I always thought he was a dumb media whore, but it turns out that he’s stupid for free.
~This post is not meant to disparage sex workers, who actually take care of their community~
Never bothered to listen to him, but a local stand up comedian has probably watched every podcast episode of his, and discussed it quite a bit on his own podcast: Nobody should listen to Rogan. He’s an entertainer and that’s it. He’ll allow anyone on his podcast regardless of beliefs and he tends to either believe or pretend to believe them when they spew conspiracy theories and other bullshit. His political opinions depend on who’s been on his show and that’s it. Most guests have been right-wing grifters for a long time now, so that’s what he believes.
And that’s from a FAN of Joe Rogan.
To his limited credit, I’m pretty sure he’s called himself dumb in the past.
He does it all the time, but as a means to excuse himself for uncritically platforming cretins after the fact.
This admission could be calculated, he might just be trying to stay within his audience’s palate.
Sure they do…
More useful than comments like yours
I would hope so.
Yeah Joe, you and 100 million other idiots.
Actually no, this is deliberate mass ignorance. The GOP has openly advocated hunting minorities for a while now, and used the word criminal like an insult, not a statement of fact.
Some people, probably most, are that ignorant. My wife is a legal, brown immigrant, fighting for her 10-year visa, which should be a rubber stamp by now.
She had no clue. “They’re only taking criminals.” Hell, the immigration office told her not to worry about what she’s seeing on the news. And low-level government workers like that aren’t exactly parroting MAGA talking points. They just want to do their fucking job and go home.
And it’s true! The odds of ICE snatching her are slim, especially since I haven’t seen any around here and there’s no ICE office in the region. The odds are slim for everyone, but they’re ramping up fast and I’ve got a solid education in 20th century history. I know what’s coming.
Took me some time to make her realize this is a real threat to her. I don’t want to scare the shit out of the woman, but I’m nowhere outside the house, especially with her, unarmed.
My man, over half of Americans read at best on a 6th-grade level. How informed do you expect them to be?
One other thing, you’re right, most undocumented aliens are in violation of civil law, not criminal. Read up on it a bit, IANAL, but you generally have to be purposefully fucking up for your border crossing to be a criminal offense.
First of all, good on you and your wife. Seriously.
My man, over half of Americans read at best on a 6th-grade level. How informed do you expect them to be?
I’m not your man.
But I have difficulty buying the “honestly clueless” argument; after all, this has been going on for 10 years now and it never took a rocket scienctist to see what this man is about. Maybe there’s a choice to only watch Faux News? That would be part of what I mean by deliberate ignorance.
One other thing, you’re right, most undocumented aliens are in violation of civil law, not criminal. Read up on it a bit, IANAL
Yeah, the USA’s immigration legislation is seriously fucked up.
he said that hispanics are genetically criminal
but trump talks so much gibberish it’s impossible to listen to all of it.
conservative media leaves out the most horrible stuff while leftist media focuses on it….
it just shows rogan only consumes news from one side.
I just don’t understand how so many people can say with a plain face “I just didn’t think he would do again exactly what he did the first time he was president.”
I mean, I do believe that Joe Rogan is both ignorant and stupid, so…
Lot’s of YouTubers play stupid, so that they get better engagement with their public, like saying some wrong things like it was a mishap gives you comments, being a bit dumbish makes people think they can outsmart you etc etc. it’s a monetary strategy. IMO.
A monetary strategy that promulgates mass delusions. Whoopsy.
I call it this as “The Voter’s Wager”, essentially they believe less bad things will happen than promised, and more good things, because people are too confident in the “politicians just say things sometimes they don’t mean”.
I was a little shocked that they used Project 2025 so thoroughly, I though they’d just pull a few key things and try them out at first. Instead they do like half of it in 6 months. It’s astonishing for people on both sides, it’s definitely not what we’re used to. Obama had 8 years and tons of political capital and only got a couple signature initiatives done, nothing like Trump’s dozens and dozens.
