MAGA Freaks as Epstein Files Take a Leap Towards the Light

Cliff’s Note: Hey Ampers, this is the livestream/summary of a great convo with David Shuster, Dem oppo researcher & GW prof, Brett Di Resta, and myself. We didn’t share it last week b/c the Charlie Kirk news broke towards the end. Yet, what we discussed—from Epstein to Putin over Poland—is still incredibly relevant. So we’re sending it out now.

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The livestream kicked off with Cliff being Cliff—half battery warning, half flamethrower, and fully unfiltered.

The Virginia election over-performance by Dems, which added a crucial seat to their congressional total and garnered them more power to take on professional-son-porn-monitor and Donald-Trump-squeeze-toy, Mike Johnson, wasn’t just a local win.

This was a flashing neon sign: Americans are pissed at Trump. And they’re showing it at the ballot box.

But woven into these cheers was the fabric of a deeper, darker subplot. This includes the Epstein files, the health rumors, and the GOP’s panic over whether their glazed-carrot Creator has the stamina left to stagger through to 2025.

Spoiler: he really doesn’t seem to.

Then the discussion turned to the Putin problem. While Trump plays man-servant to his favorite shirtless shit-kabob, Russia’s testing boundaries with Poland.

Cliff reminded us that this isn’t a drill—it’s the “salami slice” strategy totalitarians always run. The difference between FDR and Trump? FDR beat fascists. Trump would be on his knees begging them for table scraps.

Hell, if this were Yalta, Trump would’ve just given Stalin the keys to the Oval Office, our Pacific strategy, his lunch money, Tiffany, some nukes and maybe begged him for a spanking.

The bigger theory on the table was brutal but logical: Trump’s usefulness has expired. He’s sick, sloppy, and pinned down by Epstein baggage.

Enter J.D. Vance—the Christianist crusader with the Founders Fund cheerleader squad—ready to be the new front man for the fickle, flaccid fascists.

As David pointed out, Putin gets an obedient surrogate, billionaires get their pet, and Republicans can finally distance themselves from the pervy old man with the corrupted cankles.

It’s the worst episode of Succession imaginable, but it tracks.

Democrats, meanwhile, actually got good news: special elections in Virginia and Arizona are setting up the numbers for a discharge petition in the House that could finally force the release of Epstein files.

Brett talked a bit about this and how it could change Washington.

Even better, Tom Massie doesn’t like him some Donald Trump.

Cliff noted Thomas Massie is openly bucking Trump, Rand Paul is bizarrely lobbing verbal grenades at J.D. Vance, and Marjorie Taylor Greene looks like she had Kremlin talking points translated into GED every time she speaks.

Republicans call it strategy. Normal people call it selling out your country.

And through it all, Cliff hammered home the lesson Democrats still struggle to learn: stop being the stiff kid in the corner explaining policy papers. Be the happy warrior. Mock the hypocrisy. Laugh while you gut these thugs politically.

Gavin Newsom gets it. Gretchen Whitmer flashes it. Jasmine Crockett has it in spades. You can defend democracy and still throw elbows with a smile. Because if Dems keep showing up like Al Gore in a debate hall while Trumpworld shows up like Hulk Hogan in a wrestling ring, we’ll lose the crowd—and the country.

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