Ooooo the mouthpieces see the wall coming
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Joe Rogan should do 20 years in prison
Too late for that.
Ah so the orange’s actions finally hit Rogan’s bank account ehh
Joe, you're already the monsters.
Yea! It could happen any day now! Any…day.. now…
joe 100% holds some not insignificant amount of blame for all this bs.
he IS a monster, it IS to late for him.
Nah he’s just trying to sound impartial. He was at UFC practically giving Trump a handy.
Keeping a mind so open that the brain just slides right out.
You cannot turn into monsters if you already are ones.
he is just hedging his bets.
Too late
That’s not turning on him. That’s using kid gloves to softly not be seen agreeing with him.
Boy is he slow
Yes but this is clearly him trying to walk back some of his alt right views so that he can get back a portion of sane fans.
And how long do you suppose his "walk back"will last?
Better late than never, at least. And with Rogan specifically I can actually believe he supported Trump out of stupidity in the first place.
Plus, a middle aged masculine presenting white dude actually admitting that he was wrong/decieved about something is unironically a desperately needed role model rn. As somebody who previously had absolutely no respect for the man, he's earned at least a sliver of my respect.
How a man can go from supporting Bernie to supporting Trump just has to come down to vibes bullshit. Which is stupid but also informative
Become?
To phrase this carefully: I've been saying that the people behind the scenery, who are actually in charge of this current regime, are going to need a new "face" when the current, orange one dies. Somebody brash, charismatic, well-versed in keeping people entertained, and their attention on himself. Somebody just like, oh, say, Joe Rogan.
I'm not predicting that Rogan will be the next "face" of MAGA, but this move is consistent with what I would expect if he were positioning himself to be it: Hedging his bets, putting a little bit of distance between himself and the administration so as to be outside of the blast radius in case public sentiment turns, but supporting it enough to be a credible successor in case public sentiment holds.
Somebody just like, oh, say, Joe Rogan.
This feels like the speculation I saw about Tucker Carlson or Mark Zuckerburg running for office. I think it misses how much of Rogan's popularity is artificially inflated, how much of his job is merely to market crypto and blue chew, and how much he wouldn't actually want the job of running for office to begin with.
These bloated egos inevitably do put their toes in the water. But trying to separate a few million dipshits from their wallets is a radically different task than trying to win a plurality of the 150M+ voting poll (heavily weighted across states full of people who don't listen to podcasts). You're going to send Joe Rogan to Iowa to eat a stick of fried butter while telling a gaggle of fifty year old hog farmers how much he loves soybeans and he's going to do a worse job of it than Rick Perry.
this move is consistent with what I would expect if he were positioning himself to be it: Hedging his bets, putting a little bit of distance between himself and the administration so as to be outside of the blast radius in case public sentiment turns
The sentiment won't turn. It's the same sentiment that's been building since the Bush Administration, and one of the big reasons the GOP fell apart in 2006 and then again in 2012 and 2020. The GOP can't afford to be moderate on immigration, on social politics, or on social welfare programs. Because as soon as you stop delivering the red meat, the knives come out.
Republicans aren't going to run a milquetoast moderate podcaster face for the party like Rogan the next time the top spot opens up. Look at the line up in 2024 against Trump - Nikki Hailey, Ron DeSantis, Asa Hutchenson, and Vivek Ramaswamy are the party's future. These are the people piling into the governorships and congressional seats under Trump and they're going to be the pool that dictates his replacement.
lol maybe stop abusing performance enhancing drugs first so you don’t look like a monster.
Shrek is not a monster.
Joe's stocks went down, hasn't it?
What a spineless two-faced coward. He constantly attempts to cover up his fascism by saying non-committal stuff like this.
You already are
no taksies backsies, you are responsible for turning many men into trumpers.
Not like Trump is doing different than he announced he would do. This moron endorsed him ffs.
... become?
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