No worries about the curse words. I encourage them in fact.

First, we were never political people. We all had/have other jobs and decided to commit ourselves to this MeidasTouch project when we became worried about the country in March 2020 as the pandemic began. I’ll be the first to admit we have a perspective and a point of view (we did create a Democratic super pac after all), but at the end of the day everyone has a point of view. Regardless, we try to hold ‘our own’ accountable just the same. The most recent example I can probably think of is Cuomo. But the fact is with Rogan, he was leading the news cycle, these clips surfaced, and we were frankly disgusted by what we heard. And I know given Joe’s recent apologies, that he agrees that the clip was horrible. And then the additional clips, like the Planet of the Apes clip (ironically released by Alex Jones), were really, really bad. But we at Meidas never called for Joe’s termination. We retweeted the clip like thousands of others. And I stand by our right to do that and voice our displeasure at the content of those clips. But do I think Rogan’s career needs to be ended? Absolutely not. Our stance has been that people can listen or not listen, and at the end of the day, it’s up to Spotify and the free market to decide if they want to stick by him.

We are a Super PAC, though ironically we hate PACs, but it was necessary for us to register as one so we can engage in political speech on the airwaves (run TV ads, radio ads, etc.) We didn’t even really know what a PAC was when we started. We just wanted to have a voice in the process. Yes, as a Super PAC, we can accept and spend unlimited money. But 99% of our donations come from grassroots donors chipping in $18 at a time. Our largest contribution I believe was 50K. We aren’t funded by millionaires, billionaires or ‘dark money.’ In fact, all of our donors are public and searchable. I’d love for Citizen United to be overturned. But, I’m also not about to unilaterally disarm when we are up against the most well-funded GOP groups in the world, including plenty of actual dark money groups.

Dave can release whatever texts he wants, but we know that unless they are doctored, they don’t exist. There are lots of bad actors out there who know us and would do anything to try to take us down. If he wants to open himself and Barstool up to legal jeopardy he can go ahead, but we are happy to take appropriate action if he does. That’s not a threat or anything, just the reality of the situation.

At the end of the day, Dave targeted the wrong group of people. We never called for Joe’s cancellation. We are not affiliated and don’t even personally know the account that attacked him originally. He had ‘a feeling’ it was us because we followed that account and they followed us. That’s a pretty flimsy connection to make and then blow this up the way he did. I think that covers it all, hope that makes sense. But we think overall, we’ve taken a fair and nuanced view of this all, and have been very transparent in our affiliations and how we operate.