Nov 5, 2024
Joe Rogan Announces Last Minute Endorsement
Joe Rogan announced during an interview with Elon Musk that he is endorsing former President Donald Trump.
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So. Well, I'll say it again, man.
I think this is the last election.
If Trump doesn't win,
this is the last election.
I think you're right.
Yeah, I think you're right.
I think people and a lot of people
are waking up and realize
that that have been lifelong Democrats.
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Well, Joe Rogan has officially
endorsed Donald Trump.
That's a bit of the endorsement
that you just heard in this episode
that he hosted with Elon Musk.
Now, Rogan announced
the endorsement in a tweet as well,
promoting his interview with Musk,
saying the great and powerful Elon Musk,
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if it wasn't for him, we'd be effed.
He makes what I think
is the most compelling case for Trump.
You'll hear, and I agree with him
every step of the way.
For the record, yes,
that's an endorsement of Trump.
Enjoy the podcast.
Now, what did Musk say exactly
that Rogan might have found compelling?
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He said a lot of interesting things,
including claiming
that there will be no more elections
if Kamala Harris gets elected.
Because why not? Why not?
Why don't we just engage
in weird, hyperbolic nonsense,
saying that Kamala Harris
will shut down X completely if she wins
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by seeking the Justice Department on them,
and also saying that Trump got
roasted too hard at the white House
Correspondents Dinner.
Now, Rogen acknowledged
that Trump is not a perfect candidate.
In fact, in the past, he was on the record
saying he didn't even want to host
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Donald Trump on his podcast because he
didn't want to help Donald Trump.
But eventually, obviously,
he did have Trump on his podcast.
That might have swayed Rogen as well.
But Rogen excused all the crazy BS
he spews by saying that he just doesn't
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have time to figure out the truth.
Let's let's take a look
at what he had to say.
Look, he I don't think he has the time
to go into things like very deeply.
And so I think he could probably be
influenced by a bunch of people like these
Marjorie Taylor Greene type people will
come to him with some wild ass theory.
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Sure, he might be.
And I think there's a lot of that stuff
that gets fed to people on purpose
so that they'll say incorrect things
so that they're easy to dismiss.
And I think there's also a lot of people
that just make up and, you know,
they tell you the earth is flat.
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And then a bunch of people watch
a YouTube video and they believe it.
So we're going to take a trip
back to memory lane
and remember some of the things that Rogan
had to say about Trump previously.
But, Jake, I really think
this is about the fact that, you know,
he had Trump on the podcast.
He had Vance on the podcast.
He had Elon Musk on the podcast.
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I watched Trump's appearance.
I watched about half
of Vance's appearance.
I didn't watch any of Elon Musk's.
But the reason why I bring that up
is they had friendly conversations.
They seemed to enjoy each other's presence
and company, and that's going to leave
an impression on Rogan.
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In fact, you know, one of my critiques
of Rogan has always been that he's very
impressionable and tends to just agree
with the last person he spoke to.
So look, am I being too critical when I
say that, you know, Harris might have made
a mistake by not going on the podcast?
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Yeah.
Look, let's come back to Harris,
because Harris is an interesting case
and especially in regards to Rogan.
First, let me address the things
that Elon and Rogan said.
So it's cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
So later in the program, we're going
to tell you about how the Democrats
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did some cheesy moves in the primary,
which is classic Democratic Party.
But the idea that if the Democrats win,
there won't be any more elections
is just nuts.
No Democrat has ever said that.
No Democrat has ever gone
in that direction.
In fact, the Democrats
have the opposite problem.
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The Democrats usually do
very little when they're in office.
The idea that they would upend the entire
system and really anger their donors.
You don't know
the Democrats at all at all.
It's just a totally mindless, ridiculous,
purposely stupid conspiracy theory
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because it's Elon going.
Oh, yeah.
Just because Trump says
he'll end the elections.
Oh, yeah.
Kamala's going to end the elections.
Ha ha! Got you.
Now we're even. No, you're not even.
