The Charlie Kirk Show - February 07, 2022


It’s Time to Talk About Rogan


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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:01.000 What are we supposed to make of Joe Rogan?
00:00:03.000 Well, Joe Rogan should apologize to no one.
00:00:05.000 And we dive into detail why that's the case.
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00:00:45.000 Joe Rogan owes an apology to no one.
00:00:47.000 Buckle up. 0.96
00:00:48.000 Here we go.
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00:01:33.000 So, this weekend, all of a sudden, we decided to get really outraged over something that Joe Rogan said over the last 12 years of conversation.
00:01:43.000 So, Joe Rogan has been the centerpiece of kind of getting the word out around ivermectin and early treatments.
00:01:50.000 He hosted Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough, and he had the courage and the platform to be able to change the Overton window on the public's perception of our immoral response to the COVID-19 pandemic or the Fauci virus pandemic.
00:02:09.000 So, because of this, there have been multiple attempts to try and cancel Joe Rogan.
00:02:13.000 The first of which came around the actual heart of the issue, which was whether or not Joe Rogan should be allowed to have a podcast while smoking weed and talking about aliens with celebrities when it came to even mentioning early treatments or having doctors on to speak about it.
00:02:31.000 So, Joe Rogan has a very, and I've said this actually probably more than anyone else that's covered Joe Rogan.
00:02:37.000 That I have never defended everything Joe Rogan has ever done or said, especially the drug use and the profanity.
00:02:43.000 We've made that very clear on this program.
00:02:43.000 I don't like it.
00:02:46.000 In fact, I think Connor, we've probably made that more clear than almost anybody else.
00:02:50.000 And so, now all of a sudden, the world has decided to get outraged about Joe Rogan, continuing from the quote-unquote disinformation he was spreading, which is actually anything but that.
00:03:01.000 It was empowering information, where they were recirculating tapes of Joe Rogan using the N-word.
00:03:09.000 Now, it's a disgusting word.
00:03:10.000 No one should use the word, even though Jay-Z is allowed to use it and has 810 million streams on Spotify using the word.
00:03:18.000 You should not use that word.
00:03:20.000 No person should use that word.
00:03:21.000 I don't like the word.
00:03:22.000 I don't, I'm not going to get into why that is the case, but it's a disgusting word that is something that people should not say. 0.52
00:03:35.000 I think no one should say it, let alone white people shouldn't say it.
00:03:39.000 However, Joe Rogan wasn't using it as a pejorative.
00:03:43.000 Joe Rogan was using it by quoting album titles.
00:03:46.000 He was using it by quoting rap lyrics.
00:03:50.000 So, if you watch pulp fiction, Quentin Tarantino has that word all over the movie.
00:03:57.000 Paris Hilton has used it.
00:03:59.000 Madonna has used it.
00:04:02.000 Friedrich Nietzsche famously said that every civilization has a central piety that you cannot violate, a thing you cannot make fun of.
00:04:10.000 And in the West, where we are today, that one thing is this word.
00:04:15.000 It is the N-word.
00:04:16.000 You are not allowed to use it.
00:04:19.000 Now, what's hilarious is that many of the, let's say, self-righteous beta males on Twitter that are getting so upset about Joe Rogan using the N-word, I guarantee you, when they were 15, 16, or 17 years old, acting like a tough guy going to their public high school, used to quote Kanye West or Jay-Z using the N-word and all the rap songs.
00:04:41.000 This is something that suburban parents have got to wake up to, that every, especially if you have young men that are your kids, that they think they're being all tough by quoting all of this rap music and using the N-word and all of that.
00:04:55.000 They shouldn't do it.
00:04:56.000 It's awful. 0.73
00:04:56.000 It's disgusting. 0.73
00:04:57.000 I don't like it. 0.85
00:04:58.000 But it's true.
00:04:59.000 It happens.
00:05:00.000 But now Joe Rogan is under massive threat of cancellation because videos are coming up.
00:05:05.000 Now, let me be very clear.
00:05:06.000 Context matters a lot here.
00:05:08.000 Do you know Joe Biden actually used the N-word multiple times in a Senate hearing?
00:05:14.000 So now they're using these clips against Joe Rogan as an attempt to try to destroy his career and destroy his platform.
