It definitely is an area that Trump targeted and won over and he was pushed to do it by Baron to help get more of the younger vote. Democrats paid little attention too it instead focusing on legacy media like 60 minutes.
Most of the large audience podcasters offered Harris a interview, even happy to do heavily scripted ones, which she elected to turn down. I think next time if its Gavin Newsom or AOC or the next democrat candidate, they will likely do a longer form podcast in the lead up to the election.
And you read the article yes? Not just the graphics? The bias toward right wing and inflammatory, grievance baiting, appeals to simplistic, sometimes violent solutions to hard problems everyone faces, denunciation of social mores that ensure some semblance of a fabric, ridicule and slander of the âotherâ etc.
Thereâs no stopping it but legitimising it isnât the answer either. Otherwise you end up with the most base and awful people running the joint with the mindsets of angry teenagers while genuinely evil â â â â â â â â â â â â â run the ship of state, and possibly the rest of the world, into whatever dark cave they choose.
I just hope they have more colour choices this time than brown or black, because those are kind of problematic. Mullets, moustaches, short trousers and pastel pullovers?
all at Trump inauguration, pretty well ties up a lot of news outlets
How long before they are squeezed?
Zuckerberg - Facebook, Instagram
Sunder Pichai - Google CEO, Android
Perlmutter - Google Founder
Musk - Tesla, Starlink
Murdouch - Fox News
Bezos Washington Post
Cook - Apple CEO
These excerpts probably show that the podcasts potentially change the narrative they were being fed on main stream media.
Matt Fitzgerald, a 35-year-old stonemason from a suburb of Boston, started listening to Rogan during the Covid-19 pandemic. He said he now listens to more than a dozen podcasts, including by Von and Bet-David, most of which he discovered through Rogan and his guests.
Once a registered Democrat who voted for President Barack Obama, Fitzgerald supported Trump in 2016 and has stuck with him ever since. Fitzgerald said he is better informed because of the podcasts he listens to. âI started listening to Rogan, and he has on all types of different guests from different walks of life,â he said, noting guests who said they were lifelong Democrats until recently. âIt kind of opened my eyes a little bit to what was going on.â
Kurtis Gunther, a 35-year-old Californian, said he voted independent, but Vanceâs appearance on the Rogan show tempted him to support the Trump ticket. âItâs absolutely crazy that all we get from most politicians is soundbites and short clips,â Gunther said. âI thought JD Vance was an idiot and a weirdo based on how the internet talks about him and the few little things that we hear from interviews or stories⌠And I listened to his interview⌠and it just gave me a totally different perspective on the guy.â
Kevin Cooper, the 31-year-old Republican party chair of Miami-Dade County, which in November turned red for the first time in decades, said Trumpâs appearances on podcasts challenged Harrisâ portrayal of him as a threat to democracy. âYou get there and heâs like âNo, I love America, and I want to make it better,ââ Cooper said.
Part of it is confirmation bias - and finding sources you want to hear to confirm your biases.
I scoffed at people saying Vance was more disturbing than Trump not so long ago.
But JFCâŚ
Itâs better than even money that Trump cops a bullet or a coronary in this term, but yikesâŚ
None of that gives me any hope for even a Walmart clearance shelf version of an intelligent and compassionate USA heading into the conflagrations of its making and/or encouragement.
