Joe Rogan has suggested President Donald Trump is using ICE raids and fraud claims in Minnesota to distract people from the stalled release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Joe Rogan has suggested President Donald Trump is using ICE raids and fraud claims in Minnesota to distract people from the stalled release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
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MushuChupacabra@piefed.world · 262 pts · 223d
This would be the guy you enthusiastically helped get back into power Joe.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 121 pts · 223d
Joe is the empty vessel through which corporate opinion flows, uninhibited.
He'll say whatever you want, whenever you want, to whomever you want if you just cover his fees.
He's the white man's Oprah.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 223d
Ugh... You're right and I hate it.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 223d
He's right and it's hilarious
MushuChupacabra@piefed.world · 11 pts · 223d
Alternately, he doesn't like the fact that he has blood on his hands.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 223d
If he admitted he was wrong to back him I'd support it. He could provide an emotional out for MAGA types who may be regretting their choice now. "If Joe Rogan is regretting it..."
Eldritch@piefed.world · 16 pts · 223d
He's always had blood on his hands. He was pro trump the first time.
hector@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 223d
Well considering what we know about his wonderful secrets with his enigma pals, blood isn't the only bodily fluid on his hands. And it's not sweat either the guy doesn't do real work.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 223d
Yeah but it's pretty hilarious when the leopard eats his face, like when he shat himself and ran into his walk-in medicine cabinet when he caught COVID.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 223d
"you get an opnion...and YOU get an opinion... and you..."
hector@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 223d
To say corporate opinion flows uninhibited ignores the million of dollars used to make it flow. Ignores the pump of millions of dollars moving corporate talking points from the assholes of the rich to Joe's mouth.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 223d
A million bucks in a trillion dollar economy is a drop in the budget. Joe Rogan is a cheap date at the scale of international media.
hector@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 223d
The thing is though, it's only market capitalizations at those obscene levels. There are few companies worth a trillion dollars intrinsically, probably none, idk maybe exxon or apple could count. But all the tech companies, tesla, nvidia,, are all so overpriced it beggars reason.
Everyone knows they aren't worth that much but they know they can trade at those amounts, it's divorced from fundamentals. Tesla is giving musk many times more in value in that 60 billion pay package than the company is intrinsically worth, maybe 10 billion dollars, maybe. Probably less given their flagship truck was a piece of shit in like 10 ways and he alienated half the west with his nazi bullshit. And nazis don't want electric cars, they've always been partial to gas...
Anyway sorry long tangent to say millions of dollars is still quite significant if they are realizing it in actual capital. If paying in overpriced stock it's a drop in the bucket.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 223d
Fuck this dude and all, but I’m not going to look a gift horse the mouth. If he’s even partially waking up to reality, and influencing his audience about Trump’s shitty actions, I’ll take it.
Dictators are successful when they have populist energy fueling them, and I’ll take help from anyone that makes this guy less popular.
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 223d
I agree, but still want Joe to hang.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 22 pts · 223d
He's not. He is just trying to claw back some listeners so that he is still relevant to endorse the next fascist that comes along.
notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 222d
Exactly. He’s a glorified influencer, his opinions reside with his profits.
MushuChupacabra@piefed.world · 10 pts · 223d
Joe needs to do far more heavy lifting. Passively raising concerns is cute, but doesn't come close to the damage done by his Active effort to get Trump re-elected.
When his rhetoric becomes decisively anti-Republican, I'll consider giving him a cookie.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 222d
his current fans are mostly mma-conservative people, so unlikely. the old ones criticizes him.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 112 pts · 223d
Until this asshole says the fucking words:
"Trump is covering up the Epstein Files"
Then he's not criticizing Trump.
This is what Joe Rogan and every hack psuedo-comedian podcaster piece of shit has been doing. They intentionally refuse to explicitly name drop Trump and blame him directly for literally everything he does.
It gives these assholes plausible deniability to the dipshit MAGA crowd to say "I wasn't criticizing dear leader! I was criticizing X cabinet member or person he appointed! Its there fault! Trump is still our infallible god!"
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 223d
Absolutely 100% right.
The media was reporting that he thought ICE was being gestapo-like, and he didn't say that at all.
The way it was reported was legitimate journalistic negligence; this guy is a full-on reactionary.
hector@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 223d
This guy was just smoking cigars with some douchebag and accusing all environmental protesters of being foreign agents and tools and traitors or some stupid shit like that.
Seriously fuck this guy, I tried to like him a little, to appreciate him leading his flock to better places on a few issues, but his defense of say, the president's bad faith lawsuits against the media, or attack on environmental protesters, show he's just a cynical tool. He knows better, and those environmental protesters he would be agreeing with in other circumstances as it benefited him.
CthulhuTastesLikeChicken@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 223d
Joe Rogan and other male cheerleaders like Piers Morgan additionally have fault in why people believe Elon Musk is a genius.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 223d
I'm still convinced Elon Musk and other billionaires are sneaking him money under the table to be their not so covert PR guy.
hector@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 223d
That's probably not much of a secret. Rogan is getting paid by a lot of people for sure. Guy is a tool willing to help the worst people in the world.
