In case anyone was wondering who Joe Rogan REALLY is, a tweet from 2012...

[George II]

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This was after President Obama had already been President for almost full term! Disgusting.

[SheltieLover]

1. ...

[ColinC]

2. He cares only about "interesting conversation."

Nevermind if none of that conversation has any basis in reality... Joe Rogan is a total POS

[George II]

3. He devotes a lot of his podcasts to "political commentary", but when called out on it he claims....

..."I'm just a comedian."

[shrike3]

5. Like Rush. "I'm an entertainer."

[EarthFirst]

9. ...and Alex Jones is a "performance artist"

The list goes on and on with those who have been called out on their bullsh*t.

[LymphocyteLover]

20. Good points! They always have some lame excuse.

[paleotn]

13. Whole crew of them would burn down the country...

just to make a few bucks as "entertainers."

[ColinC]

26. Like how Fox News kept themselves from being sued on the basis of being "entertainment"

over news. Far many examples of to make me sick.

[Budi]

4. From the desk of Krystal Ball. (They give themselves away)

Link to tweet

And the best way to demonstrate your independence from the corporate media is to sign an exclusive $100 million deal with a $30 billion corporate giant.

Krystal Ball
@krystalball
The eclectic group of @joerogan guests who were pulled from Spotify just shows you this censorship shit isn’t about left or right. It’s about an authoritarian push for complete control over speech. They hate Rogan bc he’s not controlled by corporate media.

"Standing with Joe Rogan is the opposite of Progressive, Ms Ball'. Joe Rogan is a white male Corporate owned sexist, racist asshole.

You'll know them by the company they keep~

[dalton99a]

8. +1

[George II]

14. Ah, Krystal Ball. She started a PAC and wound up paying herself something like 40% of donations....

....and spent less than 7% supporting candidates the first election cycle. Then the PAC became virtually dormant.

First cycle expenses (2017-2018)

823,000 Contributions
321,500 Krystal Ball salary
58,300 Contributions to candidates

Second cycle expenses (2019-2020) only $12,000 and closed with $125 cash on hand

Third cycle (2021-2022) now closed with $0.00 on hand

[LymphocyteLover]

22. But she's a PrOgReSsIvE!

[ColinC]

27. I've heard tell of folks on the left beginning to appeal to right wing propaganda

The power of misinformation knows no bounds, apparently. I hate Joe Rogan because he is a shameless, lying, racist piece of shit who lies and is racist because it appeals to corporate sponsors like spotify for ratings, not in spite of it.

[betsuni]

29. Audience/money for anti-establishment left-wing populism drying up, next up: right-wing populism

designed to appeal to angry white men like Rogan's audience.

[retiredgeek]

6. Sheep followers of Rogan

I live in a bible belt state...by choice for the money, and I can assure everyone that he has ton's of followers who hang on his every word. And don't even try to have a conversation about why he's wrong on something....you will be called the devil, evil, etc. No discussion...just name calling. Many people don't get that he's an entertainer and says stuff for the ratings.

[Budi]

7. To the truth 🥂

[BobTheSubgenius]

10. He's a gazillionaire.

If the bottom fell out of every revenue stream he has, he'll still be very, very wealthy. He also has an extremely thick skin, it seems, so what does he care what people think or do?

[czarjak]

11. Colin Cowherd is paid for interesting conversations. Let's go Joe Rogan.

[paleotn]

12. A nutter. I figured that.

[IronLionZion]

15. Everyone knows John McCain, George Romney, and Ted Cruz were born in America

Where someone is born is based entirely on how they look. So lots of Russians were also born in America but Kamala Harris split her birthplaces between Jamaica and India.

To be fair, even long time liberals lost their damn minds back during recession times. They've told me my whole life that being born in America doesn't change the face that I'm stealing jobs from "real Americans" which has jack shit to do with my US citizenship. There is less of that during the labor shortage these days when my inbox is full of recruiters desperate for a token US citizen to do jobs that US citizens won't apply for.

