Where will the social media giant Twitter be in the next 10 to 20 years? Will it evolve with the times to maintain its dominance or will it become an afterthought of early 21st-century nostalgia? Podcast host Joe Rogan predicts the latter, just like Blockbuster Video.
Speaking on the &#8220;Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; last week, the podcaster said that people will one day look back on the days of Twitter like they look back on the days of Blockbuster Video.
“I think Twitter’s gonna be like Blockbuster video. I think we’re gonna look back, ‘You remember when we used to communicate through Twitter? Like, oh my God, it was so toxic. Everybody was so mean,’” Rogan said, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/joe-rogan-twitter-blockbuster-video">Fox News</a>. “We’re going to hit some new thing, next, that is going to read each other’s minds. &#8230; It’s going to make this seem like nonsense. There is no empathy in these conversations and that’s a big part of the problem [with Twitter].”
Should Twitter go the way of Blockbuster Video, it will be strictly because a better business model of social media developed that Twitter could not evolve with. In the case of Blockbuster, the arrival of Netflix and improved streaming services rendered the old days of physical video rentals obsolete. Writing at <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2014/09/05/a-look-back-at-why-blockbuster-really-failed-and-why-it-didnt-have-to/#5673c72f1d64">Forbes</a>, Greg Satell argued that Blockbuster could have survived the streaming revolution if it had joined with Netflix in early 2000 when CEO Reed Hastings proposed running the rental company&#8217;s online brand:
<blockquote>Blockbuster’s model had a weakness that wasn’t clear at the time. It earned an enormous amount of money by charging its customers late fees, which had become an important part of Blockbuster’s revenue model. The ugly truth—and the company’s achilles heel—was that the company’s profits were highly dependent on penalizing its patrons.
At the same time, Netflix had certain advantages. By eschewing retail locations, it lowered costs and could afford to offer its customers far greater variety. Instead of charging to rent videos, it offered subscriptions, which made annoying late fees unnecessary. Customers could watch a video for as long as they wanted or return it and get a new one.
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In May, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to change a federal law that shields social media companies from being sued for content published on their platforms, arguing that those companies have a bias against conservatives.
“The order also seeks to channel complaints about political bias to the Federal Trade Commission, an agency that the White House has asked to probe whether tech companies’ content-moderation policies are in keeping with their pledges of neutrality,” The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/28/trump-social-media-executive-order/">reported</a>. “The order additionally created a council in cooperation with state attorneys general to probe allegations of censorship based on political views. And it tasked federal agencies with reviewing their spending on social media advertising.”
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After a disastrous interview in which Joe Biden insisted on his mental competency while slurring his words and tripping over himself, podcast host Joe Rogan simply declared the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate to be &#8220;mentally compromised.&#8221;
“I believe there is also [a] large group of people that are very uncomfortable with a man who seems to be mentally compromised winning the election and doing so by hiding,&#8221; Rogan said on his podcast, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/joe-rogan-biden-mentally-compromised">Fox News</a>.
“He was just at another thing the other day, and he forgot where he was,&#8221; added Rogan.
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On Wednesday, a clip from an interview between Joe Biden and CBS News reporter Errol Barnett <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-walks-back-claims-on-taking-cognitive-test-rambles-about-cocaine-during-bizarre-interview">went viral</a>; the former vice president&#8217;s bizarre, incoherent response to questions about his cognitive well-being sparked further controversy about his mental competency.
“Have you taken a cognitive test?” CBS News correspondent Errol Barnett asked.
“No, I haven’t taken a test,” Biden shot back. “Why the hell would I take a test? Come on man, that’s like saying, you, before you got in this program, if you take a test where you’re taking cocaine or not, what do you think, huh? Are you a junkie?”
“What do you say to President Trump, who brags about his test and makes your mental state an issue for voters?” the host pressed as Biden laughed.
“Well, if he can’t figure out the difference between an elephant and a lion, I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about,” Biden responded. “Did you watch that, look, come on man, I, I, I know you’re trying to goad me, but, I mean, I’m so forward-looking to have an opportunity to sit with the president or stand with the president [in the] debates. There gonna be plenty of time, and by the way, as I joke with ‘em, you know, I, I shouldn’t say it. I’m going to say something, I probably shouldn’t say.”
Biden concluded, “Anyway, I am uh, I am very willing to let the American public judge my physical and mental fil- my physical as well as my mental fil- fitness.”
On Tuesday, Joe Biden&#8217;s wife, Jill, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jill-biden-on-claims-joe-biden-is-in-cognitive-decline-joe-is-anything-but-that-characterization">asserted that criticisms</a> of her husband&#8217;s cognitive decline are off-base.
“You know, Joe is anything but that characterization. You know, we’ve been campaigning; we’ve been listening to the experts, the scientists, and the doctors, and they have told us stay home and be safe, and I think Donald Trump is really about Joe’s age right? I think there’s like two or three years difference,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jill-biden-on-claims-joe-biden-is-in-cognitive-decline-joe-is-anything-but-that-characterization">Jill told</a> Dana Perino of Fox News.
President Trump has capitalized on Joe Biden&#8217;s numerous gaffes and has simply said that he is not mentally fit to be president.
“I say he’s not competent to be president,” Trump told Fox News anchor Chris Wallace recently. “To be president you have to be sharp and tough and so many other things. He doesn’t even come out of his basement.”
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During a four-hour podcast episode with host Joe Rogan on &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience,&#8221; singer-songwriter and rapper Post Malone said earlier this week that he is not in favor of government-mandated mask wearing, adding that people need to &#8220;live their life&#8221; and be able to pay their bills, pushing back against strict lockdown measures.
&#8220;It&#8217;s scary what it&#8217;s done to the economy; it&#8217;s scary what it&#8217;s done to civilization,&#8221; Rogan said of the China-originated novel coronavirus and the global response to it.
&#8220;Honestly it&#8217;s terrifying,&#8221; said Malone, whose real name is Austin Richard Post, &#8220;And I saw, uh, you can get a fine for not wearing a mask, and sometimes it&#8217;s up to six hundred f***ing bucks.&#8221;
Questioning when strict lockdown measures would end in some parts of the nation, Rogan asked what would be &#8220;left&#8221; of the economy when the nation finally lifts coronavirus-related restrictions.
&#8220;Nothing,&#8221; Malone responded.
&#8220;Everybody has to live their life,&#8221; he continued, &#8220;everybody has to be able to survive and pay their bills, and eat.&#8221;
Harkening back to the mask mandate, Malone said the government should not be forcing people to wear a mask at the threat of fine, adding that he supports people taking personal responsibility and wearing a mask for their fellow man.
&#8220;It&#8217;s weird to me that there is, it&#8217;s like me in school, having to f***ing tuck in your shirt, or else you get detention or whatever. It&#8217;s weird to be forced to wear something,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;At the end of the day, it all comes down to respect for other people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a government thing.&#8221;
&#8220;You shouldn&#8217;t be forced to wear a mask — but you should [wear one],&#8221; Malone added. &#8220;And that&#8217;s because I respect you as a fellow human.&#8221;
The singer-songwriter also highlighted liberal Los Angeles policies, noting of the <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/07/west-hollywood-300-fine-not-wearing-mask-in-public-los-angeles-county-sheriffs-deputies-1202976018/">$300 fine</a> in Beverly Hills for people who do not comply with the mask mandate.
&#8220;L.A. is rough &#8230; $300 because maybe someone sees you eating and you don&#8217;t have a mask on, and then you&#8217;re stuck with a f***ing ticket,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It blows my mind. It&#8217;s all about f***ing the responsibly, and your charter, really.&#8221;
Back in 2017, Malone expressed his support for the Second Amendment during a Rolling Stone <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/post-malone-confessions-of-a-hip-hop-rock-star-116218/">interview</a>.
“They’re fun, they’re practical, and bad s*** happens,” Malone said, after showing Rolling Stone his guns. “If you hurt me, I’m gonna hurt you back. &#8230; Just being in the public eye. I have a lot of valuable s***. I have a lot of friends I wanna protect.”
“The world is going to s***,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They’re taking away a lot of our rights. We have a s****y thing going on in the White House – I don’t like Trump. But I don’t think it’s just him. Something’s coming.”
“A lot of people are sensitive about it these days, but it’s an American right to own a gun,&#8221; added Malone. &#8220;It kinda sucks that now we have to live in fear of going out to a concert, but there’ll always be bad people, and if bad people want firearms, they’ll get ’em no matter what.”
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Podcast king Joe Rogan set the internet ablaze this week when he said that playing video games is a &#8220;waste of time&#8221; because they suck up countless hours and give nothing back in return.
Speaking with fitness guru Joe De Sena on &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience,&#8221; the pair discussed how a lack of role models will lead children to become hooked on video games.
“Video games are a real problem,” Rogan said, as reported by <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/games/news/joe-rogan-experience-podcast-video-games-twitch-ninja-drlupo-a9639306.html">The Independent</a>. “They’re a real problem. You know why? Because they’re f***ing fun. They’re [addictive], I have a real problem with them. You do them, and they’re real exciting, but you don’t get anywhere.”
Rogan compared playing video games with practicing martial arts, the latter being a skill that one acquires after repeated practice while the former gives nothing back.
“You could be doing something exciting and fun, or you could just be playing f***ing video games,&#8221; he said. “Three years later you could just be that same kid, just playing video games, waiting for the next whatever the f*** game is&#8230; and you’re gonna waste your time.”
On the subject of gamers who make “a lot of f***ing money” through streaming, Rogan said that their main skill is adaptability.
“You have to be adaptable, you have to be able to play multiple video games, because the one video game that you get really good at, what are the odds it’ll be around 5 years from now?” he said.
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Naturally, the gaming community did not take kindly to Rogan&#8217;s denunciation of their sacred past time and responded forcefully.
“Joe doesn’t really understand the full context of what the gaming community is and how many different avenues you can be successful in gaming,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/Ninja/status/1287537235743723523?s=20">said</a> streamer Ninja.
&#8220;Listening to this podcast is a waste of time&#8230; Generalised bad take is bad. Anything can be harmful in excess. Video games have made many people successful, they’re the cause for a majority of my friendships, etc.&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/DrLupo/status/1287458454483935234?s=20">tweeted</a>  Twitch and YouTube creator DrLupo.
Other commenters supported Rogan&#8217;s take.
&#8220;People are getting upset over this Joe Rogan video like he isn’t right, if you’re just playing video games constantly without advancing yourself in other aspects of your life, you need to re-evaluate your time management, which is one of the most important skills you can have,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/Snip3down/status/1287528790973747200?s=20">tweeted</a> &#8220;Halo&#8221; champion Snip3Down.
&#8220;Yep, [Rogan] is spot on here. I suddenly realized this in 2006 or so while playing World of Warcraft—that I was making my character awesome, &#8216;awesome by proxy&#8217; —when I could actually just be leveling myself up. Quit on the spot, walked away, never wanted to play a game again,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1287530374009151489?s=20">tweeted</a> one user.
&#8220;Joe Rogan is fundamentally right on video games; they essentially trick your brains&#8217; reward center into rewarding you for something which is not actually productive at all- that being said it doesn&#8217;t matter. Gaming is not a problem. Humans have always had ways to accomplish this,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/Styx666Official/status/1287711252979027979?s=20">said another</a> user.
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Prominent podcaster Joe Rogan said that he’s had enough of Los Angeles and is leaving for Texas.
&#8220;I&#8217;m outta here,&#8221; Rogan said during a Friday interview with CEO of Spartan and Death Race Joe De Sena.
Rogan told De Sena he is leaving L.A. for Texas &#8220;soon&#8221; because he wants to live somewhere that is &#8220;in the center of the country, somewhere it&#8217;s easier to travel to both places, and somewhere where you have a little bit more freedom.&#8221; Rogan also cited L.A.’s overcrowding, which he says proves problematic in the age of COVID-19.
&#8220;When you look at the traffic, when you look at the economic despair, when you look at the homelessness problem that&#8217;s accelerated radically over the last six, seven, ten years, I think there&#8217;s too many people here,&#8221; said Rogan. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s not tenable. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s manageable. I think every mayor does a sh*t job of doing it, because I don&#8217;t think anybody could do a great job of it. I think there&#8217;s certain things you&#8217;re gonna have to deal with when you have a population of whatever the f**k L.A. is, it&#8217;s like 20 million plus people.&#8221;
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Rogan wouldn&#8217;t give details regarding his planned move to the Lone Star State but mentioned his producer Jamie was &#8220;all excited&#8221; to be doing the show from there soon.
Rogan <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OUz6I5UORg&amp;feature=emb_logo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">floated the idea</a> of relocating to Texas in May amid the lockdown order that Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom instituted in March. Though Newsom first rolled back his restrictive measures, he recently re-instated his lockdown in 30 of the state&#8217;s 58 counties, which encompasses about 80% of the state&#8217;s population.
&#8220;If California continues to be this restrictive, I don&#8217;t know if this is a good place to live,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;I might jet. I&#8217;m not kidding. I&#8217;m not kidding, this is silly. I don&#8217;t need to be here.&#8221;
&#8220;Texas is buck wild, bro,&#8221; he also said. &#8220;You can bring a gun.&#8221;
In a Wednesday interview with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro on &#8220;The Joe Rogan Podcast,&#8221; the two discussed Shapiro&#8217;s new book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-America-Three-Easy-Steps/dp/006300187X" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps</a>,” as well as the precipitous decline of L.A.
As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-ben-shapiro-joe-rogan-debate-lefts-new-definition-of-racism-unpopular-but-effective-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Wire</a>, both Shapiro and Rogan commiserated that &#8220;progressive policies&#8221; had led to an exponential increase of homelessness, drug abuse, and general lawlessness in California&#8217;s largest city.
Responding to Rogan&#8217;s assertion that L.A.’s collapse was gradual and then all-at-once, Shapiro said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve lived in L.A. my whole life. And the move from L.A. being a pretty safe, fairly nice city, suburban in orientation, to just overrun with horror shows is really — it was a lot faster than I thought it would be. But you&#8217;re right, it was a gradual decline, and then it&#8217;s just off a cliff.&#8221;
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‘I’m Outta Here’: Joe Rogan Says He’s Leaving L.A. For Texas