The wealthy are in favor of Project 2025, so there is no real opposition to it. The wealthy did not want healthcare reform, so it had to be fought for tooth and nail only to end up with a compromise of handing tax money directly to insurance companies.
If you don’t like Project 2025 then vote DNC. If you don’t like money in politics then vote DNC. If you want the rich taxed then vote DNC.
Let me be really really clear: DNC are the “real opposition” you’re searching for.
Maybe part of it is that, as a Queer person, I’ve been keenly aware of the Heritage Foundation (and similar org.s like Focus on the Family) and following their moves since the 2000s.
They’ve been angling for these types of societal changes for decades and, like those who were intent on overturning Roe and were willing to work for it for a near century – slowly peeling off wins until they got it –, I knew they knew this was their moment and they were going to go for all of it, whatever it took to do it.
I thought we’d nearly buried them and all the homophobic attempts and moves I’d watched them make throughout the previous 2 decades with Obergefell v. Hodges (the Overton window had finally moved in a way that was downright surreal compared to the for-granted and implicit apathy (at best) and disdain of the 2000s and early 2010s) which made the 2024 election particularly existential.
If you were to guess, regarding the Heritage Foundation leaders, what do you think is the main driving forces for their relentless pursuit of the different changes? People can be fanatics and enact changes from the bottom-up, but in the last two decades there’s always been a sustained push from the top-down.
For example, on abortion, I feel like HF leaders are looking for control of women (via increasing risk and punishment for unsanctioned sex) ofc, but my impression is that the ends are for racial purity.
I’m sure it’s multifaceted and inter-related, but basically to what degree do they believe in what they profess for the agenda? Particularly, how much of it do you think it’s for capitalistic greed? Like do they expect standard of living to go down? What about for themselves?
Drumpy’s not doing those things, he’s incapable, and besides, he’s got an interior decorating thing going on with his golden office and golden ballroom… He does however, allow his dick riders and owners to do those things.
But that’s such a backwards way of looking at it. Can they really be that naive? I think similarly: politicians say things they don’t mean all the time.
However I assume many of them mean the bad things but don’t mean a lot of good things. Politicians can be narcissistic, corrupt, power hungry individuals: of course they’ll promise the moon but deliver what benefits them personally or do the minimum to get themselves reelected. How can you be foolish enough to think the opposite?
Can they really be that naive?
Yes. Source: I was like that, and my mother is still like that.
Isn’t that with every president that gets re-elected? Man 4 more years and he can finally do the thing he promised. 200 drone stikes later: any minute now we have health care. Okay he was golfing quite a lot, but now that’s out of his system and he’s too old to fuck children, i can soon afford an egg.
Normalizing what Trump is doing is work of the enemy. Don’t be the enemy.
If that were true, and I don’t believe it is, then you are a moron.
The last bit is definitely true.
Rogan is a fucking tooool who enabled Trump 1 & 2.
He’s just mirroring what his user base is thinking. We might be giving him too much credit with changing people’s minds: he just says what his listeners want to hear.
In 2024, it was all about how Trump was going to restore American men to greatness and power against the encroaching evil of criminal immigrants, feminists, and trans drag queens (???)
Now the same American men have realized that’s a bad look and he’s just providing the excuse for why it was okay to support this stuff.
We might be giving him too much credit with changing people’s minds: he just says what his listeners want to hear.
That’s from 2016 btw
he just says what his listeners want to hear.
This has literally always been his schtick. He also constantly agrees with everything his guest say even when they completely contradict each other.
He’s got no actual opinions on anything and never has.
I don’t like Rogan much, but i listened to him pretty regularly long before he moved to Spotify, when he was slightly less of a grifting bullshiter…
He absolutely does not just agree with his guests. He regularly used to tear into them over bullshit they spouted. Now is he still as principled after all this time? I wouldn’t be surprised to find out no he isn’t. But he USED to challenge guests pretty often at least.
These days that’s reserved for when they say climate change is real.
