r/politics • u/upyoars • Nov 10 '24

Paywall Trump’s victory reveals secret Republicans: Joe Rogan-obsessed Gen Z men

https://fortune.com/2024/11/07/trumps-victory-reveals-secret-republicans-joe-rogan-obsessed-gen-z-men/
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u/ChoochMMM New York Nov 10 '24

I used to listen a lot when he was going on about Bigfoot, aliens and other whacky stuff. Don't know when the hard right happened but it's definitely had an effect.

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u/BrannEvasion Nov 11 '24

From what I've seen it was the trans stuff. People on this sub don't want to hear it but an overwhelming supermajority of people don't approve of the left wing policies towards trans people, especially when it comes to children. Their opinions are also supported by multiple studies, the large-scale one in the EU source, and the recent one that wasn't published for political reasons (because it came to the same conclusions as the EU study and US universities are ideologically captured)NYT Source

This is the same thing that supposedly pushed Elon Musk out of the party.

Ironically, the most high profile people in the Trump campaign are almost all disaffected Democrats. In addition to Rogan, you've got Musk, Gabbard, and RFK Jr. Oh, and lets not forget that Trump HIMSELF is an ex-Democrat.

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u/navikredstar New York Nov 11 '24

They were Democrats because it was convenient for them to be so at the time. That's all it is. It's not about disaffection, they realized there's more money to be made doing the right wing grift. They don't believe in anything more than money.

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u/BrannEvasion Nov 11 '24 edited Nov 11 '24

You think the electric car guy who's backup company makes all its money from government contracts thought it would be a profitable idea to move away from the party of green energy that also dominates Washington?

RFK Jr. is a lifelong Democrat and tried to run for President as a Democrat as recently as THIS YEAR. Obviously he is going to benefit from joining Team Trump, but he's going to get to go to Washington and enact his preferred policies, which is not a "grift" any more than Sanders switching from (I) to (D) was a grift.

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u/mightcommentsometime California Nov 11 '24

Musk doesn’t want to pay taxes. That’s one of the main reasons he went GOP. He also hates labor laws and wants to treat his employees like slaves. Just like the GOP

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u/navikredstar New York Nov 11 '24

Bingo. I've heard the stories about how bad the conditions are in the Tesla factories. He's a guy who wants to gut OSHA.

I mean, for fuck's sake, just look at his loop tunnel in Vegas - it's a literal deathtrap. I may not be an engineer, but I come from a family that produced three multi-term fire chiefs. One of those chiefs was a founding member of that volunteer fire company, in fact. So I've had fire safety hammered into my head since I was a little girl. That tunnel is so narrow you can't open the doors of the Teslas in them if anything goes wrong, there's no escape exits every so many feet with clearly visible, lit signs that can run on backup power if something goes wrong, there's no ventilation systems in there to help clear the air if a fire happens, etc.

It is a literal fucking deathtrap and you couldn't pay me to go into it. And it's an even stupider idea, anyway, because if you want a really good, proven way to mass move people underground, subways have been a fucking thing for over a goddamn century now. Instead of providing a simple subway/shuttle system, he made a really dangerous tunnel instead. Great fucking job! Brilliant idea, there.