Bernie Sanders blasts Democrats for their attitude towards Joe Rogan

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1. man when that knucklehead endorsed Bernie in 2015 I really thought he was gonna win it. The DNC really fucked up the entire timeline that election.

2. We can’t just keep demonizing everyone that isn’t a party line Democrat. That’s not how you win converts.

3. Bernie you’re right about most things but fuck Joe Rogan.

4. Bernie says anyone that goes on the podcast will have disagreements with Rogan, but it shouldn’t be a problem.   He’s right. No one but ardent fans want to listen to a softball interview.  A good candidate can turn things to their advantage. 

5. Going on podcasts that have predominantly right leaning young male audiences to introduce yourself and share your vision for the country would have been way more useful than campaigning with Republicans.

   Bernie has been right to criticize the Democrats strategy. Listening to what Pelosi and other Dem leaders have said recently it seems like they would rather blame voters than their strategy. Or they will just try to blame everything on Biden. Either way they need to adapt or be ready to lose to JD Vance in 2028 after he goes on all these popular podcasts and Democrats stay away. There’s no reason to concede these potential voters to Republicans. Bring your message to them.

6. Fuck Joe Rogan. He’s a morons version of Jon Stewart.

7. I agree with Bernie on this. When the interview with Kamala didn’t happen, my fellow Democrats posted in support of her and bashed Rogan.

   But what many of these people don’t understand is that Joe Rogan is the biggest podcaster in the world, it’s a fact. When you pass on this opportunity, you lose the audience. His show’s visibility is so massive that an interview with a relatively unknown comedian or even a boring conspiracy theorist can get double the views in a single day than our debate did.

   Rogan is one of the few right-leaning figures who actually listens and gives his guests a chance to speak. He has fans across the political spectrum.

   We must stop hating or completely alienating someone because of their ideology before even having a dialogue.

8. It’s easy to Monday morning quarterback. I imagine that they looked at demographic information and decided not to go chase a podcaster for a demographic that doesn’t typically vote.

9. Democrats should have done Joe Rogan podcasts, but more importantly, Democrats should have done more left podcasts too.

   I could not fucking believe that folks like BTC and David Pakman had to beg and plead for Democrats to come on their shows, and they would often get a single interview once or twice a year.

   Fucking. Ridiculous.

   The Right has crafted a ecosystem where they show up, talk about shit, and reach the voters.

   Democrats need to do the same. And they need to do it like yesterday.

10. Are we to understand that elections are decided by podcasts now? Is this the takeaway really?

11. Maybe Bernard they don’t like it when he jokes about fixing the homeless situation in Los Angeles by shooting them. Like what the fuck is he going on about? Jfc.

12. I dont know what the deal is with Joe Rogan, but finger pointing and trying to predict what is wrong is not the right way to win election. The next candidates for election need to step up and listen to folks do good with their constituents and other folks right now and really reach out to being genuine and set themselves apart.

    Trump started his campaign for 2024 in 2021 as when he called “stolen election”, he never stopped. He was determined and hd people with common goals working towards the outcome. They were and are united while Dems are very much divided within party lines

13. When Bernie went to his show Rogen was just a pot a smoker who wanted to interview people’s.

    Now Rogen is a conspiracy theory that thinks the government want to poison you.

    If a democratic go on his show, it’s not going to be like Trump where he will ask soft ball questions and will be amazed by your ability not to answer anything, he will ask crazy question that dosent matter how you answer he will make you seem like you avoiding the question.

14. Gavin newsom and buttigieg should start campaigning already they’re the most combative dems who can sway republican voters on platforms like rogan’s

15. “Blasts democrats” is straight up bullshit propaganda. Read the actual quote, he says there’s no problem going on the show and that’s it

16. I hate these kinds of headlines. Did anyone actually bother to read the article? How is what he stated being regarded as “blasting”? Seems more like an objective assessment than a “blast.”

