Classic supply side Jesus

Small-business owners are a major force behind the U.S. swing vote. Nearly a quarter are registered Democrats and 38% are Republicans, according to the National Small Business Association’s 2024 Politics of Small Business Survey

Small-business owners’ support for Trump was based, in large part, on opposition to the current regulatory regime.

In addition to promising a lighter regulatory touch, Trump campaigned on lowering taxes, which small business applauds.

source

Doesn’t sound like an infinitesimally small number of business owners.

There are enough idiots complaining now in a variation of “I support Trump but I didn’t think the tariffs/deportations would hurt my business”

The expectation is that they’ll have to hire back a lot of developers back in a panic once the consequences start hitting.

There is a small chance a new AI is developed in time that is actually good at coding and debugging in a complex environment before that point but for now that seems unlikely.

“Also won’t hurt our corporate sponsors”

But the lifetime subscription to Boopies will be invalid and you need to upgrade to the new Boopies Max subscription.

Regulators figured nobody would be stupid enough to mess that up and no paragraphs are needed to make things explicit. Then came Elon who thought that technically correct is the best kind of correct so he made this abomination of a manual release.