00:05:22.000 Joe Rogan did not use this as a pejorative.
00:05:25.000 He used it by quoting other people.
00:05:27.000 Now, should he have done it?
00:05:28.000 No, he shouldn't.
00:05:30.000 But when Joe Biden uses it, why aren't we calling for impeachment for Joe Biden?
00:05:34.000 It's an old clip.
00:05:36.000 Shouldn't he have known better?
00:05:37.000 Play cut three. 0.98
00:05:38.000 That important legislators in defeating the New Nez plan in the basement said, quote, we already have a nigger mayor. 1.00
00:05:45.000 We don't need any more big shots.
00:05:47.000 And the court cited evidence of discriminatory intent on the part of other legislators, including the representative who testified at the court hearing.
00:05:54.000 So that's Joe Biden quoting somebody else who said it, the same thing that Joe Rogan did.
00:06:01.000 And they say, oh, no, no, context matters.
00:06:03.000 Joe Rogan wasn't doing that.
00:06:04.000 That's exactly what Joe Rogan was doing.
00:06:07.000 Now, some people say, well, Jay-Z is black, so he can see it. 0.92
00:06:10.000 I'm not going to get into that today.
00:06:11.000 That's a very loaded topic.
00:06:14.000 I'm just curious how that ever got to be the case.
00:06:19.000 If you go into any college dormitory and you say, hey, what does NWA stand for?
00:06:26.000 80% of the upper-middle-class kids that grew up in suburban America would know exactly what it stood for, and they would say it.
00:06:32.000 And I won't say it on air, obviously.
00:06:35.000 So Joe Rogan is now being held to this new kind of regime standard of trying to restrict freedom of information, freedom of speech, freedom of inquiry, because they say, we don't like him because of all these clips.
00:06:54.000 Now, Joe Rogan has already apologized.
00:06:55.000 Now, let me be very clear.
00:06:56.000 Joe Rogan should not have apologized.
00:06:59.000 Now, why should Joe Rogan not have apologized?
00:07:02.000 Well, because the people he's apologizing to, it only gives them more fuel to their fire.
00:07:08.000 It only accelerates them more.
00:07:11.000 It only allows the activists to get more credence.
00:07:16.000 If Joe Rogan is legitimately sorry for what he did and what he said, there's a proper way to explain it.
00:07:24.000 But a groveling apology is not.
00:07:28.000 And we're already kind of on shaking ground right now with Joe Rogan, especially given his recent pseudo-apology and retreat last week when it came to his coverage of Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Robert Malone.
00:07:43.000 So now, Spotify has come out, which gave him $100 million to host with them, and said, quote, Spotify team, there are no words I can say to adequately convey how sorry I am the way the Joe Rogan experience controversy continues.
00:07:56.000 Each, every one of you.
00:07:58.000 Not only are some of Joe Rogan's comments incredibly hurtful, I want to make it clear that they do not represent the values of this company.
00:08:03.000 I mean, I'm going to stop.
00:08:04.000 You're trying to tell me the Spotify employees haven't heard these words before?
00:08:07.000 They haven't watched pulp fiction.
00:08:08.000 They haven't listened to Jay-Z, really, Spotify.
00:08:11.000 810 million downloads on Spotify is N-word in Paris.
00:08:15.000 In fact, Will Farrell is in that musical song.
00:08:20.000 I want to make clear that they do not represent the values of this company.
00:08:22.000 And this situation leaves many of you feel drained, frustrated, and unheard.
00:08:25.000 Why do they feel drained, frustrated, and unheard?
00:08:25.000 Why?
00:08:29.000 Because some guy that smokes weed before he was an employee of your company, talking about aliens and psychedelics and mushrooms and samurai culture and weightlifting, quoting other people, by the way, the same way Joe Biden did, the same way Madonna did, that leaves people so empty.
00:08:47.000 You know, Gwyneth Paltrow did the same thing.
00:08:50.000 Gwyneth Paltrow still has a career.
00:08:52.000 It's important that you're aware that we've had conversations with Joe and his team about some of his content in his show, including his history of racially insensitive language.
00:09:01.000 Following these discussions and own reflections, he choose to remember, he chooses to remove a number of these episodes from Spotify and also issue an apology over the weekend.
