I hate that I have to do this next story, but I have to do it because there's so much
riding on this next election.
Joe Rogan recently said very nice things about Bernie Sanders and that he'd likely vote for
Bernie Sanders.
Some people are calling it an endorsement.
Others are not.
Um, whether it is or isn't an endorsement or just praise, a portion of the left has
gone absolutely crazy in the really toxic, self-destructive, circular firing Scott squad
way that I have been begging and pleading the left not to do since day one of the 2020
democratic race.
Now it's important to understand there are two sides to this.
There are people who are sort of in the Bernie camp who are furious about Bernie accepting
slash not rejecting the nice words from Joe Rogan.
There are also centrist opportunists who are using this to fuel unrest within the left.
And I'm going to talk about both of them, but first, let's look at a sort of condensed
version of what Joe Rogan said.
This was assembled by the Bernie Sanders campaign.
This is part of the anger that Bernie would use, what Joe Rogan said and use it, uh, as
campaign video as campaign material.
Let's take a look at it.
Who you can vote for the primary, I think.
I think I'll probably vote for Bernie.
Him as a human being when I was hanging out with him and I believe in him.
I like him.
I like him a lot.
What Bernie stands for is a guy who will look, you could dig up dirt on every single human
being that's ever existed.
If you catch them in their worst moment and you magnify those moments and you cut out
everything else and you only display display those worst moments that said you can't find
very many with Bernie, he's been insanely consistent his entire life.
He's basically been saying the same thing, been for the same thing his whole life, and
that in and of itself is a very powerful structure to operate from
and there are people on the left, including Bernie supporters who were saying, this is
disgusting.
Joe Rogan is horrible.
He's transphobic, he's sexist, he's homophobic, he's racist, misogynistic, throwing everything
out there, and Bernie should reject the endorsement.
If it was even an endorsement.
Again, Joe says he's going to vote for Bernie.
Not everybody should vote for Bernie.
He's not saying, I'm endorsing Bernie.
He's saying, I think I'll probably vote Bernie.
That doesn't even really matter here.
What are we doing?
Why are we this stupid?
There are two camps here, okay?
There are the people who genuinely support the Bernie politics and are furious about
Joe Rogan because they don't like Joe Rogan.
They don't want Joe Rogan's help in getting Bernie elected.
Then there are people who don't actually support Bernie Sanders and they're fabricating the
anger to try to hurt Bernie concern trolling, Oh, if someone as transphobic and sexist as
Joe Rogan is supporting Bernie, that should really get us to be concerned about Bernie
Sanders, right?
Those types of people.
I want to focus on the people actually mad at Bernie for embracing rather than rejecting
the endorsement first.
Joe Rogan is one of the biggest podcasts in the world.
You combine the YouTube audience about seven and a quarter million subscribers on one channel,
but three and a half million on the other channel.
That's 10 million YouTube subscribers.
You combine that with one of the largest audio podcasts in the world.
Joe Rogan is saying to his audience, especially by the way, if you believe Joe Rogan's audience
is to the right of Bernie Sanders and to your right, like if you're a leftist and you see
Joe and his audience has to, you're right.
Joe Rogan is saying to his audience, Hey, I'm probably voting for Bernie Sanders.
Arguably the leftmost person here.
Wouldn't you be happy about that as a leftist?
Joe Rogan could single handedly be handing primary wins to Bernie Sanders with his endorsement
or praise of Bernie in some of these States where it's Bernie Biden by a few points within
the margin of error.
Um, and they're, they're both going to end up with a similar number of delegates because
of proportional apportionment.
Why wouldn't you want Joe Rogan to possibly flip States in Bernie's favor?
That's how big an influential Joe Rogan's platform is.
So if you like Bernie and you want Bernie to win, and you're publicly denouncing Joe
Rogan and saying you don't want the endorsement, what's wrong with you?
Joe actually makes the argument in analyzing Bernie that we should make about Joe Rogan.
If you look at, what is it, 10 years or more of Joe Rogan doing this type of media, I know
he's been around longer, but where you're kinda hearing Joe Rogan's thoughts, you can
compile stuff that most Progressive's wouldn't be comfortable with in terms of comments about
women, trans people, others.
I've always seen Joe Rogan be willing to talk about this stuff.
He had me on his program and I told him when I thought he was doing things on his show
that weren't necessarily useful in terms of how he platforms or interviews, and we just
had a conversation and it was perfectly fine.
But so then what?
Like if Bernie wins the nomination without rejecting Joe's endorsement and eventually
Bernie as president, you're going to be upset because it happened with the help of Joe Rogan.
If Joe Rogan convinces people in his audience, imagine that there's a whole bunch of transphobes
in Joe Rogan's audience that hear Joe say, I think I'm voting Bernie.
And they say, you know what?
I'm also going to vote for Bernie.
Okay?
Hopefully after voting for Bernie, their views on transgender people would be revised in
the direction that we would agree with.
Like what's the downside to that?
Why are you mad?
This is the height of missing the forest for the trees.
And unfortunately, some major groups are making this worse.
And this is an example now of the other group, the left wing group move on.org which some
call a progressive groups, some call a centrist establishment democratic group.
They are now calling for Bernie to renounce the so-called endorsement of Joe Rogan, where
they tweeted quote, it's one thing for Joe Rogan to endorse a candidate.
It's another for Bernie Sanders campaign to produce a video, bolstering the endorsement
of someone known for promoting transphobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, racism, and misogyny.
We urge Senator Sanders and his campaign to apologize and stop elevating this endorsement.
We stand in solidarity with folks hurt by this.
This is the exact self-destructive nonsense that will lead to four more years of Donald
Trump.
And again, a lot of these concerns are not genuine concerns.
People aren't genuinely concerned.
They're using this to try to hurt Bernie.
People who support Biden or boot edge, edge or warrant, you know, establishment candidates
or simply other candidates.
They are dishonesty and in bad faith, pretending like this is a huge thing that upsets them
about Bernie in order to just foam an anger and division at Burnie.
They just don't want Bernie Sanders to win.
I don't know that I have much more to say to them other than it's working because they
are firing up actual Bernie supporters and getting them to say things that make no sense.
This is the worst of the left.
Okay.
Being angry about praise from someone with one of the largest platforms in favor of your
candidate.
And it's absolutely and totally horrible.
Now let's do the full thing though.
Let's deal with the things Joe Rogan has said.
Um, there are clips that have been circulating of Joe Rogan saying things that sound to be
racist years ago, or Joe Rogan having, you know, insensitive or unenlightened takes on
trans issues.
Um, okay, so what do we gain by attacking Bernie over this?
Clearly Rogan agrees with Bernie on enough that he says, I'm probably voting for him.
Shouldn't we say Joe?
That's great.
We love that you recognize that your values and Bernie's are aligned on a lot of issues.
It's good for the country.
Come on over.
And by the way, hopefully as you get into this and follow Bernie's campaign, your views
will evolve where we don't agree.
Isn't that the actual progressive and smart and logical thing and correct thing to do?
This slice of the left is not something that I'm a part of.
It's small, but it's loud and we need to make sure that they don't join forces unwittingly
with the AstroTurf firs who are actually doing this to support Centrus candidates and hurt
Bernie because this will all damage our opportunity to defeat Donald Trump in November.
Let's not fall for it.
And I hope people in my audience will join me in not participating in it.
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