Joe Rogan on Friday said his praise of RFK Jr. was "not an endorsement" after Donald Trump and his allies attacked the podcaster.
  • Joe Rogan, speaking Thursday on his podcast, said he preferred RFK Jr. for president.
  • By Friday, facing intense criticism from Donald Trump and his allies, the podcaster walked it back.
  • “I’m not the guy to get political information from,” Rogan said in a social media post.
  • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    90·
    3 months ago

    It was valid until he started spouting off anti-vaccine/covid shit. It went little cutesy honesty to a shield from criticism. Just like how the right treats 1A

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
      301·
      3 months ago

      This is exactly the point that I couldnt even listen to the geology/ultra-athlete/astronomy pods, which I really enjoyed listening to.

      Once he couldn’t shut up about vaccines even though it was clear that nobody cared, it was a chore to listen to anything that he said.

      he wasn’t even asking interesting questions to the interesting people anymore, he just had a very boring, pointless agenda to return his way to in spite of his guests.

      I haven’t listened to any jre since the pandemic was still in full effect.

      I tried once last year with a guest I really wanted to listen to, but within 10 minutes he start ed saying something way more right-wing than he ever had before covid.

      oh I remember, he was listing the crazy amount of trans athletes that had won all these sports, and I was like well that can’t be true, and after checking, it was clearly not true according to the data.

      did one trans weightlifter win one gold? Yes.

      is one victory the statistical marker for trans athletes outperforming the other athletes in their field? Not at all according to the data we have.

      and this wasn’t even a sports guest, it was some completely unrelated field.

      • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        191·
        3 months ago

        I listened to him, Joey Diaz, and Bill Burr for years. I stopped listening to Joe around 2015/2016 when he went from having interesting, maybe occasionally off-kilter folks, on for fun discussions where he listened, to asserting half baked opinions as facts and platforming people like Alex jones regularly. That second one is what really got me. Prior to 2015 or so I hadn’t really clocked how close they were and how often he had him on.

        • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          3 months ago

          To really blow your mind, Jones directly attacked Rogan multiple times because he wouldn’t bring him on his show again before he finally did and they were all buddy buddy.

          Roe Jogan is a fucking moron, and I’m using that as a compliment.