17. They’re not gonna do it any time soon. This election wasn’t a wake up call. 2016 was and they ignored it. They are choosing to believe that people care more about Beyonce endorsements and going on the view are what tips elections. Pretty sure they just enjoy feeling like Hollywood celebrities

18. Part of the problem i believe is most democrats have put together this patchwork of extreme issues as their overall message. If an issue gets called out individually it alienates voters. So during interviews where democrats can’t control the questions they end up looking bad or have to appear to be obviously double talking.

    Pandering to voters and extremist views swings both ways – it has clearly alienated lots of people. Some examples include – sanctuary cities vs border security, women’s rights and allowing transgender men to compete in sports vs women, law enforcement vs defunding the police.

19. The fact that I hear calls for “a left wing Joe Rogan” shows just how clueless a lot of the left is about who and what Joe Rogan actually is. You do not want that, because Joe Rogan is not an inherently or at least deliberately right wing creature. He’s just a somewhat liberal stoner, with some conservative sensibilities, with a bit of an anti-establishment complex who does a very poor job of pushing back against bullshit from some of his guests, and happens to be susceptible to right wing, anti establishment and “common sense” messaging. If you’re deliberately trying to manufacture a “left wing” version, that’s going to be completely disingenuous, you’re just deliberately creating a propaganda vehicle with a useful idiot (minimal offense to Joe there, but yeah,) and… I think the left has enough stoners and minor celebrities on its side. I don’t think any of them need to be given a podcast just to counter Joe Rogan.

20. If Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris can go on Fox News, why can’t Democrats go on Joe Rogan? Rogan, unlike Fox news hosts, supports LBGT rights and universal health care. The average Fox News viewer is an elderly Republican that is never voting Democrat. The average Rogan listener is a young male that has no calcified party alignment — the kind of voter that has unfortunately fleeing the Democratic party lately but could be won back. Just writing off a huge audience of potential voters that the party ought to be winning back doesn’t make any sense.

21. Joe Rogan was sympathetic and even had some lefty views when he was first getting big. However because he did not agree with the loud left wing activists on everything he got endless hate from them. As a result democratic politicians shunned Rogan and basically ceded the information space to right wing voices. Bernie was able to go on and actually get an endorsement from Rogan out of it.

    Rogan is the prime example of how the hyper online left can overstep and end up wagging the dog of politicians. They bullied him right out of the coalition.

    I dont agree with Rogan about everything, but he is willing to have opposing voices on and mix things up. Any appearance by Harris on the podcast would have been good, but there should have been years of dem politicians and left wing figure heads laying the ground work.

22. This really touches on something I’ve felt for a long time. The problem isn’t “*fake news*” per se.

    The bigger problems seem to be:

    – Exaggerated headlines stop an otherwise true but less interesting news story.

    – A society that increasingly forms opinions only on the headlines and can’t be bothered to read the story, let alone do some research on a topic.

    – Ads that are disguised to look just like editorial content (companies like taboola exist to do this, and they their deceptive ads to thousands of legitimate news outlets).

    – People’s increasing ignorance of the difference between opinion content and journalistic content. An op-ed piece is cited as if it’s actually news that was researched by the publishing paper or network.

23. You know? I never thought I’d see that headline ever

24. Bernie’s starting to come across as lame. He’s the dude who swears he knew the right answers on the test just wrote them down wrong.

25. It is headlines like this that illustrate how Reddit of all places played a part in the rhetoric leading to Trump’s re-election. Out of touch. Bernie understood what happened. Still waiting for the rest of the right to catch up.

26. Bernie is a fair critic in this case. We know this because of the election results.

27. JRE has 15m weekly listeners. Don’t know how you pass on that as a politician.

    But seriously it is crazy the hate he gets from the left. From honestly a lot of people that have never listened to a single episode.

28. Rogan is a terrible interviewer. He’s objectively not an intelligent guy, just an oaf with a mic. The fact that so many young men are getting political messaging from him is sad.

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