Lol@Rogan.. says the Democratic Party has made us all feel like Morons by rapidly coalescing behind

[Cha]

Link to tweet

Did Pete, Sen Amy Klobuchar, and Beto give Rogan a sad? I don't think the Democratic Party has anything to do with Joe Rogan "feeling like a Moron".

[George II]

1. Isn't this the guy whose endorsement the Sanders campaign and their supporters gleefully embraced?

[NurseJackie]

3. Yes. Yes it is.

[sheshe2]

5. Correct.

[Cha]

9. Oh yeah.. someone this "Moronic".. now they're

saying .. "see.. only BS could turn rogan.. "

Badge of freaking Honor that "the Democratic Party Coalescing behind Joe Biden makes Rogan feel like a Moron" he's Not voting for Joe Biden but will vote for the idiot whose criminal negligence has/is Killing Americans citizens.

[The Magistrate]

13. The Man's A Political Genius, Sir! A Freakin' Wizard!

"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

[George II]

14. He's a wizard, all right. Where's Toto when we need him? ....

[The Magistrate]

16. Well Played, Sir!

Nicely done. Not quite expected, and most apt.

[mcar]

69. And roundly criticized anyone who pointed out Rogan's, er, shortcomings

[TwilightZone]

2. Thinking that Trump is a rational alternative makes one a moron.

So, I guess it's appropriate that he feels like one.

[Cha]

11. Yeah exactly.. someone like Rogan "feels like a moron".. so

course he blames it on The Democratic Party!

[Midnight Writer]

37. Not really. He could be corrupt.

Is he willing to say outrageous bulls**t on his media platforms in order to raise his profile and make more money?

This is now a well trod career path.

People like Rogan can see that.

[spicysista]

4. Just, uhhh....😒

This guy is just gross and utterly privileged.

[Cha]

17. Someone on this twitter thread said.. Oh the Gravel Instiute..

Link to tweet

I said.. No, it's indictment of how GD Stupid Joe Rogan is.. and apparently how stupid you are.

Rogan doesn't care about our Country or the Planet.

Mahalo, spicysista~StaySafe!

[spicysista]

20. Greetings, Cha!

Excellent reply to a ridiculous statement! You take care, too. Peace and blessings to you and yours.

[Cha]

22. Mahalo, spicysister!

I really appreciate that~Peace, Blessings & Aloha to you!

[BidenBacker]

24. Mike Gravel?!

Haven't heard from the Gravelanche for a while. Mikey is a lot like Bernie...is properly aware of many problems that need solving and often makes sense when he talks but just isn't the right person to lead the effort. He sure ain't a big Biden fan...or likes many other Democrats, for that matter...another thing he has in common with BS. Gravel-Sanders in 2024 in case Joe falls short in November!

[Cha]

27. I think so.. or someone at his institute is being

very much like a moron.

".. an indictment on Joe Biden.."? lol Joe Biden didn't turn Rogan into an idiot.

I think Gravel was one of the earlier presidential candidates before he dropped out.

[BidenBacker]

34. Yeah

Think Gravel runs every 4 years, kinda like Bernie's been doing lately. In that video there is a short piece where he was calling Biden arrogant during a 2008 debate. Obama and Hillary were kinda laughing at him.

Funny thing is, he says some stuff that I fully agree with. Kinda like when your crazy old uncle comes over for Thanksgiving and says "this turkey and mashed potatoes taste real good!".

We got so many crazy characters in politics today I think I need a new big clean scorecard...the one I've been using is all filled up.

[The Magistrate]

43. He Did One Good Thing, Sir

If recollection serves, he managed some procedural trick that got the 'Pentagon Papers' into the Congressional Record, and with the immunity members enjoy for anything said in argument on the floor, that made attempts to censor the documents implausible at best.

Enough to dine out on for life, though hardly warrant for the Presidency all these years on....

[BidenBacker]

50. I always meant to read the Pentagon Papers one day

but never got around to it. Turns out almost nobody else did either...

The Other Pentagon Papers Secret: Few People Actually Read Them

https://time.com/3933636/pentagon-papers/

While looking at this link I just saw another one on the side that is a little more interesting and pertinent to today...

'You Must Wash Properly.' Newspaper Ads From the 1918 Flu Pandemic Show Some Things Never Change

https://time.com/5810695/spanish-flu-pandemic-coronavirus-ads/

We sure have come a long way in a century, huh? Or maybe more like going around in circles!

[The Magistrate]

54. I Read Them

At the time. If you had been paying attention, they were not that eye-opening. More confirmatory then revelatory.

