Joe Rogan Hails Trump’s ‘Progressive’ Free Speech Fight

November 29, 2024 admin Celebrity Gossip 0

Joe Rogan didn’t endorse Donald Trump until the very last minute.

Why?

The Spotify superstar credits Elon Musk’s influence. That’s likely true. Rogan also knew Trump stood tall against the Left’s war on free speech, and the comic podcaster belatedly picked a side.

So did other rebel comedians like Tony Hinchcliffe and, to a lesser degree, Theo Von, Andrew Schulz and Tim Dillon.

Comedians know free speech is everything to their craft. And Trump had their back on that critical front. Let’s not forget how the Left, led by Neil Young, tried to boot Rogan from Spotify during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now, Rogan and his comedian friends are saluting a recent Trump decree decrying the Biden administration’s free speech attacks.

Not on my watch, the President-Elect vowed.

Rogan, along with fellow comics Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir and Shane Gillis, cheered Trump’s declaration of war against government censorship.

“If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple like dominoes, one by one,” Trump said in the video statement released earlier this month. “The censorship cartel must be dismantled and destroyed, and it must happen immediately.”

“The Joe Rogan Experience” played the majority of the Trump video, giving it their full attention. 

“I don’t care if you don’t like this guy, you can’t be against this,” Shaffir said.

“That’s a progressive idea,” Rogan continued. “If you’re not with that, you’re not with free speech and you’re not with free discourse.”

“There’s no logical explanation that you can possibly provide that says censoring speech by a bunch of people who have been known to be liars and criminals,” Rogan continued, his voice raising, “letting those people censor speech is crazy.”

“You gotta let people talk. It’s the only way,” Rogan said.

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“Everyone in the arts should be in favor of that,” Shaffir added, even though most celebrities have stood down in the free speech fight or backed Biden and, later, Vice President Kamala Harris.

“Whatever you wanna do, jazz, if you wanna make rap music, whatever you wanna make you need that. It’s everything for us,” Rogan said.

“It should be, say what you wanna say, especially in the arts, and that’s OK. That’s just your stance,” Shaffir said.

“Exactly. It’s OK,” Rogan said before bringing up what came to be known as President Bill Clinton’s “Sister Souljah Moment.”

Then-candidate Clinton chastised the young rapper for suggesting black Americans kill white Americans and other racially incendiary comments.

Clinton defended her right to share those views but sharply condemned them.

Free speech in action.

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