world.  This is what happens when a man becomes mentally unstable and discovers that after a lifetime of having people do whatever he wants them to do, his "base" of loyal supporters begin to desert him.

Some of the backstory triggering this rage is expressed in the I Fucking Love Australia substack
"The story is this: Trump’s own people are ratting him out faster than a Boa constrictor with an eating disorder. Staff leaking. Pentagon leaking. State Department leaking. Every single person in that building with access to a phone and a journalist’s number is apparently queuing up to unload everything they know about the most powerful man on earth, and what they know is not flattering.

This is not a leak. This is Niagara Falls wearing a suit.

Carville’s referencing a New York Times story that reads like a guided tour through the West Wing’s collective contempt for the man running it. These aren’t anonymous sources with a grudge. These are the people who sit in meetings with him. The people who hand him his briefing notes and watch him ignore them. The people who stand there with a straight face while he explains how he could’ve been a general if he hadn’t had that thing with his foot.

Those people. Talking. Constantly.

That is not the behaviour of people who fear their boss.

That is the behaviour of people who have already quietly packed their desk drawers and are just waiting for the right moment to walk...

And then there’s the book.

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. June. Carville calls them the pizza man. Because they’re going to deliver.

Every leaked conversation. Every panicked staffer confession. Every moment where the people closest to the most powerful man on earth looked at each other across a conference table and thought Jesus Christ we are so completely fucked. All of it. Bound. Published. On shelves in June.

The structural collapse of the whole operation is what Carville is pointing at underneath all the profanity. MAGA loyalty looks airtight until it doesn’t. Then it goes like a tradie’s knees on a cold morning. Fast and all at once. He’s watching the Indiana state Senate Republican primary as an early indicator. Republican voters. In Trump’s own party. Peeling away...

Carville’s flat prediction: Trump will not be president a year from now. Too weak. Too exposed. Too hated by the people closest to him. And when Democrats get back in January they go straight for the corruption and they claw every dodgy dollar back...

But here’s what we do know.

The leaks are real. Vance sharpening his knife is real. The book is real. The polling is real. The fact that the most feared political operator in living memory is now being openly mocked by his own Pentagon is very, very real..."
(boldface added)  More at the link.

8 comments:

  1. Here's a late night tweet for you - I just did my taxes. That "big bad whatever" tax bill - it did nothing for me. I am paying as much, if not more, than last year.

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  2. Personal opinion: the one accurate passage in this screed is: "They're not MAGA, they're losers trying to latch onto MAGA." (Well, not necessarily losers yet). IMHO the overwhelming majority of Trump's toadies, in government and in the media., are parasites holding on for dear life gambling that The Man will croak soon, and when he does, they'll have a shot at being the next Trump. They're delusional. There won't be a next Trump, any more than there was a next Huey Long, a next Mussolini, or a next Hitler.

    I can't pretend to understand how these charismatic demagogues connect so deeply with their followers. However the connection is formed, it isn't to The Man's platform but to The Man himself. MAGA isn't Trump and his supporters, it's God and his worshipers.

    I'm not sure Trump's hangers-on acknowledge this. They imagine that the mob support and dictatorial power will transfer easily to The Man's natural successor. That person being, of course, themselves. I suspect that when Trump finally shuffles off this mortal coil the Republican party will see a bloodbath as wannabe New Trumps battle each other for the spoils. This wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.

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  3. The first sentence in that tweet leaves me thinking back to the eloquence of school children.
    Nyah nyah, takes one to know one.

    There's also an old phrase which may not be entirely correct these days but, "the pot calling the kettle black"

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  4. Don your George Smiley hat and overcoat. Trump support for Orban and Orban support for Putin and Trump not hindering Putin?

    https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/59425 OPINION: Is Trump a Russian Agent or an Asset?

    Let's not forget the Ivana Montreal connection.

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    1. I've heard that opinion/accusation expressed frequently. Interesting to see it being raised in a Ukrainian publication.

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  5. How many people are thinking it is time for a pipeline(s) traversing UAE > SA > Oman (or just UAE > Oman) to the sea, bypassing the Hormuz?

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    1. These already exist, one from Persian Gulf to Indian Ocean, the other going south to the Red Sea. But in the era of first-person drones, pipelines like this can be prime targets for anyone, including the nearby Houthis.

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  6. a person who is supposed to represent the dignity of the United States to the rest of the world.

    What if he is, and your understanding of the dignity of the US is wishful thinking?

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