And you sound like a child
who knows nothing about politics.
And so I was just on a,
something called spaces on X. Those are
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like the audio panels that they have.
And then Elon joined in.
And of course, everybody on X is, like,
reveres him and they're like, oh, Elon.
And every question started with, sir,
you are the greatest.
Can I please tour your facilities.
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And oh, thank you for existing
and letting us bask in your presence.
I'm like, guys,
these are you're the tough guy populists
standing up to the establishment.
This is the richest man in the world.
And he's, in my opinion,
obviously manipulating you for his own
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financial reasons, which I'll get back to.
Anyways, he comes out, he goes,
oh yeah, we're easily going to win
because they're all pumping in the idea
that Trump is already won.
It's just a matter of how is the,
you know, media and the establishment
going to deal with it?
So what is their theory on that?
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Their theory is, well,
since there's so many less mail
in ballots this election cycle,
especially in Pennsylvania, as opposed
to 2020, that must mean that Donald Trump
is going to win because he wins.
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Day of voting historically.
So since the not a lot
of Democrats mailed it in.
Well that's it.
The Republicans are going to win.
Except in 2020 there was Covid.
And that's why the Democrats were afraid
to go outside, did massive mail in voting.
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Of course, there was going
to be less mail in voting in Pennsylvania
and everywhere else in this election
by Democrats and Republicans.
Like, do you not know that?
And you're like a rank amateur who thinks
they know something about politics,
or are you lying on purpose?
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It's just it's, in my opinion,
irresponsible for anyone to claim like.
And I get why people do it, right.
Like they they want to put optimism
out there in regard
to their preferred candidate, you know,
get their base jazzed up and make it seem
as though there's no way that your
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preferred candidate is going to lose.
I see it happening
on the Democratic side as well.
The truth is, guys, guys,
the truth is we don't know, okay?
Like, I don't want to make any predictions
because the polls are so close
looking at the average of polls.
Yes, I get it.
There's that Iowa poll,
which is a bit of an outlier
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that shows Kamala Harris winning in Iowa.
And I get that that pollster
has a good reputation.
But it's one poll and you can't
put too much weight behind that.
I have no idea who's going to win
the aggregate of polls.
The average of polls indicates
that it's very close
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to the detriment of the country, honestly,
because I'm worried that if the race
ends up being too close, there's going
to be like a lot of fighting.
It's going to be contested.
We'll see what happens.
But I just. I can't make a prediction.
What do you think?
So, look, I we started the program
today at, at noon eastern.
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And the first thing that Michael Shaw
and I did and Michael's here,
he's going to give us a up to date results
from the election as we get going here.
The very first thing I did
was did my official prediction.
And my official prediction was,
I don't know, I don't know.
Number one, the polls are absolutely tied.
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Number two,
there are unlikely voters on both sides.
Historically, Trump brings them out
2016 2020, but Democrats in 2022
and special elections in 23
brought out the unlikely voters.
Both sides have data on their side.
Have some data
to back up what they're saying.
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We've been over it a million times.
I think Anna and I seem to be the only
ones who say, no idea, and there's really
no way of knowing, but everyone disagrees.
So like Democrats
and some of our own analysts and hosts say
Democrats are definitely going to win.
Kamala Harris is definitely going to win.
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Some are less.
Sure is like likely going to win, etc.
I go over to I'm bilingual.
I speak both languages, right?
So I go over to the whether it's spaces X,
other places
that I interact with right wing.
Oh my god guys, you have to understand
they are so positive
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that they're going to win.
They think they've already won.
So both sides in their own bubbles
100% believe they're going to win.
So one side is going to get
absolutely shocked tonight.
They're going to fall over
from like disbelief.
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Well maybe not tonight because it's
unlikely that we're going to know
the full results of the race tonight.
- Right.
- Well I'll just say this though.
Yes and no.
Because remember, Pennsylvania is going
to close in about an hour and ten minutes.
No, sorry.
Mark, clock in here is wrong.
About an hour and 40 minutes if I'm.
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This clock is throwing me off.
