Joe Rogan Says It’s a ‘Fact’ That Jan. 6 Was a False Flag, Cites Ray Epps

Fucking Spotify using my money to pay this nutjob really pisses me off
- Vote with your wallet. Deezer is pretty good. I switched to them when Spotify decided I needed Rogan in my life despite their algorithm undoubtedly indicating otherwise.
  
  I switched to YouTube music and have been happy with it. The family plan is about the same price as Spotify and includes YouTube premium which has been an unexpectedly nice bonus.
  
  Recommend Tidal as well if you like smaller artists. The search feature is nowhere near as good, but the curated playlists seem better to me. And you're top 2 artists of the month, I think, get 10% of your subscription fee directly.
  
  I do encourage everyone to drop all Meta platforms, but generally speaking "vote with your wallet" is ineffectual.
  There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
  Edit: choosing what makes you happier is never ineffectual, but capitalism is not a democracy. You can't "vote" out a company by choosing not to use their product, especially when that company owns many of the options or has control over the majority of the market.
- Stop paying for, and using Spotify. That way you know that you aren't supporting him.
- I switched to Tidal when he first started going on with the COVID misinformation. Haven't looked back.
  
  same. Tidal is awesome
- Highly recommend piracy.
  
  It's hard for music unfortunately
- Then stop giving Spotify your money. Thats on you.
  
  Yep it's totally unnecessary to pay anyone for streaming music.
  Just obtain your own MP3s of the music you prefer, and listen to those files on your device. It's the 2000s way to music, and it's still the best.
  Internet connectivity is not available everywhere, so you may encounter areas that streaming doesn't work. MP3 collections don't have that problem.
  You can also get your own Plex server or something like that if you really just want to stream your music. That's another way to have your music on hand without bullshit subscriptions.
- They even had the gall to put this piece of shit in my Recommended Podcasts feed. Back to SoulSeek it is for me!
- Fuck Spotify for using money to pay ANY podcast to be exclusively there.
  Podcasts are an open medium that is decentralized and allows free choice of client and they are trying to monopolize it
- I canceled Spotify for Tidal when they announced the big deal for him. They are not as good as Spotify at helping me find new music, but they seem less evil. I put "Rogan" as my reason from cancelling.
- Use xManager. All the benefits excluding downloading songs. It's updated once in a while too
- I use a patched spotify apk for android and a spotify webapp with ublock origin on my PC. I've never needed to pay for premium and it works just fine.
- Then unsubscribe and stop whining? You have other options available.

Its a “fact” that anyone who listen to Rogan is a peasant-minded moron
- pesant-minded
  My comrad in class, unless you are a multi-millionare we are all peasants together. Many of us have excellent minds, as you likely do yourself. Do not tie our mental capability to our economic caste.
  
  "my comrade in class" needs to be the 21st century replacement for "my brother in Christ" and you just made me make my first Lemmy comment!
  I'm using this!
- I don't like "talky" podcasts so I never listened but there was a time when hearing about an interesting guest he had made me inclined to look them up.
  Now when I hear someone was on his show I default to assuming they're a crackpot. And I've only been wrong about that like twice.
  
  Infowars had some reputable people in its earlier days too. Rogan seems to be following the same unhinged path.
- What does it mean to be peasant-minded and why are you using it as an insult.
  
  If you think listening to the Joe Rogan Experience is an insult you're either listening to the JRE or you've never listened to the JRE.

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It's a fact that Rogan is a brain-damaged conspiracy theorist
- Rogan flips like a light switch. One day he's all about the science and the next he's got some mouth breather telling him the moon is made out of cheese.
  
  He's playing both sides. Like any corporation, the goal is money. He knows there's money to be had from the right. He might be trying to get that tucker Carlson demo. Bringing in interesting guests like scientist, philosophers, etc. Just keeps the general public from leaving outright.
  
  Moral of the story, don’t do all the drugs kids!
  
