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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To quote ShoeOnHead, "You people had a leftist Joe Rogan! HIS NAME WAS JOE ROGAN!"
ShoeOnHead did an entire video on this that was, from my PoV, utterly hilarious, and a demonstration of how the Democrat party seems incapable of reflection and/or self-criticism of all the flaws that cost them the election. (Whether that holds true in the future, we'll have to see.)
As for Joe Rogan... I honestly don't know. I think it certainly gave Trump a boost to have people hear him sit down and do a one-on-one back and forth banter with someone else, sans any sort of media filter, but wether that gave him a state or two, fuck if I know.
Speaking for myself, my big worry running up to the election as whether or no the entire media ecosystem constantly gaslighting for Kamala was enough to sway the uninformed voter(on top of the already baked-in fraud). But apparently the reality on the ground was enough to turn people around - apparently paying for gas and food is important for people who can't afford working from home and EVs!