Okay. So it's going to close soon.
Okay. So that was a great, moment there.
Anyways, when Pennsylvania closes,
you know.
- I doubt.
- That. 8 p.m..
- Yeah. 8 p.m..
- Local time.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
And right now, it's 620 local time.
So an hour and 40 minutes.
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Okay. So?
So when it does, I don't know
that it gets called immediately.
I don't know that it gets called tonight.
ET cetera.
But if it if one of them has much more
unlikely voters than we expect,
if one side is correct about how
certain they are, they're going to win,
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that they're going to win big.
Pennsylvania could get called in a couple
of hours and this thing's over.
Right.
So Pennsylvania will
not decide it on its own.
But whoever wins Pennsylvania
has a massive advantage.
Intensely likely to win. Right.
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There's a couple of different ways
we'll get into it
in just a little bit about different ways
to win without Pennsylvania.
So it might drag on for a week
or it might be over in an hour.
So you don't know.
Now back to Anna's question
about Kamala Harris.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
should have done infinitely more media
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and way more interviews.
You know, who would have been great
on Joe Rogan?
Tim Walz. Yeah I. Agree.
You know, so another story we have
on the rundown, I hope we get to Tim Walz
interacting with, Trump voters.
Oh my God, it was gold.
He was so good at it because he's
a he's the only one out of the four.
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That's a real human being.
And you could and you could have
a real conversation with him.
And he could, he'll tell you he's
a knucklehead, but then he'll know so much
about farming, and he and he can prove
that he got things done in Minnesota.
So. But should Kamala Harris
have gone on Rogan I don't know.
Kamala Harris is a mystery to me.
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I don't know that she could do
a three hour interview.
I don't know that she could have a real
conversation and sound like a normal human
being and not a fake politician.
I'm being honest, right?
She'd have to be comfortable
dropping the, you know,
the canned talking points and all of that
and just have a conversation just like,
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let loose, let go, have a good time.
And look, I, I hear what you're saying
about Tim Walz being the only real person,
right.
Because he comes across as a genuine,
sincere, normal American.
But I will also say that from what I saw,
you know, JD Vance did a good job
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presenting himself as, like, the everyman,
like, you know,
like a normal person himself.
Like, he handled
that conversation really well.
You might disagree with his politics and
and his policies, and I hear you on that.
That's not what we're talking about.
Just the way he presented himself,
he came across as way more likable
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in that conversation.
Yeah.
So everybody's a little bit different guy.
So JD Vance is by far the best actor
out of the four of them.
So he's got his role down pat.
Remember he's a venture capitalist.
And his main goal in winning here
is corporate tax cuts and deregulation.
So he's a giant like a person
who helps corporate world
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and corporate rule in an enormous way.
Right.
But when he talks he's like,
oh yeah, I'll tell you, you know, I got
this mom and I got this grandma and I got
the Cemetery where I buried all my family.
Because I'm the Zodiac killer.
- No. That's Ted.
- Cruz.
None of that came up.
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All right. So?
So he seems like he's being genuine
if you're not well-versed in it.
Kamala Harris is the worst of them
in terms of acting Donald Trump.
No, actually, to be fair,
Donald Trump is the worst actor.
He can't act if his life depended on it
because he'll just admit everything.
He'd be like, you know, He is who he is.
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And it comes across very clearly
in every media appearance that Trump does.
Yeah, he's like, my advisers told me not
to say this, but I'm going to protect
women even if they don't like it okay.
Yeah. Well all right.
Well, you're not acting.
You seem like a legitimate clown
and and scary person.
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So? So they're all different.
But the bottom line is media,
especially interviews,
are worth their weight in gold.
Literally getting a half a minute ad
on Rogan or ABC or CNN
can cost you a fortune, right?
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Going on there and talking for three hours
is the equivalent of tens of millions
of dollars in free media.
So the Democrats turning that down
is totally irresponsible.
Plus, Anna is right.
Rogan is so impressionable.
If Tim Walz went on last, he might have
endorsed Kamala Harris and Walz, right?