  He's an attention whore. He says whatever gets him the most response but I think he's sufficiently brain damaged to believe it in the moment, which is why he seems genuine.
- He's basically the character he played on News Radio, except with an audience and too much money.
- Of course he's brain damaged, this is the kind of political discourse that comes from a.guy who gets kicked in the head for fun.

Stopped listening to him when Bill Burr told him to shut up about Covid. This wasn't a false flag and if it was instigated by someone then Donald Trump was apart of the plan because we all can watch the video of him telling his supports to march on the capitol and fight. None of it is ridiculous in the scope of how that party was going and none of it needs further insight. A brain dead party is making it up as they go and making a lot of mistakes along the way.

Yeah, it was all Epps who sent out the tweet telling everyone to come to DC on 1/6 and that it will be wild.
Then Epps stood up in front of the crowd and gave that speech about how everyone had to "fight like hell or you won't have a country anymore!" and then told everyone he'd march with them right down to the capitol to force a halt to this Constitutionally mandated process...
Oh, wait, no, that wasn't Epps. Who was it again?
- Tangerine Mussolini.

Stop paying attention to him. He was over validated as being a great interviewer, but that's only because he created a safe space for right-wing reactionaries to pander to conservative bros. His takes are trash, his hyper masculine routine is tired and lame, and he is a regular source of immediately debunkable misinformation.
- He's a terrible interviewer. I attempted to listen to one of his podcasts many years ago because the interviewee was someone I was interested in. Joe Rogan quite obviously had no fucking clue about the specifics of why this person is notable, and his line of questioning was uneducated and irritating.
  I never tried to listen/watch to Rogan again.

I wonder sometimes if he is actually stupid and actually believes some of this stuff or if he just says outrageous shit to get people to listen to his show.
So he’s either a fucking moron or a fucking troll, neither of which I’d wanna listen to.
- He's stupid. He used to think the Moon landing was faked.
  
  It is a fact that Joe Rogan is a cringy moron.
  
  He changed his mind on that?
- He can be both.
- It's Schrodinger's Douchebag:
  say outrageous thing
  gauge reaction
  3a. if reaction is good for self - repeat outrageous thing
  3b. if reaction is not good for self - dismiss outrageous thing as "joke"
- I would argue that someone who says outrageous lies to garner attention is actually stupid, regardless of whether he believes it or not.
  I hope he gets sued into poverty, but I have no faith in our legal system.
- I've always believed they were serious about learning. I remember being frustrated that people are often abusive instead of explaining why dumb thoughts are dumb but after like 10 years of multi-hour interviews with smart people they don't seem to be making much progress. Maybe there is a constant inflow of new dumb listeners, and most last a few years and kind of graduate out of listening, but he has to stay the same for the whole thing to work.
- He's been hit in the head a lot. Made a career out of being hit in the head.
  
  I thought he made his career as an occasionally funny screaming stand up comic. And then as a mma commentator, then as a deplorable pod cast guy.

Rogan gets dumber all the time
- Same with his fans.
- What he doesn't get is that you need a accompanying talking therapy if you make a show like that, personal invested and frequent. Even the most grounded character would start to drift, sooner or later. We are after all just human and nobody can fight that in the long run alone.

I had never heard of Ray Epps before, but it's the ultimate leopards ate my face situation. Dude bought into the Fox News propaganda so much that he attempted to overthrow the government. Then Fox News accused him of being an FBI plant, and now all his fellow right wing nuts jobs have turned on him accusing him of working for the FBI. Meanwhile, he's still being prosecuted for his attempts to overthrow the government.
Fucking hilarious. I'd love to buy this idiot a beer just to hear how much he fucked up his life.
- In their minds did they think that by physically occupying a building they therefore thought the country belonged to them or something? Still trying to piece together how they thought storming the capital would result in successfully over throwing the gov. Just another thing to define how absolutely ass backwards this timeline is.
  
  A few of them were fully prepared to murder senators, don't forget.
  