I’ll believe you if you can provide and example of him challenging something a guest on his show says.
It took me literally 3 seconds to find this https://youtu.be/S4ydSSwu1Ws
Same with that Diary of a CEO guy, dude never goes deep in his interviews, never questions an outrageous or unsubstantiated claim of his guests. And this guy has become really popular as well. It’s like people even as a 3rd party listener don’t like to hear criticism or even just critical thinking from an interviewer.
Joe, you have a large platform, and Fuck You money, and can say or do anything that you choose. You could turn your entire listening base back to the light if you felt like it.
Nice of you to finally acknowledge reality, but you’ve got a lot more heavy lifting to do. You’re not the enemy of my enemy just yet.
Not quite.
Unidentified masked armed thugs snatching people off the street without due process and shipping them off to gulag (sometimes in a completely unrelated country) is wrong even if the people are criminals.
Criminals also have rights worth protecting.
And one of your rights as a non criminal is a fair and speedy trial if someone mistakes you for one
Fair and speedy trial is a right we all enjoy, regardless of our criminal record.
TBH I’d prefer he just FOAD
I’m happy with whatever helps topple the regime the fastest.
agreed. rest in piss.
spotify gave him a very large platform,
stupid fucking housefly.
“But, but, you see, once authoritarianism starts creeping in, and it makes some inroads, which it’s definitely making right now man.”
The irony of Duncan Trussel saying this while wearing a Palantir hat feels like a top tier psyop. I’m not even conspiratorial but there is no conceivable world where you could be that dense.
no conceivable world where you could be that dense.
Peter Thiel believing to prevent the Antichrist with Palantir could be more dense.
Bro really is that dumb, huh?
He’s a free thinker! /s
I dO mY Own rESeaRcH.
I mean, he’s perfect for interviews with people whose brains are practically concussed mush. And I think he’s allowed to be an MMA commentator on the side out of pity.
Joe Rogan and Philomena Cunk are both very entertaining. Just that Cunk generally has the good sense to stay away from politics.
She’s also a character and it’s a bit. He’s serious.
Yeah Cunk is clearly played/written by a very intelligent woman. Her stupidity is consistently quite clever especially with her ability to get experts baffled at how to begin correcting her.
Rogan isn’t a bit. His decisions are that of an idiot thinking he’s playing the jester, but merely coming off as a fool.
I don’t know how much improvisation she puts into it but AFAIK she is written by a team of three men and the series in which she stars were created by Charlie Brooker.
Gesturing at a renaissance painting and asking a museum curator “What the fuck is this?” is the funniest thing I"ve seen in the last few years.
I would LOVE a Philomena Cunk interview podcast. Though I imagine it might get old after a while
The problem becomes when the interviewees know it is a bit (this is why Sasha Baron Cohen eventually got stale, or Tom Green before him)
Apparently with her she’s up front about it being a bit, unlike Ali G
I’m moderately sad now, but they still seem to be caught by surprise sometimes
Makes it even more impressive imo
she would be an actual comedian, and rogan kinda is a washout. alot of conservatives are very bitter once they become washout comedians.
his brain is drowning in PEDS as well.
Why is anyone still listening to this moron?
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
– George Carlin
other morons. MMA fans, gymbros, brogans,etc. these people also imbibe in Shapiro, owens, J peterson and the likes.
There’s far too many of them in the world.
Cue the very next episode where Joe will be spending 300x as much time berating the left because he saw a leftist do something stupid in an AI video with PS2 graphics.
Doesn’t even take AI to fool that guy. He is so dumb he can’t read a graph, so you can put facts in front of him and he will still think it supports his position.
Kinda sounds like trump, ever convinced of the opinions of the last person he talked to, or last video he saw…
Ignorance of the law isn’t a defense, ignorance of obvious reality shouldn’t be either. He’s complicit and he knows it.
Joe meant to say hes a dipshit who got conned twice by the same conman lol
Do you think they can tell the difference when they only understand moral panics?
