They’re really set on offending everyone, with impunity. And producing a mile-wide paper trail doing it, for the hopefully-not-so-far future, wink wink, nudge nudge.
That’s been the conservative approach, no matter the country, for a while now. Whine about things being bad, then target progressive ideologies as the culprit behind them, then finally go on a “crusade” of contrarianism, of doing nothing but offending those you consider your enemies.
So yes, the goal is to offend everyone, even at the cost of associating with known child rapists, sex traffickers and other unsavoury characters.
Andrew Tate is one of the most prominent members of the so-called manosphere, a collection of influencers, podcasters and content creators who helped deliver young male voters to Trump.
Andrew Tate (and his gremlin Adin Ross) campaigned HARD for Trump. I imagine this is connected.
Oh, absolutely. But they can’t be ignorant of what effect this sort of protectionism will have on the world’s opinion of the current US admin. They think they can get away with impunity, they really believe their own hype (that democracy and state of law are over). That’s why they don’t care about doing it so openly, and leaving a paper trail.
Did donald also suck tates tata?
That’s one interpretation of the headline.
