The Joe Rogan Thread

PJ_Soul said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

PJ_Soul said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Disagree. Rogan could turn on trump and wouldn’t put much of a dent in his numbers. 

You have to remember the whole reason he got popular-being marketed as a free thinker beholden to no politics. 

Maga embraced him, but his core audience is so much bigger and diverse than that. 

I doubt that myself. He doesn't have THAT many subscribers. He hovers around what? 20M subscribers on each platform, at most? A large number of those are repeat customers, who just subscribe to him on every platform they use. It's not like he has 150M people listening to him or whatever. I think a huge portion of his audience are indeed Trump supporters (whatever else they may also be, like conspiracy douches, climate change deniers, libertarians, etc). 

He has millions of people who watch him that aren’t subscribers. I used to be one of them. It wasn’t often I had 3 hours to kill on a couple dudes waxing stoned, but when I did, I often found it entertaining. And quite often actually informative. He used to have a wide range of guests who were experts in their field. Or just interesting celebrities who wouldn’t be asked the same inane celebrity questions. That’s what drew people to him; it was real conversations with sometimes unreal people. 

He had a massive following way before the politics took hold. He mostly had people on talking about interesting subjects; believe me, I’m no conspiracy nut, so if that’s all it was, I wouldn’t have watched. That was actually a pretty small portion of the topics he’d cover. And usually only when the podcast was a couple of his knucklead friends or mma fighters. 

As annoyed I was at his endorsement of trump, I will never believe it was for money or subscriptions. The guy is rich AF. I really think he can just be a meathead who doesn’t fully grasp his own reach nor how destructive he can be with just the wrong guest. 

Yeah, but that was then and this is now. Don't you think shit has changed for him and his listeners since he did get so political and everything?? 

Halifax2TheMax said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

joe will not turn on trump because he does not want the death threats. 

simple as that.

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Or maybe he believes in things like “white replacement theory” and that immigrants need to go by any means necessary? He, along with many others, normalized the unnormalizable and is a POS. Much like Rushbo, giving platforms to long rejected concepts and ideas. “But we need to hear them out!” Ummm, no, we don’t.

gimmesometruth27 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

joe will not turn on trump because he does not want the death threats. 

simple as that.

I think you’re giving him too much credit in his ability to read the room. 

Having watched him quite a bit, one thing you’ll notice he says a LOT is how surprised he was at an event or a public reaction to something. Something everyone else saw coming. 

No chance he thinks these things through. 

I was surprised this time that he came out saying publicly that he’s concerned for the security at UFC Freedom 250. But this is also analysis on a macro level, not something that only involves his own influence. 

if i were iran i would blow that event to kingdom come. get rid of the leaders and the majority maga people in attendance. that would be my first target here in the us.

i do believe that joe has heard of people getting death threats from maga for speaking out against trump. and i do believe he is scared to speak out more than he has. he helped create this monster and now he could be threatened by it.