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Prominent podcaster Joe Rogan said that he’s had enough of Los Angeles and is leaving for Texas. &quot;I&#039;m outta here,&quot; Rogan said during a Friday interview

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In a wide-ranging interview Wednesday, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro talked with fellow podcast host Joe Rogan about the Left&#8217;s new definition of racism and some &#8220;unpopular&#8221; but &#8220;empirically correct&#8221; solutions to racial inequality that at times had the two hosts at odds.
The interview began with the two talking about an issue that has impacted both men personally and that is rooted in some of the larger problems they went on to address in the nearly two-hour exchange: the rapid decline of Los Angeles due to &#8220;progressive&#8221; policies that have resulted in an explosion in homelessness and increasingly lawless behavior, as displayed in the recent social justice riots.
The two podcast hosts both expressed surprise at the rate of the deterioration of the city and pointed to the broader issues it highlights – effective law enforcement policies and racial unrest.
Prompted by Rogan, Shapiro – whose new book, &#8220;<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=how+to+destroy+america+in+3+easy+steps+amazon&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8">How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps</a>,&#8221; addresses the race debate – addressed the growing movement to &#8220;tear down the entire system.&#8221; The forces behind the movement, Shapiro explained, include The New York Times&#8217; &#8220;1619 Project,&#8221; which seeks to &#8220;reframe&#8221; America&#8217;s history in a way that makes slavery &#8220;central&#8221; to everything about the country, and Robin DiAngelo’s widely cited book, &#8220;White Fragility.&#8221; This movement, Shapiro said, seeks to shift the definition of racism in a radical and destructive way.
&#8220;The biggest problem right now in the racism point, is the shifting definition of racism,&#8221; said Shapiro (video below). &#8220;So, I had the unfortunate experience of actually reading one of the bestselling books in the country, Robin DiAngelo’s &#8216;White Fragility.&#8217; And let me just tell you, a greater pile of horsesh** has never been produced by a bevy of horses.&#8221;
The &#8220;awful book,&#8221; he said, is basically rooted in the same theories as Ibram X. Kendi&#8217;s &#8220;How to be an Antiracist,&#8221; which changes the basic definition of racism.
&#8220;You and I, we&#8217;re sitting here discussing racism, and the way I define racism is probably the same way you define racism,&#8221; said Shapiro. &#8220;You believe in the superiority or inferiority of a group based on race – of an individual based on their membership in that group, too.”
&#8220;That&#8217;s racist, yes,&#8221; Rogan agreed.
But DiAngelo and Kendi &#8220;redefine racism to mean any societal structure that results in a racial inequality is itself racist,&#8221; Shapiro explained. &#8220;So any structure that results in a not-exact proportion between whites and blacks is racist.&#8221;
&#8220;Does that make the NBA racist?&#8221; Rogan responded.
&#8220;Exactly, exactly. The answer is kind of yes,&#8221; said Shapiro. &#8220;Except that the NBA&#8217;s not racist because obviously it benefits black people.&#8221; The real reason the NBA&#8217;s not racist, Shapiro stressed, is that it is in fact a &#8220;meritocracy&#8221; in which those who are best at playing the game are rewarded.
But even the idea of a meritocracy, Shapiro noted, is considered &#8220;an aspect of whiteness&#8221; by these new radical activists, and thus &#8220;racist&#8221; according to this new definition of racism. DiAngelo and Kendi both say that &#8220;meritocracy and the individual are aspects of whiteness because these institutions &#8212; things like meritocracy and individualism and not seeing people’s color — these just reinforce hierarchies that end with disparate outcomes,&#8221; he said.
This &#8220;systemic&#8221; definition of racism is also the underlying premise of the Times&#8217; &#8220;1619 Project,&#8221; which Shapiro noted has been strongly criticized by prominent historians. The inevitable conclusion of this premise, Shapiro argued, is that DiAngelo, Kendi, and the Times&#8217; Nikole Hannah-Jones &#8220;say is that in order to be anti-racist you have to be willing to tear down the entire system.&#8221;
As the Defund the Police movement highlights, that &#8220;system&#8221; includes law enforcement, thus the growing movement vilifying law enforcement – a movement which Shapiro argued is something that will ultimately hurt the black community in particular.
While Shapiro and Rogan appeared to agree on the basic definition of racism, Rogan asked if some sort of &#8220;middle ground&#8221; could be attained between the &#8220;1619&#8221; view and the &#8220;1776&#8221; view, which sees the country as founded in the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and progressing in order to better realize those ideals. Shapiro said yes, but said he doesn&#8217;t believe that middle ground is as much in &#8220;the center&#8221; as people want to believe.
&#8220;When you teach people that they are the victims of a society, it makes it very difficult for them to succeed,&#8221; said Shapiro. &#8220;The story of black America should be the story of unbelievably brave people triumphing over systems that sucked. That is the story of black America. Most black Americans do not live under the poverty line in the United States. There&#8217;s a huge black middle class. There&#8217;s a huge upper class, too.&#8221;
On the question of how to best address the cycle of violence and poverty plaguing the black community, the host and Shapiro at times butted heads. Rogan repeatedly suggested that there must be a stronger government-based &#8220;intervention&#8221; in those communities to improve education and opportunities, while Shapiro maintained that so long as  our laws and other systems treat all equally, as he said they do, most of the progress in the end must come down to &#8220;good decisions&#8221; by members of the community. &#8220;At some point, personal agency has to come in,&#8221; said Shapiro.
Rogan countered with a sense of fatalism about individuals&#8217; attempts to break a community cycle without some form of  intervention, particularly through education showing them that there are &#8220;other options&#8221; than what they&#8217;ve seen modeled around them.
After Shapiro argued that a lot of &#8220;the solutions&#8221; to poverty and crime among the black community have been tried, including LBJ&#8217;s failed &#8220;War on Poverty,&#8221; Rogan asked him what he would do specifically to help the black community if he were &#8220;king of the world.&#8221; Shapiro responded with what he described as &#8220;the unpopular view,” but also the &#8220;empirically correct&#8221; view.
“The first thing you have to do is you have to load the place with police,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You’ve got to load the place with police because you’ve got to stop crime. Once you stop crime, then businesses are happy to invest in those areas. You’re not going to get businesses to invest in those areas and provide jobs unless crime is gone.&#8221; Only when residents and businesses in a community feel safe, he said, will there be sustainable educational and vocational opportunities that will help people break out of impoverished historical cycles.
Relevant section of the interview below (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl0iNRXcUbE">view the full interview here</a>):
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-to-levin-whats-happening-here-is-not-even-right-versus-left-its-radical-left-versus-everybody-else">Shapiro To Levin: ‘What’s Happening Here Is Not Even Right Versus Left. It’s Radical Left Versus Everybody Else.’</a>
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WATCH: Ben Shapiro, Joe Rogan Debate Left’s New Definition Of Racism, ‘Unpopular’ But Effective Solutions

