Joe Rogan has suggested President Donald Trump is using ICE raids and fraud claims in Minnesota to distract people from the stalled release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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      3 months ago

      Joe is the empty vessel through which corporate opinion flows, uninhibited.

      He’ll say whatever you want, whenever you want, to whomever you want if you just cover his fees.

      He’s the white man’s Oprah.

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          If he admitted he was wrong to back him I’d support it. He could provide an emotional out for MAGA types who may be regretting their choice now. “If Joe Rogan is regretting it…”

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          Well considering what we know about his wonderful secrets with his enigma pals, blood isn’t the only bodily fluid on his hands. And it’s not sweat either the guy doesn’t do real work.

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        To say corporate opinion flows uninhibited ignores the million of dollars used to make it flow. Ignores the pump of millions of dollars moving corporate talking points from the assholes of the rich to Joe’s mouth.

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          A million bucks in a trillion dollar economy is a drop in the budget. Joe Rogan is a cheap date at the scale of international media.

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      Fuck this dude and all, but I’m not going to look a gift horse the mouth. If he’s even partially waking up to reality, and influencing his audience about Trump’s shitty actions, I’ll take it.

      Dictators are successful when they have populist energy fueling them, and I’ll take help from anyone that makes this guy less popular.

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        He’s not. He is just trying to claw back some listeners so that he is still relevant to endorse the next fascist that comes along.

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        Joe needs to do far more heavy lifting. Passively raising concerns is cute, but doesn’t come close to the damage done by his Active effort to get Trump re-elected.

        When his rhetoric becomes decisively anti-Republican, I’ll consider giving him a cookie.

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    Joe sounds like he just woke up from a nap on a lot of things lately.

    Yeah, FFS, Joe. Of course he is. Aren’t you so fucking happy you helped to put him into office?

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      There’s a non-zero chance this is the first time he’s been sober this decade.

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    Joe still defends most of project 2025 so fuck him all the way. The media is just giving him props for almost nothing besides a few cherry picked comments.

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        He’s entertaining to dumb people and useful to the very wealthiest. You don’t need to accuse Rogan of being clever, he got celebrity status and used it to get a job from the closest thing to a demon on earth.

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    Until this asshole says the fucking words:

    “Trump is covering up the Epstein Files”

    Then he’s not criticizing Trump.

    This is what Joe Rogan and every hack psuedo-comedian podcaster piece of shit has been doing. They intentionally refuse to explicitly name drop Trump and blame him directly for literally everything he does.

    It gives these assholes plausible deniability to the dipshit MAGA crowd to say “I wasn’t criticizing dear leader! I was criticizing X cabinet member or person he appointed! Its there fault! Trump is still our infallible god!”

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      Absolutely 100% right.

      The media was reporting that he thought ICE was being gestapo-like, and he didn’t say that at all.

      The way it was reported was legitimate journalistic negligence; this guy is a full-on reactionary.

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        I’m still convinced Elon Musk and other billionaires are sneaking him money under the table to be their not so covert PR guy.

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          That’s probably not much of a secret. Rogan is getting paid by a lot of people for sure. Guy is a tool willing to help the worst people in the world.

          Go to bed with snakes, before long you will get bit on the dick though.

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      “Some of his advisors have some really bad ideas…”

      It seems poor trump is just completely helpless in the face of these bad ideas.

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        Schrödinger’s leadership role:

        When McDonalds begun increasing prices for corporate and shareholder greed, it was Obama or Hillary or Biden’s fault.

        When people Trump personally appointed, Trump personally talks to, and Trump acts based on the advisement of, do something catastrophic, Trump is just a victim of evil people who are tricking him. Also he’s never done anything wrong ever.

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          I remember during Biden’s term I’d hear/read the dim bulbs claiming “Biden’s policies” were making everything unaffordable, etc.

          I’d ask them specifically which policies, exactly. By name. I’d ask them to give me the name of the bills he signed into law, the EOs that he signed, etc that supposedly led to this alleged state of things costing more.

          Crickets. Every fucking time.

          It’s just all vibes with the conservatives.

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    He should have thought about that before platforming him to his millions of followers. Don’t surprised when someone YOU boosted gets elected and does stupid shit.

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      Didn’t he rug-pull Kamala, too?

      When does Kamala sue him for 1001 bajillion zillion dollars or whatever the fuck we are setting for bullshit lawsuits aimed at the media these days?

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    Joe Rogan becoming an overdue antifascist would be a hilarious twist of history. Like I don’t think he’s ever going to be a leftist, but he seems to somehow be less brain dead than a lot of Americans, and fuck that’s sad.

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    I’m not interested in this fucking traitorous little gnome’s attempts to backpedal from fully supporting this fascism. There is no redemption arc for him.

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    no you did joe roegan, you are part of the distraction from EPstein files, you are complicit. also besides you arnt getting orders from putin to say otherwise.

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      Yeah, that’s it - Rogan was one of the main supporters of Trump and his show no doubt convinced a shitload of brain dead males to vote for Trump.

      But if he’s trying to convince the savages who support Trump to pull out, then it’s better late than never.