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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    2 hours ago

    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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    5 hours ago

    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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    8 hours ago

    “Nobody could have known Trump would do any of this after I enabled him on my platform and endorsed him to my brain dead army of followers. Jamie, look that up.”

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    10 hours ago

    It’s a little bit like claiming Hitler invaded Poland to distract from his bad policies… But if Epstein is the thing that allows his followers to say “that’s a bridge too far” then so be it.

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      It’s a little bit like claiming Hitler invaded Poland to distract from his bad policies…

      War is a thing autocrats use to stay in power though. Both inner and outer war. Inner war for Hitler was the Jews, outer war was the rest of Europe. Inner war for Trump is immigrants, outer war is… We’ll know when he starts a proper one I suppose.

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        Stop this madness. He’s got carriers bearing down on the coast closest to Iran right now.

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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 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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          Yeah but it’s pretty hilarious when the leopard eats his face, like when he shat himself and ran into his walk-in medicine cabinet when he caught COVID.

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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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            The thing is though, it’s only market capitalizations at those obscene levels. There are few companies worth a trillion dollars intrinsically, probably none, idk maybe exxon or apple could count. But all the tech companies, tesla, nvidia, are all so overpriced it beggars reason.

            Everyone knows they aren’t worth that much but they know they can trade at those amounts, it’s divorced from fundamentals. Tesla is giving musk many times more in value in that 60 billion pay package than the company is intrinsically worth, maybe 10 billion dollars, maybe. Probably less given their flagship truck was a piece of shit in like 10 ways and he alienated half the west with his nazi bullshit. And nazis don’t want electric cars, they’ve always been partial to gas…

            Anyway sorry long tangent to say millions of dollars is still quite significant if they are realizing it in actual capital. If paying in overpriced stock it’s a drop in the bucket.