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In a wide-ranging interview Wednesday, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro talked with fellow podcast host Joe Rogan about the Left&#039;s new definition of

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Joe Rogan, host of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” said on Thursday that left-wing news media has &#8220;completely ignored&#8221; remarks by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden allegedly showing that Biden is in &#8220;some kind of cognitive decline.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m seeing this one thing that I keep hearing over and over again from people on the Left that really disturbs me – it’s this concession that what you’re voting for is the Cabinet, you’re voting for the Supreme Court, you’re voting for someone who’s not going to reverse Roe vs. Wade,&#8221; Rogan, who made positive comments about Bernie Sanders during the primary, said. &#8220;That’s what I keep hearing from my friends on the Left. They’ve basically just made this concession in their head like, &#8216;Hey, you know, this is what I’m voting for now.&#8217; And the news media on the Left has completely ignored all of these Biden speeches that clearly show some sort of cognitive decline.&#8221;
&#8220;Like David Pakman, who I respect a lot, he was kind of arguing against it, that it didn’t show his decline,&#8221; Rogan continued. &#8220;I was trying to look at it in a way that made sense, I was trying to be rational about it. I’m like, &#8216;Okay, maybe he’s just exhausted, or maybe this, or maybe it’s pressure.'&#8221;
&#8220;Sometimes people get really tongue-tied and panic under pressure, and words come out all f**ked up. That is possible. But there’s a trend,&#8221; Rogan continued. &#8220;If you go back to when he was a younger man, that trend didn’t exist. You’re seeing a change. The idea that as you get older you become less comfortable with the media, less comfortable with speaking publicly, that doesn’t jive with me. That doesn’t make any sense.&#8221;
Scientist Bret Weinstein, who was Rogan&#8217;s guest on the show, responded, &#8220;I agree with you. I see a decline. But irrespective of what that is, Joe Biden is an influence peddler. He’s not an idea guy, right? He’s the same idea as Hillary Clinton in a different morphology. &#8230; How dare the Democratic Party do this to us again at this moment.&#8221;
&#8220;Well they did it to us before this moment happened, that’s the thing,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;They did it to us before COVID, they did it to us before the looting, and before the demonstrations.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Joe Rogan: ‘News Media On The Left Has Completely Ignored’ Biden In ‘Cognitive Decline’

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Joe Rogan, host of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” said on Thursday that left-wing news media has &quot;completely ignored&quot; remarks by presumptive Democratic

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Joe Rogan, the stand-up comedian and host of The Joe Rogan Experience, has partnered with Spotify in a reported nine-figure, multi-year deal that will make his full show an exclusive to the company by the end of the year. 
“Bringing the JRE to Spotify will mean that the platform’s more than 286 million active users will have access to one of culture’s leading voices,” said the company in a <a href="https://newsroom.spotify.com/2020-05-19/the-joe-rogan-experience-launches-exclusive-partnership-with-spotify/">statement</a>, which referred to Rogan as having helped “lay the foundation” to the modern “podcasting renaissance.”
Spotify also emphasized that the show will remain free to all users, and that Rogan’s full-length video episodes — each of which is hours-long and  can rake in millions of YouTube views — will be made available as “in-app vodcasts.”
“Starting on September 1, the entire JRE library will be available on Spotify as well as all the other platforms,” said Rogan in a video statement. “Somewhere around the end of the year, it will become exclusive to Spotify, including the video version of the podcast.”
“I am not going to be an employee of Spotify, we’re going to be working with the same crew, doing the exact same show,” said Rogan, who assured fans of his free-form style that they would not be disappointed. “The only difference will be is it will now be available on the largest audio platform in the world.”
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Announcement: the podcast is moving to spotify! 
Starting on September 1 the podcast will be available on Spotify as well as all platforms, and then at the end of the year it will move exclusively to Spotify,… <a href="https://t.co/7IRHET5eZo">https://t.co/7IRHET5eZo</a>
— Joe Rogan (@joerogan) <a href="https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/1262812859983151104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
A source familiar with the matter told <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/spotify-strikes-exclusive-podcast-deal-with-joe-rogan-11589913814?mod=hp_lead_pos11">The Wall Street Journa</a>l that the multi-year licensing deal is worth more than $100 million, but The Journal could not verify the length of the agreement. In the hours after the announcement, Spotify stock closed at $175.01 per share on Tuesday evening, marking an over 8% increase from opening. 
Over the last eleven years, Rogan has grown his podcast into an internet phenomenon, releasing near-daily episodes that feature free-form discussions with comedians, scientists, journalists, cultural figures, among other guests. 
Each discussion typically rivals the length of most movies, and the most popular ones command millions of views. His 2018 episode with Tesla CEO Elon Musk has drawn 34 million views on YouTube alone, and his 2.5 hour discussion with Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro last year has been viewed over 8 million times. Rogan&#8217;s show has also featured discussions with politicians, including Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). 
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-has-backed-away-from-sanders-campaign-wont-stump-for-bernie-until-he-disavows-joe-rogan">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, Rogan said that he would probably support Sanders in the California primary, a move that reportedly prompted Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to distance herself from Sanders after he promoted a video clip of Rogan’s quasi-endorsement. 
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Joe Rogan Signs Exclusive Deal With Spotify, Moving Show Off YouTube

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Joe Rogan, the stand-up comedian and host of The Joe Rogan Experience, has partnered with Spotify in a reported nine-figure, multi-year deal that will

