Johnny Harris did a "both sides" dive into Joe a month ago and I unsubbed after watching that garbage. He just kinda breezes over shit and ends up being like "he just intellectually curious." Fuck right off with that shit. I remember years ago when that jungle spice smoking thumb of a man had Andy Ngo on and a friend of mine was trying to defend him asking if its "ok for people to attack a journalist." The friend didn't really know the context outside of the vague framework they supplied, but we argued for like 20 minutes. Even after I showed him who Ngo really was and what he was all about, it seemed impossible to break the perception he'd been given that Ngo was a victim.
Rogan is a misinformation gateway that primes people for the bigger scam down the line, whilst washing it's hands of any responsibility. He disarms people with a "curious" persona and the majority of his content just being empty mental calories to be consumed. It's like a viral carrier that dulls peoples mental immunity against right wing propaganda by surrounding it in a 100 layers of DMT vision stories. Personally feel like it makes him one of the bigger dangers for people getting put into the pilled pipeline.
Rogan is a misinformation gateway that primes people for the bigger scam down the line, whilst washing it's hands of any responsibility.
It's a psychological phenomenon called "the Joe Rogan Experience". Seriously, as an avid former listener, it's basically that. We can debate whether or not be doesn't it maliciously or not but this is actually what's happening.
As a former listener I just enjoyed that he had people on I both wanted to hear from and people who were talking about shit I never heard of so it filled din as background noise while working. Even when he was misinformed it was merely the topic of the day. Sometime around when he had Dan Crenshaw on for the first time is when I remember him really digging into weird rightwing talking points. Once covid hit it was over. It was like he moved into an ego silo and he wouldnt even let his guests provide a point of view he didn't agree with or understand. Every episode became about COVID and the woke left. He really is a fucking misinformation machine who can get away with it because everyone knows he is that fucking stupid.
He's got an amateur's level of knowledge while presenting as an expert. The moment in the video about China's plans to invade Taiwan where he said he used Google Translate as opposed to asking literally anyone in DC who knows Mandarin to help him with translations was when I realized he doesn't really know what he's talking about for many of the subjects he covers. I think there are policy and IR issues where he actually does have some knowledge, but I don't think any of it goes to the level of expertise required to educate on the subject, which is what he purports to do.
I live in Portland so I've had the "privilege" of seeing who Andy Ngo really is closer hand than most. He's nothing but a right wing propagandist, but he tries to cast himself as a journalist. The only similarity between him and an actual journalist is that he writes things.
Someone earlier was still trying to push the "cement milkshakes" thing that never happened. It was scary when the media did pick him up while he was useful to them for a minute.
Before listening to Joe Rogan, my dad was a Reagan-era fiscal conservative, and now he regularly talks about how the WEF is a conspiratorial group trying to bring about the "great reset", how COVID was both a hoax and also a bioweapon meant to disrupt western capitalism, and how BLM is a terrorist Marxist group who supports abortion as a means to destroy the nuclear family. I largely credit Rogan (and other 'apolitical' gateway pundits like him) for my father, and millions of other men, taking a hard turn right into reactionary politics.
That sucks. I wonder how many years of time we've all lost with our parents because these con-men. I listen to "Knowledge Fight" and Alex Jones has been crowing for months now how he's finally locked Joe in and got him to commit to the plan. The pride in his voice as he preens about duping Rogan makes me fell physically ill. Highly recommend "Knowledge fight" if you haven't checked it out!