Go to bed with snakes, before long you will get bit on the dick though.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 222d
"Some of his advisors have some really bad ideas..."
It seems poor trump is just completely helpless in the face of these bad ideas.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 222d
Schrödinger's leadership role:
When McDonalds begun increasing prices for corporate and shareholder greed, it was Obama or Hillary or Biden's fault.
When people Trump personally appointed, Trump personally talks to, and Trump acts based on the advisement of, do something catastrophic, Trump is just a victim of evil people who are tricking him. Also he's never done anything wrong ever.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 222d
I remember during Biden's term I'd hear/read the dim bulbs claiming "Biden's policies" were making everything unaffordable, etc.
I'd ask them specifically which policies, exactly. By name. I'd ask them to give me the name of the bills he signed into law, the EOs that he signed, etc that supposedly led to this alleged state of things costing more.
Crickets. Every fucking time.
It's just all vibes with the conservatives.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · 53 pts · 223d
It's a little bit like claiming Hitler invaded Poland to distract from his bad policies... But if Epstein is the thing that allows his followers to say "that's a bridge too far" then so be it.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 223d
War is a thing autocrats use to stay in power though. Both inner and outer war. Inner war for Hitler was the Jews, outer war was the rest of Europe. Inner war for Trump is immigrants, outer war is... We'll know when he starts a proper one I suppose.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 222d
Stop this madness. He’s got carriers bearing down on the coast closest to Iran right now.
fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org · 41 pts · 223d
SculptusPoe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 223d
His podcast was already big before it was on Spotify, wasn't it? I haven't listened in half a decade, but I remember being sort of mad that he went to Spotify and removed the feed from where I was listening.
aramis87@fedia.io · 14 pts · 223d
The over $200,000,000 that Spotify paid Rogan came from somewhere, and I'm sure cutting employees (and their salaries) was part of it.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 223d
He rode a tidal wave of corporate sponsorship and political back scratching to land that Spotify deal. Rogan subsists on an enormous reservoir of unearned media coverage. He repays his corporate bosses by floating the turds FOX and Disney won't touch.
SculptusPoe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d
I just ran a list of all the politial comentary guests to check their standing, and it seems pretty even between right, left and libertarian left, leaning towards libertarian. I haven't listened to him lately, but I never got the impression that he was much of a right winger from anything he has ever said on there while I was listening. Of course, I'm not interested in political interviews, so I would have avoided shows with purely political interviews... Everything he does seems to lean far left. He is a meathead and easily influenced by fad diets. But he also seems to like everyone and not sort by politics. That's just the impression I get.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 222d
You can only invite Elon Musk, Dave Smith, and JBP onto your show so many times before you tip your hand.
Hell, Tulsi Gabbard gets an invite every time she launches a new campaign.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 222d
he wanted more money, right wingers were untapped market for him, so he started grifting, of course with MR putin whispering in his ear.
SculptusPoe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 222d
I never heard anything about Joe having contact of any kind with putin... I just looked it up and there is no indication anywhere that he has ever had contact with putin. He did say some stuff that made Ukraine a bit mad, but it was mostly focused on keeping the US out of forign wars. That might have been short sighted in the case of the Ukrane war, but has nothing to do with russian influence...
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 223d
This guy has got to be at least two evolutionary iterations behind on the tree of life.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 222d
He's only the second generation after coming down from the trees.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 222d
after being on radio, that was the proto-Roegan, or a stem rogan if you were to classify him in bio terms.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 222d
1 after loading himself with PEDs and transforming.
herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml · 38 pts · 223d
Joe Rogan always finds the right answer, after trying everything else first.
tempest@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 223d
I think that's too generous.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 223d
More like: occasionally Joe Rogan says something that is actually true.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 222d
Something something broken clock
Almacca@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 222d
Rogan's more like a slow running clock that's accidentally right maybe once a year.
naun@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 222d
And then he walks it back in a week.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 222d
Joe sounds like he just woke up from a nap on a lot of things lately.
Yeah, FFS, Joe. Of course he is. Aren't you so fucking happy you helped to put him into office?
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 222d
There's a non-zero chance this is the first time he's been sober this decade.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 222d
Joe’s brain has to be running on 1999 AOL internet.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 222d
his brain never left RADIO show.
No1@aussie.zone · 31 pts · 223d
"Nobody could have known Trump would do any of this after I enabled him on my platform and endorsed him to my brain dead army of followers. Jamie, look that up."
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 222d
Joe Rogan becoming an overdue antifascist would be a hilarious twist of history. Like I don't think he's ever going to be a leftist, but he seems to somehow be less brain dead than a lot of Americans, and fuck that's sad.
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 222d
He always needs a conspiracy to stay relevant. These people always do
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 222d
I'd love it if he developed a conscience. He has so many braindead drones that he could really affect some change.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 222d
What so he can get away with the shit he’s spread?
