I'm curious what people here think. I'm sure everyone here has seen the salt about Joe Rogan and how Kamala should have gone on his podcast (her team kept her off so she wouldn't show off how retarded she is to even more people) or how the left needs its "own Joe Rogan" (not possible because they would cancel it the minute it deviated from leftist orthodoxy). A lot of that is the left blaming everyone but themselves like they do every time they lose an election, but I kind of wonder if there's something to the theory. I don't listen to Rogan, but my understanding of his podcast is that politics isn't really the main focus and his listening base contains a lot of largely apolitical young men who are drawn it him because he talks about things they're interested in and doesn't shit on them like the legacy media does. If I'm a Joe Rogan listener who's not plugged into political stuff and I see Trump do a 3 hour interview for the podcast and see Kamala make excuses not to do the same, that's gonna leave me with a favorable impression towards Trump and make me more likely to vote for him. Since Rogan has 50 million listeners even a tiny percentage of them being moved from Kamala to Trump or not voting to Trump could move the needle.
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This works even if you don't listen to Rogan. Trump was willing to go where Americans are to talk to them. Kamala was not. Even if you don't listen to the interview, that's a shift in favorability towards him. Same as the McDonald's stunt. Even if you know it's a staged photo op, the fact that his side knows what kind of staged photo op is relatable was beyond anything Kamala's camp was capable of.
Yes. But not for the reasons they think. Such a figure on their side would mean they had made huge strides in changing their culture because having someone who will chat with people they aren't in lock-step with is antithetical to the left. Having their "own Joe Rogan" would mean the echo chamber had gone away already, so yeah, they would be in a better position culturally. But when they say "own Joe Rogan," they just think they need a different flavor of propaganda. That's why it will never work for them.