They are ideologically incompetent and are going to end up funding an honest to god Nazi party because they'll get duped by a gay fascist or something

The most popular democrat podcaster I know is already willing to take the reins.

God damn do they need to touch grass.

They can probably just pay Joe Rogan.

Democrats are just a fundraising corporation. That is why they will never change their politics.

I take it the Pod Johns' star has dimmed

Smug insufferable online neolib that thinks they have all the answers that appeals to smug young neolibs

That’s D*stiny

they could simply have told reddit not to ban the chapo traphouse if that's what they wanted

Reminder that Rogan endorsed Bernie in 2020. They had a Joe Rogan, it was Joe Rogan.

They already have these people. It's Bill Maher, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, etc. They're just on cable TV which nobody under 50 watches anymore. Not to mention, they're insufferable to everyone except establishment dems.

Republicans realized this a decade ago, so they gave Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, etc. large online platforms in addition to their cable appearances. Then, they had a slew of talking heads like Candice Owens and Milo Yiannopoulos branch out further into online spaces while the original grifters kept their distance. People like Kirk maintain plausible deniability if they need to burn anyone who steps out of line or becomes too controversial (as was the case with Milo).

It's why the conservative outrage machine grows and keeps its momentum going, while dems sit around with their thumbs up their asses wondering if some D-list celebrity can topple Joe Rogan.

They’re trying to find someone likable with smug liberal politics? You’re better off paying millions for the capture of Bigfoot.

Crazy that their idea is to completely manufacture a guy rather than engaging with any already popular left winger on the internet

that's why it's not possible

say what you like about Rogan, he got to where he is very organically

They are going to grow him in a vat like the giant warriors from Nausicaa

It's hilarious that the dems, supposedly the adults in the room, are dummer than Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan doesn't convince people to think like him he says what people already think.

Hassan is your Joe Rogan of the left.

But they want a liberal Joe Rogan. Aka a neoliberal who appeals to populist.

Not an internally coherent political movement.

There's nothing inherently special about Joe Rogan, he's just a popular media figure who repeats generally right-wing talking points and presents a right-wing aesthetic, and thereby funnels his audience into that mode of thinking.

Liberals have several of their own equivalents of this figure on various talk shows and news stations, but people don't like them because they're smug dickheads who exist to cough up the same tired lib-shit that people are only ever more burnt-out on. And young people don't really watch television media anymore.

There are popular liberal / left figures online that democrats could tap into, but the most popular tend to be too far left of the party leaders to support. The democrats ultimately do not want leftists or even just "progressives", they want the moderate republicans -- the dragon they can't stop chasing -- and only tolerate the left flank of their party at best.

They literally just need better politics, and they're hellbent on rejecting that change, unless it's moving rightward and becoming a wussier version of republicans. So (god willing) they will die as a party, and they will deserve it.

I mean, they do desperately need to do something about things like the fact that virtually all the top politics streamers are right-wing. But rather than trying to artificially promote someone whose message they can control (which people will easily see through), they should probably start by buddying up with the one big politics streamer who isn't on the right, Hasan Piker. But that would require engaging with someone who doesn't perfectly pass their shitlib purity test, so they'd rather pour money into tame mouthpieces that everyone will ignore because it's not how the current media environment works.

They're almost certainly going to lose in 2028, unless Trump nukes the economy and maybe even then.