[hatrack]

16. Shocking! The Steroidal Canned Ham is a birther!

[Pinback]

17. DUzy!

“ Steroidal Canned Ham”!!

[Sympthsical]

21. That is hilarious

I think my favorite Rogan insult came from Bill Burr. They were talking about roller blades for some reason, and Burr says to Rogan, "Even with the extra two inches, your knuckles would still be dragging on the ground."

Dead.

[Spider Jerusalem]

18. After Obama had been president for over THREE years in fact? 20 Jan 2009.

[George II]

19. Yes, I actually meant to say that, my first version before posting was "over a full term"....

....not year, then caught that it was 2012, not 2013. Thanks for catching that.

[soldierant]

24. Obama, who is descended from at least one

Revolutionary War patriot, and can prove it, and would be eligible to belong to the Sons of the American Revolution (and I can certainly see why he wouldn't want to.)

I doubt Rogan can trace his ancestry farther than a generation or two.

[Spider Jerusalem]

28. Obama is my 10th cousin, and we're more closely related by marriage

we're both descended from Mareen Duvall, a French Huguenot who fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War, got taken prisoner in Scotland, was transported to Maryland and sold as an indentured servant--he died wealthy and respected, with over a thousand acres of land and a dozen children by two different wives, and his other descendants include Robert Duvall, Harry Truman and the Duchess of Windsor.

Our relationship by marriage: my 4th great-grandmother was Nancy Bridwell, whose sister Rebecca married Samuel Miller Grable (who is an ancestor of the actress Betty Grable); Samuel Grable's sister Mary is Obama's 5th great-grandmother.

Through his mother, Obama has much deeper American roots than most of his Republican critics.

[soldierant]

31. Deeper roots than almost anyone, I gather.

Certainly far deeper than mine. Both of my mother'sp parents were immigrants. On my father's side I have a Union soldier (Civil War), but he was a somewhat recent immigrant himself.

He and some other veterans from the army he had served in in Germany (that was before unification, so I don't know any specifics) got drunk one night and enlisted. Not perhaps the loftiest of motives, but her kept his vow and was honorably discharged. And that s as far back as I can go.

[Spider Jerusalem]

32. Both sides of my family go back to the 1600's in America

and I have over a dozen ancestors who were revolutionary patriots, myself including Charles King, Senator from the Saluda district in the South Carolina Provincial Congress; Samuel Abell, major, St. Mary's County, Maryland, Militia, and member of the Committee of Safety; Henry Baker, commissioned ensign in the 5th Maryland Regiment of the Continental Line in 1781, mustered out in 1783 with the rank of lieutenant; Captain William Handy, Worcester County, Maryland, militia.

Henry Baker, above, was father of Henry Baker, Jr., who took a medical degree before having a calling to the ministry and becoming a Methodist minister; his son James Heaton Baker (my 1st cousin 5x removed) was elected Secretary of State of Ohio in 1855, and Secretary of State of Minnesota in 1860. He was colonel of the 10th Minnesota and was appointed provost marshal of first St. Louis and later the Department of the Missouri. And Charles King, above, was great-grandfather of Confederate general John B. Gordon (my 2nd cousin 5x removed).

My own Civil War ancestors are less illustrious: a 3rd great-grandfather who enlisted in the District of Columbia National Guard the day after Fort Sumter for three months' service, and another 3rd great-grandfather who served for a year in the 10th Kentucky Cavalry (Union).

And you might be surprised; depending on where he came from in modern Germany, records may be surprisingly good (I have one line of German ancestry who emigrated in 1721 from Baden that I can trace back to the 1500s).

[LudwigPastorius]

23. I've been waffling back and forth. Is Rogan a racist, or just a meathead?

...and I've come to the conclusion that he is a racist meathead.

[canetoad]

25. With a ruler

You could draw a precise line from that tweet to Trump.

[Cha]

30. NOT "cxrazy" for you Asshole.. it's

Business as Usual.. Idiot.

[mountain grammy]

33. That got him probably a million new followers.