Joe Rogan vs. Bono

Bono; well-intentioned, uninformed.

Trump visits Joe Rogan

A great 3 hour discussion.

Trump's Rogan podcast appearance could seal the deal

President Trump is going to sit down with Joe Rogan on his podcast on Friday.  Could this seal the deal for Trump? It might.  It won't hurt, that's for sure.

Congratulations Tucker Carlson

Wait for the end:

Joe Rogan believes it's banana Republic time in America

It's really hard to say he's wrong because he's not. Speaking about the bogus conviction of Trump and the Democrats' lawfare as a political tool, Joe Rogan was not impressed with their antics. 

Via RCP:

"What's scary is how many Democrats are willing to allow this kind of stuff to happen. A lot of them are aware of it," Rogan said. "Especially if you wanted to look at past presidents with the same scrutiny... Imagine if, when Obama got into office, he decided to prosecute Dick Cheney and George Bush for crimes against humanity... Even what Obama did -- during the administration, they dropped a drone on a US citizen. No trial, no nothing. Boom."

"Trump didn't even go for Obama. He didn't go for Hillary. He could have tried them for things. Especially Hillary with the whole email thing, the deleting the emails."

"They're all crazy. That's what they don't want you to know. It's like sluts that are always talking bad about other girls for being sluts," he quipped.

..."If you change the way people are allowed to go after political candidates, and you change the way you're allowed to silence and imprison your candidates, then we're like Mexico. We're just not assassinating people yet. We're like a third-world country. We're like a banana republic," Rogan said.

 

Specifically for Joe Rogan

A while back Joe Rogan responded to the viral video of Canadian opposition leader, and next Prime Minister, Pierre Poilievre disarming a leftist reporter. He was impressed but had trouble with the leader's name. This video will fix that for Joe Rogan, and others who have struggled with reading or pronouncing Pierre Poilievre's name:

Why so dumb?

Why are people so dumb?

The Joe Rogan, RFK Jr, Hotez Twitter feud explained

Awaken with JP, provides a comedic, but accurate chronology of a Twitter feud about COVID  va.cc.in.es that dragged in others like Elon Musk.

Joe Rogan gets it

An intelligent man, exposed to some intelligent arguments, is eventually able to share his knowledge with others. Joe Rogan is a perfect example; here he explains the brilliance of the American system of government to Bert Kreischer.

Joe Rogan on weasels gaslighting us

 Joe Rogan on non-recession gaslighting:

Russell Brand defends himself

Russell Brand, having talked to the likes of Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan has awakened (not become 'woke') in the sense of being Red-pilled.  Because of that, he's under attack from the mainstream media (aka the woke leftists).  Here he spends some time defending himself.

This is important because it's working the way conservatives want, not the way the leftists, mainstream media, elites and woke want.  I watch a fair number of reaction videos for entertainment and I find the trend there interestingly similar. A lot of younger people, and a lot of African American people have gone from reacting to music, to movies (to avoid copyright strikes) to now reacting to the likes of Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson.  And they are awakening to reality.  They are inadvertently red-pilling themselves. It's a similar trajectory to Russell Brand's journey/awakening.

It's funny how truth eventually works it's way out of the fog of lies.

The Daily Wire summarizes the Joe Rogan controversy perfectly

The Daily Wire encapsulates the Joe Rogan, Neil Young, Spotify controversy perfectly:

Tim Pool on Spotify, Joe Rogan and woke outrage

 I'd stop sharing Tim Pool clips if he'd stop being right.

CDC got it wrong on vaccine efficacy

David Rubin talks about Rochelle Walensky of the CDC appearing on TV admitting they got it wrong. Meanwhile on Joe Rogan's,  show Dr. Robert Malone talked about mass formation psychosis. It's amazing how the ceaseless one size fits all narrative of the left is being destroyed by the omnicron variant of COVID-19.

Warnings from Joe Rogan and Tulsi Gabbard

Topping up on the cashless society argument as it relates to control. Joe Rogan and Tulsi Gabbard both toss out warnings to Americans about the loss of their unique society.

