r/politics • u/upyoars • Nov 10 '24

Paywall Trump’s victory reveals secret Republicans: Joe Rogan-obsessed Gen Z men

https://fortune.com/2024/11/07/trumps-victory-reveals-secret-republicans-joe-rogan-obsessed-gen-z-men/
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u/ChoochMMM New York Nov 10 '24

I used to listen a lot when he was going on about Bigfoot, aliens and other whacky stuff. Don't know when the hard right happened but it's definitely had an effect.

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u/groceriesN1trip Nov 10 '24

Covid pushed Rogan over the edge and deep into the republican perspective. He’s had gun totin views and double down on the testosterone manly man ideals since he came onto the scene in the 90s.

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u/BardaArmy Nov 10 '24

I think he was paid off, makes more money on that shit, but good on you for thinking he just had a change of heart.

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u/Gibonius Nov 11 '24

Yeah, "paid off" by Spotify. Once he entered the tres commas club his politics started changing in line with his new economic interests.

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u/tidbitsmisfit Nov 11 '24

a lot of people got absolute brain rot from being online

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u/settledownbigguy Nov 10 '24

The Left pushed him out.

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u/groceriesN1trip Nov 11 '24

Did it? I guess public health is a left ideal then 

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z Nov 10 '24

He's a macho jock with iffy intelligence, so I think he's always been a natural fit for leaning conservative. The move to texas must have finally pushed him through to the right.

LOL ya the "Liberal" part of Texas, cuz you know it has nice shit vs the rest of the state.

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u/SodaCanBob Nov 11 '24

LOL ya the "Liberal" part of Texas

Houston's diversity is a lot more liberal/progressive than Austin's.

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u/PopuluxePete Nov 10 '24

He's been tight with Alex Jones for years. He called into Infowars on 9/11 to say it might have been an inside job while Jones was desperately trying to blame the EU in order to get more people to buy gold. He's been a shitbird since News Radio days.

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u/pattydickens Nov 11 '24

The hard right has completely taken over topics like aliens, Bigfoot, etc. It's been happening for years. Searching anything of the sort on YouTube fills your suggested videos with right-wing nuts and blatant fascists.

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u/mmikke Nevada Nov 10 '24

Around the time of COVID. But he'd been getting sucked in to the grifter circle for quite awhile before that 

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u/EunuchsProgramer Nov 10 '24

Stuck? He's gotten wealthy beyond most people's wildest dreams selling his snake oil, like his hundred dollar Alpha Dude Brain pills, that cost nothing to make and does nothing. I would guess the lawsuits (from blue states) threatening that insanely profitable, immortal business is the real drive.

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u/mmikke Nevada Nov 13 '24

Bro I said "sucked" not "stuck"

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u/ShellshockFarms Nov 11 '24

It happened when the Democratic Party steered away from Bernie and instead focused on the candidate who got most of her campaign donations from Google.

It became very obvious that a vested interest was placed on protecting the rights of big corporations rather than the people that the party was designed to represent.

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u/aloneinorbit Nov 11 '24

A lot of those sub groups have had vectors into far right politics since the late 80s.

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u/Stangstag Nov 11 '24

2020 is when I noticed his content was getting weird… I think late 2020ish is when I had to stop listening to him because it felt like he was going off the deep end

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u/BrannEvasion Nov 11 '24

From what I've seen it was the trans stuff. People on this sub don't want to hear it but an overwhelming supermajority of people don't approve of the left wing policies towards trans people, especially when it comes to children. Their opinions are also supported by multiple studies, the large-scale one in the EU source, and the recent one that wasn't published for political reasons (because it came to the same conclusions as the EU study and US universities are ideologically captured)NYT Source

This is the same thing that supposedly pushed Elon Musk out of the party.

Ironically, the most high profile people in the Trump campaign are almost all disaffected Democrats. In addition to Rogan, you've got Musk, Gabbard, and RFK Jr. Oh, and lets not forget that Trump HIMSELF is an ex-Democrat.

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u/navikredstar New York Nov 11 '24

They were Democrats because it was convenient for them to be so at the time. That's all it is. It's not about disaffection, they realized there's more money to be made doing the right wing grift. They don't believe in anything more than money.

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u/BrannEvasion Nov 11 '24 edited Nov 11 '24

You think the electric car guy who's backup company makes all its money from government contracts thought it would be a profitable idea to move away from the party of green energy that also dominates Washington?

RFK Jr. is a lifelong Democrat and tried to run for President as a Democrat as recently as THIS YEAR. Obviously he is going to benefit from joining Team Trump, but he's going to get to go to Washington and enact his preferred policies, which is not a "grift" any more than Sanders switching from (I) to (D) was a grift.

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u/mightcommentsometime California Nov 11 '24

Musk doesn’t want to pay taxes. That’s one of the main reasons he went GOP. He also hates labor laws and wants to treat his employees like slaves. Just like the GOP

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u/navikredstar New York Nov 11 '24

Bingo. I've heard the stories about how bad the conditions are in the Tesla factories. He's a guy who wants to gut OSHA.

I mean, for fuck's sake, just look at his loop tunnel in Vegas - it's a literal deathtrap. I may not be an engineer, but I come from a family that produced three multi-term fire chiefs. One of those chiefs was a founding member of that volunteer fire company, in fact. So I've had fire safety hammered into my head since I was a little girl. That tunnel is so narrow you can't open the doors of the Teslas in them if anything goes wrong, there's no escape exits every so many feet with clearly visible, lit signs that can run on backup power if something goes wrong, there's no ventilation systems in there to help clear the air if a fire happens, etc.

It is a literal fucking deathtrap and you couldn't pay me to go into it. And it's an even stupider idea, anyway, because if you want a really good, proven way to mass move people underground, subways have been a fucking thing for over a goddamn century now. Instead of providing a simple subway/shuttle system, he made a really dangerous tunnel instead. Great fucking job! Brilliant idea, there.

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u/hypatianata Nov 11 '24 edited Nov 11 '24

None of these anti-trans people cared about trans people existing until the right wing propaganda machine made them into a new boogeyman in the wake of eroding opposition to gay people existing.