On The One Hand…
By Mitch Berg
…the current President took an oath to uphold the Constitution.
On the other hands…
…his Administration seems hell-bent on destroying it.
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February 4th, 2022 at 7:56 pm
I hope SiTD gets its Wi-Fi fixed soon so MBerg can release his statement about Amir Locke’s 2nd Amendment rights….
February 4th, 2022 at 8:11 pm
Absolutely incredible. Joe Rogan became the very thing he called out at the beginning of the pandemic:.
Joe Rogan Experience #1439 – Dr Michael Osterholm
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E3URhJx0NSw
Rogan changed horses when he realized there was a bigger audience in being an anti-vaxer. It’s all about the revenue stream.
February 4th, 2022 at 10:45 pm
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February 5th, 2022 at 4:49 am
Not surprised that people who believe that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are serious political commentators believe Joe Rogan is one as well.
February 5th, 2022 at 4:58 am
We are headed towards an illiberal future. Powerline’s Steven Hayward interviews four young (non-Boomer) conservatives who are part of a small and growing movement that rejects traditional “reaganesque” conservatism: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/podcast-is-there-a-generation-gap-on-the-right-the-based-think-so.php
Although technically a late boomer I agree with these guys. The liberal society, as it has existed in the US since the 1950s, is already gone.
February 5th, 2022 at 9:07 am
Leftist rATs: “There is no 1st amendment rights on private social media platforms!”
Also leftist rATs: “Private social media platforms MUST censor the shit we don’t like!”
lol…they’re beyond contempt.
February 5th, 2022 at 9:32 am
Not surprised that people who believe that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are serious political commentators believe Joe Rogan is one as well.
What a strange comment. I don’t understand.
February 5th, 2022 at 9:44 am
“It’s hard to be in two places at once, when you’re really not anywhere at all.” ~ Firesign Theatre
Rogan is just another cork bobbing in the river adjusting his takes to wherever the current takes him. I listened to Rogan years ago. Kinda gave everyone a platform and I especially liked all the science and fitness people. But the surrendering to misinformation just got ridiculous.
February 5th, 2022 at 9:54 am
People who go to entertainers for their political advice are the same kind of people who go to entertainers for medical advice.
February 5th, 2022 at 10:00 am
What is your definition of “misinformation,” Emery?
The difference between misinformation and information seems very important to you.
February 5th, 2022 at 10:02 am
‘Joe Rogan vs Joe Rogan’
https://twitter.com/JohnnyHeatWave/status/1489966497879441412?s=20&t=TfUohMFo3mAM4OqydtDe3g
I think it’s always good to spread reliable information, especially in the face of the barrage of misinformation we see on the other side.
February 5th, 2022 at 10:09 am
Again, I have no idea what you mean when you say “misinformation.”
February 5th, 2022 at 10:16 am
These young (non-Boomer) conservatives are anti-woke which is a good start.
February 5th, 2022 at 10:18 am
People who go to entertainers for their political advice are the same kind of people who go to entertainers for medical advice
But Rogan is most known for – as I understand it – interviews in which the interviewees are allowed to speak freely and without interruption. Especially about topics that Rogan admits his ignorance. That’s what the interviews with Drs Malone and McCullough were. The very interviews that caused yet another outbreak of leftwing censorship.
February 5th, 2022 at 10:26 am
Woolly wrote: /Again, I have no idea what you mean when you say “misinformation.”/
For instance when you state that masks are not effective in reducing the spread of Covid-19.
This rather suggests that you are not telling the truth.
https://www.voanews.com/a/covid-19-pandemic_stanford-university-disavows-study-claiming-masks-worthless-against-covid-19/6204910.html
February 5th, 2022 at 10:41 am
Wow, troll had an extra large bowl of stupid for breakfast. That Amir Locke comment is as meaningless and vapid as is possible.
February 5th, 2022 at 10:56 am
Woolly wrote: /People who go to entertainers for their political advice are the same kind of people who go to entertainers for medical advice./
Back when l was a kid you didn’t need Joe Rogan. Your best friend had a 27 year-old brother who was a loser who would smoke pot in a room with blacklight posters and tell you that the Mayans invented cell phones.
