I’m watching live now and I’ve heard two points that I want to strongly agree with:
Cenk made a point about the second spectrum of politics, about which he has apparently recently written for Newsweek. This does help it make sense that Rogan would go for both Sanders and Trump.
The other host has talked about Rogan’s incompetence (my own word here) in sitting across from Musk and showing that he is not capable of being a discerning host and understanding that Musk does not know what he’s talking about.
I disagree with some of the mystification that Cenk is voicing as to how Trump and others think it’s a good idea to continue with the outrageous racist and misogynistic and generally hate-filled outbursts. I think Cenk and others are missing that if Trump were to back off of these things now, he would have a loss of votes as well as a gain of votes. This is part of Trump’s populist appeal that he is always willing to keep the pedal to the metal and say things that he’s not supposed to say (according to mainstream thinking) but which some of his followers want him to say.
In my opinion populism and tribalism are not antithetical. In any event, Trump may sometimes side with the establishment, but he sells himself nicely as being anti-establishment, and a lot of people see him this way, hence, it can be said he seems to have some populist appeal.
He tries to show to his audience that he is not down with the Trump program with various comments -then shakes his hand at that UFC thing? Oh, what: was the guy who runs UFC going to ban you if you didn’t do that?! Wow -can’t have that happen! I have to keep showing up at my inhumane events to show I’m an alpha!!
Hi, I like the fact that you post many good comments, and that you were re-visiting an old thread of mine, but I’m not ok with your use of the derogatory term here. It seems quite out of place and unlike what little I know of you. Please consider just removing that part of the post, or removing the post. Thanks.