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Furious at coronavirus overreach, Elon Musk has taken the so-called “red pill,” prompting right-wingers to claim him as a conservative and left-wingers to call him a Nazi.
So which is it?
The “red pill” refers to The Matrix: take the blue pill, persist in illusion; take the red pill, see reality as it is. Taking the red pill means rejecting the officially approved narrative.
Musk, like Joe Rogan and other independent voices, isn’t a typical conservative Republican. But he appears to be trending rightward because a dishonest press has forced the people to choose between what they’ve been told and their own lying eyes.
The press might have an easier time convincing people to believe their stories if they refrained from contradicting them the moment they thought the cameras turned off.
During last week’s White House press briefing, CNN reporter Kaitlin Collins wore an ostentatious face mask for the cameras, but she removed it the moment the briefing concluded.
Likewise, Jake Tapper excoriated “President Trump and his team” for “an unprecedented smear campaign against rivals” based on “bizarre conspiracy theories” without ever once acknowledging his own longtime role baselessly smearing Trump as a Russian stooge and Brett Kavanaugh as a gang rapist.
Beyond the media, the American Civil Liberties Union has dispelled any lingering illusions that the legal advocacy groups cares at all about civil liberties.
As Education Secretary Betsy Devos beefs up protections for the accused on college campuses, the ACLU has come out against due process. But the ACLU, founded by a communist who defended “liberty under the Soviets,” was from its inception “a communist front,” as the California Committee on Un-American Activities determined in 1943.
Despite the patriotic-sounding name, the ACLU has never sought to defend the American tradition of political freedom, and its latest attack on due process carries on the organization’s long, destructive legacy.
The news doesn’t report the news, the ACLU doesn’t defend civil rights, and now Harvard wants to ban education.
Specifically, Harvard professor and &#8220;renowned child welfare expert&#8221; Elizabeth Bartholet wants to ban homeschooling, which she views as conservative, Christian subversion that &#8220;poses a threat to children and society.&#8221;
Bartholet singles out Germany as a model of education policy because it effectively banned homeschooling altogether. She neglects elaborate on the history of that ban, which Hitler instituted in 1938. Quite the &#8220;red pill&#8221; indeed.
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KNOWLES: The Red Pill, The Laughable ACLU, & Harvard’s Education Ban

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Furious at coronavirus overreach, Elon Musk has taken the so-called “red pill,” prompting right-wingers to claim him as a conservative and left-wingers to

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On his popular podcast show Wednesday, host and comedian Joe Rogan said he is seriously considering relocating from California to Texas in response to the deep-blue state&#8217;s overly &#8220;restrictive&#8221; response to the coronavirus and its &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; taxes.
&#8220;I might move to Texas,&#8221; Rogan said, citing serious previous discussions he&#8217;s had about it (video below).
&#8220;Here&#8217;s the thing, if California continues to be restrictive, I don’t know if this is a good place to live,&#8221; said the popular podcast host. &#8220;First of all, it&#8217;s extremely expensive — the taxes here are ridiculous.&#8221;
&#8220;And if they really say that we can&#8217;t do standup until 2022, or some sh** like that, I might jet,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m not kidding. I&#8217;m not kidding. This is silly. I don&#8217;t need to be here.&#8221;
&#8220;The only reason why I&#8217;m here is because I&#8217;m close to people like you,&#8221; he added. &#8220;A lot of my friends live here, the [Comedy] Store is here. But if they won&#8217;t let us do the Store, but we can do stand up in other places, why would we stay here?&#8221;
Asked where in Texas he would consider moving, Rogan cited Austin and Dallas as potential landing spots. &#8220;I like Austin a lot, I like Dallas a lot. I like Houston, but I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d live in Houston,&#8221; he said, noting the humidity in the area.
Rogan&#8217;s threat to leave the state comes after Los Angeles County&#8217;s Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said earlier this week that &#8220;based on all of the data that we’re looking at ,&#8221; county officials &#8220;know with all certainty that we’ll be extending health officer orders for the next three months.&#8221;
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has since attempted to &#8220;clarify&#8221; that the city will not continue to enforce a full lockdown on &#8220;non-essential&#8221; businesses for three months and will continue to take &#8220;brave&#8221; steps toward reopening. But Garcetti also announced this week that all residents must now wear face coverings outside their homes. “We’re requiring all Angelenos to wear face coverings when they leave the house,” Garcetti said in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/los-angeles-mayor-eric-garcetti-orders-all-residents-must-wear-face-coverings-when-they-leave-home">statement</a> Wednesday. “There are exceptions in place for small children or those with disabilities.”
&#8220;Our Safer at Home order will remain in place beyond May 15. Depending on public health conditions, we will continue to adjust the order to safely allow more businesses to operate and more people to get back to work,&#8221; said the mayor. &#8220;All retail locations — from electronics to beauty stores — will now be allowed to open for curbside and doorside pickup and delivery. We are also allowing manufacturing that supports retail that is opening at reduced capacity as long as they can adhere to safety protocols.&#8221;
Video below via &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221;:
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WATCH: Joe Rogan Makes The Case For Moving To Texas Over California’s Shutdown Orders

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On his popular podcast show Wednesday, host and comedian Joe Rogan said he is seriously considering relocating from California to Texas in response to the

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Podcast host Joe Rogan and comedian Brendan Schaub, who used to be an MMA fighter, went off on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden late last week, saying that President Donald Trump is going to steamroll Biden in the election.
&#8220;It shows you how crazy the system is that they wanted him,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;That they wanted Biden to be their guy, that they don&#8217;t, they can&#8217;t admit that he&#8217;s in cognitive decline. I mean it’s very strange.&#8221;
&#8220;Look if someone wants to ask me questions about things that I understand like MMA or like comedy like if you want to ask me questions about things that I think about and talk about all the time, I could talk to you and really clearly about those things and make a lot of sense,&#8221; Rogan continued. &#8220;[Biden] can&#8217;t do that about politics and he&#8217;s been a politician forever … he&#8217;s a guy who&#8217;s suffering.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s no way he beats Trump,&#8221; Schaub said.
&#8220;He doesn&#8217;t beat Trump,&#8221; Rogan responded.
&#8220;No, those two faceoff, Trump&#8217;s gonna light him up like a Comedy Central Roast,&#8221; Schaub said.
&#8220;[Trump&#8217;s] already dismissing [Biden],&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;He&#8217;s gonna destroy him. He’s gonna kill him man. I mean it&#8217;s such an easy target, it&#8217;s like Mike Tyson versus a three-year-old.
WATCH [warning: contains strong language]:
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<blockquote>JOE ROGAN: You know, this is a weird time to because it&#8217;s right before the election, you know, election comes in November. Imagine if this s**t was going on right now and the elections was next week.
BRENDAN SCHAUB: Your boy Bernie dropped out.
ROGAN: Yep it&#8217;s a wrap.
SCHAUB: Biden ain’t beating Trump.
ROGAN: Nope.
SCHAUB: That’s your best? That’s your guy?
ROGAN: It shows you how crazy the system is that they wanted him. That they wanted Biden to be their guy, that they don&#8217;t, they can&#8217;t admit that he&#8217;s in cognitive decline. I mean it’s very strange.
SCHAUB: Listen I f**k up all the time and I speak for a living. I f**k up all the time. But Biden? But Biden? He f**ks up man, you&#8217;re politician.
ROGAN: I fuck up all the time too but we&#8217;re also talking live for hours and hours and hours at time. If I had a prepared thing that I was doing … look if someone wants to ask me questions about things that I understand like MMA or like comedy like if you want to ask me questions about things that I think about and talk about all the time, I could talk to you and really clearly about those things and make a lot of sense. [Biden] can&#8217;t do that about politics and he&#8217;s been a politician forever … he&#8217;s a guy who&#8217;s suffering. He&#8217;s in decline and they&#8217;re gonna try to wheel him out and whoever his VP is whether it&#8217;s Kamala Harris or … whoever it is, but that&#8217;s who you&#8217;re voting for.
SCHAUB: There&#8217;s no way he beats Trump.
ROGAN: He doesn&#8217;t beat Trump
SCHAUB: Not a chance.
ROGAN: “No, not a chance, especially because of the timing in this. Right now, we&#8217;re in the shit right we&#8217;re in the April shit is the worst time of the corona. A lot of people are dying, there&#8217;s a slight drop-off in New York, people dying less today than yesterday. Slight drop off yesterday from the day before, so things are looking pretty good. … California looking very good. … So and then you go June, July, August, hopefully everything&#8217;s up and running again economy starts coming back on track. Trump makes a couple of great speeches but Biden is more in decline. It&#8217;s not gonna get better.
SCHAUB: No, those two faceoff, Trump&#8217;s gonna light him up like a Comedy Central Roast.
ROGAN: He&#8217;s already dismissing him. … like someone said Biden said this, first of all he didn&#8217;t write. That was a Democratic operative. He probably doesn&#8217;t even know what it says. He&#8217;s gonna destroy him. He’s gonna kill him man. I mean it&#8217;s such an easy target, it&#8217;s like Mike Tyson versus a three-year-old.</blockquote>

Joe Rogan On Trump-Biden Matchup: ‘Like Mike Tyson Vs. A 3-Year-Old’

