An excerpt of a Joe Rogan interview. WTF happened?

[Richard D]

Astounding. WTF happened?

Link to tweet

[Haggard Celine]

1. I have a very good friend who is a dedicated fan of Joe Rogan.

He told me one time that Rogan was a Democrat. I said "bullshit!" Maybe this is where he got the idea that Rogan was a Democrat. I think Rogan simply sold out. They came to him with a proposal to give him gobs of money if he'll say this or that on his show and cut out the liberal thought. He took the money and took his loyal listeners on a ride to cuckooville. It's amazing what people will believe when they are in a cult of personality. A lot of Rogan's listeners also listen to Alex Jones, so they get a double dose of crazy every day. It's hard to get these people to even acknowledge that one of these guys said something erroneous. I don't know what it's going to take to de-program these people after this shit is all over.

[womanofthehills]

6. On the Recent Dr Sanjay Gupta interview,Joe told Gupta he is very progressive

The interview is up so you can access it - from Oct 2021. Gupta contacted Joe to go on his show. Goupa told Joe he heard he was an independent and Joe said no- he ‘s a progressive. He said he grew up with Democratic hippy parents on food stamps so he very progressive about social issues like women’s rights, LGBT rights, assistance for poor, and for Health care for all. He said he never voted Republican in his whole life but he’s conservative when it comes to gun rights. He said the same thing when he interviewed Jimmy Dore. Jimmy said he thought Joe was alt right and Joe groaned telling Jimmyhe was a big Bernie supporter. He told Jimmy people think he is alt right because he interviews people from both parties. He said it all started after he spoke with Milo. He also said many times on his show that Obama was his favorite of all the presidents ever. Unfortunately Rogan is not a big fan of Biden and has joked about his age.

[yardwork]

7. So, none of this is particularly surprising.

Many so-called progressives harbor racist beliefs. Many so-called progressives (like RFK Jr) are anti-science anti-vaxxers. People are complicated. That's one reason why hero worship is so dangerous.

[Haggard Celine]

8. My.friend.told me.pretty much the same things you did.

But is he an antivaxxer? I hear that he isn't vaccinated and took ivermectin and other shit while he had the virus. He could be as liberal as hell, but he ruins all of that by telling people horror stories about the vaccines. He's helping people die. They might as well call it The Kevorkian Experience.!

[Tickle]

2. I never heard of him or spotify

until this all happened. He has over an 11 million people following.

That could explain why he is still there

[PatSeg]

9. Yeah, clearly it is about the money

which is very sad, because all the misinformation and conspiracy talk kills people. No amount of money is going to buy back his conscience or his soul.

[Tickle]

11. you got that right! nt

[Bev54]

3. Money is what happened, always look for what the benefit of someone

doing something and it is often the money. It is like a murder investigation, who gains the most to murder the truth.

[LAS14]

4. My speaker's broken. I tried to "read the full conversation on Twitter" and...

.. got hopelessly lost. Can you give a one or two sentence summary?

[Richard D]

5. He was...

Pro vaccine, pro science, and anti quackery.

[PatSeg]

10. Yes, in other words,

he sounded perfectly sane and rational.