Except in the past 4 years, it was profitable and persuasive to be in the center and to tard-wrangle the alt-right and the Left. Now, it's obvious the Centrists utterly failed although it really wasn't their fault the Republicans cucked themselves into irrelevancy. Any calls to keep calm and moderate no longer work because people now see it as a call to comply.
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political grifters love it when their side is not in power. It makes it easier to grift. people that made a job of being proud resisters are fucked.
He soooooo wants to fill the Rogan you tube void.
This can be context-sensitive to other cows; Tim produces a ton of real, monetization-worthy content that is largely free. Asking for dedicated funds isn't unreasonable and it's incredibly easy to say "no, fuck off" while still maintaining access to everything he makes and consuming it. I think of other cows like Jake Alley, who begs for money/patrons while producing absolutely NOTHING of value for his Patreon subscribers(he somehow thinks tweeting fulfills this) and it's like night and day.
I’m not sure his current content is monetization-worthy. His election/post-election grift seemed very sloppy and lazy to me. He really doesn’t seem to have been putting much time or effort into his talking points, predictions, or interpretation of events.
Tim Pool is allergic to the kind of conviction that being a dissident political commentator requires. Even if it's bad conviction people just want you to believe something.
If he was asking for money he would say Timcast.com/donate like he always did (which I never complained about)
I'd say he's been phoning it in for the past two years at this point. Except he can't be the next JRE because he's a boring person in real life. You know, the type to always talk about IRL politics in a conversation and tries to direct every conversation to himself, which Joe Rogan didn't do all that much.
Joe Rogan isn't particularly interesting himself. Just try watching any of his stand up.
He's interesting accidentally. When he's on-topic, then veers off to rant about kettlebells, chimpanzee muscle mass or trannies he is funny but not because he intends to.
I think it is to the right audience. His videos are boring to me but I can tell they're better put-together and 1000% more watchable than say TheQuartering or ClownfishTV's near daily videos for IdPol nerd culture wars.
Now that I agree with 100%, I really don’t understand how anyone can sit through the other two without nodding off for a nap
Joe Rogan, despite being a millionaire that moved to Texas to avoid paying California property taxes (the taxes that actually pay for roads and schools), is like a normal person where he talks about whatever hobby he's thinking of whether it's DMT or MMA or whatever his guest is interested in. The only real time I thought Rogan fucked up was when he interviewed Mike Tyson. Shockingly tone-deaf when it was clear Tyson was a recovering addict when it came to boxing.