00:09:10.000 Maybe someone can explain this to me.
00:09:12.000 I'm actually not going to get into this.
00:09:15.000 Why can blacks use that word and others cannot? 1.00
00:09:17.000 It doesn't make any sense.
00:09:20.000 I'm not really going to defend that or not defend it.
00:09:22.000 It's just weird to me.
00:09:24.000 But it's a disgusting word.
00:09:25.000 I don't think anyone should use it.
00:09:27.000 It's trying to dehumanize people, and I don't like it.
00:09:31.000 But Joe Rogan should apologize to no one.
00:09:34.000 Joe Rogan was quoting other people, and he did not mean it in a dehumanizing slur or pejorative way.
00:09:41.000 I will tell you who should apologize, though.
00:09:44.000 The mayor of New York.
00:09:46.000 The mayor of New York did use a dehumanizing slur.
00:09:50.000 And guess what?
00:09:50.000 The mayor of New York has police power.
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00:11:15.000 Joe Rogan should go to rumble.com, R-U-M-B-L-E.com.
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00:11:22.000 It's up almost 20%, full disclosure.
00:11:24.000 I own some shares and I have owned some shares for some while.
00:11:26.000 I have to say that, just so I'm not giving investment advice and that you don't think I'm pushing something that I'm not invested in.
00:11:31.000 Well, you can do whatever you want.
00:11:32.000 I'm just saying it's up 20% because Rumble has offered $100 million to Joe Rogan if he wants to leave Spotify.
00:11:40.000 But Spotify is saying they are now going to spend $100 million for the licensing and development and marketing of music and audio content for historically marginized, marginalized groups.
00:11:52.000 Wow.
00:11:53.000 Who would have ever thought that Joe Rogan saying something 10 years ago with his comedian buddies while sipping whiskey and smoking weed would cost Spotify so much money?
00:12:02.000 Every civilization has a piety that you cannot violate.
00:12:06.000 And the current piety is you cannot say the N-word.
00:12:09.000 Now, if you're Jay-Z, it's perfectly fine.
00:12:11.000 In fact, if you're Jay-Z, you can make millions of dollars off.
00:12:14.000 It's not just him, by the way.
00:12:16.000 There are entire rap groups and movies that focus on this in a great extent.
00:12:22.000 Eminem can say it too, who's a white person, right? 0.52
00:12:25.000 Eminem's allowed to do it because he kind of plays the role of a black rapper and he gets a pass.
00:12:31.000 In fact, Eminem is going to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show this Sunday.
00:12:36.000 Why does Eminem get to perform this Sunday for using the N-word, but Joe Rogan has to lose his entire career?
00:12:43.000 Answer, Joe Rogan is a threat to the regime.
00:12:46.000 This is a coordinated social media, corporate media attack against Joe Rogan because he's been so effective in getting people to challenge the vaccine.
00:12:56.000 He's been so effective in getting people to challenge the corporate orthodoxy.
00:13:00.000 He's been so effective in actually giving a platform to otherwise heterodox ideas.
00:13:08.000 The response has been predictable.
00:13:10.000 You have people that are piling onto Twitter that want Joe Rogan's entire life to be destroyed.
00:13:18.000 And Joe Rogan should leave with honor and Joe Rogan should leave quickly.
00:13:21.000 And Joe Rogan should tell Spotify, I'm not going to play this game anymore.
00:13:25.000 I'm Joe Rogan.
00:13:27.000 I'm the biggest podcaster on the planet.
00:13:31.000 I don't need you guys.
00:13:32.000 And by the way, you know, people say, well, Charlie, he wants that $100 million.
00:13:36.000 I know this might sound silly.
00:13:37.000 That's not a lot of money considering how big he is.
00:13:40.000 He's way bigger than $100 million.
00:13:43.000 At this point now, after the COVID stuff and after this, he's a multi-billion dollar brand.
00:13:50.000 And some people say, well, Joe Rogan wants to be mainstream.
00:13:54.000 If he wanted to be mainstream, he should have stopped the whole like smoking weed with Elon Musk thing or swearing every other word.
00:14:01.000 Joe Rogan being mainstream, he's got to choose, is what I'm saying.