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Podcast host Joe Rogan and comedian Brendan Schaub, who used to be an MMA fighter, went off on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden late last week,

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The Gravel Institute, a progressive think tank named after former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D-AK), slammed the Democratic establishment for coalescing around former Vice President Joe Biden, remarking that podcast host Joe Rogan openly considering voting for President Trump in November was an indictment of Biden himself.
“Bernie didn’t run a bad campaign, he got f***** over by sudden establishment consolidation and concentrated media attacks. The next step is figuring out how to overcome that next time,” tweeted the Gravel Institute.
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Bernie didn&#8217;t run a bad campaign, he got fucked over by sudden establishment consolidation and concentrated media attacks. The next step is figuring out how to overcome that next time.
— The Gravel Institute (@GravelInstitute) <a href="https://twitter.com/GravelInstitute/status/1246512866569535488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
“The fact that Joe Rogan would rather vote for Donald Trump than Joe Biden is not an indictment of Bernie Sanders. It’s an indictment of Joe Biden,” said the institute in a separate tweet.
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The fact that Joe Rogan would rather vote for Donald Trump than Joe Biden is not an indictment of Bernie Sanders. It&#8217;s an indictment of Joe Biden.
— The Gravel Institute (@GravelInstitute) <a href="https://twitter.com/GravelInstitute/status/1246531413748285440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
In response to Rogan’s earlier remarks about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), left-wing commentators blasted the Sanders campaign for openly touting the comedian’s observation that he would probably vote for the Vermont senator in the Democratic nomination.
“When we told you about Joe Rogan, we were scolded,” remarked former South Carolina lawmaker Bakari Sellers.
“Given Bernie (mistakenly, imho) elevated Joe Rogan’s endorsement of him, and given Rogan is now saying he’d rather vote for Trump than Biden… is it not time for bernie to also now disown/distance himself from Rogan, too?” said Mehdi Hasan, columnist for The Intercept.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-has-backed-away-from-sanders-campaign-wont-stump-for-bernie-until-he-disavows-joe-rogan">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, Joe Rogan remarked earlier this year that he would probably vote for Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the California Democratic primary, a move that resulted in Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) reportedly distancing herself from the Sanders campaign.
Rogan made the remarks about Trump on Friday during a conversation with Eric Weinstein, the managing director of Thiel Capital. However, the comedian also indicated that he would have rather seen Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) leading the country during the coronavirus pandemic than any other politician who ran in the Democratic primary.
“This is the real issue with the Democratic Party,” Rogan said, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-on-2020-election-i-would-rather-vote-for-trump-over-biden-biden-cant-handle-anything">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported. “They’ve essentially made us all morons with this Joe Biden thing. They really have. They’ve made us all morons.”
“I can’t vote for that guy,” said Rogan. “I’d rather vote for Trump than [Biden]. I don’t think he can handle anything. You’re relying entirely on his cabinet. If you want to talk about an individual leader who can communicate, he can’t do that. And we don’t know what the f**k he’ll be like after a year in office. The pressure of being President of the United States is something than no one has ever prepared for.
“The only one who seems to be fine with it is Trump, oddly enough. He doesn’t seem to be aging at all or in any sort of decline. Obama, almost immediately, started looking older. George W. [Bush], almost immediately, started looking older,” said Rogan.

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The Gravel Institute, a progressive think tank named after former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D-AK), slammed the Democratic establishment for coalescing

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Joe Rogan, host of the podcast &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience,&#8221; said on Friday that he would vote for President Donald Trump over Joe Biden if Biden becomes the Democratic presidential nominee.
Rogan made the remarks while talking with guest Eric Weinstein, a left-wing political commentator who is also the managing director of Thiel Capital.
&#8220;This is the real issue with the Democratic Party,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;They’ve essentially made us all morons with this Joe Biden thing. They really have. They&#8217;ve made us all morons.&#8221;
&#8220;I can’t vote for that guy,&#8221; Rogan continued. &#8220;I’d rather vote for Trump than [Biden]. I don’t think he can handle anything. You’re relying entirely on his cabinet. If you want to talk about an individual leader who can communicate, he can’t do that. And we don’t know what the f**k he’ll be like after a year in office. The pressure of being President of the United States is something than no one has ever prepared for. The only one who seems to be fine with it is Trump, oddly enough. He doesn’t seem to be aging at all or in any sort of decline. Obama, almost immediately, started looking older. George W. [Bush], almost immediately, started looking older.&#8221;
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Joe Rogan&#8211;who supported Bernie&#8211;on his podcast yesterday w/ managing director of Thiel Capital Eric Weinstein. &quot;I’d rather vote for Trump than [Biden]. I don’t think he can handle anything. You’re relying entirely on his cabinet.&quot; 1.3 million views on YouTube since yesterday <a href="https://t.co/Sxor0RvVZ0">pic.twitter.com/Sxor0RvVZ0</a>
&mdash; Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlxThomp/status/1246499752071647233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>ERIC WEINSTEIN: I think that in general people, when they are given no choice at all, express themselves moronically.
JOE ROGAN: When they are given no choice at all — How so?
WEINSTEIN: I want a choice of an actual president that’s viable. I don’t have one. Now you’re going to ask me which of the none-viable people do you like best?
ROGAN: This is the real issue with the Democratic Party. They’ve essentially made us all morons with this Joe Biden thing. They really have. They&#8217;ve made us all morons.
WEINSTEIN: Can you imagine?
ROGAN: I can’t vote for that guy.
WEINSTEIN: I can’t vote for him, I can’t vote for Trump.
ROGAN: I’d rather vote for Trump than [Biden]. I don’t think he can handle anything. You’re relying entirely on his cabinet. If you want to talk about an individual leader who can communicate, he can’t do that. And we don’t know what the f**k he’ll be like after a year in office. The pressure of being President of the United States is something than no one has ever prepared for. The only one who seems to be fine with it is Trump, oddly enough. He doesn’t seem to be aging at all or in any sort of decline. Obama, almost immediately, started looking older. George W. [Bush], almost immediately, started looking older.</blockquote>
Rogan, who is a supporter of socialist Bernie Sanders, has repeatedly hammered Biden in recent months over Biden&#8217;s struggles on the campaign trail.
“You have to be able call out s**t that’s wrong on your side,” Rogan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rogan-blasts-biden-skin-pulled-tight-like-a-lizard-trump-going-to-eat-him-alive">said</a> in March. “And this is one of the problems that the Democratic Party is having right now with this Joe Biden guy. You guys gotta be able to call it out, you can’t let this slide, because everybody else see’s it and Trump is going to eat him alive. He’s going to eat that guy alive.”
“The guy can barely remember what he’s talking about while he’s talking,” Rogan continued.
“Stop. Pause. He can’t be president,” Rogan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rogan-blasts-biden-skin-pulled-tight-like-a-lizard-trump-going-to-eat-him-alive">said</a> earlier in March. “Stop. Pause. Pause. Listen, we can’t play any games here, folks. This is a really old man who can’t talk. This is not a joke. Like that right now, ‘you know the thing,’ play that again. This should get you into a mental hospital. They should be like, ‘Hey, um, Joe are you alright?’”

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Joe Rogan, host of the podcast &quot;The Joe Rogan Experience,&quot; said on Friday that he would vote for President Donald Trump over Joe Biden if Biden becomes

