 So I've stated this before and it was relatively controversial, but I'm gonna say it again I'm gonna double down because I think it is factually correct when Rush Limbaugh died his ghost possessed Joe Rogan and Joe Rogan has Functionally turned into a right-wing hack. He does as much propaganda as right-wing anti-sjw YouTubers he repeats all of the talking points that we hear on Fox News. So at this point, he's just a conservative He's a multi-millionaire. So of course, he's gonna vote with the party who most fights for the interest of his class Except he's gonna push back against critics like myself who claim that he's a conservative and he's going to tell us that he's actually really liberal Now when he's going to try to explain What makes him liberal? He's gonna run into some issues because all he could talk about are the conservative positions that he holds Take a look today. The left has gone so fucking far left So radical that the right are the ones that are celebrating comedians and celebrating chappelle Yeah, they had my back through all the crazy shit that happened with me It was Fox News that fucking had my back. Would you ever think that they would be the ones to cape for you like, you know 10 years ago, I'm so liberal. Yeah, like I talk about it all the time like I say I am not a conservative I'm not conservative But I am pro second amendment and I am a hunter and I am a cage-fighting commentator and I you know And I drink and I smoke cigars and I like to bow hunt. Yeah, so there's a lot in there Yeah, but it's just being a human but I'm a compassionate person and I believe that there's a boy I'll tell you what though one thing that happened during this pandemic was I open it opened my eyes about human nature Like I used to be a very pro universal basic income My thought was wouldn't be great if you just had enough money So you could eat and you could pay rent and then you could pursue what you wanted to but the reality of human nature came Fully into focus when I realized that one when some people got all that money from the government the COVID money And then they got unemployment. They didn't want to work. I have a friend who has a restaurant You could not get people to come back to work. Yeah, and one one buddy of mine He a bartender told him I can come back to work, but I can only work for 20 hours a week because that way I get unemployment So he wouldn't work more than 20 hours a week so he could get free money So he could have made more money, but he didn't want to because he didn't want to work So he was getting that free money and then my friend was like what the fuck man Yeah, like okay Look and now he's you know, it's always short staffed and it's a it's a mess. Yeah, like you see a lot of People that are that own businesses that have a hard time finding people work for them So there's there's pros to that right the pros are people it's it's a marketplace that favors the worker So workers can ask for more money So you're seeing a lot of places like bars and restaurants and stuff that have to pay more money per hour Which I guess is good as long as the restaurant could stay open Notice how he didn't cite a single policy that makes him liberal very interesting Now the first thing that he said was so stupid It almost made my head explode the left has gone so fucking far left so radical that the right are the ones Celebrating comedians and celebrating Chappelle. Now first of all whenever somebody points out that the left has gone too Extreme notice that that person is completely brainwashed whoever says this they're brainwashed, right? Because we're in a situation where the right Half of that party half of Republicans are quite literally against democracy They're plotting in scheming ways that they can send road rogue electors to the Electoral College to overturn future elections They're currently trying to find ways to gerrymander and do voter suppression so they remain in power in perpetuity Studies have shown that the Republican Party has shifted to the right We have a Democratic Party that's comparable to conservative parties in Canada and the UK So to say that the left has gone too extreme It just proves that you're brainwashed You've been watching too much Fox News too much right-wing propaganda and of course we know that Joe Rogan probably has But you know he talks about comedy and that's the reason why that's evidence to him as to why we've gone too far to the left Because the right is the one celebrating comedians I'm sorry, but whether or not you'd like a particular comedian says nothing about your political ideology and Just because we don't like the transphobic jokes of Dave Chappelle or Ricky Gervais That doesn't mean that we're against comedy. We just don't like your dumb Transphobic jokes. I mean before I remember this video where Joe Rogan was Calling out Carlos Mencia on stage because he stole a joke from Bill Cosby, but now These comedians that Joe Rogan claims we don't celebrate are just stealing jokes from each other left and right I mean how many times have you heard the same variation of the well if trans people can be trans Can I identify as an attack helicopter joke? I mean on Dave Chappelle special He literally said oh well if a man can be a woman can I be Chinese like that's actually something that he said So you all just have the same fucking jokes you repeat it and then you claim that we're triggered because we're not laughing No, your jokes are stupid. You're punching down and your material is shit You know as comedians get older as they grow more wealthy they just become naturally out of touch and sometimes they have to recalibrate and talk to people so they understand what the normal folk with The peasants are thinking but because we're not laughing doesn't mean that we're against comedy There are plenty of comedians who I love. I love George Carlin. I like Bo Burnham. I like comedy I just watched David Cross's stand-up special and it's incredible. So it's not that we're against comedy We're against dumb boomer comedy. Okay. Now. He says I'm so liberal like I talk about it all the time And then he goes on to state some areas that makes him conservative for example, he loves gun culture and He's a cage fighting commentator again I don't know what that has to do with political ideology But if you're this uninformed about politics and ideology in general I feel like maybe you shouldn't be commenting on politics as much as you do But he's obsessed with it because I'm sure he's watching like Fox News or I don't know what the fuck he's watching But I mean you you