What is going on now is like being moved back in time by about a century. People who have lived only after the Second World have experienced something unique in human existence --- an absence of any need to seriously fear some trifling complaint, a cough, a headache, a run-down feeling, might issue in death before a week had passed. We are not used to it.

[BidenBacker]

57. I was barely into my teens when the Pentagon Papers hit the news

so naturally wasn't paying much attention at the time.

I heard a story a day or two ago about a woman who survived the 1918 flu and who had a twin baby sister die from it lost her battle against this virus. Tragic irony.

Went out for the first time in weeks earlier this week to get a few groceries. My partner had done a real good job stocking up over a couple weeks before it got really bad so we're still in real good shape for the time being. She has a badly disabled daughter she cares for who is very susceptible to a virus like this since handicapped people are a low priority should medical resources become scarce. So we figured I should be the one who does the shopping in the future to reduce the risk of exposing her.

Some people were wearing gloves and a few were wearing masks, but most like me wore nothing even though I had brought some along in the car. Felt stupid putting them on so didn't. That may change next time I go out early next week. Strange to come home and then have to isolate yourself after picking up a little bread and a couple gallons of milk...wondering if doing that simple act will end up costing you your life a week or two later.

[The Magistrate]

58. No Need To Feel Stupid About Taking Precautions, Sir

Good of you to bear the most of the risk.

I am not just old enough, but have had heart surgery and have leukemia, which in recent years has seen me in hospital several times with pneumonia, among other things. I got out of hospital as this thing was breaking, the day the oil prices first took a tumble, and they were discovering the nursing home in Washington State. I'm no invalid, and to look at me you'd think I was healthy enough, but I am pretty much what this thing eats for breakfast on a busy day. Doctor told me to do my best imitation of a hermit, and wished me luck. I said that's about all there is, isn't it, and he agreed. We understand one another, he's a good fellow. He was even then enraged by the lack of national leadership and organization for confronting this. He must be spitting tacks by now.

Wear the damn mask, kid.

Be well, and stay safe!

[BidenBacker]

62. Take care of yourself as well, Mag

Sounds like you are especially vulnerable so take every precaution possible, por favor.

Yesterday we found a bunch of N95 masks we bought years ago at Home Depot for God knows what reason. We were so thrilled you'd have thought we just found some gold nuggets.

Home Depot Halts Sales of N95 Masks Amid Shortage, Company Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/business/n95-face-masks-home-depot-virus.html

Hmm, looks like they are more rare than gold now.

[The Magistrate]

77. The Womenfolk Keep Me Pretty Much Indoors, My Friend

And where we are is in walking distance of most anything we might require, so here is little need for public transport.

Good fortune with the masks. I hooked a few leaving hospital, I don't know their worth, but everyone had to put one on that came to visit me.

[BidenBacker]

84. Check this out

Found it last night after I posted last to you...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pack-of-2-Cool-Flow-Respirators-Masks-Exp-0-02-2025-NEW-/193411602631?nma=true&si=7PwNayQomFFrvF%252FBiq7dHnwrbX4%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

These are some of the exact same ones we found in our house. You coulda bought a 3-pack of HDX brand N95 masks from Home Depot not too long ago for under $6. This 2-pack just sold for 100 bucks!

[The Magistrate]

85. Ah, The Wonders Of The Free Market, Sir

"The nearest thing to an ethic a merchant knows is 'Don't gouge too deep.'"

[niyad]

32. That was my thought as well. Exactly who is this moran anyway.

[Cha]

55. Ikr! Ridiculous! "..an indictment on Joe Biden.."?!

Not really.. about it! The Gravel Institute just "indicted" themselves.. Rogan was already there with his moronic statement.

Mahalo, nyad~StaySafe!

[niyad]

71. Thank you, Cha, and the same to you.

[NoMoreRepugs]

6. What a jerkoff.

[Cha]

38. Yeah.. and so proud of it.. lol & smh

Mahalo, NoMoreRepugs

[Grokenstein]

7. It's good that he's finally feeling it.

Because he's always been a moron.
(I'm aware of the better causes he supports. Still a jackass, jerk and moron.)

[TreasonousBastard]

8. I'm not positive but I think there is a good reason he feels like a moron.

[sheshe2]

10. Shoe fits....

[Cha]

61. Literally only on twitter does it make more sense to court Joe Rogan than Jim Clyburn.

Link to tweet

Booom!

[Hoyt]

12. Vote for trump? What a moron. Of course Rogan supported Rand Paul, libertarian

Johnson, Gabbard, etc. And he’s a gun nut, helping explain Sanders lack of effort.

