Welcome back to False Flag! Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has infuriated the white-guy gamer faction of MAGA with a new ad promoting state welfare reform that positions a video game–playing white guy as the prototypical slob living on the government dole.

In the ad, a disheveled unemployed white man spends all day on a bean-bag chair playing video games and inhaling cheese puffs, too lazy even to stand up to refill his snacks. By the end of it, though, Huckabee Sanders’s new work requirements have convinced him to put on a tie and get a job.

The ad has been received terribly by many Republican pundits, who see underemployed young white men as a key part of their coalition. A long list of pundits—including Jack Posobiec, the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, the Blaze’s John Doyle, and numerous groypers—accused Huckabee Sanders of unfairly blaming white men for welfare costs. Walsh asked why Huckabee Sanders hadn’t instead shown a “black single mom.” (Statistically, more white Americans receive SNAP benefits than any other group, though proportionate to their population numbers, more black Americans do.)

Hilariously, Huckabee Sanders is undeterred, and essentially called her critics lazy bums themselves. What a great fight!

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