  So... they occupy the building. Trump moves in with the military to "protect the capital" and says "we're postponing the results of the election until we can resolve the election irregularities". He then weeds out the generals in the military that show resistance to going along with things. Then he basically just extends the deadline for when he'll hand power back indefinitely. Then he finds a way to blame the democrats for the Jan 6th stuff and locks them up, and voilà, coup complete.
  The republicans would have gone along with this is a heart beat.
  
  The president and commander-on-chief of the United States had just heavily implied it would be a good idea. Those of them not just caught up in the enthusiasm probably thought they would have military support. Trump always appealed to people that can't really separate reality from movies and they thought they were living the climax. Reality is, however, much more pragmatic than that and they were lucky they were of the privileged class so they were merely arrested rather than gunned down the way anyone else storming a federal building would be.
  
  I think most people just got swept up in the moment, but there was certainly an organized group there ready to act upon something. Lest we forget they brought a guillotine so who knows what that intent was.
  
  It's the same logic that alows them to think that JFK Jr will ascend from his watery grave and teleport to Dealy Plaza and annoint Trump as POTUS for life. They believe in fairy tales.
  
  They were trying to stop the certification of the votes. Even if they had stopped it, it's just a ceremonial thing iirc.

What a fucking idiot. What is it about being a reality tv star that gives these medical grade morons the idea that they are smarter than everyone else? I mean the public getting fooled sure, that's in the editing and show runners keeping the idiots on the rails. But the idiots themselves thinking they are the smart ones? it boggles the mind.
- Look up the Dunning Kruger Effect.
  The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias[2] whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience regarding a type of task or area of knowledge tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge.
  
  I think it's less that and more he found out a profitable base and pandered to it. He's not an idiot he has a great PR team it's how a b list star from news radio and bad comedian managed to get and keep attention and make iirc hundreds of millions at this point.
- Reality is a team sport, to some people.
  What's true today is handed down by people above you, and if they belong above you, they must be better than you. In every way. There's only the one metric. People in this mindset don't understand expertise as anything more than sounding real smart.
  Someone clever can't just be wrong, since that would require an objective means to evaluate claims. That is not what claims are for, in this tribal worldview. They can only be accepted or rejected based on interpersonal trust.
  And they think that's all you're doing, because they think that's all there is.
  This is why every argument you have with these people is frustrating nonsense. They don't have a stable set of beliefs you can interact with. They have slogans. They will freely shuffle through them to win the conversation by finding plausible excuses. Consistency means less than nothing. It's an obstacle to making good moves in this stupid word game.
  This is what defines conservatism. This is all there is to conservatism. It's the Oops All Hierarchy worldview. There is no other force in that moral universe. They can claim high-minded ideals, but they'll flit between contradictory bullshit with zero self-recognition. So either they're somehow champions of individual rights while viciously enforcing tradition and also the Confederate-loving party of Lincoln and also free-speech-loving censorship nannies and also stalwart capitalist bailout-sucking union-busters or else they're just fucking lying. They're just... shuffling cards.
  The only reliable predictor of what they'll say is whether they're talking about the ingroup or the outgroup. They will make whatever mouth noises protect and elevate the ingroup. They will make whatever mouth noises attack and denigrate the outgroup.
  I understand why they don't see this division. What the hell is our excuse?
- Success and fame to go with it will often have that effect when the fool don't think they deserve it themselves. They feel special as a result and get completely blinded and selfabsorbed by their own greed and ego, especially once the money rolls in.
- I feel that Joe Rogan is quite open about not really knowing much about anything. It's a real shame. I'd be interested in some of his podcasts, if only the host knew what they were talking about
  
  Nah, he is being deliberately disingenous. He knows when he spews right wing disinformation because he knows who his core audience are.

It's a fact that Joe Rogan is an idiot.
He even said so himself. Literally: "I'm just an idiot, you shouldn't listen to me." He said that in a stand up special. It's still true, too, so I don't know why people even listen to him. He specifically requested people not to.
- Was he not the guy who got millions of parents twisted up about litter boxes in schools only to find out he made the whole thing up?
  
