even the grifters are grifting on the grifters now

A pundit somehow both dunks on and validates Candace Owens in the same breath while breathlessly announcing that conspiracy theorists have finally abandoned Trump—as if that's ever actually happened. The tone suggests profound exhaustion mixed with the desperate need to appear like the Only Sane Voice™ in a collapsing information ecosystem. This is what happens when everyone's a commentator on everyone else's unraveling, creating an ouroboros of performative political disappointment.