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(54,866 posts) Fri Aug 4, 2023, 03:56 PM Aug 2023

Joe Rogan suggests Jan. 6 Capitol riot was a set-up to bring down Donald Trump

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/joe-rogan-moron

https://archive.li/Oc59M

Not content with spreading massive amounts of misinformation during the Covid pandemic (and possibly killing lots of people), the Bro King of podcasting is back with a slew of idiotic conspiracy theories just as the 2024 election kicks into gear. In a furious week of freestyle political commentary Joe Rogan wants his followers to believe Jan. 6th was a conspiracy theory, that Joe Biden is persecuting Donald Trump, that there was “real fraud” in the Kari Lake election in Arizona, and that the intelligence agencies are “colluding” to stop Trump becoming President again. Here’s Rogan peddling the conspiracy theory that Jan. 6th was an inside job to comedian Jim Gaffigan: “The intelligence agencies were involved in provoking people to go into the Capitol building,” said Rogan. “That’s a fact.” Note: Rogan is repeating a widely debunked conspiracy theory that has cost Fox News $787 million.

On another episode this week with Patrick Bet-David, Rogan claimed that President Biden is behaving like a dictator and targeting Donald Trump for the same crimes he committed himself. “He's [Trump] being targeted… these are actions of a banana republic. You take your political rival and you arrest him, and specifically you charge him with things that you are fucking guilty of.” Note: Trump is not being charged for the same crimes Biden is “guilty of”. Biden returned all classified documents in his possession, whereas Trump refused to return his, lied about it, and attempted to obstruct an investigation.

Rogan then suggested Democrats had rigged the Gubanatorial election in Arizona against Kari Lake. “It looks like there’s real fraud,” Rogan said. “At the very least, there were voting machines that weren’t working properly.” Note: there was no fraud whatsoever in the election, and Lake’s lawyers were fined for lying about it.

On the same podcast, Rogan claimed the intelligence agencies conspired to keep Trump out of office: “When you look at the Russia collusion, when you look at the Steele dossier, when you look at all the bullshit, they tried to throw at him that we now know is bullshit. Not just bullshit, but coordinated bullshit,” said Rogan. “When you look at the fact that they suppressed this Hunter Biden laptop story. And 51 intelligence agency representatives signed off on that to say that this is Russian disinformation, which we know they know is not true. That's scary. Because now you have the intelligence agencies colluding to keep a guy from being president, who was president during a time when the country was thriving economically." Note: The Senate Intelligence Committee chaired by Republican Senator Marco Rubio released a damning report in 2020 proving definitively that there was significant collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Also, “51 intelligence agency representatives” did not sign off on the Hunter Biden laptop story being Russian disinformation. 51 former intelligence agency representatives did, meaning they did not work for the US government or represent it at the time.

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