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Podcast host Joe Rogan unloaded on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden during a recent broadcast of his show, predicting that President Donald Trump was &#8220;going to eat him alive.&#8221;
&#8220;You have to be able call out s**t that&#8217;s wrong on your side,&#8221; Rogan began. &#8220;And this is one of the problems that the Democratic Party is having right now with this Joe Biden guy. You guys gotta be able to call it out, you can&#8217;t let this slide, because everybody else see&#8217;s it and Trump is going to eat him alive. He&#8217;s going to eat that guy alive.&#8221;
&#8220;The guy can barely remember what he&#8217;s talking about while he&#8217;s talking,&#8221; Rogan continued.
Regarding videos that show Biden struggling to talk or remember events, Rogan said, &#8220;Play any of them, they&#8217;re all crazy. Every video of him recently talking he&#8217;s stumbling through s**t, he forgets what he&#8217;s talking about.&#8221;
Rogan then proceeded to show recent highlights from much-criticized interviews that Biden had on MSNBC and ABC.
&#8220;He doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s talking about when he&#8217;s talking,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t look good, either. And they got makeup on him. His skin is all pulled tight like a lizard.&#8221;
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Joe Rogan on Joe Biden: “Trump is going to eat him alive. He’s going to eat that guy alive. The guy can barely remember what he’s talking about while he’s talking. … His skin is all pulled tight like a lizard.” <a href="https://t.co/FybJds8Oz6">pic.twitter.com/FybJds8Oz6</a>
&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1243444617451728896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The video clips that Rogan played on his show went viral this week on social media.
During an interview on ABC’s “The View,” Biden struggled to make a coherent statement about curing the coronavirus, saying, “We have to take care of the cure, that will make the problem worse no matter what.”
During an interview on MSNBC, Biden tried to attack Trump, saying, “Why doesn’t he just act like a president. That’s a stupid way to say it– sorry.”
“Go ahead,” Wallace responded.
“No, no, it’s probably best I don’t,” Biden responded.
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SUPERCUT!
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Rogan ripped into Biden earlier this month after the candidate said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women created by, go, you know the, you know the thing.”
“Stop. Pause. He can’t be president,” Rogan responded. “Stop. Pause. Pause. Listen, we can’t play any games here, folks. This is a really old man who can’t talk. This is not a joke. Like that right now, ‘you know the thing,’ play that again. This should get you into a mental hospital. They should be like, ‘Hey, um, Joe are you alright?’”
Biden&#8217;s Democrat rivals have also called his fitness for office into question during the primary contest.
After one of the debates, then-candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) criticized Biden over concerns that he couldn’t “carry the ball,” telling CNN, “I think we are at a tough point right now because there’s a lot of people concerned about Joe Biden’s ability to carry the ball all the way across the end line without fumbling. And I think that Castro had really legitimate concerns about can he be someone in a long, grueling campaign … and has every right to call out.”
“I think there were a lot of moments where a number of us were looking on the stage when he tends to go on sometimes,” Booker continued. “At one point, he was talking about communities like mine listening to record players. I don’t remember the last time I saw a record player … But there are definitely moments where you listen to Joe Biden and you just wonder …”
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Sen. Cory Booker on Julián Castro&#39;s jab at former VP Joe Biden&#39;s memory: &quot;Castro has some really legitimate concerns about, can he be someone in a long grueling campaign that can get the ball over the line? And he has every right to call that out.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemDebate</a> <a href="https://t.co/rRxWIV0FmL">pic.twitter.com/rRxWIV0FmL</a>
&mdash; CNN (@CNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1172368490927247360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Rogan Blasts Biden: Skin ‘Pulled Tight Like A Lizard,’ ‘Trump Going To Eat Him Alive’

Podcast host Joe Rogan unloaded on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden during a recent broadcast of his show, predicting that President Donald

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Podcast host Joe Rogan raised concerns during a recent episode over Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, saying that the former vice president’s alleged struggles were not a joke and should be taken seriously.
Rogan, a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), highlighted a clip from last week where Biden forgot the Declaration of Independence.
Biden said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women created by, go, you know the, you know the thing.”
“Stop. Pause. He can’t be president,&#8221; Rogan responded. &#8220;Stop. Pause. Pause. Listen, we can’t play any games here, folks. This is a really old man who can’t talk. This is not a joke. Like that right now, ‘you know the thing,’ play that again. This should get you into a mental hospital. They should be like, ‘Hey, um, Joe are you alright?’”
Donald Trump Jr. highlighted the clip on Twitter, writing, &#8220;@joerogan says what everyone is thinking but no one in the media is willing to say because they hate Trump. Imagine someone sent him the other 1000 clips just as bad as this one from the last few weeks?&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/joerogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@joerogan</a> says what everyone is thinking but no one in the media is willing to say because they hate Trump. Imagine someone sent him the other 1000 clips just as bad as this one from the last few weeks? <a href="https://t.co/8Jmn4LbZ0F">pic.twitter.com/8Jmn4LbZ0F</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1236670051148857344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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During the Democratic presidential debates, Biden&#8217;s rivals have brought up his apparent struggles.
After one of the debates, then-candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) criticized Biden over concerns that he couldn’t “carry the ball,” telling CNN, “I think we are at a tough point right now because there’s a lot of people concerned about Joe Biden’s ability to carry the ball all the way across the end line without fumbling. And I think that Castro had really legitimate concerns about can he be someone in a long, grueling campaign … and has every right to call out.”
“I think there were a lot of moments where a number of us were looking on the stage when he tends to go on sometimes,” Booker continued. “At one point, he was talking about communities like mine listening to record players. I don’t remember the last time I saw a record player … But there are definitely moments where you listen to Joe Biden and you just wonder …”
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Sen. Cory Booker on Julián Castro&#39;s jab at former VP Joe Biden&#39;s memory: &quot;Castro has some really legitimate concerns about, can he be someone in a long grueling campaign that can get the ball over the line? And he has every right to call that out.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemDebate</a> <a href="https://t.co/rRxWIV0FmL">pic.twitter.com/rRxWIV0FmL</a>
&mdash; CNN (@CNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1172368490927247360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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TRANSCRIPT OF JOE ROGAN&#8217;S PODCAST:
<blockquote>[BEGIN VIDEO CLIP]
JOE BIDEN: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women created by, go, you know the, you know the thing.”
[END VIDEO CLIP]
JOE ROGAN: “Stop. Pause. He can’t be president. Stop. Pause. Pause. Listen, we can’t play any games here, folks. This is a really old man who can’t talk. This is not a joke. Like that right now, ‘you know the thing,’ play that again. This should get you into a mental hospital. They should be like, ‘Hey, um, Joe are you alright?’”
[BEGIN VIDEO CLIP]
BIDEN: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women created by, go, you know the, you know the thing.”
[END VIDEO CLIP]
ROGAN: “He had three strokes while he was saying that. The first one, what was that word? Self-evident? Is that what he said?”
MALE 1: “We hold these truths to be self-evident”
ROGAN: “But it didn’t even sound right. Here it again, listen to it.”
[BEGIN VIDEO CLIP]
BIDEN: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women created&#8211;”
[END VIDEO CLIP]
ROGAN: “He is drunk. That dude is either drunk or he can’t talk. …  He shouldn’t be doing this anymore.”</blockquote>

Rogan On Biden: ‘This Should Get You Into A Mental Hospital,’ ‘Not A Joke’

Podcast host Joe Rogan raised concerns during a recent episode over Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, saying that the former vice president’s

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Former Vice President Joe Biden is trying to capitalize off of a rift between Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) supporters over a quasi-endorsement from comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan by announcing his unqualified support for &#8220;transgender equality&#8221; in a tweet.
&#8220;Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time,&#8221; Biden said on social media Saturday night. &#8220;There is no room for compromise when it comes to basic human rights.&#8221;
Biden did not elaborate on what he believes constitutes &#8220;transgender equality,&#8221; and what he considers &#8220;compromise&#8221; on the issue, nor did he mention either Sanders or Rogan by name, but the reference was clear to those progressives currently battling over whether Sanders was right to accept Rogan&#8217;s support on his own social media profiles.
The statement isn&#8217;t necessarily a departure for Biden who, back in April, mentioned that he would support the &#8220;Equality Act,&#8221; a Democrat-authored House bill that would amend the 1964 Civil Rights act to outlaw discrimination based on &#8220;sexual orientation and gender identity.&#8221; That bill is controversial, as it includes language designed to compel public schools to allow transgender individuals who identify as female (but who are biologically male) to compete against female athletes on female-only sports teams.
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) one of the bill&#8217;s more prominent sponsors, made it clear that expanding &#8220;access&#8221; to transgender athletes is a key element of the bill, denying biological reality: “Many states have sexual orientation and gender identity nondiscrimination laws, and all of them still have women’s sports. Arguments about transgender athletes participating in sports in accordance with their gender identity having competitive advantages have not been borne out.&#8221;
Asked about the bill back in June, Biden said that passing it would &#8220;be the first thing I ask to be done&#8221; as president. The bill, he added, “is long overdue, and will ensure LGBTQ Americans are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.”
But Biden isn&#8217;t bringing up transgender equality at random. Late last week, Sanders followers split in dramatic fashion over whether the Vermont Senator and 2020 Democratic presidential contender should have celebrated a quasi-endorsement from Joe Rogan.
“I think I&#8217;ll probably vote for Bernie &#8230; He’s been insanely consistent his entire life. He’s basically been saying the same thing, been for the same thing his whole life. And that in and of itself is a very powerful structure to operate from,&#8221; Rogan said, responding to a question about who he planned to vote for in the Democratic primary on an episode of his podcast that aired Thursday.
The endorsement wasn&#8217;t absolute &#8212; Rogan has not said if he supports Sanders for president &#8212; but Sanders&#8217; campaign lauded it anyway, retweeting the video from the campaign&#8217;s official Twitter account.
Progressives quickly rebelled, begging Sanders to delete the tweet and attacking the &#8220;controversial&#8221; podcaster over his &#8220;transphobic&#8221; views.
&#8220;Rogan&#8217;s vicious rhetoric has dehumanized transgender people by misgendering them and promoting misinformation,&#8221; Human Rights Campaign&#8217;s President Alphonso David fired back at the campaign. &#8220;It is disappointing that the Sanders campaign has accepted and promoted the endorsement. The Sanders campaign must reconsider this endorsement and the decision to publicize the views of someone who has consistently attacked and dehumanized marginalized people.&#8221;
Sanders&#8217; team refused, saying in a statement made on Saturday that they believe in a &#8220;big tent,&#8221; which &#8220;requires including those who do not share every one of our beliefs.&#8221;