00:14:06.000 Joe Rogan can either tell the truth or he could be on CNN.
00:14:12.000 It's really that simple.
00:14:16.000 And he rates higher numbers than every other media outlet.
00:14:18.000 And some of you might be saying, Charlie, I don't get the fixation on Joe Rogan.
00:14:22.000 Your kids and grandkids get their news from Joe Rogan.
00:14:26.000 He is the most powerful communicator of this entire generation, bar none.
00:14:32.000 And we don't even know the entirety of his influence, by the way, because there's clips and people watch them in groups and there's all sorts of different cuts and downstream effects.
00:14:43.000 He is one of the most effective Overton window shifters ever that we have.
00:14:48.000 Do you have an idea how powerful Joe Rogan is?
00:14:50.000 When Joe Rogan has a guest on his show that mentions a documentary, it becomes top five on Netflix of all shows.
00:15:00.000 I want to say that again.
00:15:01.000 If Joe Rogan's guest even mentions a documentary or mentions a movie, it becomes top five in all the Netflix shows.
00:15:11.000 We're nine months out from the midterms, and the globalist regime is losing the narrative war.
00:15:19.000 Of course, they want him canceled.
00:15:22.000 So Joe Rogan wants to be respected by the mainstream, whatever that even means anymore.
00:15:28.000 But I think deep down, Joe Rogan has a deeper yearning and desire to tell the truth.
00:15:36.000 Joe Rogan is victim to selective outrage.
00:15:39.000 That Eminem, a white rapper, can use the N-word in his songs, or Gwyneth Paltrow or Madonna can use it, but Joe Rogan can't use it, not even as a pejorative, not even in a sentence, but quoting other people.
00:15:52.000 And by the way, let's just make one other point.
00:15:54.000 Joe Rogan is a legitimately talented stand-up comedian.
00:15:59.000 Comedians have always been exempt, or used to be exempt to the traditional rules of policing speech.
00:16:06.000 George Carlin?
00:16:08.000 I don't even know if he'd be allowed to have a career anymore.
00:16:10.000 Another one they said, it's like, oh, Joe Rogan was making fun of Nazi salutes.
00:16:14.000 You ever see Seinfeld?
00:16:17.000 Jerry Seinfeld had a whole episode on the half-heal and the full heile.
00:16:22.000 And he's a Jew. 0.97
00:16:23.000 And Jerry Seinfeld did that.
00:16:25.000 On network television, on NBC, Jerry Seinfeld did that.
00:16:30.000 You ever see Diversity Day with Michael Scott in the office?
00:16:37.000 You want to talk about politically incorrect.
00:16:40.000 Joe Rogan should go to rumble.com immediately.
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00:17:52.000 An interesting kind of side story here that's actually similar to why they want to bring Joe Rogan down.
00:17:59.000 They want to bring Joe Rogan down because he brought down one of the regime's favorite networks.
00:18:06.000 Joe Rogan exposed the deceit, the lies, and the transparent corruption of CNN.
00:18:17.000 From Joe Concha, CNN's collapse is now complete.
00:18:24.000 It all began 42 years ago.
00:18:26.000 Ted Turner's creation of a 24-7 news network that would exist on something called cable TV.
00:18:31.000 Few thought it could succeed.
00:18:33.000 The article goes through and talks about how it had Larry King Live and Crossfire.
00:18:37.000 And believe it or not, Tucker Carlson used to be an employee of CNN.
00:18:42.000 Same with Newt Gingrich.
00:18:44.000 But then came Jeff Zucker.
00:18:47.000 To give you an idea of how dramatic, that's right, Lou Dobbs was as well.
00:18:51.000 How dramatic the collapse is for CNN.
00:18:55.000 To give you an idea of how stark their disappearance is, nine out of 10 of their viewers are gone.
00:19:05.000 Its top-rated anchor, Chris Cuomo, is gone, and its network is in total shambles.
00:19:12.000 Until 2002, CNN was the number one in the cable news race until Fox News and then MSNBC came.
00:19:20.000 It's really a three-way race between the three of them.
00:19:22.000 It has been for quite some time.
00:19:24.000 Ever since Donald Trump got elected, CNN led itself as the resistance to Donald Trump.
