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    Joe Rogan can fuck right off for all the reasons. But first let’s jam some dirty gym socks in his mouth to shut him the fuck up.

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      Roughly quoting Jay Mohr from his recent interview on Bobby Lee’s Tigerbelly podcast:

      "How Joe Rogan became the arbiter of what is funny is beyond me… all the times Joe Rogan has made us laugh… "

      Joe Rogan has gotta be one of the least funny “comedians” in the game at the moment. I wish his relevancy would’ve peaked with Fear Factor.

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        What’s funny is that I genuinely didn’t know he was a comedian until reading your post. I always knew him as some Alex Jones tier Podcaster.

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    I don’t really hear about Rogan very often any more. Thank Buddha. But it blows my mind that he’s still super popular. The average person sucks.

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      I only really knew one of his stand up routines and thought it was alright for what it was. I learned about his podcast and that it was supposedly good, but i had no way of listening to it. Then it was on Spotify and i listened to the bob lazar episode and ho-ly, no idea how he ever got popular AT ALL. I have more understanding for people who listen to Ben Shapiro

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    They gave him another stand up special? I haven’t seen the new one but his old standup is awful. Seriously some of the most unfunny shit ever from an established television personality.

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    We don’t need to care about him. Bad comedians with shitty world views are a dime a dozen. He’s famous because he communicates well and not because his ideas are worth attention or respect.

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    When was the last time you even had a special before this? I thought he stopped doing comedy like in 2010. It’s been a while. And he was a failed comedian. Like that’s why he got into everything else. He wasn’t very good at it.

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      That’s the worse. I loved comedian Rogan during the 2000s-2010s. He used to make jokes about being a idiot, and accepting that. The past few years have been a nightmare. Bill Burr calling him out on his contradictions is gold. Rogan continues to spiral into hack territory.

      UFC really morphed him into being a guy with awful takes, and his fandom caused his ego to grow. His podcast continues to create disingenuous arguments that riles up the fanbase. Like he’d bring up a topic, but then only invite one perspective and fully let them run wild and even agreeing with them, while dismissing the truth. Even when he gets fact checked, he shrugs and goes, “woops”, as if he didn’t just spend a few hours calling for hostility about something he doesn’t understand.

      His “I’m a idiot” shtick doesn’t work anymore when he keeps control of the narrative and is intellectually dishonest.

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    Holy shit, a double whammy! Weird Vance discussed gay sex with his grandma, and Weird Musk permanently deleted a picture from the internet forever.

    “I’ll never forget the time I convinced myself that I was gay. I was eight or nine, maybe younger, and I stumbled upon a broadcast by some fire-and-brimstone preacher. The man spoke about the evils of homosexuals, how they had infiltrated our society, and how they were all destined for hell absent some serious repenting. At the time, the only thing I knew about gay men was that they preferred men to women. This described me perfectly: I disliked girls, and my best friend in the world was my buddy Bill. Oh no, I’m going to hell.”

    When he brought up the issue with his grandmother — known to Vance as “Mamaw” — she replied bluntly: “Don’t be a fucking idiot, how would you know that you’re gay?”

    When Vance explained his reasoning, she laughed.

    “JD, do you want to suck dicks?” she said, according to the book.

    The young Vance, apparently “flabbergasted,” said: “Of course not!”

    “Then you’re not gay. And even if you did want to suck dicks, that would be okay,” she replied. “God would still love you.”

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    He’s never been a good comedian. Podcaster alright but his jokes were dogshit pre-covid, it seems that no one tells him though.

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      He’s been doing a Sam kinison impression since his careers start. Always odd that none of the comedians have said anything

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    I agree that he wasn’t that funny. But it was also really tame. I don’t remember it being “gay sex obsessed”. I don’t understand why people care so much about him. He’s really just extremely average.

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      He may be extremely average, but he’s also one of the top podcast hosts and platforms a lot of harmful stuff. That’s why people (who are against him) care. I don’t know why people like him though.

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    Imo, Joe Rogan is as dumb as shown in this thumbnail.

    Idiots are fine and all, but people should definitely not be taking cues from them

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    Remember when he used to present Fear Factor? He was alright at that, not a stand up though

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    It’s not a weird competition!

    Everyone can be weird in their own way… just some should never be in charge of anything ever…

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      Using “weird” about a comedian actually risks the whole gambit IMO. You start calling everyone weird, maybe it’s just you who is the unusual person calling everyone who disagrees with you weird.

      The whole point of the attack is that the weird people are not acceptable elected officials. Keep it to people who are trying to get elected.

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    I noticed him on my Netflix just now.

    Thumbs downed the lot on principle. I ain’t watching that shit.

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    I thought it was a bad comedy special but it’s just wild the amount of hate I’ve seen for him and it. Like we already knew he had no idea what he was talking about on Covid, he admits as such (standard “don’t listen to a comedian for that” take that he and Jon Stewart trot out all the time). You could see it as his surrender on the topic. People seem to be taking it more as a “he’s still talking about it.”

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      It’s because he pushes BS information without looking into it. I mean look up his bit where they talk about the presidental acceptance speech not being live. He insisted it wasn’t done live and it’s proven by Bidens watch being wrong. They debunk him in second. That’s the problem with him. Things he says can be debunked easily but instead of doing any basic research he just pushes crazy ideas that he likes.

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        The one about people taking COVID medical advice from the guy that used to make people eat donkey cum was pretty funny… and I say this as a person who still thinks people with COVID should wear masks.