  What's upsetting about the litter boxes thing, is that schools were buying them so that when a psycho comes and shoots up a school, little kids can shit themselves in front of their classmates and it's easier to clean up. Nothing to do with furries, it's just a problem American lawmakers don't want to fix so people are finding creative solutions to ancillary problems.
- When people tell you who you are, believe them.
- Do people listen to Joe himself? The only times I've ever listened to his podcasts is when I'm interested in whatever guest he has on.
  
  This is really the only way to consume his media. People would be wrong if they said he wasn't entertaining during his interviews. He is exactly like I was when I was a burn out stoner, and I find that hilarious.
  But people forget he isn't an intelligent or educated political commentator. He's literally just a 'Joe' and I wish he would understand that his opinion impacts millions of dipshits who hang on every word he says.

Joe Rogan is an idiot and can just fuck right off
- I like how you think. Do you have your own podcast by any chance?

- It's just pure gaslighting. "That time you saw Trump tell people to march down to the Capitol after telling them to "fight like hell" was totally unrelated to what happened at the Capitol a short time later."
  
  It is this. Trump sent his worshipers down to the capital after getting them all riled up on lies he told them. And many of his followers have mental issues and they are uneducated and ill informed. HE didn't go with them like he said because he knew it would be violent.
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Rogan should be deplatformed. We don't have a robust enough education system for 'free speech' to work when people like Rogan are just lying to people.
- I can't believe people really support restricting free speech, it blows my mind. Is it a generational thing? He's plainly a bit dense, but even if you don't consider it freedom of the press, it's just one guy talking rubbish. And he's far from the worst!
  To confirm, no, I don't listen to his podcast, mostly because he's quite boring and I disagree with him on most things.
  
  Deplatforming isn’t restricting free speech.
  
  Free speech means that the government can't silence citizens outside of specific protections. It doesn't mean that private companies are required to give you a microphone. I highly doubt Spotify will take Rogan off the air anytime soon considering how much money he makes them, but if they did it wouldn't be restricting his free speech in any way as there are a magnitude of other places he can talk, from other online platforms to a soapbox on the corner of 5th Ave.
  
  How is deplatforming restricting free speech? He can still go on the street corner and spout his nonsense.
  Rogan is an utter piece of filth and trash. You should more explicitly say that rather than your milquetoast description of him.
  
  I can’t believe people really support restricting free speech, it blows my mind. Is it a generational thing?
  Im going to go out on a limb and guess you're not a minority.
  Because when people use their "free speech" to harass you and make your like worse, then worshiping the bastardised idea of "free speech" suddenly isnt very appealing.

I keep trying to give Rogan some slack, I've been listening to his podcast on and off for a decade now and it just gets harder and harder to excuse him. I genuinely understand someone having a distrust for 'the narrative' . What I don't understand is how someone could do both that and then immediately trust the very next narrative that comes along. It seems naive and laughable.
Keep talking about chimps and DMT, Joe for fucks sake
- There’s questioning the narrative and then there’s just spewing misinformation and conspiracy theories. Rogan usually does the latter.
- I listened to Rogan since 2010 and stopped around the time he moved to Texas. I just could find any more slack, nor could I find enough excuses for him.
- I occasionally put on old episodes at work and it's insane how different he is. Used to have very progressive views while still exercising the ability to think critically on informations and events. Now every episode is flagged for misinformation, and he's constantly dropping the word "woke" as if to test the waters with each guest, practically leaping out of his jeans to go on another anti-woke tangent. He's become completely consumed by it. I suppose this is what's bound to happen when you repeatedly surround yourself with morons like Eddie Bravo and Alex Jones.
  
  The second he platformed Alex Jones, it should have been the end for Rogan. That should have destroyed any and all goodwill. But not only did it not do that, he's brought on Jones more than once and his fans love it. Has Rogan even condemned Jones after he lost his case in Texas? I haven't heard anything about it. I haven't heard any condemnation before that either. They seem to be close compadres. It's disgusting.
- I don't know that he should be talking about chimps either.
  