have the same talking points as the right so clearly you're getting it from somewhere perhaps Facebook I don't know but I mean because you like cage fighting like I wouldn't necessarily deduce Oh, that's a that's a right winger, but that's the exception You know, he's mostly liberal, but you know, he's a conservative in a couple of areas He likes gun culture and he likes to talk about cage fighting. I don't give a fuck what you talk about cage fighting boxing I don't give a shit. Okay, that means nothing with regard to your political ideology. He's such a fucking dipshit Now my favorite part is he gets to this point where he is seemingly going to explain why he is a Liberal he says but I'm a compassionate person and I believe that and then he interrupts himself and says Oh boy, I'll tell you what though. And then what does he do? He goes on to attack Workers using right-wing talking points So the point where he was going to validate his argument He interrupts himself to explain how conservative he is and then he talks about his his friend and How his friend who owns a restaurant? Is this the CEO of McDonald's or we talking about here because this is a very rich person But anyways his friend who owns a restaurant That led to him basically being against universal basic income because his friend who owns the restaurant had a worker Who didn't want to work because they didn't want to lose their unemployment insurance So because of that anecdote Joe Rogan is saying generally speaking if you give people money just for free They're not going to want to work except that is verifiably untrue because states who thought that same thing Well, they cut out those unemployment insurance benefits earlier than other states and what happened They didn't see growth in the job market as Axios reported in September of 2021 States that ended federal unemployment benefits earlier this summer saw August job growth at less than half the rate of states that retained the Benefits according to new data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor statistics leaders in the largely Republican led states had Insisted that the benefits were discouraging people from work and ended the assistance program early ahead of its planned expiration on September 6th Economists analyzing the unemployment issue have seen little evidence that cutting off the benefits has provided a clear boost to local labor markets in port because of difficulty separating the influence of the payments from larger shifts in the labor force or of the potentially offsetting damage done by the pandemic Reuters writes so Joe Rogan did a 180 on a massive policy like universal basic income Based on one anecdote that does not denote general applicability Giving people money for free by the government doesn't make them less likely to work In fact, if you had a universal basic income type program people wouldn't just stay home They'd realize okay I have more bargaining power in the labor market so I can get a job that I like and not to settle for one where I'm Treated like shit. Also, I have more room So perhaps, you know, I can work a job and have even more extra money put away some money, you know for a rainy day But, you know, Joe Rogan doesn't realize this one thing that is incredible about the pandemic that Joe Rogan doesn't realize He thinks that the takeaways that people are just lazy But the takeaway is that workers for the first time in our generation are standing up and acknowledging that they actually do Have leverage over their employers And so if Joe Rogan's restaurant owning friend wants workers if he wants to make a living off of that restaurant He has to acknowledge that the people who he hires also want to make a living They don't want to work full-time for you if they also can't support themselves and at this point in time Workers have the ability to go to a different employer who offers a more competitive wage And if you can't afford to pay that then I'm sorry Joe Rogan's friend You can't afford to hire another worker and the difference between getting money from the government through a universal basic income program And getting money through an employer is that their stability that is inherent with a government check So if you're getting that three hundred dollars a week in unemployment insurance or a thousand dollars a month through universal basic income It's always going to be there at the first of the month whenever the date is designated Assuming we ever get this policy, which we won't but you know, it's always gonna be there You can count on it showing up in your bank account on the day when it always does but with your employer There's no stability there You're in this abusive relationship with the power imbalance where your employer can at any time pull the rug out from under you and Cut your hours like that But Joe Rogan is a multi-millionaire so stability isn't even something that he can comprehend at this point when you have millions and millions of dollars and Your work your job is just talking then it's easy to get a little bit out of touch and call everyone else lazy But I'm assuming that Joe Rogan wouldn't want to work for what? $12 an hour at a restaurant and deal with Karen's during a pandemic where you're required by state law To tell them to put on a mask but yet they're screaming at you and they're calling you Fucking a sorrow shill Joe Rogan wouldn't want to subject himself to that But yet he expects everyone else to do these shitty jobs that are required to keep society running No, you do the job Joe Rogan you're gonna complain about workers being lazy You go fucking get a job if you're worried about your restaurant owners Staff shortages go fucking work. Why are you too good to work, right? Why are you too good to do these things that you expect other people to do? It's because he's comfortable and doesn't care He's totally detached from the experience of normal people So now he could just bark at the peasants when they don't get in line And he thinks that that's gonna resonate with people and thinks that it's going to prove that he's liberal Of course not Joe Rogan is out of touch Joe Rogan is a conservative and he refuses to admit it because I don't know he's I think mostly just kind of been either apolitical or Liberal leaning but at this point in time for all intents and purposes you are a conservative and you know Just saying that you're a liberal isn't going to Make people think that you're a liberal because what you're saying Substantively is deeply deeply conservative and it is propaganda at the behest of the right