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Former Vice President Joe Biden is trying to capitalize off of a rift between Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) supporters over a quasi-endorsement from comedian

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Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) responded Friday to backlash from the Left after the democratic socialist touted podcast host Joe Rogan’s revelation that he plans on voting for Sanders in the primary.
The senator is not shying away from Rogan&#8217;s support, the statement clarifies.
&#8220;The goal of our campaign is to build a multi-racial, multi-generational movement that is large enough to defeat Donald Trump and the powerful special interests whose greed and corruption is the root cause of the outrageous inequality in America,&#8221; the candidate&#8217;s national press secretary Briahna Joy Gray said in the statement, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bernie-sanders-joe-rogan">Fox News</a>.
&#8220;Sharing a big tent requires including those who do not share every one of our beliefs, while always making clear that we will never compromise our values,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;The truth is that standing together in solidarity, we share the values of love and respect that will move us in the direction of a more humane, more equal world.&#8221;
On Thursday, the Sanders campaign tweeted out a video clip of &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; podcast host singing the praises of the senator.
“I think I&#8217;ll probably vote for Bernie. Him, as a human being, when I was hanging out with him, I believe in him, I like him, I like him a lot,” Rogan says in the clip, speaking to guest Bari Weiss, a New York Times opinion writer.
&#8220;He’s been insanely consistent his entire life. He’s basically been saying the same thing, been for the same thing his whole life. And that, in and of itself, is a very powerful structure to operate from,” Rogan added.
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“I think I&#39;ll probably vote for Bernie&#8230; He’s been insanely consistent his entire life. He’s basically been saying the same thing, been for the same thing his whole life. And that in and of itself is a very powerful structure to operate from.” -Joe Rogan <a href="https://t.co/fuQP0KwGGI">pic.twitter.com/fuQP0KwGGI</a>
&mdash; Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1220445820505546755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The post quickly drew backlash from the Left, framing Rogan as a bigot for past commentary, such as objecting to male-to-female transgender MMA fighter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-male-trans-mma-fighter-who-beat-up-women-dubbed-bravest-athlete-in-history">Fallon Fox</a> competing and severely beating female challengers.
<a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/bernie-sanders-joe-rogan-endorsement-bad.html">Slate</a>, for example, took issue with Rogan allowing far-right figures on his popular podcast.
&#8220;Under the albeit honorable guise of giving every end of the political spectrum a fair shake, he’s introduced his mega-audience to guests with unquestionably racist and sexist views, which go largely unchallenged,&#8221; the left-wing outlet argued, adding that &#8220;Rogan also makes a game of having white people say the N-word and dabbles in transphobia and sexism, all nonchalantly mixed in with sometimes genuinely nuanced conversations about foreign policy, media, and sports. That these views are smuggled in between seemingly thoughtful conversations makes the unchecked bigotry all the more dangerous.&#8221;
Rogan, however, was defended online, particularly in relation to other supporters of Sen. Sanders.
Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro posted a side-by-side photo of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rogan, with the caption: &#8220;Both these people say they&#8217;ll vote for Bernie. One of them wrote a letter to a judge urging lenience for an ISIS recruit, routinely engages in anti-Semitic outbursts, and blames America for Venezuela&#8217;s collapse. The Woke Police are angry with Bernie over the other one.&#8221;
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Both these people say they&#39;ll vote for Bernie. One of them wrote a letter to a judge urging lenience for an ISIS recruit, routinely engages in anti-Semitic outbursts, and blames America for Venezuela&#39;s collapse. The Woke Police are angry with Bernie over the other one. <a href="https://t.co/y5a2WY4FU4">pic.twitter.com/y5a2WY4FU4</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1220775715198492672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In another tweet, Shapiro added, &#8220;For the Woke Police, it is far more disqualifying for Bernie that he just touted the endorsement of [Joe Rogan], a person who says biological sex exists, than that Bernie has endorsed every communist regime of the last several decades and campaigns with anti-Semites.&#8221;
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For the Woke Police, it is far more disqualifying for Bernie that he just touted the endorsement of <a href="https://twitter.com/joerogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@joerogan</a>, a person who says biological sex exists, than that Bernie has endorsed every communist regime of the last several decades and campaigns with anti-Semites.
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1220756035947749377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Bernie Sanders Releases Statement Following Backlash From Joe Rogan Endorsement

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) responded Friday to backlash from the Left after the democratic socialist touted podcast

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Proving once again that he is truly his own man and marches to no set definition of partisanship or ideology, politically incorrect podcast host Joe Rogan threw his support behind socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for the 2020 presidential nomination, praising him for being “insanely consistent his entire life.”
“Him as a human being, when I was hanging out with him, I believe in him, I like him, I like him a lot,” Rogan told New York Times columnist Bari Weiss on his podcast Thursday, as reported by <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/479770-joe-rogan-says-hes-probably-voting-for-bernie-sanders">The Hill</a>. “Look, you could dig up dirt on every single human being that’s ever existed if you catch them in their worst moment and you magnify those moments and you cut out everything else and you only display those moments.&#8221;
“That said, you can’t find very many with Bernie,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;He&#8217;s been insanely consistent his entire life. He’s basically been saying the same thing his whole life. And that in and of itself is very a powerful structure to operate from.”
In response, Bernie Sanders proudly shared the clip on social media, prompting backlash among his left-wing supporters who denounced Joe Rogan as a transphobe for having the temerity to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwAGdZKLMCc&amp;t=581s">oppose giving</a> transgender children hormone treatment and for not uniformly denouncing all conservatives as irredeemable bigots unworthy of a platform. Some even wondered aloud if Bernie Sanders would accept an endorsement if it came from David Duke or Richard Spencer.
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“I think I&#39;ll probably vote for Bernie&#8230; He’s been insanely consistent his entire life. He’s basically been saying the same thing, been for the same thing his whole life. And that in and of itself is a very powerful structure to operate from.” -Joe Rogan <a href="https://t.co/fuQP0KwGGI">pic.twitter.com/fuQP0KwGGI</a>
&mdash; Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1220445820505546755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Joe Rogan is a transphobic bigot who shills for quackery and cuddles up to dangerous racists. Appearing on his show is bad but understandable. Publicizing his endorsement is indefensible,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyfranklin/status/1220499891471994883?s=20">tweeted</a> Mikey Franklin.
&#8220;Listen to me now, and I can’t believe I have to say it: No Dem needs Joe Rogan’s base to defeat Trump. We also don’t need to capitulate to homophobia and transphobia (which btw *kills* people *smacks forehead*) for any reason. This is foul, justifying stuff. No way around it,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/ECMcLaughlin/status/1220706011025043456?s=20">tweeted</a> Gaia Project CEO Elizabeth McLaughlin.
&#8220;Joe Rogan today, Richard Spencer tomorrow? David Duke? If we’re for throwing minorities under the bus to win over the white working class is that the next step. We’ve said for years the anti-identity politics, class over race argument would lead to this,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1220735525423931392?s=20">tweeted</a> Marcus H. Johnson.
&#8220;Joe Rogan regularly gives a platform to hateful people like Milo Yiannopoulos, Alex Jones, James Damore and Steven Crowder. He mainstreams sexist, racist, homophobic and transphobic rhetoric + people. His endorsement of Bernie is an embarrassment, not a point of pride,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/brosandprose/status/1220541537047785473?s=20">tweeted</a> Ella Dawson. &#8220;Many of the people Joe Rogan has had on his show have launched violent harassment campaigns against women, people of color, and the LGBTQ community. I&#8217;m one of them. I wrote about my experience as a target back in 2016, when they were attacking Clinton.&#8221;
&#8220;Bernie’s campaign cutting a campaign ad with Joe Rogan f***ing sucks. Rogan is an incredibly influential bigot and Democrats should be marginalizing him,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/gaywonk/status/1220554118034608128?s=20">tweeted</a> Carlos Maza.
&#8220;This isn’t about &#8216;disagreements&#8217; or overpolicing someone’s politics. Rogan has been routinely misogynist and transphobic on his program, and it isn’t out of bounds to say that it is odd (or bad) for a guy pursuing the Democratic nomination to embrace that person’s endorsement,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/JamilSmith/status/1220750404108996609?s=20">tweeted</a> Jamil Smith.
As noted by Tiana Lowe of the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/joe-rogan-fails-the-bernie-bro-purity-test-that-anti-semites-sexists-pass">Washington Examiner</a>, progressive outrage over Bernie Sanders accepting Joe Rogan&#8217;s support is nothing if not hypocritical, given that Sanders has surrounded his campaign with anti-Semitic figures such as Linda Sarsour.