[mzmolly]

15. Two sides to the white male

entitlement coin, it seems?

[BidenBacker]

18. Speaking of morons

I just saw a clip of the Moron-in-Chief saying "We're paying people to stay home. Think of it, we're paying people not to go to work. How about that? How does that play?"

I'll tell you how it plays, Donnie Dumbass. Now everyday Americans know what it's like to be President in 2020.

President Trump: 'We're Paying People Not To Go To Work'

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/04/04/president-trump-were-paying-people-not-to-go-to-work/#f1cf45b1e29c

Rogan's a minor-league moron compared to THIS All-Star imbecile.

[Cha]

21. To the MoronIC. People Would Rather Be Working you

double edged Moron. But you Purposely Neglected your responsibilities of informing the American People about the CV. When you 1st knew about you called it a "Democratic HOAX.. and it went into the Abyss from there.. you bloody Fool.

[BidenBacker]

28. Didn't mean to upset you there, Cha

and make you use more dark clouds and poofs. It's just that I was still in semi-shock after just hearing what he had said earlier today when I made that post.

Republican stupidity kills.

[Cha]

35. It's cathartic to Vent.. These are facts

I wish the reporters would tell him.. so what if he spews nonsensical insults at them. It will still be heard.. they should be able to handle.

[The Magistrate]

19. The Fella Should Speak For Himself, Ma'am

Being made to feel like a moron cannot be a new experience for him....





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

[brush]

23. Hahahahahahahahahaha! And this is the guy Sanders and his followers...

got all exited about.

To be expected though. Many of them did the same in 2016. From now on, Dems only running for the Dem nomination.

And what do these idiots think parties are for. It's to get a Dem win so the losers coalesce behind the winner—none of this blackmailing, coddle us or else stuff or we'll vote for trump or stein.

[relayerbob]

42. I agree

There needs to be some minimum level to be met to be considered a member of the party, other than quadrenniel convenience. I get wanting to grow the party, but running for President should require Party membership for a certain time period, or holder of an office under Dem label. Something. Anything. But random people calling themselves a Dem after years of heaping abuse on us is ridiculous.

[brush]

44. Exactly right, and well said.

[Hav]

25. So it was socialism that attracted Rogan to BS

but he'll vote for Trump. Yes, he's a moron.
I hope those who suggested that Biden is too moderate and has to appeal to "liberals" like Rogan should take note.

[Cha]

48. lol.. "liberals like joe rogan "..who feel like morons.. "

at the first sign of Democracy in Action when they reject his chosen endorsement.

[njhoneybadger]

26. Who gives a fuck what that asshole thinks.

[Celerity]

41. he has over a billion & a half downloads/views a year globally, probably will hit 2 billion+ in 2020

His tracking to make 50m USD just off his podcast downloads in 2020 (COVID-19 is boosting his numbers massively) and another 25m USD or so from other deals.

If he goes full anti-Biden, and even soft pro-Trump blowtorch, it would be a really bad thing. I know so many 18-30 year olds of all political stripes, races, countries, etc, that listen to him at least once a month, and many of them far more often. Many on this board are older and I see a lot of misunderstanding of how huge certain podcasters, and (in terms of platforms) TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, Snapchat, Instagram, Zoom, Telegram, etc are with my age cohort (I am 1996 born, so a Zennial ie. a Millenial/Gen Z cusper, dead in the middle of that massive 18-30 cohort when I turn 24 later on this year)

[The Magistrate]

45. Your Warning Is Appreciated, Ma'am

One of my grandsons listens to the fellow, I know for a fact. He votes right, though....

[Me.]

29. Just Like The Menace In The WH He Won't Take Responsility for being Who He Is

A moron.

Curious, the types BS Attracts,

[George II]

30. He's the gift that keeps on giving. Here is Rogan's latest, what an intellectual, eh?

Link to tweet

[BidenBacker]

39. I thought that his beloved Bernie

was the one who was into writing about sadomasochistic pornographic bondage and rape?*

Sanders Compares His 1972 Gender-Roles Essay to '50 Shades of Grey'

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/sanders-compares-his-1972-gender-essay-50-shades-grey-n367336

Then again, most morons don't have very good memories.

*Thanks to Mag for bringing this literary masterpiece to my attention...LOL.

[The Magistrate]

47. Oh, Good Lord, Sir

Tell me that is an Onion piece, please. Lie to me if you have to, I won't mind.

That just hurts my brain.

