You can feel it. The fizz is tepid, the riz is reheated. The chants don’t chant. The Democrats keep lighting candles, but the wick is wet. There is no riz in the fiz.
“Trump is a NAZI!” Why? “Because Trump’s whole vibe is authoritarian cosplay. He dog-whistles to white nationalists constantly and then acts shocked when they show up. The way he talks about immigrants? It’s dehumanizing, textbook fascist rhetoric. He’s not just flirting with Nazi aesthetics—he’s repackaging them for cable news. Honestly, it’s giving 1930s energy, and people need to stop pretending it’s normal.”
Let’s see . . . cancel culture? Left wing. Speech and tone policing through universities and workplaces adopting expansive speech codes that suppress dissent or punish unpopular opinions. Left wing. Mandated ideological training through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs that require participation in workshops or modules framed as moral imperatives. Smells like struggle sessions. Left wing.
But TRUMP!
Trump? What? J6?! He incited riots to hijack the election! He got Ashli Babbitt shot by Capitol Police! He’s a murderer! And a rapist! A sexual predator! Remember ‘grab them by the pussy’? Do you?! DO YOU?! What about E. Jean Carroll—was she just making it up?!
We can start with J6. This was supposed to paint Trump as a traitor and dangerous revolutionary who needed to be imprisoned and maybe hanged for treason. Trump 45 completed a contested term of office with two impeachments and a host of legal battles that stacked up like chairs after a wedding. The accusations—murderer, predator, fascist—kept escalating. The fiz rizzed for party Loyals. There was no riz in the fiz for the rest of us.
“Yeah, but STORMY DANIELS! He lied about bribes to her to shut her up about their affair! He’s a predator and his felony conviction is proof!” Never mind that it was Michael Cohen who paid Daniels or that the legal case is murky. The accusation loops louder than the evidence. Until there is no riz in the fiz.
Last, “He’s a Putin puppet! A Russian KGB asset! Remember the phone call where he asked Zelensky to investigate Biden?” The Mueller probe found no criminal conspiracy. The impeachment was about Ukraine, not Russia. The phone call was real—but the legal case didn’t stick. No riz in the fizz.
Stop Confusing the Truth with Facts!
The accusations keep coming. Each one louder than the last. Insurrection. Porn star. Putin puppet. Predator. Felon. The branding is relentless. The slogans are sticky. But for Gen Alpha, it’s background noise. They weren’t there for the Mueller probe, didn’t stream the impeachment hearings or remember the fizz. All they hear is the loop—recycled outrage, repeated slogans, the same moral certainty repackaged for every news cycle. And their response isn’t outrage. It’s detachment. “Mid.” “L take.” “Bro thinks he’s relevant 💀.”
The fizz fades and the riz dies when truth becomes a brand, every scandal is packaged for virality, and every rebuttal is buried under repetition. And the audience—especially the youngest—stops caring. It’s kinda creepy to hear Pawpaw attempt Gen-Alpha slang and riz. That has no riz in the fiz because they’ve seen the loop too many times.
They’ve grown up in the aftermath—where every accusation is a rerun, every scandal a recycled headline, and every elder’s attempt to “connect” feels like cosplay. Gen Alpha doesn’t need to be convinced; they need to be surprised. But the institutions keep performing the same script, expecting a different reaction. The fizz is gone. The charisma economy collapsed. And when Pawpaw tries to rizz with recycled outrage, it lands like a boomer meme: earnest, offbeat, and instantly dismissed.
So Here We Are
So, the kill shot is supposed to be a government shut down. A holy commandment is that the budget must grow, and taxes must increase to pay for it. Trump’s mandate is to cut the budget and taxes. This must not be so. So, they dared Trump to shut down the government. Holy SHIT! He did! He shut it down and called their bluff. That’s not in the usual playbook.
Talks on passing a continuing resolution continue. Congress will pass a CR at some point. Past shutdowns have triggered language added to the CR to pay back pay. The damage is minimal, usually. Trump’s mandate changes the calculus. Shutting the government down gives him a window in which he can further his plans to balance the budget by reducing spending. Furloughed federal workers may be let go permanently. By bluffing Congressional opposition leaders handed Trump a win, something that must not be so.
