One of the things that makes The Joe Rogan Experience interesting to listen to is he has guests from every walk of life. There is no prototypical Joe Rogan guest, except that they’re willing to do the show, which is a commitment of a lot of time – it can go on for hours. People from Mixed Martial Arts to politics and everything in-between have sat down with him to talk about wherever the conversation goes.
That style is how Rogan ran afoul of the fascistic left-wing thought police. He let people, informed and credentialed on the subject or not, express opinions that displease Democrats, or worse, encourage others to question the left’s narrative on things. Democrats will happily tolerate a drag queen talking to your kindergartener about various sex toys and how to use them, or a left-wing math teacher spending their time avoiding math, beyond the number of genders they can come up with and your kids should claim to be, but questioning liberal orthodoxy is not allowed.
Rogan spent a month being the bullseye for the left. Over COVID, over quoting Richard Pryor using racist language, over whatever you got – the Democrat establishment did all they could to destroy him. It didn’t work. Or did it?
Joe Rogan was never going to be canceled. He has a contract with Spotify that estimates place as being worth between $100 and $200 million. If they fired him for reasons not expressly enumerated in that contract, Spotify would have to pay him out that cash. They don’t want to do that, and may well not have that kind of cash sitting around to be able to do that anyway.
So while the mob demanded his head, it wasn’t going anywhere.
But what could go somewhere was how Joe Rogan conducted himself.
It’s a hassle to have the liberal mob after you, you will lose sleep even if you’re safe. They make threats and the media, those self-appointed arbiters of truth, don’t come to your defense, they give aid and comfort to the enemy. It can be a horribly lonely place.
When Rogan was under relentless attack, he apologized and did all the things the uninformed would do to make it stop. It didn’t work. The only thing that stops a leftist mob is refusing to apologize and ignoring it.
In time, they realized Spotify wasn’t going to fire him and went away, but the damage was done. Not to Rogan’s podcast, it’s still the most popular in the world, but to Rogan himself. He changed.
It’s almost impossible not to change when the mob comes after you, especially when you try to engage it. Last week on his show, Rogan announced that he’s done with guests who are candidates for office. Why? The mob.
In dismissing a rumor about former President Donald Trump going on his show, Rogan seemed to make it clear that he no longer will venture into electoral politics. “Been a whole thing were 100 people at least have texted me and sent me emails and contacted friends because they heard Trump was coming on my podcast. and the source of it is a fake Trump account on Twitter,” Rogan said. “It said I’m going on the Joe, it’s a Trump‘s face and it’s a fake account that said I’m going on a Joe Rogan podcast soon. and I think it came out of the fact that Trump was on the Nelk Boys podcast and then YouTube remove that podcast, they they they pulled the podcast which is you know one of the craziest things you could do it because then everyone’s gonna talk about how youtube removed that podcast. Like you can’t even have Trump talk? Former president United States, you can’t let him talk?”
He then continued, “I have decided that I am very apolitical when it comes to the future and like in political candidates I don’t want to have that kind of an influence and I don’t want to I don’t want to I want to be someone who can watch and observe I don’t wanna be someone who’s actually affecting this.”
So no candidates will be able to reach his millions of viewers/listeners. How long till no commentators? I hate pundits as much as the next guy, but conservatism being exposed to millions upon millions of young people is a good thing, which is why the left would love this news.
I doubt it will be announced, it’ll just happen. Once you flinch, you don’t tend to flinch just a little. I hope I’m wrong here, I hope Rogan goes back to having whoever interests him at any given moment, but for now he’s not. And he’s not because of the left-wing mob.