That bit of tripe at least sold millions of copies and made a rich gal out of the authoress. Sanders' 'Vermont Freeman' column can't have had more than a handful of readers.

I will have to figure out how to look it up, but in 2016 early in the 'Bernie' phenomenon, I remember reading a piece by a woman whose mother was involved with that magazine, newspaper, whatever they called it. She recalled how her mother caught Sanders raiding the refrigerator, leaning into it to really hunt for what might be way in back, and smacked him across the bottom with a broom, yelling that he should get out of their fridge. Apparently it was a semi-commune arrangement, not too uncommon at the time, and vigilance had to be exercised in the kitchen, if things bought for her family were to be preserved from the depredations of several young fellows of similar stripe to Sanders often about the place.

[BidenBacker]

53. Your story about Sanders

reminds me of some college roommates I had during my senior year when we lived just off campus. I would put food into the fridge...and the other 3 would take it out. I shoulda invested in a cheap broom!

I really didn't know too much about Bernie's past and younger life until I came to this forum and have seen some stuff posted by others. Not really liking what I'm learning and makes me think him even more unqualified to be POTUS than I originally thought. Not nearly as bad as Trump, obviously...but I hope that low bar doesn't become the new standard.

[The Magistrate]

56. I Have Personal Experience Of Such Arrangements

Most inhabitants of the place were vegetarians, but one woman there shared my cravings for meat, and late at night we would bicycle out to a store open all night and get a couple of steaks, which we would fry up and devour in company while the rest slept. They called us the carnivores, we called them the vegematics. There is a line from Kurt Vonnegut, that 'True horror is realizing people you went to high school with are running the country.' The realization Sanders was someone of whom I could say 'True horror is realizing one of the guys on the couch in the commune is running for President' made it permanently impossible for me to take him seriously. Admittedly by proxy, I know that man....

[BidenBacker]

59. Kurt Vonnegut

Good author...dropped outta my alma mater as did the singer Harry Chapin. When Harry came and gave a concert at our school once he said that he first started studying architecture there but switched to philosophy...and didn't get a degree in either. So he said not only could he not design a building, he couldn't think of anything to write on the cornerstone!

My Dad just informed me only yesterday that Dr Fauci DID graduate from my old school with his MD, so that's a good thing. As far as I can tell, he's one of the few folks in this whole rotten administration who has a clue WTF is going on. Which means it's only a matter of time before Trumps fires him.

[The Magistrate]

60. One Of The Best, Sir

'Mother Night' is an exceptional work, and of course 'God Bless You Mr. Rosewater' stands out as well. Past 'Slaughterhouse Five' things got a bit too out there for my tastes.

[Cha]

81. AnaKasparian has a message for us, George.. LOL ROFL

Link to tweet

Gaslighting Twit.

[relayerbob]

31. Moron is as moron does, I guess

Or as my Mom used to say "A fool's name and a fool's face is often found in public places" LOL

[LakeArenal]

33. Any attention is good attention for washed up game show hosts like him.

Greetings, From the south side!!
All good here. Hope you are the same.

Pura Vida. 🗻

[Thomas Hurt]

36. Is he going to feel smart if he votes for the Pig and finds himself living in a fascist theocracy?

[BlueIdaho]

40. The only moron around here I see is you, pal.

Does he take rubles, Bitcoin, or buttcoin?

[grantcart]

46. Joe isn't a Socialist lunatic

He represents the lunatic Libertarian wing of the Sanders campaign

There were a few kool aid drinkers at DU who defended him,

until

AOC raged against the Sanders campaign for promoting him.

Strangely now not so much.

[The Magistrate]

49. Just One More Sign, Sir

That young woman has her head screwed on right.

[UncleNoel]

51. He didn't help Bernie beat Joe, he won't help Trump beat Joe!

[William769]

52. "The Sanders campaign flipped voters like Joe with socialism. Biden can't do that."

And Trump can?

Does this asshole expect to be taken seriously?

[Hortensis]

63. No to that, tho. It's aggressive antagonistic POPULISM, all the way

across the spectrum.

Just look at Rogan's subscribers and the kind of guests and messages he feeds them. He chooses guests to stoke hostility and negativism in receptive types from the far left, across the center, to the right, and to the far right and on to the far left again.

(They don't speak to sensible,reasonable people from the liberal and conservative mainstreams, that large majority of Americans, or to good-hearted people of any ideology.)

As for "socialism," uhuh. Populists flock to leaders who promise them a mob to join. Despite the rhetoric of whichever leader is promising that mob, what replaces the "establishment" they destroy is far less important, some not genuinely concerned with that at all, as many studies of populist movements have proven over and over.

