Went to a Korean barbecue place last night. First time I’ve ever been there, first time I’ve ever been to that part of town, it was the end of the night so we were the only people there trying to figure things out. We apparently managed to do everything right, but we were really unsure if we were the entire time until the check came. We did however manage to accidentally upgrade to the premium meat options but it was totally worth it.

A month, maybe. I’d probably get arrested for squatting at work sooner, tbh. If I cut and run to the woods tonight, I could probably make it further, but I’ll run out of food money faster than I could get a reliable food source going before winter hits

They bought the ability to play god, and that’s all that matters to them. It’s not about being “good” or “evil”, that’s for us poors to worry about. It’s about being able to wield power over us and have nobody stop them, our lives at the mercy of their whim. Small tyrants ruling over a broken kingdom.

You forget that if you say them together in that order while flying a Dixie flag and a swastika you can get a police escort, it’s only wrongspeak when you say that Israel is committing a genocide and ask for them to stop doing it.

They also made a mockery of some moron with a gold wrapped cybertruck, so there’s 2 for Wustah

They’re running our country like a civil war surgeon, they’re just going to hack off limbs, and if God wills it, we’ll survive.

They’ve got fascist misogynists who reference the Bible, which to the casual observer (or Republican voter), are hard to distinguish from actual Christian Nationalists, but none of these people actually worship anything other than the dollar and absolute power.

You are missing the point and at this point, I’m assuming it’s deliberate.

You are missing the point of my original comment, there are podcasts that do get sponsored by conservative or hard right/religious right money that are filling the same niche that AM radio used to, and they are being sponsored because the right knows that it works because they already did the same thing with AM radio.

As an aside, I have never seen a handyman with an ad for a sponsor on their vehicle, ever. Maybe an ad for their own business, but that’s how a service industry works, you need to advertise yourself. Podcasters are entertainers or influencers, and in our economic system, if your income isn’t directly generated by the work you do (service), then it is given to you to perform or advertise (entertainment). An entertainer doesn’t work for their audience. They put in work to gain and keep an audience, but no one person in the audience has the ability to tell an entertainer what to do or say, that power solely covers from the group that pays that entertainer to entertain. The owner of a venue pays a comedian or band, you pay the venue to be allowed to be entertained at that venue. The venue decides what content they put on stage because it can become associated with their brand. Patreon does allow people to directly support podcasters, yes, but if you run ads at all, you are beholden to their terms in order to continue receiving payment. It is statistically improbable that the vast majority of conservative leaning podcasters are either self funded or entirely crowd funded, just like most influencers. Those cross country Van-Lifers are largely either independently wealthy or sponsored by the brands they showcase, serving as an advertisement to their viewers, many of whom are also wealthier. Podcast hosting has a similar barrier to entry as being a SoundCloud hip-hop artist or maybe a country singer, a computer and maybe a camera, so anybody can do for extra income if there are brands or causes willing to actually make it worth the effort to do

No, if they run ads, they are sponsored. A handyman is self employed. I don’t stop working to thank DeWalt or Snap-on for providing my tools, I bought them myself.

And the people bankrolling these podcasts, or at least sponsoring them to push a slant to the right, are fully aware of the similarities. It’s why they do it, they already did the math.