The Podcast-to-Plague Pipeline -- JoJoFromJerz [View all]

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https://jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/the-podcast-to-plague-pipeline

There is a certain breed of American stupidity so virulent, so radioactive, it should come with a biohazard warning and its own CDC task force. I'm talking about the kind of star-spangled, skull-fucked, artisanal idiocy that can only be conjured by two men: Joe Rogan and RFK Jr.; the Abbott and Costello of anti-vax brain death, the Siegfried and Roy of weaponized wrongness, the twin pillars holding up the Temple of "Jesus Christ, how are you still alive?"

Rogan, for his part, is the podcasting equivalent of a gas-station urinal cake left to marinate in the scent of Funyuns, burnt clutch, and a jug of SunnyD abandoned to the laws of nature, sealed in the backseat of a 2006 Dodge Charger in August. His medical expertise is only rivaled by his knowledge of quantum physics, which is to say, he once heard a guy at the gym say 'quantum' and thought it was a new pre-workout flavor.

Taking health guidance from a man whose main career achievements include competitive head trauma and yelling at people to eat moose testicles on cable TV is a special kind of Darwinian self-selection. He's the sort who thinks epidemiology is optional and facts are just for funsies. Every time he opens his mouth, it's like a haunted ball pit at a defunct Discovery Zone coughing up a sticky, sentient mascot head to sell you mushroom supplements.

The company he keeps is no less spectacular. RFK Jr., whose family tree is a national monument to hope and tragedy, seems hell-bent on spending his golden years huffing paint thinner and mainlining conspiracy theories until his neurons are as scrambled as a breakfast buffet at a roadside casino in Reno. Here's a man who couldn't even sustain a brain worm before the worm took its own life, who once bragged about decapitating a whale, dumping a dead bear, and swimming in sewage. If Rogan is the dumbbell, RFK Jr. is the rusty, tetanus-laced barbell you drop on your own foot. Together, they're the reason measles is making a comeback like pubic lice at a swingers convention that somehow turned into a potluck.

It's almost poetic that a deranged reality game-show host in obvious cognitive freefall has put that fucking moron in charge of national public health. You can't make this shit up.

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