  Jesus, what an insufferable moron.
  
  What an insufferable, credulous ignoramus.
- I don't try to listen to him, but sometimes his content comes up in YouTube feeds because he's had guests like Neil Degrasse Tyson or Brian Cox on his show. I'm always torn because I don't want to support Rogan.
  
  Been there myself. Honestly, you're not missing much.

Ignoring the obvious - provocation and false flags are polar opposites, you dunderfuck.
Agent provocateurs go into sincere crowds and start shit to escalate what they're already doing. (Or to justify violence against the crowd, because "someone" threw a rock.) It's an agent, singular. An opposing individual in disguise shapes perception.
False-flag attacks are done by an opposing group. And they do the thing, themselves. They're not goading a crowd into escalating, or inviting violence from undisguised opposition. Sincere individuals are completely optional. The action is performed entirely by people acting under someone else's banner. You know. Like the name.
If if was a false flag, you'd want these assholes in jail as badly as we do.
- Could you imagine the bloodbath of live fire that would have met Antifa mobs?
  
  They treat that single dead loon as if she was shot in her own apartment, and not crawling over the final barricade between an angry mob and the entire elected federal government.
  Well. The entire elected federal government, except for one particular bastard.

A fascist runs defence for other fascists, no surprises here. He's been doing fascist dogwhistles for years and years, for example:
"Surf the kali yuga" has been a fascist dogwhistle for a very long time.
Maybe not enough by itself but when you combine it with everything else it's pretty obvious what he is.
- The funniest part is that boomers were arguably the "weak men" living in the "good times" created by the "strong men" who pushed some of the most progressive policies America has ever seen. They created the "bad times" of out of control capitalism that we're currently living in.
  
  Yeah I prefer to just not have any belief in this shit. It's all intended to justify their "RETVRN" ideology.
- Fucking hell he's so stupid.
- Thanks for the kali yuga thing. I did not know anything about that and the alt-right connection. It's pretty funny that he said we were in the kali yuga and it's the lower left corner, the weak men corner. He said "Hindus predicted it thousands of years ago".
  From the wikipedia article on Yuga cycles: "Kali Yuga, which lasts for 432,000 years, is believed to have started in 3102 BCE."
  What exactly were these good times before 3102 BCE? With each successive yuga decreasing in length, that puts the strong men cycle from 2,163,102 BCE to 867,102 BCE. I know it's religion and all that and not to be taken too seriously but I am certainly on board with everything before that period being hard times.

Remember kids, if you use Spotify; your coins are going to this ass hat.
- They're taking people's love of music and using it to pay off a hate monger. The average payout for musicians has been declining for years.
- I actually cancelled my Spotify account over this ass hat.
- This and lossless are 99% why I jumped ship to apple music. The other 1% is better artist payout.
  
  Apple hosts Steve Bannon's podcast fyi

I was seeing less and less crazy from Rogan on the spotlight, thinking maybe he turned a new leaf and would focus more on just interviewing and comedy. And then he comes out like the most idiotic imbecile in all of media again.
- He jumped the shark when he interviewed that vegan MMA guy and bullied the reporter into answering a certain way. It is by far one of the most cringe things I ever listened to.
  
  I'll try to look it up, love me some cringe

So, it's not Antifa but "our good ol boys being tricked by those dastardly Feds"? Why not it was the ayylmaos all along?
- Remember the ayylmao.
  
  Remember the covfefe.
- ayylmaos
  What?
  
  It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out...
  
  Aliens, commonly said that way by Mutahar (SomeOrdinaryGamers) on YouTube.

