Trump Cancels All His Events in Favor of One of the Worst People Ever

Really? One of the worst people ever? That's the top of the chart; Adolf Hitler and Joe Rogan?

Garbage "journalism" lmao

These kind of headlines really make us look like crackpot to the right. Joe Rogan is not one of the worst people ever.

He's a self interested comedian and Podcaster who platforms people indiscriminately. The conservatives have made themselves available to him, and he has shows to make. He has plenty of liberal guests that don't get confrontational or hostile interviews and most of his personal politics are pretty liberal.

Rush Limbagh, Alex Jones, Bill O'Reilly were all actually conservative right wing monsters.

Inviting the loons from both sides of the aisle is why he was on horse paste during COVID. His lack of fact checking give oxygen to some of the worse people.
Joe did buddy up to Alex pretty good.
- Yeah, though in his (incredibly lukewarm) defense he seemed more interested in the batshit crazy aliens-control-the-government theories than the more pedestrian conservative stuff, although the line between the two has greatly narrowed over the years.
- He's making entertainment. But he also pushed back on him alot, or at least he used to. He really lets people go off though because it's a 3 hour talk. He doesn't have to keep them on track or concise. There are lots of episodes where crackpots come on and the reaction isn't "this guy is right".
  
  It is a really long format show to watch and actually get context for if you don't enjoy him at all. Too many people consider him a monster just from snippets or articles, which is why I wish people would chill with the hyperbolic claims.
  
  He's friendly with people who are nice to him and help him provide good content for his audience. Unfortunately, the more he's villianized the more that becomes exclusively right wing shills. He's not just gonna stop the show because the people willing to book skew right. He was booking Elon before he became so publicly problematic. He is also the reason Neil deGrasse Tyson was popularized. And he has research paper authors on fairly regularly. It's a mixed bag.

Joe Rogan is the single reason I won't touch anything Spotify with a 20 feet pole anymore.

Yep. I had enjoyed the podcast early, when it was aliens and comedians and good old government conspiracies. Not so much the mma stuff, whatever.

Then it got big and he started enjoying the smell of his own farts ( or something, allegedly). And stopped using the dmt. And it went downhill in a random walk down.

Them came spotify and i knew it was all crap from there on out. A few episodes here and there that make it to youtube ive watched , but meh.
- Fleshlight Joe was great, it started going down hill when he started selling brain pills.
Yep, cancelled my 10-or-so-years subscription in part because of this clown. Tidal is just as good tbh
- Same here. It was extremely easy to import my playlists. I can't recommend Tidal enough.
- Oh! So you agree with Kanye then?
Samesies.

It'll be a groundbreaking interview from one of our times greatest journalists /s

I am constantly dismayed when I see Rogan on he top of the charts every week. It's worse when I hear my generally reasonable and Democrat friends say they listen and that he's funny

I don't even give him the time of day anymore. The moment he comes on I just shut it down. I don't want to ever hear his stupid voice pondering if transgender aliens butt raped him cause his ass hurts so bad again.

Why the fuck would I want to hear a punch drunk future dementia patient interview people? The hawk tuah girl has ten times the charm he does and her only claim to fame is spitting on dicks.
- The hawk tuah girl has ten times the charm he does and her only claim to fame is spitting on dicks.
  
  And she hasn't said anything AFAIK about the gender of the dick carrier.
It's almost as if he's appealing... 🤯
- Yes, I think that is what they are dismayed about.

Trump cancels his events for.... Trump?

That's what podcasts are

Edit: morons on here are no different than the ones on reddit. Nuance means nothing if anything potentially has anything to do with politics, so dumb.

Edit: I will happily leave this so everyone with more than a few braincells can see how dumb Lemmy's "masses" are
- Maybe you're the one with the shit podcast taste
- Hey everybody, we got a pizza cutter over here!
- Not All Podcasts

Joe Rogan belongs in the Bag of Shit Hall of Fame. First ballot hall of famer, alongside Musk and Trump.

Don't forget everyone's favorite benzo brained bedmaker Jordy Peterson!
- That might be the single worst photo ever.
- I'm not a big guy but it still surprises me every time I see how small Rogan is
- Look up crappy that cyber truck looks behind them. The door panels are already rusting.
- This moment right here, time travelers from the future. This moment.
I agree, but I think that they all share the something of the same clown quality.

I actually liked Rogan on News Radio (90s sitcom) where he played an idiot-savant repairman who could fix anything electronic, but everyone acknowledged that it would burn the place down in 48 hours if left as is. For reference, Andy Dick was also on that show. He looked competent next to Andy Dick, but not nearly as funny.

I thought Rogan really found his calling on Fear Factor, where he just urged people to eat maggot infested cheese. If that show had gone on, how different would our world look like today??

