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Joe Rogan walks back RFK Jr. support after MAGA meltdown
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Isn't that his whole schtick? "Don't listen to me, folks. I'm just the meathead asking questions."
It was valid until he started spouting off anti-vaccine/covid shit. It went little cutesy honesty to a shield from criticism. Just like how the right treats 1A
This is exactly the point that I couldnt even listen to the geology/ultra-athlete/astronomy pods, which I really enjoyed listening to.
Once he couldn't shut up about vaccines even though it was clear that nobody cared, it was a chore to listen to anything that he said.
he wasn't even asking interesting questions to the interesting people anymore, he just had a very boring, pointless agenda to return his way to in spite of his guests.
I haven't listened to any jre since the pandemic was still in full effect.
I tried once last year with a guest I really wanted to listen to, but within 10 minutes he start ed saying something way more right-wing than he ever had before covid.
oh I remember, he was listing the crazy amount of trans athletes that had won all these sports, and I was like well that can't be true, and after checking, it was clearly not true according to the data.
did one trans weightlifter win one gold? Yes.
is one victory the statistical marker for trans athletes outperforming the other athletes in their field? Not at all according to the data we have.
and this wasn't even a sports guest, it was some completely unrelated field.
I listened to him, Joey Diaz, and Bill Burr for years. I stopped listening to Joe around 2015/2016 when he went from having interesting, maybe occasionally off-kilter folks, on for fun discussions where he listened, to asserting half baked opinions as facts and platforming people like Alex jones regularly. That second one is what really got me. Prior to 2015 or so I hadn’t really clocked how close they were and how often he had him on.
To really blow your mind, Jones directly attacked Rogan multiple times because he wouldn't bring him on his show again before he finally did and they were all buddy buddy.
Roe Jogan is a fucking moron, and I'm using that as a compliment.
Ahhhh that may be why it didn’t register.
I don't think he's ever had a plan - so while that's his schtick, I don't think it's like a smokescreen or anything. He's just some dumbass who wanted to start a show to interview interesting people and smoke weed. But, when you're interviewing fringe political figures, racists, snake oil salesmen, etc. you have a journalistic duty that Joe Rogan: dumbass, was not prepared for and didn't understand. Now he's in over his head. People take him seriously, and he agrees with some of the crazy people he's brought on because he's a dumbass
Yeah he is basically just JAQing off.