Zoidberg
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So, to mark my arrival to the Promised Land, to the Great Beyond that is this forum, I thought I'd create a new post.
Earlier today I saw a post by @Scepticalscribe on the other forum asking about sane conservatives. As I'm banned from posting there, I sent her a PM, which I'm going to paste:
"If you want to listen to a sane conservative's take, I suggest you listen to Joe Walsh on his eponymous show (around 1 hour/episode) and his podcast F*ck silence (20-25 minutes/episode).
He was originally in the Tea Party movement, so at the time he was classed as arch-conservative and went to Washington as a congressman. However, he was too naive and lacked the astuteness to survive in politics and he lost the reelection after a couple of years.
Back home, he kept at it (muh gun rights, etc), he was on Fox news, he was on the Trump train, etc. but he increasingly started calling out Trump on his radio show whenever he felt what Trump did or said wasn't right. Eventually (after Trump's meeting with Putin in Helsinki) he came to the conclusion that Trump was unfit, and kept saying so on live radio until he became too much of a nuisance for his employer and got fired.
He then decided to run against Trump in the primary (again, the lack of political survival instinct was evident). Unsurprisingly, he lost, but as it was a matter of principles, he persisted and left the Republican party. Some time later, he even pledged to vote for the Democrat's candidate to defeat Trump (including Bernie Sanders or Warren). When the pandemic started, he started doing a podcast (**** Silence) on his own to try to convince Republicans to vote for the Democrats, and soon after he started doing the Joe Walsh Show on the radio where he takes calls from all sides.
I'm not saying he's one of the great thinkers of the century, and as a left leaning European I disagree on most issues with him, but it really makes for an interesting listen, since he comes from the cult, and knows the Republican party quite well (he was one of Pence's protégés in Congress, and was friends with many in what later became Trump's praetorian guard). Some of his podcast episodes are great, others are a bit too "rambly", but if you do want the opinion of a sane republican, it's a great choice."
I figured more here would like to give it a try. The election's over, but if you have someone who's -somehow- still on the verge about whether Trump and the current GOP are good guys, it could also be a good way to get them to listen to a different point of view that might be more palatable as it comes from someone staunchly conservative.
Classic talk show format: 1-1.5 hours, daily, radio + podcast, takes calls from listeners, no profanity
Short form: 2-3 updates/week, podcast only, frequent profanity.
He's also on twitter @walshfreedom
Earlier today I saw a post by @Scepticalscribe on the other forum asking about sane conservatives. As I'm banned from posting there, I sent her a PM, which I'm going to paste:
"If you want to listen to a sane conservative's take, I suggest you listen to Joe Walsh on his eponymous show (around 1 hour/episode) and his podcast F*ck silence (20-25 minutes/episode).
He was originally in the Tea Party movement, so at the time he was classed as arch-conservative and went to Washington as a congressman. However, he was too naive and lacked the astuteness to survive in politics and he lost the reelection after a couple of years.
Back home, he kept at it (muh gun rights, etc), he was on Fox news, he was on the Trump train, etc. but he increasingly started calling out Trump on his radio show whenever he felt what Trump did or said wasn't right. Eventually (after Trump's meeting with Putin in Helsinki) he came to the conclusion that Trump was unfit, and kept saying so on live radio until he became too much of a nuisance for his employer and got fired.
He then decided to run against Trump in the primary (again, the lack of political survival instinct was evident). Unsurprisingly, he lost, but as it was a matter of principles, he persisted and left the Republican party. Some time later, he even pledged to vote for the Democrat's candidate to defeat Trump (including Bernie Sanders or Warren). When the pandemic started, he started doing a podcast (**** Silence) on his own to try to convince Republicans to vote for the Democrats, and soon after he started doing the Joe Walsh Show on the radio where he takes calls from all sides.
I'm not saying he's one of the great thinkers of the century, and as a left leaning European I disagree on most issues with him, but it really makes for an interesting listen, since he comes from the cult, and knows the Republican party quite well (he was one of Pence's protégés in Congress, and was friends with many in what later became Trump's praetorian guard). Some of his podcast episodes are great, others are a bit too "rambly", but if you do want the opinion of a sane republican, it's a great choice."
I figured more here would like to give it a try. The election's over, but if you have someone who's -somehow- still on the verge about whether Trump and the current GOP are good guys, it could also be a good way to get them to listen to a different point of view that might be more palatable as it comes from someone staunchly conservative.
He's also on twitter @walshfreedom
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