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Huh. So you weren’t answering my posted question, but picking out the first sentence in my post. Thank you for clarifying your statement.

Okay, we have nothing further to talk about then.

First, thank you for posting sources to support your claim. I looked at most of them.

Democrats are on the hunt for their own Joe Rogan from May 2025

The tagline on the article says: “Party leaders and mega-donors want to counter MAGA’s online momentum by recreating a digital right-wing ecosystem for the left”

Okay so Party Leaders and megadonors want this right? But the article continues…

“As Democrats plot a return from the electoral wilderness, a growing chorus of party figures has begun to push for a liberal-leaning alternative to the right’s digital dominance.”

So gone are the megadonors now, and we’re down to “party figures”. What happened to the megadonors? The article actually tells us…

“That belief has led to party mega-donors being ‘inundated with overtures’ to open their wallets for the development of an ‘army of left-leaning online influencers.’”

Okay, so the megadonors aren’t asking a Demo-Rogan, someone is asking megadonors to pay for a Demo-Rogan. But so far we still have no names of any of the cited “party leaders”. However we do have a named Democrat figure that is against a Demo-Rogan:

“The notion that victory is possible if they ‘spend enough billionaire money’ to create a Rogan equivalent ‘speaking in Democratic talking points’ is ‘laughable,’ said Emily Jashinsky at UnHerd.”

This supports my statement.

If you do run across the unnamed party leaders, I’d be interested in knowing who they are.

Democrats seeking to buy the ‘next Joe Rogan’ of the left after 2024 election defeat also May 2025

Sorry, I don’t consider Fox News as a news source. I skipped this one.

Could This 20-Year-Old Be One of the Democrats’ Bro Whisperers? from December 2024

I don’t have a NYT subscription so I couldn’t read the whole article, but the part I could read was talking about a young man with a politics driving youtube channel. I don’t consider that a Democratic Joe Rogan.

Can Democrats win back podcasting? We asked 6 popular show hosts to weigh in from November 2024

The article author openly says he’s not asking for a Demo-Rogan.

“Also, the idea of a ‘liberal Joe Rogan’ has been floated a lot since the election and I don’t want to just parrot that since it’s not really what I mean”.

Note: The “the idea of a liberal Joe Rogan” is a hyperlink to yet another article. I read that one too. There’s no claim of a Demo-Rogan there either. The closest the author gets to is this:

"If liberals ever hope to compete with such a successful messaging apparatus, they’re going to have to do more than create clones of Crooked Media. They will have to elevate, or build from the ground up, captivating public figures who connect with vast audiences including, but not limited to, disaffected young men—and entertain the hell out of them. "

Lowry: The Left can’t create a new Joe Rogan

That last article actually supports my position, not yours. It says this:

“Progressives are correct about the power of Rogan and his cohort of bro podcasters, but they don’t understand how thoroughly anathema their ideology and cultural sensibility are to this kind of programming. If Left did manage to create a progressive Joe Rogan in a lab, as soon as he said something controversial out in the wild, he’d be subject to cancelation.”

It’s definitely been a topic for a couple of years now.

At least from the articles you posted that is more of a incorrect statement than correct. Yes, I see how you came to that conclusion and in some very narrow readings there are pieces of truth but, I think your premise is disingenuous to claim to be generally true. Keep in mind, I’m not attacking you as a person. I’m not calling you a bad person. I just disagree with your conclusions.

The idea of Demo-Rogan messaging is a repeat of the 1990s where Al Frankin and others created [“Air America”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_(radio_network) to counter the Republican mouthpiece of the day Rush Limbaugh. Air America failed there too for the same reason a Demo-Rogan would today. Democrats don’t tune into radio for half truths and empty open ridicule of the GOP even though the GOP richly deserves ridicule, especially with trump in office.

I stand by my original statement.

Democrats spent the last year asking where their Joe Rogan was.

I have never once heard anyone say that before reading it here. Rogan is an ill-informed person that uses his significant audience to spread misinformation and modern day mysticism against actual science while at the same time gives a platform to some truly horrible people.

Why on Earth would Democrats want that for themselves?

Their sitting congresspeople. They don’t have to win an election to affect change. They can simply use their vote to go against the immoral legislation put before them. Instead, they’re just heading for the exits and months or years of voting for the horrible stuff.

I didn’t read the article, fwiw. EVs should be taxed.

I’m already taxed on my EV at the state level. The article you didn’t read would add additional federal taxes. I’m not opposed to paying my fair share to maintain roads. The problem is these EV tax levels are WAY OVER the fair share for EV drivers.

US infrastucture is paid for by taxes on fuel at the pump, so all EVs do is destroy roads.

The problem is proportion. The EV, lets call them “road taxes”, are a static number, and that number is VERY HIGH.

Lets assume the average car gets 30 miles/gallon. My current state EV tax is $200/year. The total fuel tax (state and federal) where I live is 38.5 cents/gallon. If we do the math EVs are paying the tax on the equivalent driving of 15,584 miles/year.

The article you didn’t read talks about the GOP wanting to put an additional $250/year tax on EVs at the federal level. So using the same metrics as in the example before an EV would be paying the tax on the equivalent driving of 36,065 miles/year.

To add insult to injury, I drive less than 9k miles a year.

