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[–] [email protected] 136 points 2 months ago (9 children)

the only politician rogan understands is the one who has literal brain worms

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Rogan is what happens when the barbarian doesn't have a miniature giant space hamster to whisper common sense into his ear.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

So like, just your ordinary, run-of-the-mill space hamster then?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Joe have rocks in gut but Joe like trt too much to stop

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Jr: Talks about how he picked up a dead bear to "harvest" it, left it in the back of his car for presumably hours, then dumped it in Central Park as a "joke" when he had to go to the airport

JoRo: That's a man I can get behind

How does anybody take either of these people remotely seriously?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

This gives him too much credit.

A barbarian khan would legitimately be trying to understand how the world works. Yes, sometimes he has a scientist on and he's forced to learn things. But, other times he has a guest on so that that guest can promote their terrible worldview -- see RFK Jr.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I think of this every time I read what Joe's doing

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can't wait for the tide to turn against Joe Rogan and he becomes another has-been. He's done way too much damage on a lot of important issues.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I don't understand how more people don't see this. It drives me insane. "Did you watch the interview with Joe Rog-" "NO!!!"

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 2 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 months ago

Yes, which is why he’s perfect for Joe Rogan.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago

Yes. 1,000%.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He just admitted to leaving a bear cub carcass in Central Park with a bike on it in a scene like the bike hit and killed the bear cub. He had the bear cub in his car so he could skin (and I think eat it) but had to go to a diner and the next logical thing was leave the corpse in a park.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And a man who was only prevented by a red-eye flight from eating a roadkill bear he picked up in the morning and left undressed in his car all day is very much the type of person at high risk for brainworms.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Prions. Scary stuff. Could absolutely get it from exposure to brain matter from a bear or dear.

Stay away from brains. It can kill you most horribly.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He’s also got a worm in his brain.

That’s not a joke. It’s real, and it ate part of his frontal lobe, and it’s still in there, and it’s necrotic at this point.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He ran an anti mmr campaign in the American Samoas, resulting in him indirectly killing 85 children. He also drove his second wife to suicide due to his sex addiction.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

RFK Jr doesn't have a sex addiction, he's just an asshole (and rapist), as proven when moved that dead wife out of her burial spot.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You have no idea. There's genuinely too much crazy stuff to cover in a comment. Worth looking into purely for entertainment value.

I recommend starting with the recent dead bear story or the brain worm thing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Behind the Bastards just did some episodes on him

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

The Behind the Bastards episodes on him are great as well. Dude is waaaaay more crazy than I thought and I already thought he was pretty wacko from the vaccine shit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

That’s why he makes total sense to moron like JR

[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Trump lost Joe Rogan bahaha

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Spoiler candidates are mostly bad news for Democrats, but I can't imagine many people who would be swayed by a Joe Rogan endorsement would have voted (D} anyway.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The way polling is going, RFK seems to be spoiling Trump, not Harris 🤭

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Didn't trump have a talk with brainworms like a month back? I vaguely remember that a poll showed rfk stealing more from Trump.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank god Joe is too stupid to understand endorsing RFK will work against Trump.

I welcome his endorsement and hope he has RFK on his show 10 times before the election.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Or he realizes that and he is a coward.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (6 children)

It's because their brain worms are communicating telepathically.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those poor brain worms must be starving

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Well yes but that’s because Rogan is a fucking moron

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago

Worms of a brain and all that.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

I think it says a lot that this doesn't really move the needle about my opinion of either of them at this point...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

Joe Rogan is the dumb man’s smart man, so of course he endorses RFK Jr.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They probably relate because they both have brain worms

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

He's straight up just a contrarian at this point. He wants to be "different," by not choosing one of the "mainstream" candidates.

It's also probably a calculated move, financially, as he doesn't want to alienate the people who make up half his audience by endorsing Kamala or Trump. Probably more than half if he endorsed the former.

Typical bourgeois attitude, putting your own financial needs (that are already met 1,000x over) above literally the survival of the Republic.

They're not even nihilists, because they worship at the alter of capital.

It's gross.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's all about money for him.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Brain worms and bear cruelty are hot button issues for Joe Rogan, apparently. Is anyone really surprised the nutjob would pick the nutjob candidate?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

I wonder if Joe's use of deworming medication makes him feel like he and RFK Jr. are kindred numbnuts.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“…Only one that makes sense to me” … I mean you are Joe Rogan… that’s not saying much lmao.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not about Joe just about a better podcast than his: Behind the bastards has a several episode series on RFK Jr and the things he did.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

I 100% believe him on that

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Who gives a fuck what this guy thinks.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I'm surprised anything makes sense to this guy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is actually a huge deal, enough Republicans listen to him he can probably move the vote almost a whole percentage point

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Signs your ideology might lack internal consistency: you cannot make sense of anything unless it is completely harpic.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The rats are leaving the sinking ship.

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