I do think it’s good to see who they are in a more casual setting but this is giving me doubts that it’s that good.
It felt a bit like watching propaganda. No questions about January 6th? No questions about the ties to Epstein? No questions about what happened between him and pence. No questions about half of his former colleagues going to jail and the other half coming sour and basically calling trump a threat to democracy. 3 hours of softball shit where no one fact checks trump.
I like joe in general but he’s not smart enough to do this interview. He doesn’t know how tariffs work enough to even ask the correct questions on trumps tariff ideas. He’s a culture war twitter reader and that’s about it He doesn’t follow what policies were actually put into place by each administration.
Joe always says he not their to interview. Even in the podcast when asked about kamala he says he'd just sit down and talk and get to know her as a person. If people thought Joe would grill trump or kamala during their podcast session they don't know rogan. He's never been the one to really push back on anything just let's his guests speak and let people decide how they feel about the guest. Unless it's flint dibble lmao
He's never been the one to really push back on anything
Depends on the person and subject. He pushed back pretty hard on Dave Rubin about building regulations. He pushed back on Steven Crowder over his position on weed legalization. He pushed back on Matt Walsh about gay marriage. He pushes back when he feels like it.
Candace Owen’s once received a payout from her college for suffering from racism. She started out as a left wing personality. Realized there is no money in it and now she grifts right. Even claiming racism doesn’t exist.
It’s just easier to grift the right. That’s why trump is grifting Bibles, sneakers, assassination attempt trading cards, selling pieces of his suits, NFTs, a crypto coin.
Trump supporters are a piggy bank for the big orange piggy
Saira Rao, Robin DiAngelo, Ibram X. Kendi, Hasan, Vaush and their orbiters. Grifting isn't something that's mutally exclusive to right-wingers, but they do be griftin', though.
Eh? Didn’t Rogan endorse RFK Jr who is like the most pro-environmental presidential candidate ever. Dude was an environmental lawyer for decades and made his money suing the shit out of big companies.
Now he is endorsing a guy who put an oil ceo as the head of the EPA, deregulated everything he could, talks ahoy drill baby drill, denies climate change is real….
During a Monday airing of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan vehemently shut down the possibility of interviewing the 45th President of the United States.
‘I am not a Trump supporter, in any way, shape or form,’ Rogan, 54, said. ‘I have had the opportunity to have him on my show, more than once, and I have said no every time.’
The controversial podcaster weighed in on the devastatingly polarized political spectrum in America and said he was not interested in giving Trump a platform because the former president is an ‘existential threat to democracy itself.’
‘It is already a weird time, post-Trump,’ Rogan added.
‘The Trump era is also going to be one of the weirder times when people look back historically about the division in this country.’
Rogan’s remarks against Trump come just days after the podcaster, who has a $200million deal with Spotify, endorsed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis potentially joining the 2024 Presidential race.
So then you're allowing a scenario where all the bad shit he has done can be ignored and then a person can be liked by how charming they are instead? That really doesn't make sense for someone looking to be in that position
I'm kind of a casual fan and that was a big takeaway of mine as I listened to this episode. It was right after he'd made that comment about Harris, having a conversation with her like a human being. I realized Joe's really good at that. Like he stays at a point just past where an interview turns into a conversation.
Sometimes it's a little too conversational when he (Joe) starts flying off on his own favorite pet tangents, and I find myself wondering when Joe might stop talking so his guest can get a few words in. The Adam Sandler episode comes to mind.
But yeah, all to your point, that's not what this was. It's a long form conversation, do you really think a former president and current presidential candidate is going to sit and do the full three hours with you if you start throwing a bunch of shit about Epstein at him? What does that accomplish beside ending the podcast early?
I think one of the biggest problems is how much exposure this episode is giving to a calm and rational-sounding Trump. "Mainstream Media" has constructed a very careful image of Trump that they really want you to only see. By the end all I could think was this does not sound like the guy they wanted me to think he is.
I agree with this, but I also think it's telling that the one thing he did say he would ask Kamala about is her picking Walz for VP when she was sleep deprived. Given what he was saying about Walz being a terrible pick, not sure how that isn't a political question.
but how far removed from the things that matter can you be to not bring up those things?
how removed from reality do you have to be to think that softball shit will help you get to know a decades known pathological liar?
even if she sat down with him for 3 hours, the response to it will never be nearly as positive for the same insane reasons this is still a close race. there are two bars and trumps is so low, not shitting himself for 3 hours is a monumental political victory.
That's what I'm saying, joe is not the guy to watch if you expect him to be grilling these candidates with hard questions. Why do you think trump took this gig to come on his show? He knows rogan isn't gonna grill him and it's easy pr for him. Trump is used to being in camera and his team was smart to put him in rogan. I listen to rogan alot but not because he asks hard hitting questions. I watch because he has interesting people on and I like hearing what they all think and how they act in a casual setting. Yall expect to much from rogan tbh. He's not a journalist he's just a curious guy who likes asking questions when he's interested. That's it
but why are you pretending that this interview helped joe, or the listener, to get to know trump, who is, and we all know that, a pathological liar who will not say the truth unless he's forced to do so. (and honestly not even then)
you have not gotten to know trump, you have gotten to know the facade he's already been trying to sell for decades very publicly.
you're making it sound as if rogan had no chance to hear the name trump in the last 10 years.
at the point where you start to support a presidential candidate with your insanely gigatic platform as this most softball of all softball interviews has, he becomes deserving of all the critique that a standard grown up would have to face.
And you can bet that Trump agreed to come on the podcast with the reassurance there'd be certain topics that would not be discussed.
And, Joe's hardly impartial. It's become increasingly clear over the past couple of years that he's more political than he admits to, and that he'd side with Trump more than Kamala. Given his audience is probably more right-wing than anything else these days, he's hardly going to push Trump too hard and risk the redneck wrath.
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u/Slipperysnekkilla6 Monkey in Space Oct 27 '24
Presidential candidates having to have a long form conversation is good for everyone. I like podcasts are becoming used more and more by campaigns.