Published April 29, 2026, 11:00 a.m. ET Imagine a regime of the sycophantic, the dumb, the desperate. Can you picture it? Yeah, you probably can. A random gang of rabid, sweaty losers, convinced they each have individual power, all because the tinpot dictator with actual power sort of, for now, until they’re no longer useful, knows their name. People ever more willing to debase themselves. Because taking a stand, in private or public, to believe in literally anything else, would be a regression, and prove they were stupid all along. In The Boys Season 5 Episode 5 (“One-Shots”), we watch the final few flecks of humanity fade from Firecracker’s eyes as she forsakes her treasured Jesus figurine for absurd, empty devotion to a super Jesus figure.  Homelander is seething in Firecracker’s general direction. Last week she built this idiot his own idiotic religion, and it still wasn’t enough. “Americans deserve better!” FC cries to HL.…