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[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 8 points 8 hours ago

I can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time. And considering how many people refer to it as "Epstein Fury", I'd say that others can display a similarly modest level of multitasking.

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Joe Rogans thing being a monkey is very apropos, I doubt he has the capacity left for higher order thinking

[–] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 26 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Something something broken cock twice a day something

[–] orenj@leminal.space 15 points 9 hours ago

please stop breaking my cock the hospital bills are insane here

[–] VoodooAardvark@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 hours ago

I wish he would just rewind 10 years a be some comedian hosting other comedians and psychonauts with funny conversations when it was understood it was all just nonsense.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

TFW I'm out here agreeing with Joe Rogan, Alex Jones, and MTG. Fuck...

[–] quips@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 hours ago

Moon landing fake yesterday real today

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

We seem to have forgotten the gestapo admist the war and Epstein files but we still have them too

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

He's not wrong.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

He says this but he’d vote for him again if he tried to run.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 24 points 14 hours ago
[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

Leave it up to neanderthal Joe Rogan to finally catch on to something way, way after us homo sapiens have.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

And in other breaking news: cold water brrr, hot water ouch.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 78 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

Joe Rogan will never outlive his contribution to this. He will be denigrated in history as a sophist, an ignoramus, and a fascist sympathizer, if not a fascist himself. His children will deny him and do everything they can to distance themselves from his legacy. So let it be written.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I don't really care. If he can help lead people back from crazy land, I'm all for it.

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I doubt he will. If you wandered that deep into crazyland, chances are you belong there. I suspect he still wants crazyland - just a different brand from what the clown-in-chief is creating. That's fine by me if it creates a civil war among the crazies.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 9 hours ago

If you just give up on a third of the country, then the country will never heal from this. Like it or not, there has to be forgiveness for those who admit they were wrong. Otherwise this never ends and the USA is over.

[–] 3jane@piefed.ca 23 points 19 hours ago

He made a lot of money doing it. That's all he cares about.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 21 points 20 hours ago

Joe represents the average American really well.

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

shocked shocked i tell you

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 27 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago

No he's just a grifter and his current bullshit is turning his base against him.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 11 points 16 hours ago

In this case, Joe Rogaine is correct.

[–] Hawanja@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Well tell us something we don't know

[–] Commander_Keen@reddthat.com 2 points 11 hours ago

Say it ain’t so Joe! /s

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 0 points 7 hours ago

Now the narrative shifts to trump just trump only trump, no one else, ignore the framework required to get here, it was just trump.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 56 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 3 points 11 hours ago

lol stealing this

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Whatever. Go suck some fascist's cock

[–] TheCelticPirate@lemmy.world 179 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Joe. He used you as a distraction. You are a tool.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 30 points 20 hours ago

Joe Rogan allegedly allowed Harris to travel to Texas during a key weekend because she hoped to do his show. Instead of giving her a spot on his show, he gave Trump that spot resulting in Harris wasting an entire day.

I don’t genuinely believe this would have made a difference to Harris. But I do think it shows Joe Rogan’s motives at the time. Fuck that guy.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 19 points 21 hours ago

More like a Pawn.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 21 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm old- what is the significance of this meme? He haunts me

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

The worst person you know made a good point.

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 35 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Dumb shit realises the same thing everyone else with two brain cells to rub together did.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 16 points 21 hours ago

It's so obvious that even this numbskull eventually got it, which means other MAGAs are getting it, too.

Not all, though. Still a lot that are going to have to get kicked in the balls a few more times before they finally wise up.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 66 points 1 day ago (1 children)

More like “slow Rogan.”

lights go down, applause erupts

Thank you, you’re too kind. Oh please. Thank you.

Oh flowers? Lovely. waves at crowd

Good night everyone, drive safe, you’ve been a lovely audience. Till next time!

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You better look out. Joe Rogan is gonna come after you in 15 months, when he finally gets your joke.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Just crouch behind something 5' 4" or taller, you'll be fine.

[–] mrslt@lemmy.world 97 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Glad to see Joe finally catching up with the rest of us. Dude is perpetually at least six months behind the rest of the country.

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Glad to see Joe finally catching up with the rest of us

No, not this. Never this.

Joe Rogan supported Trump solely because he's in the top 1% and only cares about his perpetual tax break on his riches.

He's a total fascist oligarch asshole who'll just hop onto the next pair of fascist nuts his billionaire sugar daddies tell him to.

He is irreparably evil.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 24 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I genuinely think COVID made his brain dumber.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 7 points 17 hours ago

How was that even possible though! He was already borderline so low he had to consciously remember to breathe. Which we would all be better off if he forgot.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 19 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The reason he went to war is because Israel forced hm to, with the epstein blackmail.

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.

[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

I'm guessing it's something that would topple the entire establishment, not just narcissistic-in-chief.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I mean... yeah. Everything's a distraction for something with this administration. They hope you forgot about Greenland, or the failed insurrection in 2020, or, yeah, the Epstein files.

But seriously, it's not like anybody is getting arrested in the US over the Epstein files. People in other countries are facing consequences, but not in the US.

If you're in the US, you can be jailed for seeing video or pictures of CSA, while the actual perpetrators being named and shamed in the files are getting away with it. So is the crime the CSA or the knowledge that powerful people are doing it? It should be the CSA. I don't think people should be able to possess CSAM, but if the people doing it are known and getting away with it, is it a crime to see what they did or is it a crime to know who did it to whom?

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