Inside The Shrill Half-Wits Of The Podcast Class

The promise of the independent podcasting class was that they would be able to operate free of the constraints – groupthink, partisanship, corporate overlords, and obligations to decorum at the expense of unvarnished truth – enforced by traditional political media.

The reality is that it’s largely composed of naive, click-chasing ignoramuses whose pollution of public discourse far outweighs their contributions. Take Theo Von, the mulletted, near half-century-old comedian whom Vice President JD Vance has recommended to the public as “the funniest person imaginable” with a “good heart” to boot.