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Instead, they just let the other side
take that, audience.
To be fair, that audience
was already plus 35 Trump.
So before we get to what Rogan had to say
about Trump's policies a few years ago,
I wanted to just give you a peek
at how Trump took the news that Rogan
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decided to endorse him over Kamala Harris.
Let's take a look.
So somebody that's very, very respected
asked me to do his show two weeks ago,
and I said, why not?
And to me, it's very big because he's,
the biggest there is,
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I guess, in that world by far.
Somebody said the biggest
beyond anybody in a long time.
And his name is Joe Rogan,
and he's never done this before.
And it just came over the wires
that Joe Rogan just endorsed me.
Is that true?
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Thank you. Joe.
That's so nice.
And he doesn't do that.
He doesn't do that.
And he tends to be a little bit
more liberal
than some of the people in this room.
We live in a topsy turvy world, man.
I remember in the last election, certainly
during the the primary cycle, Rogan
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had a conversation with Bernie Sanders.
I remember Bernie Sanders
getting so much hate from the left
because he had the audacity to go
on the largest podcast in the country.
I thought that was a good idea.
I'm glad that Bernie had done that.
But anyway, Rogan loved him
and Rogan supported him after that.
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So it's just really interesting how you
can go from supporting someone like Bernie
Sanders to now endorsing Donald Trump.
I know that there were some Sanders
supporters and voters in 2016 who ended
up supporting Donald Trump because of the
anti-establishment message, but obviously
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very different policies and politics.
Yeah, but I'm not that surprised by that.
So first real quick on Trump.
He's like, he's never done that before.
That's not true.
He endorsed Bernie. He's endorsed before.
But that's a usual typical thing
for Trump.
So now to Rogan.
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Look, I wrote about this
in a recent op ed I did on Newsweek.
There's two different political spectrums.
Is the left and right one.
And on that one, Bernie and Trump
couldn't be further apart.
Trump's all for corporate tax cuts and
deregulation and you know dividing us and
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said Bernie's trying to bring us together
higher wages for the average man etc..
Right.
On the populist establishment spectrum,
though, that's a second spectrum.
Bernie and Trump are perceived
to be on the populist end of that
and against the establishment.
And that's where Rogan is.
Rogan isn't isn't really left or right.
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He has a ton of right wing positions.
You know, the anti-trans positions,
blah, blah, blah.
Right. But he's pro-choice.
He's, you know, and sometimes
he questions the corporate tax cuts.
ET cetera. ET cetera.
So he's not left or right really
as much as he's populist.
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The problem with Rogan
is not that he's populist
or where he is on the left right spectrum.
The problem is he's too impressionable,
so he can't see that Bernie Sanders and
Donald Trump don't have the same policies.
They might both sound populist,
but Trump is a fake populist who says,
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give everything to my donors, including
the guy you just had on Elon Musk.
Elon Musk is asking for giant subsidies.
He receives about $890 million already
in tax credits from the government.
He's asking for deregulation
so he could do God knows what
with cryptocurrency, etc.
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He's asking for lower taxes.
That is not none of that is within
a billion miles of a populist position.
So they've taken these guys
who are super angry at the establishment,
the right wing populist right.
And they've totally misdirected them
towards corporate power again.
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And it's so frustrating
because Rogan is not a grifter.
He has so much money,
he doesn't need to grift.
ET cetera.
He's just getting hoodwinked
by both audience capture and guest capture
because he has nonstop right wingers on.
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All right, we're out of time.
But just wanted to note, you know,
one of the things that Rogan was
very critical toward Trump on in the past,
at least, and he got a lot of backlash
from Trump supporters over this,
was Trump's immigration policies.
But who knows where he stands
on that issue today?
It'd be really interesting to hear
how he kind of, you know,
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deals with that conflict where he stood on
immigration before and where he is today.
He could have changed his mind.
You never know.
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A lot of you guys are just as skeptical
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This doesn't come as a surprise,
considering an MSNBC producer
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