NomNomI listened to 170 hours of Joe Rogan’s podcast. Trust me, he hasn’t turned against Trump
circuitfarmerRogan is a great example of a few things:
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The Dunning-Kruger effect
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“I’m just asking questions” being used as an excuse to host an unbalanced number of individuals purporting one specific worldview
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Toxic masculinity posing as intellectualism
He is extremely popular with one particular demographic. That demographic tends to share the toxic masculinity and the Dunning-Kruger-fueled belief that they can be experts at everything from the armchair.
“I’m just asking questions”
Glenn Beck was (is?) big on that one too.
🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞I have a little experience on Glenn Beck.
What sparked that was Glenn Beck asking the first sitting Muslim member of Congress, Keith Ellison: “Now, I wouldn’t say this, but some of my listeners might like to ask you: ‘Are you working for our enemies?’”.
Bear in mind that this was in a time when politicians were not openly working for Russia, so the idea of asking a sitting member of the House of Representatives if he was “working for our enemies” was galling. But it was Beck’s technique of “Oh, I’m not saying, this, rather, ‘it is being said by some unspecified people’” to weasel out of it being him saying it.
That said, I have avoided Rogan completely, so cannot speak directly to his particular brand of bullshit.
EtAl