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Joe Rogan claims Trump started the war in Iran to distract Americans from the Epstein files
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2026
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Joe’s full of shit as usual.
Control oil because he’s stuck in the ‘80s? Yes.
Control oil because petro state and anti-EV? Yes.
Control oil in an attempt to keep it on the petro dollar? Yes.
Pump and dump the stock market to make billions in insider trading? Fuck yes.
Because trump’s and his minions are idiots and don’t understand how interconnected and dependent the world economy is on the movement of energy products and their production ? Yes.
Because he’s worried about being prosecuted for anything in the Epstein files, and the judicial branch is threatening him with active investigations? Fuck no.
The reason he went to war is because Israel forced hm to, with the epstein blackmail.
Making money off of it is just natural for our gangster president and his administration. This war wasn't good for him, he was forced into it, just as Israel forced the last ones, and made him look like a bitch in every one by immediately violating any ceasefires he negotiated.
It really is that way, Epstein was Israel getting blackmail, and the president, and so many others, are compromised. It can't be ignored, and the big criticism of Joe's response here, is he's underhanding his criticism here, when he knows damn well it's because of blackmail, not distraction alone.
But what do they have that would cause any actual harm to him? You could release genuine videos of Trump fucking children, and he still wouldn't see any consequences.
Idk about that, his evangelical base won't care that's for sure, they are only a third of his voters. Some of his other diehards won't care, at least a third of his base would care, and a higher percent of the independents.
This is one of the only issues that could take him down, along with the entire ruling class. The epstein child fuckers and their enablers and those that covered for them. But we are all disunited as the Epstein conspirators keep us all at each other's throats. The far right dissident wing is anti salmon, you are anti salmon and pro terrieriest, the inependents sat on their hands when the weak doomed to fail controlled opposition predictably lost, and so forth.
We aren't dealing with only a bunch of rich people alone here, but Israeli intelligence (and US intelligence as there is no way Israel did this without their help/acquiescence,) leading the cover up and disuniting of the population.
I'm guessing it's something that would topple the entire establishment, not just narcissistic-in-chief.