Joe Rogan was speaking to
Saagar Enjeti on his podcast
about the Capitol Hill riots and
the fact that
the Senate GOP blocked a January
six commission to investigate what
transpired that day.
Now, he explains Rogan does,
that he's actually rooting for
this commission and he also has
some negative commentary in regard
to Trump and the influence he
still has on the Republican party.
Let's take a look.
>> The January six thing is
important >> See it is important
but isn't these six months later is
it should be the ruling number one
conversation of journalists >> I
think it's really important and
one of the reason why I think it's
important because it highlight the
reasons why a guy like Donald Trump
is dangerous is because a guy
can incite a bunch of morons to
do something really stupid.
And now that he's silenced off of
social media,
and now that actually did happen,
once it becomes a thing it can be
like mass shootings, right?
They didn't exist then they did now
that now they're a thing.
>> It is fascinating how Joe Rogan
kind of goes back and forth
in terms of political ideology.
I wouldn't have guessed that he
felt that the capital rights were
as serious as they were,
I'm glad that he does.
And I think that
he makes a good point.
I have some concerns about what
the outcome of that commission
could be because there were some
negative outcomes of the 9 11
Commission including creating the
Office of the Director of National
Intelligence basically beefing up
more of the Security State and
the Intelligence Community.
And we've had endless mass
shootings ever since it's just
anyway, so, but that aside it is
interesting to see how he referred
to Donald Trump as dangerous and
also said that Trump incites people
to do something stupid right?
I cleaned up the language
a little bit.
>> Yeah, no that was a important
clip because look, we've criticized
Joe Rogan many times
before when we disagree with him.
And we've also agreed with him
at plenty of times, right?
And so now there are some on
the left who say no, he should be
canceled forever if I disagree with
him once that's it, I'm done with
him never speak of him again.
And then there were people on
the right who celebrated Joe as
a hero for being against cancer,
culture and all different things he
says [INAUDIBLE] agrees with.
I'm curious what their take on this
is going to be because for us it's
easy, we're principled, we don't
care about Joe Rogan as a person.
We care, hey is what he's saying
today right or wrong?
We're not in the Joe Rogan camp,
we're not in
the anti Joe Rogan camp.
Well it depends on what he says.
Isn't that super obvious, but
it isn't for a lot of people.
>> Yeah. >> And so
here I want to commend him for
two things.
One, he's actually a rare guy
saying red flag, red flag he's
inciting people and it's not
a small thing, it's a big thing.
And we just did a story for
you again today,
this is the fourth Republican in
a row Cawthorn calling for violence
saying the second amendment is to
kill US Marines like the Vietcong
did, it's not for hunting right?
There constant 28%
of Republicans say it might be time
to resort to violence.
I don't see mainstream media
reporters here on fire on that,
I really genuinely think they
don't get it.
They always project in like,
I do too by everyone I know is
quite similar,
it passed [INAUDIBLE] right?
No but Rogan has a little bit
better connection to the grassroots
as we do and no the violence were
really worried is coming.
They're not kidding, they're
going to do it and Trump and other
Republicans keep inciting them.
So it's important for Rogan to say
that to an audience that has
independents, libertarians and
right wingers in it right?
>> Yeah. >> And for him to have,
now this gets the second point, for
him to have the courage to call
some Trump followers idiots right?
Now, knowing that he's got a right
wing audience,
why is he doing that and some
others that are including some that
are pretending to be on the left,
never criticized Trump, right?
Because Rogan's already rich, okay?
I'm keeping it real and I'm not
saying that as a criticism of him.
Since he's already got all
the money in the world he doesn't
have to kiss anyone's ass.
Now, that doesn't mean
that what he's saying is true, but
it looks like what he's saying is
honest there's a difference, right?
He might genuinely not be correct
about something, right?
But it appears he's giving you his
honest opinion right or wrong and
he gets to do that because he
doesn't have to have a grift,
right?
Whereas a lot of people whether
they left TYT or any other network,
they're out there in
the wilderness and
they're like how do I get money?
How do I get money?
And they're looking for an angle,
they're looking for a grift and
a scam etc, and the right wing
usually has more money.
And so it's so alluring, so
they're like, okay, okay, okay what
do you need me to pretend to be,
in order to get this money, right?
You don't want me to criticize X,
Y and Z got it,
I'll never touch them.
And if anybody does criticize them
I'll call them McCarthyite or
whatever I'll call it right?
And to give Rogan credit,
he's not doing that right?
He's saying no, this is the
reality, if you follow Trump into
violence you're an idiot, right?
And remembered the dude is
complicated, he originally endorsed
Bernie Sanders and he has some
terribly right-wing positions.
>> But I think that's actually
pretty representative of
the electorate though,
because I think the mistake that
people tend to make is.
Assuming that if you tend to vote
Democrat for
instance, that you are liberal on
all social issues or you get most
people are actually politically
speaking a hodgepodge of different
ideas that do cross the aisle from
Democrat to Republican and
vice versa.
So, I think that that's what tends
to make his show as interesting as
it is for
so many people because I think that
the average Joe is representative
of what the electorate is like
>> Yeah, that doesn't mean that he
is perfectly representative of
the average American >> Right
>> On every issue, of course not.
It depends, it depends,
use your judgment okay?
But to me he deserves significant
credit for this.
If he back pedals out of
it that'll be super sad but
I don't suspect so.
Look I once had lunch with Joe and
since then we've had tons of
disagreements and
sometimes personally so right?
But he had me and Anna on the show
and we used to get along, and he
told me something that makes sense.
He's like, and this was before the
Spotify deal or anything remember
he had a giant TV show, right?
Let alone the UFC stuff.
He said, look I have FU money and
what good is FU money if every once
in a while you don't say FU, and
I respect that.
And a lot of other people chasing
money like [INAUDIBLE] and
they they're not giving you their
honest opinions keep it real.
So at least you got somebody who's
honest again, respect on that.