February 5th, 2022 at 11:12 am
For instance when you state that masks are not effective in reducing the spread of Covid-19.
I don’t know what you are talking about. Have you got a quote? If you don’t, it hasn’t happened.
Say, Emery, what do you think is better at preventing covid? A cloth face covering, using hand disinfectant frequently, or getting vaxxed?
Since being fully vaxxed now means 3 shots, where would you put wearing a cloth face covering and disinfecting your hands vs 1, 2, and 3 vaccinations?
February 5th, 2022 at 11:15 am
MP, you do realize that this all has been hashed through and rehashed again and again for months here of SitD? None of this is new. The Ecollective is just turning your crack… trolling as it were.
February 5th, 2022 at 11:21 am
jdm on February 5, 2022 at 10:18 am said:
. . .
But Rogan is most known for – as I understand it – interviews in which the interviewees are allowed to speak freely and without interruption. Especially about topics that Rogan admits his ignorance. That’s what the interviews with Drs Malone and McCullough were. The very interviews that caused yet another outbreak of leftwing censorship.
He gives people a platform to voice their opinions? You can turn on MSNBC and watch people spout their opinions all day.
I am really trying to get to brass tacks on what the reasoning behind Rogan is. Are his critics trying to protect the public or merely demonstrate that they have the power to shut down the nation’s most popular podcaster?
February 5th, 2022 at 11:35 am
You can turn on MSNBC and watch people spout their opinions all day
Being disingenuous or just stupid as a debate tactic is borderline Emery-like. You win. You and E can entertain yourselves.
February 5th, 2022 at 11:52 am
^ jdm wrote: “That’s what the interviews with Drs Malone and McCullough were. The very interviews that caused yet another outbreak of leftwing censorship.”
FWIW:
/I’m an ER doctor and Spotify subscriber. I listened to Rogan talk with Dr. Robert Malone for 3 hours to hear the controversy myself, and also watched Rogan’s IG response.
Rogan says he’s interested in “finding out what the truth is.”
I’m not so sure. Long review/thread:/
https://twitter.com/grahamwalker/status/1489429245520580608?s=20&t=fov2HzftSgDJSKw6A9a4Hg
February 5th, 2022 at 12:30 pm
And let’s make absolutely sure we understand what’s going on here. This post was about censorship (of Joe Rogan) and the destruction of the (1st amendment to the) US Constitution. The Etroll immediately and frantically posted two threadjacks: the one of which has *nothing* to do with censorship and the other which was a wink-wink-nudge-nudge defense of censorship because Rogan is propagating so-called misinformation – which justifies censorship.
Anything that violates the bolshevik Narrative of the Day should be censored.
February 5th, 2022 at 12:49 pm
^ Simmer down Francis — Rogan should not be censored. No one is compelled to watch/listen.
“Do your own research” and “just asking questions” Enjoy the rest of the day
February 5th, 2022 at 1:11 pm
Threadjacking is just passive-aggressive censorship.
February 5th, 2022 at 3:19 pm
Thanks for that link, MP; I listened to the whole thing.
Those are well along the path of dissident politics; I recognize all the right tell-tales. Compare them to the mentally deranged, wretched weaklings the left is raising up. Haha!
Give them a couple more years to mature, and they’ll be in the vanguard when it comes time to move the degenerates onto reservations.
February 5th, 2022 at 3:19 pm
*Those guys*
February 5th, 2022 at 3:26 pm
rAT’s “ER Doctor”
𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗺 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗿, 𝗠𝗗
@grahamwalker
ER doctor in San Francisco
Translation: Spends his days digging bullets out of car jackers, their victims, and gerbils out of homo corn holes. Cares for both with compassion….
LMAO.
February 5th, 2022 at 3:45 pm
BTW, those guys talk about “our sphere”…that’s just a hop skip and jump from “Our People”.
Very encouraging interview.
February 5th, 2022 at 3:47 pm
So, to summarize, Emery began by with an attempted threadjack, accused me of peddling misinformation, which he could not specify, and could not define.
Just another day on the ranch.