It is so. The political losses for the Democrats are mounting: $18 billion withheld from the Hudson River rail tunnel and Second Avenue subway line in New York—projects championed by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Then $2.1 billion cut from Chicago infrastructure expansion, targeting Democratic strongholds. Trump’s framing— “maximum pain” for Democratic priorities—has landed. He’s using the shutdown to reshape the federal workforce and punish opposition.
Manopause
The party titans are all post-manopause old. Chokehold Chuck You is 74, nearly a quarter century past the sell date for politicians. Optics Auntie Pelosi is 85, a full generation removed from Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha. Her playbook predates the internet, let alone mobile-first governance. Even their younger gun, Hakeem Jeffries, is five years past his sell-by date. Jeffrie’s shouts about racism in the cadence of a charismatic preacher are landing like flat fiz that doesn’t riz. He’s got no riz in the fiz.
The irony is that their agenda, “true democracy” behaves a lot like the nationalist and socialist regimes of the last century. They shout about authoritarianism while drafting laws that centralize power, expand surveillance, and reward loyalty. While not strictly fascism it behaves like it.
Of Trump, he is accused of perpetrating authoritarian rule when he simply does his job executing and enforcing existing law. Rules for thee, am I right? Expressions of patriotism and national pride are cited as examples of nationalism proving his Naziism. Yet the old titans demand party loyalty through tactics that feel like Hitler’s Germany. Their demands have no riz in the fiz.
Time is the Enemy
We all have a date certain with Charon. The old Titans won’t get younger, and the clock—not scandal or polling—is the force pushing Pelosi, Schumer, and Jeffries off the stage. Time is the dealer, and it’s not dealing favors. The Titans are still telling jokes Gen-Z won’t laugh at. The room has changed. They haven’t.
This shutdown is their last hurrah. It used to be a winning play, a broadcast-era flex. Today, it’s a losing hand—King-Seven offsuit played like pocket aces.
Trump remains the dark emperor in their hearts. Russ Vought is his Vader, quietly scripting the regime they call an existential threat. Project 2025 is the visible Death Star, aimed squarely at the old scaffolding.
The Post Titan Cohort
I’m praying for the emergence of the next generation of leaders. JD Vance is one. Blake Masters and Josh Hawley are two more. Together, they form the post-Titan cohort. Vance, now seated in the Senate and poised for a 2028 win, brings narrative discipline rooted in post-industrial realism. Masters, shaped by the tech world, sees clearly how government, media, and finance have stopped working for ordinary people. Hawley, already in the Senate, pushes back against globalism and corporate overreach. These three are building something that might actually last with or without permission.
The old Titans will fight. There’s no reason for them to go peacefully. They’ll keep running the same attacks against the Tangerine Tyrant, hoping the old playbook still lands.
Accusations of dog-whistling to white nationalists depend on a frame of reference built from Woke True Folk eschatology. In that frame, every phrase is decoded as a signal of moral collapse. Next, the claims that Nacho Nazi is a sexual predator are hearsay. The evidence is “he said/she said.” But the Titans and their sycophants want it to be true so badly that hearsay becomes gospel. Last one: racist. Jeffries uttered his cry of racism after a meme depicted him in a sombrero and mustache while Schumer spoke the truth out loud. Gen-Z thought it was hilarious. His outrage amplified the joke. The Titans perform for a crowd that left years ago.
Meme This
Ok, ok, last, last one: Trump’s enforcement of immigration law is racist. He ‘spose to keep the doors open and let everyone in. Then bankrupt the government gives the migrants healthcare, housing, food stamps, and a stipend. Because, downtrodden. It’s racist for Trump to do his job.
Bro just enforcing the law and y’all calling it racist? That’s wild. Y’all want open borders, free everything, and vibes? Be serious. Government ain’t a GoFundMe. He’s not racist—he’s just not playing your NPC script. Y’all mad he clocked in and did the job. You went for riz. You got weak fiz.
Update: as I finish editing this there are headlines showing up in my feed that the Democrats blinked first. If true, in the standoff with the old Titans chest puffing and daring Trump to follow through on his threats it turns out that Cheetoh Satan’s riz trumps the Titans.