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newdeal2

(5,414 posts)
1. They got what they wanted and now they are in power
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 12:23 PM
Aug 2025

People are actually being cancelled for speaking up, trans people are being treated like dirt, innocent immigrants are being targeted.

Not so funny when it’s no longer theoretical.

czarjak

(13,639 posts)
8. Rushbo said "I know Christians and Christianity."
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:32 PM
Aug 2025

Good conmen always know their marks.

tulipsandroses

(8,251 posts)
5. Oh I agree. None of them are funny. I think its their misogynistic/bigoted jokes that drew fans to them
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 01:18 PM
Aug 2025

I am no prude. I can laugh at offensive jokes. But these guys are just not funny at all. Rogan relocated to TX to open his comedy club to get away from CA wokism.
I am glad some of these other comedians are speaking out though. Hopefully, more people see them for their grift and the clowns that they are.


womanofthehills

(10,988 posts)
9. To be fair - During Covid LA closed down commedy clubs
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:34 PM
Aug 2025

The mayor of Austin opened Austin’s Clubs. Rogan opened a commedy club in Austin so comics could work. Austin had quite a few commedy clubs so it’s now a popular stop for comedians.

Rogan - also speaking up for people of Palestine


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tulipsandroses

(8,251 posts)
11. He's a whiny ass entitled man. Period.
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 04:18 PM
Aug 2025

If he has children, what does he tell them? Say whatever, do whatever? Rules don't apply to you?
After leading their followers to vote for trump, now that trump is a disaster, Palestine is now the trendy thing for the bros.

JustAnotherGen

(38,054 posts)
13. Why shrugging off Joe Rogan's use of the n-word is so dangerous
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 11:59 AM
Aug 2025
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/13/us/joe-rogan-n-word-blake-cec
A White person would never be able to publicly use the n-word again and not pay a price.

Rogan has so far paid no steep professional price for using a racial slur that’s been called the “nuclear bomb of racial epithets.” It may even boost his career. That’s what some say happened to another White entertainer who was recently caught using the word.

It is a sign of how desensitized we have become to the rising levels of violence – rhetorical and physical – in our country that Rogan’s slurs were largely treated as the latest racial outrage of the week.

But once we allow a White public figure to repeatedly use the foulest racial epithet in the English language without experiencing any form of punishment, we become a different country.


I don't accept the fucker's apology.

The 'imperial me' says I can throw him away like the gutter rat garbage he is.

womanofthehills

(10,988 posts)
6. Comedians Dave Smith & Theo Von are very anti genocide
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:22 PM
Aug 2025

Dave Smith telling Israel the world sees you as freakin evil


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Theo Von


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JustAnotherGen

(38,054 posts)
12. This Theo Von?
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 11:54 AM
Aug 2025
https://www.humorism.xyz/theo-von-says-hes-not-racist-hes-just-scared-of-black-neighborhoods/

Today Theo Von released a conversation with Christopher Curtis, a former Marine and Las Vegas police sergeant who now works as a consultant and public speaker and all-around advocate for policing as an institution. Von, unsurprisingly, offered the perfect audience, gullibly eating up reams of propaganda about Black crime rates and the role of race in policing generally. Curtis spent a long segment defending Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis cop who murdered George Floyd and more recently has become a cause célèbre among right-wingers seeking his pardon. (“I have yet to see a piece of evidence that Derek Chauvin did that because George Floyd is Black.”) Elsewhere he argued (and Von agreed) that the problem isn’t racism but bias, illustrating this point with a bizarre story about a man he heckled in an airport:


Von: I've seen—I've thought that, because the pimps that I've met—the pimps that I've met, I've only maybe met three pimps, but two and a half of them, or one of them was mixed, but two of them were full, or potentially full Black


Von: And I also don't know—that kind of bums me out sometimes because it's like, well, I would like to go support more Black-owned businesses and see them in certain areas probably. But I think there's sometimes where I'm just probably afraid. It's like, I don't want to risk my safety today to do that.


Von: That could be true. But I think more people now, I don't think that there's more racism than there used to be. I think sometimes there is a fear of some Black cultures in areas, because I think people probably want to be safe and they fear that some of those areas don't have a lot of safety. But I don't know that that's true.


He's a White Supremacist Propagandist.

And if you can't see it? I can't help.

I'm standing ten toes down on business when it comes to my sister's sons.

They aren't pimps - but this racist assed fucker head thinks he's funny. He's not. When the Regime falls . . .
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