So the FBI, the one that was ran by a trump appointee, staged a false flag coup. And instead of doing something to stop it trump did nothing. And I'm supposed to believe democrats are responsible? If democrats managed to infultrate the FBI and attack the capital why was trump too incompetent to do anything about it and why did he care that someone died if she was just antifa pretending to be a trump follower?
- Let's imagine an alternate scenario for a second. Let's say there was a Black Lives Matter protest and they broadcast the same stuff that these guys did. "Come to the capital protest!" "It will be wild!" Etc. Then let's say AOC got up there and said "lets march to the capital!"... Imagine this happened while Trump is in office.... and you know for a FACT there would have been tanks in the street and attack helicopters in the air and solders with guns drawn before then even got close to the capital.
  The lack of response is how you know this was a Trump planned event. Only a fucking moron would not see the obvious.
  
  There was an actual black lives matter protest in Washington DC so your armchair fantasy doesn't hold water.
- The accusation isn't that they staged a false flag. The accusation is that they used CIs as agent provocateurs. It's interesting that a bit of word magic will make the left deny something happened even though it's been a common tactic used for decades at least.
  LEO agents intentionally incite crowds so they can claim them as unlawful and disperse them.
  
  You're telling me that trump lost control of his appointees before he left the white house or that he was the one who ordered leo's to provoke the riot? No matter how you try to spin Jan 6th it falls on trumps shoulders. And we know the government provokes shit it just so happens that this time it was done in plain sight and the right is denying it. We heard his speeches and read his tweets too.
  
  I remember all the LEOs there trying to disperse the crowds.
  Oh wait, the LEOs were equally (or greater) in the crowds, and the others were taking down crowd control methods and escorting people into the capitol.
  
  Right, that LEO agent who told the crowd to march down to the Capitol and "fight like hell" to save the country was a real provocateur. Someone should indict him with a grand jury for it.
  
  They do that when they have enough forces to put them down. The only reason these assholes left was because Trump told them to on Twitter.

It's all just money $$$
I mean don't forget Tucker Carlson used to work for CNN. These people will do anything and say anything for money
- I love how Jon basically destroyed that program

And his fans will eat this shit up too. Shameful, just shameful.
- Some of his fans will try to defend him and say he's being stupid and you're not supposed to listen to him, ignoring all the people who will.
  
  I haven't heard this, but I HAVE heard how he ISN'T stupid.
  Because you see, you couldn't have the #1 podcast in the world if you were stupid.
  You couldn't have the #1 podcast on the world unless it was truthful.
  I've had more than one person explain this to me to defend their newly acquired anti Vax stances a la Rogan podcast.

I had a hard time understanding why people would listen to Rogan after reading all these articles about him. Then my wife and I talked about it for a little bit and I took a listen to an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience.
I'm completely talking out of my ass here but I think Rogan is a good/influential conversationalist. I think people get carried away by his views because of the convenience of his skill, kinda similar to how some people tend to err on the broad side of being agreeable when talking to a stranger for the first time, at least in a North American context. Set up the "conversation" as a podcast and it's easy for familiarity to build with his audience. People getting familiar with his content then subconsciously decide that they really agreed in the first place because he talks nice and now they're a fan.
Great orators are amazing at getting you to nod your head in agreement. I've "fallen victim" to it as well with Obama in his 2004 DNC speech. Just rose tint everywhere. It's a little easier to understand through this but of course I am so open to being completely wrong about this. What do you guys think?
- The problem, from the limited exposure I have to him, is he does a lot of "I heard"s and "they say"s and presents it as fact. Eventually, the hearsay becomes "it's a fact". He's doing the same thing Tucker Carlson has done. I can't say if the man's an idiot or not but he certainly plays one for a living.
- I disagree that he has any particular skill that is notable. He was also a lousy comedian, most remembered for his crusade against joke stealing than anything else (I dare you to ask anyone their favorite Joe Rogan joke).
  He had first mover advantage. Then he started to realize the right wing hits were drawing his viewers, and went further in further in that direction.
- Oration is a personal interest I have. (See username) I'm not great at it, but it is an interest.
  I think you're correct on all accounts. I've listened to a few of his clips, but I wouldn't call myself a fan or even a listener. His cadence is often casual but slows a bit when he wants to stress a point. He likes storytelling. If he speaks about things that are universally frustrating, you can feel his speech begin to clip faster and his voice raise. Good intonations. And he seems good at having something to talk about and staying on task.
  Good and bad people can be fantastic storytellers. I don't know enough about him to make a judgement on his character, but I think he's a good communicator.
- I agree 100%. His podcasts can be interesting or entertaining some times, depending on the guests. When he talks to some other comedians like Theo Von and Joey Diaz it can be very entertaining, or when he's talking to people in sports & fitness. To me he's always been this wacky stoner triphead character, someone that can be fun to have around occasionally but not someone that you want to talk about serious topics with. My impression is that he's been getting more crazy and conspiratorical after covid hit, I certainly listen to him a lot less ever since.
- Thanks for the distinction with conversationalist vs. interviewer. The folks that seem to listen the most seem to be into bros having casual conversation, not an in depth interview while being well versed in the subject's expertise like a Terry Gross or Ezra Klein interview. The show seems like a slightly elevated bros bullshitting session.
  