This is happening

Gavin Newsome sees the writing on the wall, Larry Elder is likely the next governor of California.  Joe Rogan even shows Larry Elder some love:

Joe Rogan and Tim Pool discuss China, socialism, Trump

Joe Rogan talked with Tim Pool about several topics recently, all interesting stuff.

On the potential for war with China:



On the the problems with socialism:



On the the chances of Trump's re-election:

Us and Them, redux

Earlier today I posted about the idea of Us and Them.  Turns out Jordan Peterson, not surprisingly, beat me to it.  This is from 2017:

#WarOnFreedom - episode 1.

Conservatives have, for decades borne the brunt of the media's complete ostracism and denial of their voices. Previously the media has relied on making their viewpoint more prominent and downplaying anything that is different as fringe. Prior to getting balance from Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, they could just shout down anyone who disagreed very easily. Then came a brand new medium - the internet.  Great ideas like YouTube and Twitter were adapted by both sides of the political aisle (as well as by funny cats).

But since the Obama era at least, the silencing has taken on the new dimensions of technical censorship. Patreon, Google (especially through YouTube), Facebook, Twitter and others have all tried to slowly, and not subtly remove any voice that dissents against progressive liberalism (details/examples in the links). They have done so using trumped up charges of racism, sexism, and homophobia (among other reasons). Often banning, shadow banning (yes, it's a real thing), de-funding and de-platforming were done for things that did not even happen on their specific platform or for faintly applied nontransparent standards that have been applied at least selectively but more often than not, politically subjectively.

The most recent history of this played out through Joe Rogan.  This is just the latest example of an ongoing effort to silence the conservative viewpoint.  The story played out in an interesting way as you can follow below.

Firstly Joe Rogan had Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on his show in early February.  He happened to touch on the issue of de-platforming censorship of Alex Jones, albeit all too briefly.

Joe Rogan realized two days later that he had give short shrift to the issue and had let Dorsey off far too easily.  He was moved to actually apologize for not being more on top of the issue:

Joe Rogan then did the honorable thing and had Dorsey, along with a flippant Trust & Safety leader within Twitter, and a left-leaning liberal YouTuber Tim Pool,  to debate the selectivity that conservatives know is rampant on Twitter. Tim Pool deserves our respect.  Despite being a liberal, he is a champion of free speech and came loaded for bear with examples of Twitter duplicity and malfeasance.  He did a very respectable job of challenging the Twitter execs who were in no mood to admit to having done anything wrong, ever.  They came across as not only condescending, morally blinkered and self-righteous, but also possessing the belief that they are truly untouchable and brilliant.

Not everyone on the Left thinks that what these big media companies are doing is wrong.  Some realize that silencing free speech is a path that leads to it being used against potentially everyone in the future.  Their desire to protect the free speech of their political foes is not a matter of sympathy, it's just common-sense self preservation.  Nevertheless taking an unpopular stand can be self-defeating if you are on the left. So they do deserve our appreciation.

Tim Pool followed up his Rogan appearance with an analysis and self-evaluation on David Rubin's YouTube Rubin Report.

Many on the right have called for either regulation or the breaking up of  these tech behemoths (a normally liberal position) for being selectively autocratic in their banning.  In addition to a number of other relevant examples of violence-inciting liberals not being banned as well as conservatives not being banned, this following video shares a guest on Tucker Carlson explaining why breaking up these behemoths is not just a simple matter, free of unintended consequences.

This #WarOnFreedom is raging right in front of you and it will end up in your home if you do not take up the side that is right and actually fight for it.  The right side is just this; that freedom is ingrained in the fabric of America, and liberty is impossible without it.  Every American must put free speech at the forefront of their core beliefs because without it, America is no longer America.

Backlash on Joe Rogan interview

Joe Rogan has had a lot of great interviews on his podcast (Jordan Peterson for example).  But when he recently had Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on, he either badly missed an opportunity in the discussion of banning Alex Jones or else chickened out on following up on Dorsey's non-answer.  There's been a backlash against Joe Rogan resulting from the mishandling.

Mark Dice discusses the details:

I won't go so far as to say Rogan is an idiot.  Anyone can miss an opportunity or make a mistake.  This was certainly a fumble by Rogan, but I think he deserves a chance to redeem himself.  That said, hopefully he does so soon.