Nothing demonstrates that more than the movement of many of these wannabe revolutionaries between the Trump fascistic/nationalist and the Sanders LW class-warfare populist movements. The last leader standing gets them. Socialist, fascist? Something else? Whatever.

[The Magistrate]

65. Sound Points, Ma'am

There is more overlap than many suppose, or it is comfortable to acknowledge.

It is not generally recalled that at its origin fascism was a modernizing tendency which claimed would bring ordinary folks better and more prosperous lives. The places where it took deepest root after the Great War were industrially and socially backward by compare to Western Europe, such as Spain or Hungary, or had been countries which were severely wounded as societies in the Great War, such as Italy and Germany (though Nazism is not quite fascism despite some resemblances).

What we on the left are wont to denounce as 'corporatism' was presented by promoters of fascism as bringing capitalism under control of a government that would temper the excesses of bosses. Whether the promises of betterment for all were sincere or not does not matter, because they were frequently believed.

A leading purpose of early fascist leaders was giving workers a reason for patriotism, and they understood this required material gains by the working class in the new system. They viewed capital as exploitative, often in tones quite similar to Socialist agitation, and denounced this as driving workers away from national identity and into the hands of the anti-patriot Socialists. And when in power, there was often some follow-through on these promises, though it was always accompanied by rigorous persecution of adherents of Socialist parties, or Anarchist parties, let alone of Bolsheviks or Communists. By no means all workers in these places saw such persecutions as aimed against them, or even as wrongs to be decried.

Patriotism is not only a very strong emotion, it is a popular one. People want to love their country, to view it as a good thing, and to identify with it. Without the 'internationalism' Socialist agitation incorporated from its earliest days, the movement might have gone a good deal further.

[Hortensis]

76. That overlap of personality traits among insurgents left and right.

Well, virtually everyone needs reasons and excuses for their decisions, and so we all adopt a fine-sounding set that suits our preferences.

“Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people.”

“I am prepared to take on the political establishment, to take on the corporate establishment, and stand up for the working class of this country.”

Populist leaders Sanders and Trump, and obviously does't matter who said which. They're both using the same sales pitches on the same targets: FIRST the virtuous and righteous "people" must take down "the establishment." Classic populist fuel.

"Life is like a mirror, if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting." ~ Susie Sunshine, aka Adolf Hitler

[DenverJared]

64. Joe Rogan was Trump's dirty trick

and Bernie people fell for it hook, line and sinker.

[MineralMan]

66. Joe Rogan - Podcast King of Non-Voters

He is another example of the self-styled libertarians who think participation in democratic processes is an exercise for chumps. He is nothing more than one of today's iconoclasts. He appeals to the disaffected, the disturbed, and the disinclined to take anyone but themselves into consideration.

In short, he is of no account, politically, nor are his avid listeners, who seem to believe that listening to Rogan podcasts is participation enough.

[oldsoftie]

67. Rogan is a comedian & MMA commentator. His opinion means no more than mine.

[mcar]

68. "The Sanders campaign flipped voters like Joe with socialism."

So, if they can't get socialism, they'll go with incompetent fascism?

Sure.

[MineralMan]

70. It is not an uncommon thing for stupid people, when disappointed,

to cut off their own noses to spite their faces. "I'll show you!" they say.

[mcar]

72. We've seen plenty of that here and elsewhere on social media

The tired old "be nice to us or we won't vote for the nominee" nonsense. Similar to the "I have to feel excited about a candidate to vote for him/her" idiocy.

[MineralMan]

75. Indeed we have, but wait...there's more...

[Cha]

78. Right.. not buying it, either,

Mahalo, StaySafe, mcar

[mcar]

82. Thanks Cha. You too

[Cha]

83. Virtual hug!

[ProfessorGAC]

73. 10 Seconds With My Dog...

...would make Rogan feel like a moron!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

74. He voted for Libertarians in the past.

What he thinks means nothing to me.

[Owl]

79. Had no idea who Rogan is. But I now know he's an idiot.

[Cha]

80. Yeah, a dangerous one.

[Yavin4]

86. Joe Rogan and his following are not essential to victory in the Fall election

The path to victory lies in large turnout in the urban metro and suburban areas of Detroit, Cleveland, Philly, Miami, and Milwaukee, college educated Whites, and some non-college educated Whites in the states of FLA, PA, MI, OH, and WISC.

Joe Rogan's demographic is largely male, non-college educated, and lives in big blue states like CA and NY. He cannot swing an election one way or another.