00:19:31.000 But as much as CNN tried to resurrect its lead character, who banned from social media, who was banned from social media and largely off the grid for the year, his absence clearly showed the network was a one-trick partisan pony.
00:19:44.000 Ratings fell 90% overall when comparing January 2021 to January 2022.
00:19:51.000 That's really hard to do.
00:19:55.000 Chris Cuomo is gone.
00:19:57.000 Don Lamond's show is in total free fall.
00:20:01.000 And now CNN is a completely obliterated network.
00:20:05.000 Now new management is coming in and they're signaling big-time changes, changes that might bring in CNN back to the proud network it was before Jeff Zucker destroyed it.
00:20:16.000 But it's really worthy of asking the question, which is, if CNN is collapsed and CNN is completely folded, why is it that, what else does that show us or what else does that demonstrate?
00:20:31.000 Now, Chris Cuomo is working very, very hard to bring down the entire CNN house of cards because CNN was ousted.
00:20:37.000 Chris Cuomo is leaking things.
00:20:39.000 He is trying his best to destroy the entire network.
00:20:45.000 But don't worry, everybody, CNN is Chris Wallace now.
00:20:48.000 They have Chris Wallace to try to hold up the entire thing.
00:20:51.000 And reports are showing that Chris Wallace is furious with the ratings, with Jeff Zucker and all of it.
00:20:58.000 This is why they had to go after Joe Rogan.
00:21:02.000 Legacy media is collapsing.
00:21:06.000 And Joe Rogan and podcasts like ours and radio shows like ours and Tucker's show, we are thriving.
00:21:14.000 Our numbers are better than ever before.
00:21:17.000 You just go through the top podcasts.
00:21:19.000 We're number 10 and thank you guys for helping us get there.
00:21:22.000 We're 10 in news today.
00:21:24.000 CNN does not even have a top podcast.
00:21:27.000 I think in the top 50, top 60, top 100, and they're allegedly a multi-billion dollar network.
00:21:33.000 They're imploding.
00:21:35.000 They're totally and completely imploding.
00:21:39.000 And here on the Charlie Kirk show, we did over 100 million downloads in the last 12 months.
00:21:44.000 There's a lot of things on social media you can kind of fake.
00:21:46.000 You cannot fake 100 million downloads.
00:21:48.000 You can't do that.
00:21:49.000 It's pretty remarkable.
00:21:51.000 It's one of the reasons why is because we've been unafraid to talk about the vaccine.
00:21:54.000 We've been unafraid to talk about lockdowns.
00:21:57.000 We've been unafraid to talk about Joe Rogan, about race, about BLM, about schools, about critical race theory.
00:22:05.000 All the things the CNN gatekeepers have refused to talk about for quite some time.
00:22:13.000 Now, the founding fathers put into the U.S. Constitution one of the principles we talk about a lot on this show, checks and balances.
00:22:23.000 And media should have checks and balances to it as well.
00:22:27.000 Now, absent major companies like Time Warner or Lorene Powell Jobs with The Atlantic writing checks every single year to subsidize them, you are about to see the explosion, or I should say the culmination, of a major once-in-a-generation media bubble.
00:22:48.000 We've been talking about this for quite some time, and the reason you did not see the media bubble early was because of two things.
00:22:54.000 Donald Trump's election and COVID and the bailouts that came with COVID.
00:22:59.000 Many of the bailouts that came with COVID were needed stimuli for media companies, helped pay their payroll, gave them some extra expenses.
00:23:08.000 They took the PPP money.
00:23:10.000 And plus, media actually did really well in the midst of the pandemic because people were consuming news all day long.
00:23:15.000 They wanted new takes, they wanted interviews, they wanted information, even though all the information was fear, fear, fear, fear.
00:23:21.000 And now that people are breaking out of the pandemic with Omicron and other things, all of a sudden, the fear-based media is not what people want anymore.
00:23:31.000 They want truth.
00:23:33.000 They want some optimism, some positivity, some laughter, and some humor.
00:23:36.000 And dare I say, that's one of the other reasons why Joe Rogan is so popular.
00:23:40.000 He makes his audience laugh.
00:23:42.000 He's a comedian.
