Joe Rogan Supports RFK Jr. Over Trump and Harris: ‘He’s the Only One That Makes Sense to Me’

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Joe Rogan Supports RFK Jr. Over Trump and Harris: ‘He’s the Only One That Makes Sense to Me’
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the only politician rogan understands is the one who has literal brain worms

Rogan is what happens when the barbarian doesn't have a miniature giant space hamster to whisper common sense into his ear.

So like, just your ordinary, run-of-the-mill space hamster then?

Joe have rocks in gut but Joe like trt too much to stop

Jr: Talks about how he picked up a dead bear to "harvest" it, left it in the back of his car for presumably hours, then dumped it in Central Park as a "joke" when he had to go to the airport

JoRo: That's a man I can get behind

How does anybody take either of these people remotely seriously?

This is what all manly men do. (After overdosing on human growth hormones, testosterone, parasitic worms.) Hunt! Kill! Eat! Fuck (this bear, I'm tired, let's put the rotting carcass in the park).

This gives him too much credit.

A barbarian khan would legitimately be trying to understand how the world works. Yes, sometimes he has a scientist on and he's forced to learn things. But, other times he has a guest on so that that guest can promote their terrible worldview -- see RFK Jr.

I love this, why have I not seen this before?

You explain to meat!

Last I checked, Joe loves eating tons of weird meat, hunting and cooking a bunch himself. I'm just saying, this may be the great brain worm uprising we were warned about.

It's funny because it's true

I can't wait for the tide to turn against Joe Rogan and he becomes another has-been. He's done way too much damage on a lot of important issues.

I don't understand how more people don't see this. It drives me insane. "Did you watch the interview with Joe Rog-" "NO!!!"

He was interesting before the Spotify integration. When he had stoners on and just talked about aliens and shit. But then it got really weird with his hatred for California and all that arc.

I think the rot really set in before the Spotify stuff. I've never used Spotify, so anything exclusive to that platform is something I miss. I occasionally listened to his stuff before the Spotify deal, but I'd stopped listening long enough before that change that it didn't change anything for me.

What seemed to change for me is that originally he really was just asking questions. He admitted that he was uninformed and he asked his guests questions on what they claimed to be experts about. Often his guests were real experts, but sometimes it was a conspiracy theorist. When it was a conspiracy theorist, often they looked dumb when Rogan asked a pretty basic question and the answer was ridiculous.

But, over time he went from honestly asking questions to "just asking questions". Like, he had his mind made up and was instead trying to push some kind of ideology.

What made it especially bad is that his Spotify Exclusivity deal started around the same time as the Pandemic, and if he's not an anti-vax nutjob, he's at least nutjob adjacent.

My personal opinion, he hasn't been interesting since Fear Factor, and he wasn't even the interesting part

Maybe, but maybe it's worth telling the magats who can't be saved to watch, they could possibly listen to the guy who covered people in magats for a living and not vote for Project Orange

I don't know that Rogan is turning people off of Trump. I don't know his personal stance because I pay zero attention to the man, but the kind of people he gives a platform to, and his own theories, I don't think anyone would be better off after listening to him

Isn’t RFK a nutter?

He just admitted to leaving a bear cub carcass in Central Park with a bike on it in a scene like the bike hit and killed the bear cub. He had the bear cub in his car so he could skin (and I think eat it) but had to go to a diner and the next logical thing was leave the corpse in a park.

And a man who was only prevented by a red-eye flight from eating a roadkill bear he picked up in the morning and left undressed in his car all day is very much the type of person at high risk for brainworms.

Prions. Scary stuff. Could absolutely get it from exposure to brain matter from a bear or dear.

Stay away from brains. It can kill you most horribly.

Eating brains is only a potential problem if you have them in the first place.

He’s also got a worm in his brain.

That’s not a joke. It’s real, and it ate part of his frontal lobe, and it’s still in there, and it’s necrotic at this point.

He ran an anti mmr campaign in the American Samoas, resulting in him indirectly killing 85 children. He also drove his second wife to suicide due to his sex addiction.

RFK Jr doesn't have a sex addiction, he's just an asshole (and rapist), as proven when moved that dead wife out of her burial spot.

You have no idea. There's genuinely too much crazy stuff to cover in a comment. Worth looking into purely for entertainment value.

I recommend starting with the recent dead bear story or the brain worm thing.

The Behind the Bastards episodes on him are great as well. Dude is waaaaay more crazy than I thought and I already thought he was pretty wacko from the vaccine shit.

Trump lost Joe Rogan bahaha

Spoiler candidates are mostly bad news for Democrats, but I can't imagine many people who would be swayed by a Joe Rogan endorsement would have voted (D} anyway.

