Joe Flood
November 3, 2025
I can tell the story of 2025 in two short videos. A pair of brief viral moments that sum up this terrible year and the disastrous consequences of returning Donald Trump to office.
Chuds Get Their Comeuppance
The first is from January 6, 2025. The date is auspicious: it’s the anniversary of the attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters.
Three chuds in a car on their way to DC, not to mourn for the dead and injured, but to attend a celebration of the insurrection.
“God has cleared the way!” the driver exclaims as he speeds down an icy highway.
The trio in the car are die-hard Trump fans, people who were regulars at the Freedom Corner vigil in DC, where they chanted the names of January 6th felons and called them heroes. Throughout 2024, they had followed Trump around the country, from gibbering rally to gibbering rally, convinced that the incoherent mumblings of their orange god were divinely inspired.
Trump would save the nation, and save them as well. They had given their time and life savings for the cult and would soon get their reward. The inauguration was just days away. The best was yet to come!
They sing Trump’s version of YMCA, in a giddy mood, as they speed past other cars. What happens next is not a surprise.
The driver is going too fast. He hits an icy patch, loses control and crashes into the median.
God may not have been watching but Anarchy Princess was. The chuds have poor operational security and livestream everything they do. She captured this moment before they deleted it.
She posted the clip within minutes of the crash and it went viral, racking up millions of views and even making it to TMZ.
If this was a novel, we’d call this foreshadowing, a hint of the disaster that was coming for Trumpkins, who would soon be hit with tariffs, inflation and spiraling health insurance prices.
Gilded Age Cruelty
The second video came later in the year. It’s a video that I think about nearly every day for it illustrates the Gilded Age cruelty of the regime.
Created by Ari Kuschnir, it uses AI to depict the grand opening of the Trump Ballroom with a rogues gallery of traitors and criminals, including Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth and Alex Karp (the Palantir guy).
My favorite moment is when we see Ghislaine Maxwell issue a sigh of relief as the Epstein files are locked up.
The video of Trump’s court drinking champagne and eating cake is contrasted with shots of his voters suffering from layoffs, evictions and omnipresent drone surveillance.
And then a mob begins to assemble outside the White House…
What’s happening today is eerily similar to the last days of Louis XVI, the last king of France before the revolution. But at least Louis had the decency to hide his corruption behind the walls of Versailles. Trump is building his golden ballroom right in front of us, as he cuts off food aid to the poor.
Two videos tell the story of 2025. In one, Trump supporters get their deserved punishment for voting for a traitor. In the other, a preview of what’s to come.
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