Because these are static taxes and not based on actual use, actual road damage, there’s nothing a consumer can change in behavior to lower the tax except to buy a gasoline car instead.

This also says nothing to the argument that while, yes “all vehicles destroy roads”, a passenger vehicle does a tiny fraction of the damage of a giant 18-wheeler (HGV). While those big shipping trucks certainly use more fuel, they damage they do to roads far exceeds the tax they pay in fuel*.

So again, I’m fine paying my fair share of road taxes, but the current and proposed additonal EV road taxes are disproportionally high compared to both gasoline vehicles and giant 18-wheeler trucks.

Repeal the gas tax and tax the weight of the vehicle is a sane option. I am sure that isn’t what the oil-backed GOP wants, though.

I’d be fine with that.

However, my original reply stands. The GOP, in the face of high oil costs, are making EV adoption even harder.

Adopt EVs even faster

GOP are working hard against that attempting to add new annual taxes on EV usage.

Maga is so incredibly good at picking the biggest possible losers to rally behind

I always thought they perhaps started from better candidates, but even after the most simple vetting those candidates somehow fail ideological purity tests ( such as “candidate is great on white supremacy but poor on abortion, NEXT!”) or some other bullshit maga metric, and what remains are people like Mr Lumpy Pillow.

After much back-and-forth, Lindell finally grabbed the papers and tossed them on the floor.

Thats awesome! There’s now video proof he was served and he can’t deny he never wasn’t.

Process servers take note of this. If you want your target to accept the papers, simply have a second person attempting an interview.

The gas price increases are what will doom Trump.

I’m going to say its “energy prices in general” that will sink him. Gasoline is certainly one of the biggest ones. However, Americans are being squeezed on energy prices in all areas. This winter just ending has been pretty cold and natural gas prices have been higher. Electricity prices too with the double whammy of increased demand from data centers and the decline in supply. Supply is not keeping up because of trump’s war on commercial solar and wind generation, and pissing off our wonderful neighbors to the north that have abundant electricity from hydropower for export.

Worse, consumers, hit with high home and car energy prices, will seek substitutions. Home PV solar and EVs are pretty good solutions to this. Then consumers will see that trump canceled PV solar and EV tax credits in his signature BBB.

In June we’ll see the next auction rates for electricity generation. I think its going to be even worse than the last auction rates. With climate change increasing heat during the summers, we’re going have months of eye-popping electricity bills at the retail level right as the November elections are getting underway.

“What about her emotional support Lewandowski?” wrote veteran and political commentator Andrew Donaldson, a reference to Corey Lewandowski, the on-again, off-again Trump adviser who reportedly ran vast swathes of the department for Noem and has long been rumored to be in an extramarital affair with her, which they both deny.

This is comedy gold!

Usually US issued coins carry a small premium over scrap gold. It would be a public service for someone to acquire theses coins after they are issued, melt them back to regular gold and sell them a regular gold bullion.

Currently I need a small form electric truck with at least 2ft of ground clearance and preferably no giant nose on the front that small children can hide behind, with at least 100mi of travel on one charge and the ability to go 300mi in one day with full size charging stations.

You want to go back in time and get the Chevy S-10 Electric from the late 90s.

The Leaf was the first mass-produced affordable EV in the states

Well, technically the GM EV1 probably holds that title, but I agree with you in spirit.

I’ve known 6 year olds with more bowel control than trump too.

He’s a Jan 6 participant. Apparently he likes his terrorism home grown and “Made in the USA™”.

See, no sane person would smile while exposing a person death sentence to the whole world.

In that interview trump looked like a six year old that had been told a secret and couldn’t wait to tell everyone else what it was.

First, thank you for the context on his history. That is helpful. He’s clearly a MAGA piece of shit.

What is interesting is that it appears that even MAGA pieces of shit have limits. For this guy, destroying our own nation is apparently a-okay, but he’s not onboard with destroying another nation. I wish he was more principled than he is, but I suppose I should be content he’s not chanting war hawk invasion like trump is.

In reality, it means having to show a valid passport (which is a massive pain in the ass to obtain) or having a copy of your birth certificate (also a huge pain in the butt to get).

And for people that have changed their name since birth (either marriage or other reasons), the birth certificate isn’t valid under this proposed bill. So passport book ($130+$10 for a photo), or passport card only ($30+$10 for a photo). And since passport book/card requirement doesn’t apply to every American, this is effectively a selective tax targeting largely married women.

How is this anything else besides a violation of the 24th Amendment to the Constitution:

Twenty-Fourth Amendment:

Section 1

The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

Section 2

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Feb 16 2026 Justice Department head Pam Bondi says “all Epstein files released”

“Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in a letter to Congress that the Justice Department has released what she described as ‘all’ of the Jeffrey Epstein files, saying the agency has fulfilled its obligations under the Epstein Transparency Act.”

Mar 4 2026 … apparently that thing she said was a lie.

Its not often trump officials admit to falling for a scam and attacking another country.

The Trump administration and its allies in Congress presented a shifting new justification Monday for the U.S. attack on Iran, with House Speaker Mike Johnson suggesting that the White House believed Israel was determined to act on its own, leaving the president with a “very difficult decision.”

Mom: If someone else is jumping off a bridge, would you too?

GOP: Yes