We also watched the Apprentice, but I remember it as a comedy with Trump as the butt of the joke. Did no one else get that joke?

Musk - crap on a cracker. I've heard a lot of comments on how his "pedo guy" comment changed peoples' perception of him, but holy crap. It should have come even a little bit before that. There were about a dozen children trapped in a cave in SE Asia with "hours to days" to survive, if they had even made it that long. This cave had something like a14 inch vertical choke point and muddy conditions throughout.* What does this lackwit do? This absolute knob releases footage of a prototype submarine in a swimming pool in California, being guided along by human divers and says "EMERGENCY RESPONDERS STOP WORK. I'M YOUR ONLY HOPE."

Point being: This moron does not understand what a cave is. Probably coupled with "and no one is going to tell him that."

Understand that trump is doing this: speaking directly to his base, because he assumes he's going to lose the election, and he's trying to lay the groundwork for Civil War 2. There is no other explanation for him to only be speaking to his base for the last 4 or 5+ interviews. He's not going after undecideds or urban voters. He's already lost in his head, so he's going to rile up his base and convince them to try another Jan 6th, but this time, with more prep and planning involved.

Not the only explanation. It's all he's ever done. It's how he lost to Hillary Clinton and still got handed the presidency anyway in 2016.
- Right, I don't disagree that this is all he's ever done, but he also attempted a coup last time as well. That's basically what I'm saying.
  
  He's doing it out in the open right now. Absolutely no political strategist would have ever cancelled the 20/20 interview, or any of the town halls he's cancelled lately, 2 weeks out from election day. It's batshit insane. He's not even campaigning in swing states right now. Musk and Tucker and others are doing that for him.
  
  He's speaking to his base nonstop, because:
  
  He's a narcissist and needs the attention
  
  He's laying the groundwork for his next coup, just like he did the first one, except way more in the open and well ahead of time.

Headline "Man already continuously carrying so much water for fascist pieces of shit, carries just a single drop more water"

The article doesn't mention it but how come Joe Rogan gets such a top billing?

(For context I know of him as some wrestling and podcast guy, never listened to his stuff.)

He has the world's most popular podcast.
He's a former actor who has used his platform to amplify shitty people. Like if Oprah was a roided out dudebro.
- I've heard about that but I was thinking there's more to it or some additional context I don't know to make him "one of the worst people ever". I know it's a hyperbole but I'm thinking there's more to this.
Is there room under that rock for me? I can just squeeze in beside you and won't bother you one bit.
- We should all huddle in together for warmth

Good. Have Harris go after and show the contrast between the two. She'll mop the floor with Rogan and get the last word with his audience.

Joe Rogan was never going to let Kamala Harris on the Podcast. He knows which side his bread is buttered on, and that would piss off his base. All he cares about at this point is money. He gave up the "I'm a socially liberal populist" bullshit after 2016 basically.
- I would be surprised if he let one candidate come one and refused the other. Rogan has worked pretty hard not to appear openly partisan. He also wants the views. He could pull in a shitload of viewers with a Harris interview, just like Fox did with their interview.
  
  Basically, yeah Rogan is clearly a piece of shit but his bread isn't buttered the same way other right wing influencers are.
Idk, it's been a looong time since I listened to his show, but I always got the impression that a good performance there just meant smoking a bowl and telling some crude jokes... I think she'll come across as presidential, which is exactly what that audience doesn't want

How cool would it be if he takes this opportunity to do the right thing and publicly denounce him to his face?

He’s going to give him three hours to yap. That’s a lot of rope to hand Trump.
- Three hours is a long time for someone so old. Maybe two one-hour yap sessions split up by a one hour nap session?

Will do nothing for his chance of winning. Either the guys were already voting for Trump or they can't legally vote.

Bonus: Trump will probably say something so stupid that it will be used to make fun of the UFC bros. Something so cringe like he could take Tyson in his prime.

I'm a centrist lean left I swear

This is going to be a love fest. There may be hugging involved.

"I'm not biased though guys, I like weed and drugs so I'm actually not a far right hugging asshole!"
- Omg can you imagine if Rogan fiees up a dutchie and Trump, feeling like he can't be outdone since he's the "alpha male," gets way too fucked up and let's all his bullshit out like "yeah I'm only doing this for the pussy, Joe. I love pussy bigly you know I used to grab it accordion hands"
  
  I may also be fucked up on the dutchie
- to be fair: that's how most maga see themselves.
- Uh, rules and laws are only for democrats, poors, and minorities.
It's going to be another Musk interview with good ol' Joe gargling Trump's balls...
- Ugh. I hate that I just visualized Rogan sucking on 2 tiny orange tic tacs.