00:23:43.000 CNN, the only reason you laugh at CNN is you laugh at CNN.
00:23:47.000 You don't laugh with CNN.
00:23:48.000 You laugh at what they're doing.
00:23:52.000 And the bottom line is that there is a demand for the truth right now.
00:23:55.000 There's an appetite for meaning in news.
00:24:00.000 Not just the same 10 news stories recirculated, rewritten for a very specific political purpose.
00:24:10.000 The CNN collapse is one that will go down in history books.
00:24:13.000 And they'll basically have, they have two choices.
00:24:16.000 They can continue in the current direction and try to seek some sort of foreign sultan or sheik to bail them out. 0.54
00:24:26.000 Or they can continue, or they could totally change course and instead try their best to become an actual news network.
00:24:41.000 You want to know how bad the regime is failing right now?
00:24:46.000 Not only is CNN collapsing, but the Olympics, that most people don't even know that's on TV right now, by the way.
00:24:56.000 The Olympics are down 43% from 2018.
00:25:01.000 Now, Winter Olympics already have record low numbers.
00:25:05.000 Axios.com, Winter Olympics opening ceremony viewership, down 43% from 2018.
00:25:12.000 Who is footing the bill for that?
00:25:14.000 Comcast NBC.
00:25:16.000 This year's games, like the summer games in Tokyo last year, are being impacted by a lack of fans and loved ones in the stadiums.
00:25:22.000 That's not the reason, let me tell you.
00:25:24.000 People do not want to support NBC.
00:25:26.000 They don't want to watch the genocide games.
00:25:29.000 They don't want to watch China. 0.87
00:25:30.000 Everything about these games, it's like a non-stop China commercial.
00:25:34.000 And you know what?
00:25:35.000 Most Americans are like, yeah, you infected our country with a bioweapon.
00:25:40.000 I'm not exactly going to go out of my way to go watch the games hosted in your country.
00:25:46.000 The Tokyo Games were down 36% compared to 2016.
00:25:52.000 Broadcast and cable TV viewership has been declining for many years as more people adopt streaming alternatives.
00:25:58.000 I hope so.
00:26:00.000 So NBC now has, I think it cost NBC like $6 billion for the Olympic rights over 10 years.
00:26:09.000 CNN is down 90%.
00:26:12.000 The Atlantic is struggling to even keep themselves afloat.
00:26:16.000 Rachel Maddow has jumped ship and she's now becoming like an executive producer of some irrelevant movie with Ben Stiller. 0.86
00:26:22.000 It's really weird.
00:26:26.000 And yet, truth-based news is ascending.
00:26:33.000 It's growing.
00:26:35.000 It's strengthening.
00:26:38.000 It says here in the article, in the spring of 2020, the country was in a horrific place.
00:26:45.000 Businesses shut completely.
00:26:47.000 If there was ever a time for news organizations to educate and inform the public, this was it.
00:26:50.000 Instead, Zucker believed it was a perfect time to exploit the situation for political gain.
00:26:54.000 And he did.
00:26:57.000 The collapse of CNN is now complete.
00:27:00.000 Nine out of 10 viewers gone.
00:27:03.000 Its network president gone.
00:27:04.000 Top-rated anchor gone.
00:27:06.000 And its integrity is in shambles.
00:27:10.000 The country's a better place because of it.
00:27:12.000 And it shows that there is an inevitable law of decay.
00:27:16.000 These people thought they were so untouchable for years.
00:27:19.000 They thought they could do whatever they want to do whenever they want to do it.
00:27:25.000 And no one watches them anymore.
00:27:27.000 And their entire network has imploded.
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00:29:45.000 And I just love the CNN collapse.
00:29:49.000 This is, you see how threatened CNN is by Joe Rogan.
00:29:53.000 And this just kind of goes to show this.
00:29:55.000 Play cut six.
00:29:57.000 Yeah, he clearly has.
00:29:58.000 And you and I both know that that compilation right there, which he has admitted to, is authentic.
00:30:07.000 That would be enough to put anybody out of a job.
00:30:11.000 I mean, to me, it seems untenable to have that kind of video surface, that kind of compilation surface, and keep one's job.
00:30:20.000 CNN has done everything they possibly can, but they need to.