  Thats literally the premise of 90% of the show. Hes stated that several times. He started the podcast with the intent of it being a bullshit fun project to have his Bros come on smoke weed and talk shit. Which is great entertainment and funny. Now he has said it many times. He wants to talk to anyone his cave man brain finds interesting. He admits hes very uneducated on a lot of matters and tells people that outside the realms of fitness and nutrition you shouldn't be looking to him for advice or following what he says. The reason his viewership is as large as it is is because he thinks about things very very similarly to how honestly most people up here in that I know in new england think of things. He thinks about shit in the same way the average working class dude does.

I don't listen to this prick any more but does he ever spend much time going over that Trump possibly put federal agents lives at risk for selling secrets to the Russians and Saudi governments? Or that Trump's children stole so much money? Does he ever?
Turtle Shelled Stomach'd prick surrounds himself with sycophants nowadays anyways.
- No, he wouldn't do any such thing because that would alienate him from his fascist audience.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I say it's a fact that he's an idiot.

- I dunno, there is that guy who's burning down their highly popular social media empire.
- Careful, some people might take that as a challenge

Spotify owns this mess.

Guy that got paid to make contestants eat bugs and donkey dicks gets paid to make podcast listeners eat bugs and donkey dicks.

Why do people still listen to this fuckstick? He proved long ago that he has the mental capacity of a bag of rocks, so lets just leave him in a corner to be ignored and move on.

Guys this isn't reddit. Can we just forget these losers and idolize at least different douchebags?

Wait....i thought it wasn't a big deal and just a friendly protest?

It's been downhill since News Radio.
- I just introduced my girlfriend to a couple episodes the other week. I love the show for so many reasons. It's proof we live in a cosmic comedy that Newsradio was one of the first steps that got us to this version of Toe Blowgun.

But it's not a fact. Like, by definition, it's literally not.
These fucking grown toddlers think anything that offends their feefees is bad, or wrong, or illegal. Because they have no coping mechanism beyond throwing a tantrum. Grow. the. fuck. up.
People that don't share your views exist, and they are important too...

Who cares what this idiot says? I know plenty of idiots, why care about this one's perspective?
- Spotify doesn't publicly release its JRE subscriber numbers. But sources clarified the show has been consistently growing since the podcaster joined the streamer and hasn't spiked due to any particular event. By one recent estimate, Rogan typically averages 11 million listeners per episode.
  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/joe-rogan-spotify-subscribers-1235134232/
  Any time someone on the internet says, "who cares what this idiot says" about someone prominent, the answer is always: millions of people.
  
  Spotify is also paying Rogan $200 million for the honor of being the exclusive platform used to spread his disinformation, which is one of the reasons I prefer to avoid it. It's bad enough they distribute it, but the fact that my subscriber dollars would directly be funding his bullshit just sticks in my craw too much.
  
  sadly true

- Here's 3 more clues: lies constantly, yellow hair, small dick that looks like Toad from Mario.