Bernie Sanders Enrages Leftists After Accepting Joe Rogan’s Support

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In an interview with Joe Rogan for his popular podcast released Wednesday, superstar actor Robert Downey Jr. explained why he ultimately chose to take on the role of self-important actor &#8220;Kirk Lazarus&#8221; for Ben Stiller&#8217;s 2008 comedy &#8220;Tropic Thunder,&#8221; a role that included Downey dressed for most of the film in blackface and doing a hilariously bad impersonation of an African-American man as imagined by an egotistical Hollywood A-lister.
Asked by Rogan if he could make a film like &#8220;Tropic Thunder&#8221; today, Downey suggestively responded, &#8220;Oh, you could do it &#8230;,&#8221; a line that drew a big laugh out of the host (video below).
&#8220;Tropic Thunder,&#8221; Downey explained, reminded him of his father&#8217;s 1969 dark satire, &#8220;<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064855/">Putney Swope</a>,&#8221; about a &#8220;token black man&#8221; on the executive board of an advertising firm who is accidentally put in charge and then gets a chance to reshape the corrupt company and, in the process, is forced to &#8220;confront his own corruption.&#8221;
When Stiller contacted him about playing the role, Downey said, he was initially enthusiastic, then began doubting the decision. &#8220;I thought, yeah, I&#8217;ll do that, and I&#8217;ll do that after &#8216;Iron Man&#8217;,&#8221; said Downey. &#8220;Then I started thinking, this is a terrible idea!&#8221;
&#8220;Then I thought, hold on, dude, get real here. Where is your heart?&#8221; said Downey. &#8220;And my heart is, A, I get to be black for a summer, in my mind &#8230; So there&#8217;s something in it for me.&#8221;
Having gotten another big laugh out of Rogan, Downey got to what he made clear was his true motivation for taking on the role: &#8220;The other thing is I get to hold up to nature the insane, self-involved hypocrisy of artists and what they think they&#8217;re allowed to do on occasion — just my opinion,&#8221; he said.
Downey also pointed to having a chance to work with Stiller, for whom he has immense respect, and who Downey praised for handling the inevitably &#8220;offensive nightmare of a movie.&#8221;
&#8220;And also Ben, who is a masterful artist and director — probably the closest thing to a Charlie Chaplin that I&#8217;ve experienced in my lifetime — he writes, he directs, he acts,&#8221; said Downey. &#8220;If you had seen him when he was directing this movie, you would have been like, &#8216;I&#8217;m watching David Lean, I&#8217;m watching Chaplin, I&#8217;m watching Coppola.&#8217; He knew exactly what the vision for this was; he executed it. It was impossible to not have it be an offensive nightmare of a movie — and 90% of my black friends were like, &#8216;Dude, that was great.'&#8221;
Asked about the other 10%, Downey said, &#8220;I can&#8217;t disagree with them, but I know where my heart was,&#8221; adding that he knows that&#8217;s &#8220;never an excuse to do something that is out of place and not of its time.&#8221;
Rogan responded by suggesting that, unless people&#8217;s sensitivity on the issue changes, the film might be &#8220;the last time&#8221; we see black face in humor again. &#8220;We almost lost the Prime Minister of Canada because he did brown face, he pretended to be Saudi Arabian,&#8221; Rogan added, referencing the Justin Trudeau scandal.
&#8220;It&#8217;s an interesting and necessary meditation on where is the pendulum, why is the pendulum right, where is the pendulum maybe cutting a little into what could be perceived as heart-in-the-right-place openness of its time,&#8221; said Downey. &#8220;There&#8217;s a morality clause here, on this planet, and it&#8217;s a big price to pay. And I think having moral psychology is job one.&#8221;
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A new study out of Penn State&#8217;s Political Science Department found that rather than conservative content online leading to radicalization, as the popular &#8220;gateway&#8221; narrative insists, the reverse appears to be true.
The study, titled &#8220;<a href="https://osf.io/73jys/">A Supply and Demand Framework for YouTube Politics</a>,&#8221; published online in October, takes a closer look at the popular narrative that YouTube serves as a &#8220;radicalizing agent,&#8221; particularly for the right. Conservative content, the narrative goes, supposedly acts as a &#8220;gateway&#8221; for viewers, potentially leading them to the fringes of the far-right.
But, as Birkbeck University of London&#8217;s Eric Kaufman puts it in his succinct summary of the study&#8217;s key finding, &#8220;Contrary to the &#8216;gateway drug&#8217; narrative,&#8221; the new study &#8220;shows the Intellectual Dark Web (i.e. [Jordan Peterson], [PragerU], [Joe Rogan], [Ben Shapiro], [Rubin Report]) is de-radicalizing potential Alt-Right viewers.&#8221;
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Contrary to the &#8216;gateway drug&#8217; narrative, new study shows the Intellectual Dark Web (i.e. <a href="https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jordanbpeterson</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prageru?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@prageru</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/joerogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@joerogan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RubinReport</a> ) is de-radicalizing potential Alt-Right viewers <a href="https://t.co/fyYQfGT8xJ">https://t.co/fyYQfGT8xJ</a> <a href="https://t.co/NiWh3iXnMw">pic.twitter.com/NiWh3iXnMw</a>
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The study&#8217;s authors, Kevin Munger and Joseph Phillips, offer five categories of the Alternative Influence Network (AIN), highly influential thinkers and commentators who have risen up to be competitive voices with the mainstream media. The first category is the left-most flank, the &#8220;Liberals,&#8221; like Joe Rogan. The second are the slightly more right &#8220;Skeptics,&#8221; who push back against some of leftist orthodoxy, among them Carl Benjamin, Jordan Peterson, and Dave Rubin.
The third, slightly more right category, are the &#8220;Conservatives,&#8221; including &#8220;Steven Crowder, famous for setting up booths at college campuses challenging people to &#8216;change his mind&#8217; about a conservative/pro-Trump belief; Ben Shapiro, a former Breitbart reporter known for criticizing the left for their use of &#8216;feelings over facts&#8217;; and Dennis Prager, host of &#8216;PragerU,&#8217; a channel that expresses conservative viewpoints with an educational motif.&#8221; Here&#8217;s how the study describes the Conservatives&#8217; ideology:
<blockquote>Like the Skeptics, they often lampoon the use of identity politics and de-platforming by  mainstream progressive social  movements, but  unlike skeptics, they also disagree with mainstream liberals in principle. They tend to have more traditional pro-market and socially conservative beliefs. They are different from further-right segments of the AIN, however, in that they explicitly oppose anti-semitism and open appeals to race.</blockquote>
The fourth category is the Alt-Lite, which generally attempts to antagonize or troll the Left and sometimes espouses racial ideology. The fifth category is the racist Alt-Right, which is &#8220;firmly committed to a far-right ideology&#8221; and often expresses &#8220;strong anti-semitism and the belief that white people are are genetically superior&#8221; and &#8220;advocate for an all-white ethnostate&#8221; and end to non-white immigration.
The study found that with the &#8220;skyrocketing&#8221; of Conservative content online, despite a similar increase in Alt-Lite and Alt-Right content, the total views of Conservative content continued to climb while far-right traffic steeply declined. According to trends, the researchers conclude, the proliferation of Conservative content, produced by the likes of Shapiro and Crowder, has more likely helped de-radicalize viewers than radicalize them, as the popular narrative has assumed:
<blockquote>Between 2013 and 2016, all segments of the AIN, including the Alt-Lite and Alt-Right, rose in viewership. However, since the middle of 2017, both of these ideological segments of the AIN have seen a steep decline in viewership. By contrast, Conservative and Liberal content creators who have much more in common with mainstream discourse than other segments of the AIN have either continued to grow or plateaued in viewership. These patterns are inconsistent with radicalization happening at a major scale; indeed, from these data alone, de-radicalization seems a more plausible baseline hypothesis. This does not rule out the possibility that some people are making the ideological journey from Liberals to Skeptics to the far-right, but this is certainly not the dominant trend.
Right around the time viewership of Conservative content started skyrocketing, Conservative content creation also rose dramatically.  Conversely, despite the Alt-Lite and Alt-Right stepping up its content creation activity in 2017-2018, viewership of such content has been declining.
Our preferred explanation for these trends are as follows: Previous increases in viewership of Alt-Lite, and to a lesser extent, Alt-Right content reflected such content being the most ideologically adjacent to conservative users. This content did not align with most users&#8217; views, however, and increased competition from traditional Conservative and Liberal viewpoints enticed large portions of this audience to abandon what was once the only game in town.</blockquote>
&#8220;[A]lternative voices on YouTube discuss topics mainstream media fails to touch, which may help them feature more prominently in search results and recommendations,&#8221; the study&#8217;s conclusion reads. &#8220;However, since 2017, viewership of the furthest-right content has declined despite increases in the supply of such content. In its place has been the rise of more mainstream-adjacent conservative and liberal creators, consistent with a large share of users finding ideological communities that best fit their ideal points.&#8221;

Study: Conservative YouTube Content Leads To ‘De-Radicalization,’ Not Radicalization

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A new study out of Penn State&#039;s Political Science Department found that rather than conservative content online leading to radicalization, as the popular

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