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John Skipp's avatar

FUCK, you guys can write! If this column were a wall, Rogan would be nailed to it, and they'd need a blood gutter the size of the hole in Elon's soul to keep his listeners from drowning in it. THANKS!!!

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Karen Blink's avatar

Joe Rogan is a child. He is out of his depth the moment he opens his mouth. The worst comment you can make to a man these days is, “You look like you listen to Joe Rogan.” The funny thing is, even if they do, they take offense to it. They know he is basically a failed comedian and a failed fighter that maybe took one too many blows to the head. They feel shame and don’t like it. I would say there is no curiosity there either, he is the manipulated media. He is speaking for all men that feel like they should be entitled to all the best things in life even if they do nothing to improve themselves as human beings. If possible let’s house him in the human zoo and we can all observe his descent into the end of toxic masculinity at its worst.

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Patricia O'Sullivan's avatar

Now I know Joe Rogan! An excellent exposé of a dangerous charlatan. I have seen a few of his podcasts and could never get him. Now I can.

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Expat's avatar

Powerful insight into the Rogan Experience shtick.

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Judith Abingdon's avatar

Nailed it!

Joe Rogan is not fit to lick Hunter Thompson’s boots and he totally misses the fucking point of everything. Thank you for explaining it to him. Of course we’ll probably never get through his thick skull though somewhere in his dark soul he knows the truth but collecting those checks is all that matters.

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Notes from the underground's avatar

Some people give clowns a bad name: the carnival barkers with their big white bodies, tight puckering mouths wrapped around a megaphone inviting one and all into the big tent, the bearded lady with the eyeliner and the grinning magician rolling rubes with his sleight of hand. But worst of all are their facilitators and apologists normalizing the freak show, sanitizing the fear and loathing they so rightly deserve.

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Nola Nowland's avatar

Excellent article.

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Tommy McGuire's avatar

Somewhere in heaven's back forty Hunter is knocking back shots of Johnnie Walker, setting up a few lines, puffing on a blunt and giving two thumbs up to your great writers and flipping the giant bird to Rogan and all the phonies and frauds and fatuous powermongers who need to just go the fuck away.

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Beth Carter's avatar

Thank you. I understand Thompson better now. Thank you.

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Mary's avatar

Thompson appeared callous and tough to those who misunderstand him, and falsely appropriate his profile.

Incredibly abrasive and at times objectively cruel, he was also (at least once) deeply moral, and flailing in heartbroken self destructive outrage at the landscape around him.

An outlier, he committed the cardinal sin of turning on his Ivy League educated class and proceeded to wage guerrilla warfare against it with every fiber of his prodigious mind and increasingly tortured soul.

Staring straight into the eclipse of American decay destroyed him (imo) because he was a flaming idealist - aware of the Trojan Horse trap of the American Dream and his Cassandra-like role in trying to warn a mesmerized population about the danger within.

The emotional and intellectual gas lighting of being both celebrated and dismissed is incredibly toxic, and he fought desperately against it while the whole world watched.

Until the desperation caught up with him and he justly left us all to deal with the Trojans without him.

I hope he cant see any of this now. He deserves some peace.

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King' R's avatar

"If Thompson were alive today, Rogan’s podcast would be his personal hell — a swamp of half-baked ideas and bad-faith arguments, all wrapped in the lazy illusion of intellectual curiosity."

Lazy illusion. That's it.

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Patricia O'Sullivan's avatar

And a swamp of half-baked ideas! Loved that description too.

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Lee Stephens's avatar

Superb takedown of Rogan. Been waiting for someone to do a number on this charlatan for a while. Well done, you have a new follower/subscriber.

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Joel Mitchell's avatar

Rohan is just as bad as txump, B-Lon and the rest of the billionaire grifters who want nothing more than to lust after power and OUR money all while screwing over our allies around the world. Fuck Rogan and his half baked conspiracy theories.

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Karen Silkworm's avatar

Yeah he’s so dumb he thinks he’s a comedian too. Go get your shine box.

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Vanessa H.A.R.T. For America's avatar

These people feed off attention. We have got to stop giving them attention. This guy is not worth our time.

imagine articles written about good people doing amazing things? To spread the names and faces of those putting good into the world? People have only the energy to read a certain number of articles a day. Let them be positive reinforcing articles of great people doing great things.

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Gulbrand Roisium's avatar

You absolutely have to be brain dead to listen to Joe Rogan!

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