The way polling is going, RFK seems to be spoiling Trump, not Harris 🤭

Didn't trump have a talk with brainworms like a month back? I vaguely remember that a poll showed rfk stealing more from Trump.

That's why this move is weird to me. I assume Rogan would want Trump to win much more than Harris, but endorsing RFK Jr does nothing but convince his listeners (who are largely Trump voters) to peel off from Trump. The conservative ploy with RFK is not going to work out how they want it to.

Thank god Joe is too stupid to understand endorsing RFK will work against Trump.

I welcome his endorsement and hope he has RFK on his show 10 times before the election.

Or he realizes that and he is a coward.

It's because their brain worms are communicating telepathically.

Those poor brain worms must be starving

Nah, Rogan can't stop eating and RFK was eating roadkill to satiate his worm. The telepathic brainworms don't eat the brains. They take them over. Stick their tendrils in deeply. Synaptic activity looks like a Christmas tree. Builds quite the appetite.

Whoaaa whoa now, I like that game. Let's not compare the two. The Mind Flayers at least LIKE brains instead of totally lacking them.

What game, singular? You're not saying you think that BG3 is the game to spawn illithid as a concept, right?

It's times like this where I legitimately wonder if I read things correctly.

Eh, y'all can suck on your own downvotes. 🤣 D&D is not a "game" in and of itself; though one could describe "playing a game of D&D", that would be a fairly awkward/unusual way to phrase it. BG3 is, without question, the single most famous permutation of this IP (and the corollary "illithid"/"mind flayer") to date. Thafuq else could you mean, son? 🤌🏽

Worms of a brain and all that.

I think it says a lot that this doesn't really move the needle about my opinion of either of them at this point...

He's straight up just a contrarian at this point. He wants to be "different," by not choosing one of the "mainstream" candidates.

It's also probably a calculated move, financially, as he doesn't want to alienate the people who make up half his audience by endorsing Kamala or Trump. Probably more than half if he endorsed the former.

Typical bourgeois attitude, putting your own financial needs (that are already met 1,000x over) above literally the survival of the Republic.

They're not even nihilists, because they worship at the alter of capital.

It's gross.

It's all about money for him.

Could you imagine someone doing a job for money?

Can you imagine someone doing a (pretty fucking easy) job for something like 4 to 5 orders of magnitude more money then the average American, and then still making your politics about paying less taxes.

They're the worst people on the planet, and he's particularly bad due to his massive platform and young fans.

Who you're voting for is a protected bit of information. Nobody can force you to say who you voted for legally.

This was a move for $$$. morally that is fucked. Glad you're here to sway opinions on the bald fuckwit.

Does that apply to any media personality or just the ones you don't agree with?

Brain worms and bear cruelty are hot button issues for Joe Rogan, apparently. Is anyone really surprised the nutjob would pick the nutjob candidate?

I wonder if Joe's use of deworming medication makes him feel like he and RFK Jr. are kindred numbnuts.

“…Only one that makes sense to me” … I mean you are Joe Rogan… that’s not saying much lmao.

I would say that Rogan's response makes sense, but I mean... When you add up that much stupid and crazy I'm pretty sure the universe poops itself because it's like trying to divide by zero.

Not about Joe just about a better podcast than his: Behind the bastards has a several episode series on RFK Jr and the things he did.

Last Week Tonight also has a longish segment about him.

And I think both of them were produced before the rotting bear meat admission to Rosanne Barr.

Who gives a fuck what this guy thinks.

Millions of people, unfortunately.

Joe Rogan Listeners is as much of a voter bloc as something like "Soccer moms" or something.

Im not one of them, but incredibly it is probably about 5,000,000x more people than the ones that give a fuck what the average person on here thinks.

This is actually a huge deal, enough Republicans listen to him he can probably move the vote almost a whole percentage point

Yes. A whole percentage point might be 20 to 30 Electoral College votes in this close election.

Signs your ideology might lack internal consistency: you cannot make sense of anything unless it is completely harpic.

Dumb American here. Is this the definition of harpic that you're using here? I've never seen the word before and outside of UD, the only search result I was getting was for a UK toilet bowl cleaner.

The rats are leaving the sinking ship.

Yes, but they are still rats.

We would be smart to remember who these people are moving forward.

They will hopefully drown in the ocean.

RFK Jr. and Joe Rogan are a form of ultra crank magnetism. I think if RFK picked Rogan for VP, the country would implode from an integer overflow of Weird-Stupidity.

Joe Rogan should spend more time riding on public transportation. He'd be sure to find other people who make sense to him. They'll be the ones who are walking around talking loudly at other passengers.