"Those who dance appear insane to those who can't hear the music." ~~ George Carlin
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
CHIP isn't a Democrat demand LOL, the Republicans could've passed that at any time. It's one of those no-brainer bills nobody is going to vote against. They kept that in their pocket until now so that they could force the Democrats to refuse to fund it and allow them to point fingers.
This is basic bitch politics 101. It's what you always do if you need to create leverage for yourself in a political negotiation.
And reminder, DACA is only a problem because Trump removed the EO without any plan to legislate it. And then suddenly said "oh but if you don't make the deadline, I'll extend it". Which they didn't, so he did. He creates a can and then kicks it down the road. If they didn't want the DACA roadblock, they could have just left the EO in place and dealt with it later - now they have to deal with it now, which they don't want to do because it's too popular for them to get rid of but also makes them look "soft on immigration" to the racist hick demographic. Ideally they want to drag it out, leave it to later, or better yet wait until the Democrats are in office again so that THEY have to pass it. But they can't because Trump pulled the pin on the grenade for nothing more than a short term boost in his base polling. So now the Democrats are capitalising on that political blunder, because of course they are.