Why MAGA will never reach the "find out" phase

As Trump and his shadow president Elon Musk break every promise they've made to voters, a lot of liberals claimed that MAGA was about to reach the "find out" phase of FAFO. But it isn't going to happen. 

To understand, all we have to do is look at the response to the horrific fires in and around Los Angeles. Here's what's happening:

Climate change has made the vegetation that's driving the LA fires more ready to burn, scientists say.

While the flames are being mainly driven by powerful winds, the new study says that rapid swings between wet and dry years are making trees, shrubs and grasses more vulnerable to ignition.

This "hydroclimate whiplash" has seen decades of drought in California followed by extremely heavy rainfall for two years but then it flipped again to very dry conditions this autumn and winter.

The authors say that climate change has boosted these type of whiplash conditions globally by 31-66% since the middle of the 20th Century.

But that information comes from "scientists," the very people that Trump and MAGA have demonized on everything from climate change to covid. 

So Trump took to his social media site to blame California's governor, writing: "Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California...He is the [sic] blame for this. On top of it all, no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes. A true disaster!”

Meanwhile, on the site formerly known as Twitter, Musk blamed government regulations, LA Mayor Karen Bass, DEI policies, LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley,  and, of course, Gov. Gavin Newsom.  Musk even went so far as to agree with Alex Jones, who said that the LA fires were "part of a larger globalist plot to wage economic warfare and deindustrialize the United States before triggering total collapse."

In summary, they're blaming anyone to the left of MAGA.

Yes https://t.co/jNTwxoXZzI

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 9, 2025

Everything Trump/Musk said was a lie. For example, there is no such thing as the "water restoration declaration" and LA doesn't get its water from the North.  Musk's claim that Mayor Bass cut the firefighting budget is also a lie.

That assertion is wrong. The city was in the process of negotiating a new contract with the fire department at the time the budget was being crafted, so additional funding for the department was set aside in a separate fund until that deal was finalized in November. In fact, the city’s fire budget increased more than $50 million year-over-year compared to the last budget cycle...

The fact that they're lying won't matter to MAGA - who tend to buy everything these idiots say. So rather than a wake-up call about the dangers of climate change, about half the country will blame Democrats and/or liberals for the devastation these fires unleash.

This is exactly what we can expect for the next four years. Trump's presidency will be a time of crisis and chaos. But rather than deal with the situation, Trump will exhibit the same response we've seen from him over and over again. 

[H]ere is the way in which Donald Trump exhibits behaviors associated with a severe personality disorder. He fabricates a world in which he is both dominant and successful. When challenged, he diverts with outrageous lies designed to blame a villain and distract us from his failures. He then assumes we’ll all move on to the next fabrication of his dominance and success.

Lie, distract, and blame...that's what Trump does. It will only get worse this time around as Musk broadcasts the blame game across his social media platform. In the end, rather than hold the president and his oligarchs accountable, MAGA will blame all of their failures on the left.