Is it just me, or is Joe Rogan starting to look like Doctor Evil?
- Please don't insult Dr. Evil like that. He may be evil, but he's not Joe Rogaine.
- Starting to look like Rush
  
  Indeed, it's only a matter of time before he's back on youtube going completely off the rails.
- Kingpin from wish.com

I hate Rogan oh I hate Rogan so much

I never listened to Joe Rogan, is his right wing leanings a newer development? Or has he always been in the "free thinker", ie conservative camp? I saw a snippet of his show years ago, and it didn't come across as politically charged, but it was a small snippet, and times have definitely changed, polarity wise.
- Much like many self-identifying "centrists" he certainly likes to hang out with right-wing individuals and let them talk. He does sometimes push back, but his podcast does better when he doesn't.
- He is very right leaning, but interestingly, when he last had Bernie Sanders on, he claimed to be progressive.
  Like all humans, he is complicated and doesn't hold beliefs strictly to one side. He makes his money catering to the right, his personal views have likely shifted that way over time to match.
  In the past, he had more interesting and varied guests, but those days are long gone.
  
  I thought he was a libertarian, maybe? I used to listen to the podcast years ago but I feel like it got more political, he leaned more right, got more popular, repeat, until it was the number 1 podcast but idk

Joe Rogan? Isn’t that the guy who murdered Archduke Ferdinand and started World War One?
- It is as reasonable a claim as the one he is making

"It is a fact that Joe Rogan is a magical sugar plum fairy." - me.
Is Joe Rogan a magical sugar plum fairy.
- Dear friend...
  May this be a help to you on your future travels.
  
  Fuck. Thanks.
  
  Sugarplums aren’t plums (the stonefruit) either. “Plum”, in ye olde days, meant any small dried fruit, mainly raisins (see also: plum pudding). Sugarplums are small hard candies, so-called because they are made of sugar, and approximately the size of plums(raisins).
  Fun fact: “true currants” (the Ribes plant and fruit) aren’t related to the original currant. The OG currant is the Zante currant or “raisin of Corinth”. It’s a small grape that was grown in Greece (predominantly in Zante, close enough to Corinth to be rebranded) which were dried and exported. Outside of Greece, “Corinth” morphed into “currant” over time, and a different local plant, with berries that look similar when dried, began to be called by the same name as the imported “currant”.
  /tangent
  
  That was a presumptuous image

Much like John Oliver's Truthiness, Joe Rogan does a caricature of skepticism. He does the Question Things part, but then gets dazzled by whatever answers are spicy, instead of the most reasonable or likely.
On a completely unrelated note, I wonder what Joe Rogan would sound like after a year of sobriety from all recreational drugs, and bullshit supplements.
- Colbert's truthiness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness

Is there a sub-lemmy for /c/iamverysmart?

Does he not look like Dr. Evil?

This man here is proof of the damage marijuana and head kicks does to your brain.
- I dunno about all that. He wasn't exactly a beacon of intellectualism when he was young either.
  
  He's the definition of "so open-minded his brain fell out".

Pretty sure it's been documented out the ass, ass

I thought even years ago that - when you make a show like Rogan, so frequent and personal invested - you NEED an accompanying talking therapy, regularly. Otherwise even the most grounded character begins to drift, sooner or later. It's a shame. But, I guess, that's still kinda taboo, sadly.
- When he started he used to be good at fact-checking wild claims even while entertaining them/humoring his guests. He's definitely gotten more loose with it over the years in the pursuit of getting ever more exciting guests on his show. It's nothing more than basic entertainment now that asks a lot of the audience to do their own checking lest they risk being sucked into rogans crazy world of super wealth from merely running a podcast.

Another rotten POS that would serve this country better by being dead.
- Rogan would be far more useful to society if he were made poor and served as an example that being famous and loud and dumb was against your financial interests.
- I wonder if this statement might end up getting him Alex Jones'd.
  I'm so fucking tired of these personality cult leaders and their brainwashed gold farms. They should be held accountable for the toxic waste they screw out into the world.
- As much as I get your frustration, we should never wish death upon anybody.
  
  Hard disagree

I have never cared about that douchebag anyway