Podcaster and comic Joe Rogan has mentioned that he’d slightly vote for Donald Trump than Joe Biden. As soon as an ardent supporter of Bernie Sanders, Rogan’s semi-endorsement of Trump precipitated ructions on-line.
Talking to Thiel Capital director Eric Weinstein on Friday, Rogan accused the Democratic Celebration of creating “us all morons with this Joe Biden factor.”
“I can’t vote for that man,” Rogan mentioned. “I’d slightly vote for Trump than [Biden]. I don’t suppose he can deal with something. You’re relying completely on his cupboard.”
Joe Rogan on the 2020 election: “That is the true concern with the Democratic Celebration. They’ve basically made us all morons with this Joe Biden factor. … I’d slightly vote for Trump than [Biden]. I don’t suppose he can deal with something.”pic.twitter.com/2G93Jaim2X
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April four, 2020
Rogan has beforehand mocked Biden’s verbal slip-ups and obvious confusion, describing the previous Vice President’s speech as “not a traditional strategy to talk except he’s excessive as f*ck.”
Rogan’s podcast is among the many hottest on the planet. Nevertheless, regardless of saying in January that he’ll “most likely vote for Bernie,” Rogan has usually been blasted by progressives for interviewing right-wing visitors, and for holding some views that conflict with progressive orthodoxy, reminiscent of his “transphobic” perception that transgender athletes shouldn’t compete as ladies.
Liberal commenters rounded on Rogan for seemingly endorsing Trump, and puzzlingly, attacked Sanders for interesting to the podcaster within the first place. Pundit Mehdi Hasan puzzled if it have been now time for Sanders to “disown/distance himself from Rogan.”
So Joe Rogan actually is an fool. I believed he was simply pretending.
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— Rep Richard Dangler (@RDangler) April four, 2020
Joe Rogan chooses the week Trump is willfully permitting 1000’s of Individuals to die, as a result of a poisonous cocktail of vanity, incompetence, and malevolence—to offer him his blessing over Joe Biden.
That's peak Joe Rogan.
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) April four, 2020
Bernie Sanders endorser Joe Rogan now admits he’s voting for Trump. It’s the newest reminder that the “Bernie motion” is led by a bunch of alt proper goons and burn all of it down anarchists, who’re manipulating probably the most naive folks on the left into hurting the left.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) April four, 2020
Given Bernie (mistakenly, imho) elevated Joe Rogan's endorsement of him, and given Rogan is now saying he'd slightly vote for Trump than Biden… is it not time for Bernie to additionally now disown/distance himself from Rogan, too? #JustAsking
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) April four, 2020
Some chimed in to remind the livid left that Rogan “speaks for extra folks than any centrist politician,” and that the Democrats ought to “take into account why Bernie Sanders is ready to win over folks like Joe Rogan and Joe Biden shouldn’t be.”
I don’t suppose it’s a stretch to say that Joe Rogan speaks for extra folks than any centrist politician. pic.twitter.com/Aezo8plL7H
— Ready for Baseball (@WhiteSoxSlater) April four, 2020
“Liberal shaming is not going to ship votes in November,” journalist Walker Bragman wrote.
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