Without Trump, the US's biggest conservative festival falls flat

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The music was loud. Giant screens played Donald Trump’s greatest hits on repeat, promising to end forever wars and put America first.

There was just one problem: as loyal foot soldiers of the Trump movement gathered for its biggest annual jamboree in Texas, the president, leading a war in Iran, was nowhere to be seen.

How different from 12 months ago at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC): Mr Trump had triumphantly returned to the White House, Elon Musk wielded a giant chainsaw as a metaphor for slashing government spending and JD Vance, the vice-president, turned his barrels on Europe.

This year, under the giant glass dome of the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Centre, the energy was gone. There was no cabinet lieutenant dispatched to warm up the crowd. No heavyweight ally with the authority to unite the base ahead of a difficult midterm election.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/without-trump-us-biggest-conservative-102942944.html

[Amethyst Ring]

1. 'Leading' a war in Iran aka

Golfing.

[Bluetus]

2. Trump knows he is about to become a lame duck

Trump knows he is about to be blamed for a tsunami loss.

Trump knows everybody he endorses, loses.

Trump knows that the Epstein stuff is sidelined by the war, but it will pop right back up if Trump ever talks the Pentagon to pack up their toys and come home, so he is in no hurry.

And at some level, he surely understands there is a long line of people waiting to put the knife in his back, if Mother Nature doesn't get there first.

So his strategy is to keep the war going so he doesn't have to deal with EPstein stuff, and spend most of his energy monetizing the office to the tune of billions of dollars.

[GenThePerservering]

3. Liz Truss?

Seriously? The biggest joke in UK politics?

Poor thing is still trying to out-live that head of lettuce.