February 5th, 2022 at 4:04 pm
And now Rogan has apologized in a vain effort to make all his recent problems go away. They won’t.
Rogan seems like a nice enough guy, but he clearly doesn’t understand what’s going on here. None of his detractors are acting in good faith, and he’s making a mistake thinking he can appease them. They want to destroy him because they view him as a political threat, not because they have legitimate concerns. It’s that simple, and he doesn’t cease to be a political threat to them just because he put out an Instagram apology.
February 5th, 2022 at 4:36 pm
They never learn, jdm. I imagine that Rogan was under intense pressure to issue the apology, pressure including threats.
If he resurfaces again, you will see a neutered Rogan, avoiding controversy at all costs.
We believe that these tech media corporations are free to operate as they see fit, free to make decisions about what to air and not to air. This is not true, they are incredibly sensitive to threats to their stock price.
Maybe five years ago, about the time that Alex Jones got canceled by big tech, I read an interview with the head of cloudflare, which is a king of network middle man between web sites and the internet back bone. The guy said he wasn’t going to let nazis use his service. I thought “oh yeah, you learned all about politics and social management in business school? Or maybe in CS classes?” These people are the worst kind of fools, the kind of fools who think that they are really, really smart, more smarterer than their customers, even.
February 5th, 2022 at 5:17 pm
We believe that these tech media corporations are free to operate as they see fit, free to make decisions about what to air and not to air.
Hence, the ascendance of Gab, Bitchute; GiveSendGo; Odysee and GabTV. Smart people are abandoning the wretched leftist tech giants [vis the $2 billion hit Fed Book just took]. There will be others.
We are creating a parallel internet, and economy. It’s the building blocks of separating civilized people from the degenerates.
February 5th, 2022 at 5:20 pm
which is a king of network middle man between web sites and the internet back bone.
This is exactly why Alex Torba build Gab on his own, completely separate hardware infrastructure. Smart people will follow his example. Others, like the nitwit that built “Gettr” on Amazon’s hardware and software will suffer the fate of Parler; “Bend the knee or die.
February 5th, 2022 at 5:44 pm
The key to understanding E’s threadjack is he AGREES with censorship. He believes government Should engage in viewpoint discrimination, Should engage in prior restraint of speech, Should prevent people from engaging in political discussions (and the question of the appropriate public health response to Covid is an intensely political discussion).
Whether the President sends US troops to blow up a publisher’s printshop, sends political party interns to burn it down, or has his press secretary tell the publisher to toe the line lest he be visited by the IRS to look for tax violations, EPA to look for environmental violations, FBI to look for Ashley Biden’s diary . . . it’s all censorship and E favors all of it. Anything to shut down the political opposition.
It doesn’t matter if the publisher is printing misinformation. It matters who can shut him down for printing it. That’s what the First Amendment is all about.
February 5th, 2022 at 7:39 pm
Blaze, I am suspicious of bronze age types because the bronze age was pre-christian. Achilles was not the best possible human being. Christ was.
February 5th, 2022 at 8:11 pm
JD, why would I, or anyone care about the key to understanding rAT’s thread jacks? No kidding man, WTF?
He’s an asshole and a leftist. What more do we need to know?
February 5th, 2022 at 8:15 pm
Christ wasn’t wholly human, MP. I wont hold myself to His standard, and I doubt Achilles would have, either.
We aim to be the best we can be within the boundaries of the times within we live.
February 6th, 2022 at 4:30 am
Heresy!
February 6th, 2022 at 2:17 pm
“This is a professional political attack”… a theory about the coordinated hit against Joe Rogan…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1490220423270699009.html
February 6th, 2022 at 9:09 pm
Yo, Swiftee, look up “hypostatic union” and the heresy of gnosticism.
February 7th, 2022 at 10:23 am
Maybe it’s just me, but if I had an audience of hundreds (maybe several thousand) — I would not give a platform to a discredited crank (woolly) who was using misinformation to encourage people not to protect themselves against a deadly virus.
February 7th, 2022 at 2:08 pm
BREAKING: Rumble Offers Joe Rogan $100 Million Over Four Years *with Zero Content Restrictions* to Join Platform
Let’s see if Rogan does the right thing.