Irony is a beautiful thing. *chef's kiss
https://www.yahoo.com/news/proud-boys-ditching-trump-hours-032833037.html

A timeline of the irony, the sweet sweet irony:

1. Trump becomes president. Consequently, he fans the flames of fantasy of the racists, fascists, zealots, the mentally ill, the intellectually challenged, and any and all combinations of the aforementioned ...

2. Emboldened by the president, #MAGA becomes the 21st century's most notorious fascist threat to date all while a LARP disguised as a secret political plan with Trump as its central fetish object known as #QAnon starts ...

3. After four years, Trump does what he always does, he fails spectacularly... but the people whose fantasies he's fanned— #MAGA & #QAnon—they continue to have his back. For them, he's the greatest and may even be the white messiah ...

4. Trump's failures bear bitter fruit as the American people mandate he vacate the office of president in an election he did everything in his power to manipulate in his favor ...

5. Trump then goes from being a fanner of the flames of fascist fantasy to a flat out fascist as he spends months fomenting an insurrection and then incites a mob of his most ardent bootlicking fanboys and fangirls from the ranks of the most heavily invested #MAGA & #QAnons ...

6. The mob of fascist-loving white supremacist #MAGA & #QAnon zealots storm the capitol during the presidential certification process of the political opponent Trump lost to by 7 million votes. This #insurrection2021 results in the death of five people ...

7. Trump's second coup attempt fails (Venezuela, 2020 being the first) ...

8. After the failed #insurrection, Trump's followers—people who put their faith in Trump; people Trump told to "stand by;" people Trump gaslighted into storming the capitol—they start losing jobs, get put on no-fly lists & get arrested, all for doing what Trump told them to do ..

9. In spite of all the failures & arrests, the throngs of Trump loyalists *still* believe Trump has something up his sleeve and that it's all part of a plan by the political chess grandmaster to continue to hold on to the office of president ...

Then something weird happens ...

10. The #MAGA & #QAnon faithful watch as Trump pardons: Convicted war criminals, family, friends, traitors & Lil Wayne. Meanwhile, the most feeble-minded of the #MAGA & #QAnon mob who were incited into storming the capitol are left out in the cold holding the bag for Trump ...

11. Large portions of #MAGA & #QAnon begin to wonder why those from their ranks now facing felonies and potential domestic terrorism, murder & accessory to murder charges haven't been pardoned and/or commuted. Little do they know that not even Trump is that stupid ...

12. #MAGA & #QAnon, those involved in the open insurrection specifically, begins to realize that only they are that stupid. There was never a plan. There was no initiative to hold power. There was only the empty hope that they'd do Trump's dirty work for him. ...

13. Now all that the hardcore #MAGA & #QAnons who stormed the capitol have to remember Trump by are the criminal charges that will ruin the rest of their lives brought on by the actions Trump duped and dog whistled them into committing ...

14. Trump's political opponent assumes the presidency. The #QAnon boards resemble a Monsters Are Due on Maple St. Twilight Zone episode. The Proud Boys are now the Pissed Boys. And Hardcore #MAGA can't stop crying over what *didn't* happen in the wake of Trump's Nov. 3 loss ...

15. Reality begins to sink in for those with half a clue... #MAGA & #QAnon's culture hero, the anointed one... he slunk off in defeat like the invertebrate he is, caring more about himself & his brand than any of those who sacrificed their dignity, character & freedom for him ...

16. Of course we've all been telling them that that's Trump's m.o. from day 1, but only now after everything's been lost do they finally realize what's happened:

They all got conned.