00:30:23.000 Where is the corporate media going to get their message out?
00:30:27.000 This is a serious question.
00:30:29.000 And so you have Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson, and Johnson, but not just that, the international global elites.
00:30:34.000 And, you know, we talked last week about the Johns Hopkins study.
00:30:38.000 In fact, we have a new Ask Me Anything episode that details that.
00:30:43.000 And in the Johns Hopkins study, it shows that lockdowns had zero impact whatsoever.
00:30:49.000 That's right, zero impact, zero positive effect on stopping the transmission of the virus.
00:30:56.000 But I got to thinking over the weekend, I said, how were they able to pull this off?
00:31:02.000 Because back on March 23rd, 2020, I went on Steve Hilton's program and I talked at great length at how this lockdown strategy is going to destroy the economy.
00:31:12.000 And then it made sense that the stimulus package that was passed in late March, early April was very carefully written.
00:31:21.000 It was written as a massive payoff.
00:31:25.000 Wall Street got exactly what they wanted.
00:31:27.000 Wall Street was able to repurchase stocks at $18,000 when the DAO was $18,000 and you nearly see it double over the course of a year.
00:31:36.000 Major companies had access to lower interest rates and they went on a borrowing spree.
00:31:41.000 Every single sector that would otherwise lobby Washington, D.C. to reopen was paid off, including the restaurant sector that had massive amounts of PPP money.
00:31:51.000 Democrat politicians were incentivized to keep the blue states closed as blue state bailouts came to bail out the blue state pension funds and other public sector liabilities.
00:32:02.000 But of course, the casualty were the nation's children and the small businesses, the 100,000 plus small businesses that will never reopen because of the lockdown measures that occurred.
00:32:16.000 But then you have people like Joe Rogan and others that start to call this out.
00:32:20.000 Where is the regime media going to be able to place advertisements of significance?
00:32:25.000 Are they going to buy network ads at the Olympics?
00:32:28.000 No one watches that.
00:32:30.000 You see, the ability to communicate with the American people is a question that the World Economic Forum and Klaus Schwab and the great reset crowd, they're currently struggling with.
00:32:42.000 So they have to take the powerful chess pieces off the board, which is precisely why they've gone after Rogan.
00:32:50.000 They cannot allow Rogan to keep on speaking freely.
00:32:53.000 So the next best thing to cancel Rogan, the next best thing is to get him to not be himself.
00:33:03.000 If Rogan ends up being a more vanilla, mainstream, and boring version, then the regime will have won.
00:33:10.000 At least he gets paid.
00:33:11.000 But I guarantee you this: people will not reward Joe Rogan generously with downloads if he all of a sudden becomes kind of a funnier, kind of stronger version of Jim Acosta.
00:33:28.000 If Joe Rogan kind of becomes a buffer wolf blitzer, people aren't going to keep on tuning into the Joe Rogan experience.
00:33:35.000 They like the Joe Rogan experience because you never know what you're going to get.
00:33:39.000 He's authentic.
00:33:40.000 He's real.
00:33:40.000 He's non-corporate.
00:33:42.000 He's unscripted.
00:33:43.000 And we are living through a realignment chapter right now.
00:33:46.000 I want everyone to take notes because we are going to be proven right here.
00:33:49.000 We're living through a political realignment.
00:33:51.000 We're living through a spiritual realignment.
00:33:53.000 We're living through an economic realignment.
00:33:55.000 And we are living through a media and communication realignment.
00:33:59.000 2022 will go down as a year where the entire game changes.
00:34:04.000 Media companies are going bankrupt.
00:34:06.000 Media presidents resign in disgrace.
00:34:09.000 Chambers of power get completely turned over.
00:34:12.000 The citizen rises up.
00:34:14.000 Bureaucracies finally get held accountable.
00:34:16.000 It's a year where not just one part realigns, but where would you ever think that you see the collapse of CNN, the temporary departure of Rachel Maddow, Republicans take back the House?
00:34:28.000 You see all these things happening simultaneously.
00:34:32.000 The laws of nature do not go into suspense just because a bunch of billionaires want them to go.
00:34:39.000 This is just the beginning of a movement of what will be called the Great Realignment of 2022.
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