Joe Rogan Irresponsibly Suggests Kari Lake Has a Point About Election Fraud

[Celerity]

Joe Rogan quickly veered into conspiracy territory in his most recent podcast.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-rogan-irresponsibly-suggests-kari-lake-has-a-point-about-election-fraud



Joe Rogan on Thursday let loose another doozy of a false claim, suggesting that despite a number of failed lawsuits and months of fruitless efforts, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake may actually be correct about the wide-scale voter fraud she’s so far been unable to prove. “It looks like there’s real fraud,” Rogan suggested during an episode of his podcast.

“At the very least, there were voting machines that weren’t working properly,” Rogan said, at least somewhat correctly, an apparent reference to an incident in which some printers in Maricopa County voting centers didn’t make dark enough marks on ballots—a technical problem that former President Donald Trump also seized on at the time.

From there, Rogan quickly went into full-on conspiracy territory. “It seems very suspicious that a lot of them were in Republican areas,” he said in a video clip from The Joe Rogan Experience that Lake later tweeted out. “There are a lot of shenanigans. And I think there are coordinated efforts to make sure that certain people get elected. I don’t know how far they go, but I know it’s not zero.” Rogan’s comment came the same day that Trump was arraigned in Washington, D.C. on four counts related to his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, which he continues to falsely insisted was “stolen.”

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The former president is apparently itching to be invited onto Rogan’s hugely popular podcast, The Daily Beast reported last month, though Rogan, a UFC color commentator who recently shook hands with Trump at a fight in Las Vegas, has said he would rather not have him as a guest because he doesn’t want to help his 2024 bid. “I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form,” Rogan said on a July episode of the Lex Fridman podcast. “I’ve had the opportunity to have him on my show more than once. I’ve said no every time. I don’t want to help him. I’m not interested in helping him.”

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[Brainfodder]

1. Must be new to his show?

[Celerity]

3. Me? No. I've posted many times here on his massive global reach, inciding many in my age cohort who

are in my real life and online social set here in Sweden and also in the UK (plus some US friends as well) who are absolutely not RWers at all (a lot are pretty apolitical, but some are fairly active), yet get bathed in his RW CT shite far too often.

[Jirel]

2. LOL, what else does anyone expect from this trash?

Rogan is 100% burning right wing trash fire. Of course he’s supporting that criminal. It only would be surprising if he didn’t do this.

[Caliman73]

4. Rogan is not an intelligent man...

Much of his "ideas" are emotional and like many people, his "research" is typically based on what fits into his preconceived ideas. He has some views which are not totally objectionable, but for the most part, he is susceptible to and parrots right wing talking points. This is so, because right wing ideas tend to be formulated primarily on an emotional and affective level.

Something "doesn't feel right" then progressives/liberals go looking for evidence and data while right wingers go looking for where the emotion takes them. For example, with regards to to the distribution of wealth in the United States, the research shows that the wealthiest people take up fully 50% or more of the countries assets and income while the majority, like 80% to 90% of the population has to split up the remaining 50%. Yet right wingers attribute their economic problems NOT on the basis of the greed of the wealthy, but of a portion of the country's economic output going toward social programs for the poor.

They see social welfare programs as "handouts" while the hundreds of billions in subsidy and tax breaks for the wealthy are "incentive" and deserved.

Rogan falls for and spreads this kind of thinking which leads to right wing ideas being promoted.

[GenXer47]

5. remember when UFC was considered "savage" and controversial?

UFC was shoved down our throats in the 90's and a lot of people were uncomfortable with the brutality. Boxing, at least, seemed to have some rules and you weren't allowed to pummel someone after they're down.
Joe Rogan comes from a culture and profession of hypertoxic masculinity and somehow he thinks he's a smart person.
I never considered the true meaning of "dickhead", until just now.

[LiberalFighter]

7. I was into professional wrestling as a kid. Went to one as a kid with my dad and grandfather.

It was in junior high school that I realize the fakeness of it after phys ed class in wrestling.

[LiberalFighter]

6. More than likely they have corrective measures in that type of situation.

Probably instead of scanning they hand count it. And since they have certain situations occurring know how to handle those issues.

[SoFlaBro]

8. Rogan is a stupid motherfucker and an asshole about his MAGA leanings as well as other assorted fuck

shit.

[NowISeetheLight]

9. Cross Between

To me he's a cross between Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones.

[Kingofalldems]

10. Can you make your post even larger?