Fuck him. He doesn’t deserve a platform, no matter how many c00L iNT3rViEwZ he’s done.
Cricket@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 222d
Interestingly enough, he supported Bernie in the Democratic primaries. He's a confused dude.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 221d
He's a populist more than he's interested in either party.
Cricket@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 219d
Yeah, makes sense, thanks.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 222d
Joe still defends most of project 2025 so fuck him all the way. The media is just giving him props for almost nothing besides a few cherry picked comments.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 222d
A smart, but late moment for a stupid man.
Sektor@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 222d
He's not smart, he's cunning. That's why he's rich.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 222d
He's entertaining to dumb people and useful to the very wealthiest. You don't need to accuse Rogan of being clever, he got celebrity status and used it to get a job from the closest thing to a demon on earth.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 223d
Thanks, everyone already knew that.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 222d
Joe just says whatever gets clicks. He’ll be rationalizing why the files haven’t been released on a show next week.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 222d
Fuck Joe Rogan
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 222d
Both of them can go fuck themselves. Sick motherfuckers.
BassTurd@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 223d
Well maybe you shouldn't have propped up this particular pedophile, Joe. Eat shit.
SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 222d
He should have thought about that before platforming him to his millions of followers. Don't surprised when someone YOU boosted gets elected and does stupid shit.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 222d
Didn't he rug-pull Kamala, too?
When does Kamala sue him for 1001 bajillion zillion dollars or whatever the fuck we are setting for bullshit lawsuits aimed at the media these days?
homes@piefed.world · 14 pts · 223d
A broken clock…
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 223d
Joe Rogan can asphyxiate himself on his own farts since he loves the smell of his own brand so much. Rogan helped put Trump in power, and was happy to do so because he was making money off the MAGA grift. Unless he comes out and denounces Trump, admits he was wrong, and apologizes, it's all fucking posturing to keep the grift flowing.
hector@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 223d
He also denounced all environmental protesters as traitors and foreign agents and idk what, bad. Pretended the president's lawsuits against the media were in good faith when he had Bernie on last year too. He's a cynical piece of shit. Reddit violated me for saying that, saying I was threatening violence just calling rogan cynical. Triggering conservatives is the real violatable offense it appears I notice a pattern.
crank0271@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 222d
Okay, I would watch this episode of Fear Factor
Binturong@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 221d
I'm not interested in this fucking traitorous little gnome's attempts to backpedal from fully supporting this fascism. There is no redemption arc for him.
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 223d
Thanks for catching up with the rest of the class dumbass
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 222d
no you did joe roegan, you are part of the distraction from EPstein files, you are complicit. also besides you arnt getting orders from putin to say otherwise.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 222d
Another unaccountable arsehole who has done immeasurable damage.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 222d
Not an ally that I want, but I will take it. For now.
The guy is the Gavin Newsom of radio shows.
Insekticus@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 222d
Yeah, that's it - Rogan was one of the main supporters of Trump and his show no doubt convinced a shitload of brain dead males to vote for Trump.
But if he's trying to convince the savages who support Trump to pull out, then it's better late than never.
tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 223d
Anyway...Fear Factor is so much better with Johnny Knoxville.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 222d
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 222d
Joe helped get us here. Fuck him.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 222d
It’s too late you motherfucker you’re going down with the ship.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 223d
At least his listeners will hear it.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 222d
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 223d
2000&late but better than his usual orange chode gobbling i suppose
b u y g u n s n o w
hansolo@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 223d
Accuse? Suggest?
You getting paid by the letter, Joe? The word you're looking for is "is."
Triumph@fedia.io · 6 pts · 223d
The subtext here is that if the ICE raids weren't a distraction from the Epstein files, they'd be unassailably righteous.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 223d
And I accuse Rogan of being a giant douche and nazi collaborator.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 222d
Nah, your still a fucking idiot Joe.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 223d
He's trying so hard to slowly pivot right before it crashes. Don't want to turn too fast but didn't want to be stuck in the wreck either.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 222d
Do I gotta read 79 comments on a cesspool web site to find out what the fuck
saltesc@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 223d
Joe Rogan... The intellectual of our time. The philosophy avant garde. The big brain.
If only the billions could be on his level of brainy smart stuff.
reddig33@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 223d
This week, anyway. Next week Joe will flip flop again.
mintiefresh@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 223d
It is known.
Bwaz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 223d
Joe Rogan being a bovine's asshole doesn't mean he:s not right sometimes.
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 223d
And, you know, to set precident for suspending constitutional rights. All roads lead to martial law.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 223d
Semi self aware joe rogan everyone.
mrslt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 223d
Why is this asshole perpetually at least six months behind the rest of us?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 222d
you see he fears losing his listeners, im guessing thats whats he trying to do.
Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d
$$$
Fear porn is lucrative.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 222d
On target there
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 223d
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d
This is the equivalent of shaking your keys. "Look here! Over here!"