Hi everyone, Bluethany Wavetano here, the internet's busiest music nerd. I hope you're doing well.

And if you haven't noticed, over here in America there has been a pretty seismic political shift that's occurred in the past couple of days. We just went through a very tense midterm election season. Basically numerous House congressional seats, senator seats, and governorships were up for electoral grabs, and seeing big shifts in representation during these elections, especially when the incumbent president is not very popular, is nothing new.

However, the shifts we have been seeing during this particular midterm have been crazy, frankly. Not only are blue states like mine bluer than ever with record low numbers of Republican state representatives now, but there are states and governorships and counties in deep red states that have gone blue for the first time, or for the first time in decades. It's been said before, and I'll say it again here. Do you know how crap of a president you need to be to turn Texas blue?

These insane election numbers and losses have had a very profound trickle-down effect to the online political discourse right now, with numerous online right-wing pundits who have made a career of their political grift for years at this point, struggling to come to terms with this reality. Posting through it like complete psychopaths like Laura Loomer, political streamer and human copywriter, cockroach Asmongold basically rage quit his stream.

Asmongold: A little bit, I'm absolutely rage quitting. I am so unbelievably, insanely fucking frustrated. I totally support the Iran war. I totally supported ICE. I totally supported Trump getting rid of DEI, and I'm not fucking sorry. And it doesn't matter. Again, I wish that there were more people that thought like me that weren't sorry about it. But you know what? There's not. So it's just me. And that's fine. That's fine. It's okay.

Even J.D. Vance, in desperation of salvaging whatever hopes there are of him running successfully in 2028, is taking to Twitter to distance himself from Trump's policies and talk about how much of a failure the war in Iran has been, despite the fact that he was literally there on the front line supporting it every step of the way.

JD Vance: But also Iran, Sean, a lot of people recognize that we need to do something with Iran, but not these weak little bombing runs. If you're going to punch the Iranians, you punch them hard. And that's what he did when he took out Soleimani.

It would seem in these trying times, Trump's biggest supporters are really failing to come to his aid. All of them, except one. That would be Miss MAGA Minaj herself, who I really have to give credit on some level now at this point, because I mean, when we have talked about Nikki's right-wing rabbit hole. The whole spiral that she's undergone over the last year.

If I remember correctly, there were definitely some, grifter allegations being thrown in there on my part. Some theorizing that maybe she was doing this out of some kind of self-preservation or money she might have been getting paid. And as of right now, I'm not even sure that's the case. She might actually be a full on MAGA Kool-Aid drinker.

Either that or she is completely illiterate to the tea leaves that are in front of her right now. Tea leaves that very clearly every other Republican talking head and social media figure can see with clear and rational sight. And yet at a time when it would be most opportune for her to maybe wake up and say "You know what? I kind of fucked up here. We can just go back to regularly scheduled programming, get back to the barbs, get back to the gags, get back to the wrapping."

Nikki is instead going down with the MAGA ship with a big supportive multi-point post assuring Trump supporters in the midst of this loss and trying to somehow rub this in the face of people who made this blue wave possible. So here's her post with Nikki saying: "Number one, Trump is still your president." Yeah, we know that's why everybody came out to vote in these midterms to prevent him from doing any further damage to the country. We understand Nikki. That's how politics works.

Two, saying "the queen is still your obsession." Also not true because since going Maga, you have become second fiddle to a fascist right wing movement. Nearly every mainstream female rapper who has come up in the last 10 years is now gaining more ground and getting more buzz than you are. Pink Friday 2 was the biggest flop in your discography, handily. Once Trump is out of office, the last reason to show any interest in you will be flushed down the toilet as well.

Three: "Jesus is still Lord." As if the faith and support of Jesus Christ would have anything to do with the presidential success of a guy who was mentioned in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. If anything, you would think Jesus would be acting in opposition to that guy.

Four: "GREAT INSIGHT BY THE VICE PRESIDENT." This is one of the few bullet points here that's actually telling. Because J.D. Vance's post about this whole thing, in a lot of ways, was throwing Trump's policies under the bus. Now that Nikki's fully committed to this right wing turn that she has made, she understands that J.D. is the future of the party and the only chance of her essentially extending her time in the limelight of right wing politics.

Six, she says "Congratulations to all winners, especially Rep Luna and Byron Donalds." Rep Luna, you mean the lady who clearly took money to come out in support of Tory Lanez in the midst of his trial with Megan Thee Stallion? Blowing a billion on a losing campaign full of celebrities is still hurting them? What about all the MILLIONS that Elon Musk just blew to lose in these midterms, Nikki? No mention of that, no sub-header for that one? Do you condemn Hassan Piker?

Eight, "The barbs are still pretty." How many barbs are even left at this point, honestly? Because these days, the barb defectors I've been seeing are a lot more attractive than the ones who are still sticking around.

Nine, "I don't vote, I veto." Pretty much an endorsement of Trump blocking any sort of progress that might come out of this electoral shift here, which yeah, that's really cool of you, Nikki. Shows how in touch you truly are.

"Stay tuned and stay mad" comes in at number 10. Whatever that means. "Christians are still being killed" at number 11. Okay, number one, where? Number two, what does that have to do with what's going on in America right now that ultimately decided these midterm elections? I didn't see you posting about how many Americans have been killed, how many children have been hurt, how many families have been separated by ICE, or the school of little girls that Trump bombed as he was attacking Iran.

Number 12, "maybe now our people will wake up." Yeah, Nikki, they did, and a lot of them voted blue. Number 13, "love you." No, you don't. And at 14, this one's hilarious. She, of course, has to now suck up to Elon Musk on his own app, saying Elon is still a trillionaire, which officially right now, I don't think he is. At least not after burning all the money that he just did on these midterms. And at 15, "GrokBot is a phenomenal product that has significantly changed my life for the better. Thank you, bot." In what way, Nikki? In what way? By every objective metric, your life has gotten worse over the past couple of years. Your star has dimmed, the music has suffered, the tours are under-attended, and the fandom is dying. And the MAGA fandom you've hitched yourself to is dying, too.

As I've said before, once- Again, it's just very sad and unfortunate to see one of the most influential female rappers of all time essentially destroy her career for no reason whatsoever, and continue to do so with little to nothing to show for it or gain from it. Because again, at this point, what could Nikki possibly be getting from doing posts like this? Surely, at this point, even a semi-successful music career would be more lucrative.

But I guess Nikki is too stubborn to, essentially switch course, and just has to go down with the MAGA ship. But there you go. Very unfortunate. Very sad. Those are my thoughts.

Anthony Fantano, forever.