The politics don't help - take Bill Simmons for example. He had a ton of fans at his peak most of them were white guys around 30-40 years of age. This group voted for Trump somewhere between 60 and 65% and yet he needled the frick out of them over the past two years bashing Trump on every podcast so that he could get chummier with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and Jon Favreau and his new LA friends.

As a (partial) result, he had unbelievably low ratings and lost his HBO show like 4 episodes into his run and his political friends betrayed him, taking the politics efforts he launched and funded at Ringer to do their own thing.

You should never become overly partisan unless it's your schtick like Colbert

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Posted by CorporateTiger

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:06 pm to SirWinston

Not to get too off topic, but Simmons didn't lose his show because of the politics. He lost his show because it wasn't good in any aspect.

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Posted by claremontrich

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 2:37 pm to SirWinston

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The politics don't help - take Bill Simmons for example. He had a ton of fans at his peak most of them were white guys around 30-40 years of age. This group voted for Trump somewhere between 60 and 65% and yet he needled the frick out of them over the past two years bashing Trump on every podcast so that he could get chummier with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and Jon Favreau and his new LA friends. As a (partial) result, he had unbelievably low ratings and lost his HBO show like 4 episodes into his run and his political friends betrayed him, taking the politics efforts he launched and funded at Ringer to do their own thing. You should never become overly partisan unless it's your schtick like Colbert

You described my situation to a T. I couldn't of said it better myself

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