rational_lib

Who could see this coming, other than literally everybody

Yes I do think it was championed by conservative people. And if that statement pisses anyone off, my evidence is that Fannin County GA, where this took place, voted 82% for Trump. It's almost as if the whole "government overreach" thing is just empty marketing for policies that make rich people richer...

That's not actually related to my point though. This is more like:

First they tweeted offensive things about women, and I made sure that thing they tweeted is now the only thing we talk about.

Then we couldn't talk about all the women dying of not getting abortions on time because we're too busy talking about tweets.

Imagine if there was a hack so bad that it caused everyone to become unable to develop in C and C++.

Classic "let's just make the cure worse than the disease" mindset among security enthusiasts.

Politically-motivated tea tax, what could go wrong?

I think this is intended as satirical but given the multitude of illogical reasons some give for supporting Trump it's hard to tell.

Yeah there would've been no defending this if it happened. Rogan controls the mics and would do whatever he could to end her campaign right there. Maga would post all over X (with Elon's amplification) that she got "owned" as Rogan shouted over her her, and the left would be angry that she appeared on his show in the first place. It would have been a pure loss.

Hispanic Americans are overwhelmingly working class, and (unlikely black people) don't see themselves as a single unified minority group, so they don't feel the sting of Republican racism pointed towards them.

Why doesn't working class matter? Because such people generally aren't as involved in following politics and policy type stuff as white collar folks. So they are swayed by other factors like masculinity signalling. This is obviously why Trump added Hulk Hogan, and of course standing up and pumping his fist after getting nicked in the ear by a terrible sniper helped too.

All these government benefits programs are ready to deny 100 valid people benefits if it means they stop one instance of fraud. Because only the one instance of fraud gets attention in the corporate media.

It will be hugely unpopular. It's not clear whether that will translate to Trump or Republicans becoming unpopular though.