I wasn't going to, but I listened to this whole thing. This is my problem with Roland. He's one of the smartest political commentators out there FULL STOP, but he's a part of the machine. Bernie does have a "race" problem. Do I think he's racist, nah... does he have racist followers, SURE. But by the standard Roland is holding him accountable to, every other political candidate has a "race" problem. Kamala said she wasn't doing "anything" for black people only. I don't remember Hilary explicitly stating that she was doing anything specific to anyone's identity. And the shyt Biden did was symbolic gestures tantamount to nothing in the grand scheme specific to identity politics.
Roland knows who signs his biggest checks, and takes issue related to that. Who gives a fukk if Bernie didn't do his show? Too many people, ESPECIALLY NOW are doing this political puritan test for democrats. Maybe it was scheduling issues or MAYBE he felt it was a liability going on his show... I don't know. Unless we know the full story and aren't speculating, I DON'T GIVE A fukk. We can easily say the only reason Roland is criticizing Bernie IS BECAUSE he's never done his show.
Save that criticism for Schulz, because he's clearly playing "#bothsides". That's what a podcaster is gonna do. I'm not even a Bernie fan because I think his plans are only marginally more actionable than the shyt Trump is conjuring up.
Everything is about a fukking dollar right now, and Roland telegraphs that shyt early and fukking often.
Kamala was a trash candidate. Biden was a washed and trash candidate. Hilary was a trash candidate. To say Bernie wouldn't have won the nom is total bullshyt, because it was clear the democratic party ganked him. Roland is the "liberal elite" he keeps asking Bernie to identify. Shorty talking about "feminism(S) IYKYK" is the "liberal elite". This country is full of stupid people, and Roland's panel is talking down to them, And ultimately, it's about money... DAMN NEAR EVERY fukkING episode of Unfiltered I listen to Roland is bytching about money going to his show. Which I'm not discounting isn't important, but you water down your message, regardless of the validity when you keep bytching about money, you have no other objective opinions about any other politicians who are roughly 80% aligned to the same fukkING things.
He's a part of the fukking political problem we're in right now.