Why I Don’t Waste Time on Social Media Debates

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I don’t do social media debates. And quite frankly, I really don’t post much on social media. My people are saying you gotta put more out on X and maybe I probably should, but it’s not gonna matter. The algorithm’s only like you if you get into it with people, which I don’t have time for. I really don’t. And I do, however, do I answer?

emails, well thought out emails, absolutely. Social media to me, and I’ve explained this before, can really be a sewer. It really can be a sewer. I learned a lesson long time ago when I hosted daily talk programs. Not only did I have my watchdog on Wall Street Joe for years and years and years,

I also did daily, I did drive time shows. had morning drive time shows. I had afternoon drive time shows and you take callers. And I learned, I learned that it makes no sense. It’s a complete waste of your energy, your time, your breath to argue with, I call it arguing with idiots. Makes no sense because the conversation.

is never going to rise above a certain level. And once you recognize that, you just need to walk away because the individual you’re having that conversation with has got way too much experience at being a, I’m to say it, lack of better word, being an idiot. Said that 54%, 54 % of Americans read at the sixth grade level.

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that those people also take up space on social media and they don’t have any problem whatsoever.

giving you their ideas on things and quite frankly, they’re not really willing to listen to really anything else. What’s the point? What’s the point? So no, I will continue to deliver as best I possibly can. The facts, I’ll give you my take on it, my opinion on various different things. Do I listen to people that disagree with me absolutely freaking lube me? Because I explained this before.

That’s a true debate. A true debate is not about trying to win. It’s about trying to come to a truth. It’s one of the things that really kind of disgusts me where we are right now as far as national conversation is concerned. The fact that they got us at each other’s throats fighting with one another. Stupid. That’s what the powers that be want. That’s the people in the big club. They love all of that. You should be able to have a conversation.

with somebody. Again, share facts, try to come up with some sort of conclusion, truth. What we’ve got right now is the political discourses has basically, not the best way to describe it, is like those rap battles. They were popular, remember that? That’s how Eminem got his, he’s a rapper, that’s how we got his start where you just get up there and you just rap and make fun of the person across you, just basically rip on them and make fun of them.

And you you watch social media, it’s about, I owned you, man. Oh, man, I really got the, you got like a line in. It started a long time ago. Even with, remember presidential debates who got the best one-liners in, what was the gotcha line? That you knew that they were thinking up. They didn’t even think of it on the fly. Had somebody write it for them. Then they went ahead and used it, which was kind of pathetic to me. But that’s basically what we come down to. Zingers. Zingers.

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You don’t win political debates nowadays in the general public based upon your ability to argue a point, bring receipts, bring facts to an argument, prove a point. You win based upon how clever your zinger is.

Is it worth having conversations with people like this? No. No. It’s like banging my head against the wall. Watchdogonwallstreet.com.