Joe Rogan Is So So Painfully Stupid It Hurts to Think About All the Idiots Who Still Listens to Him
- john raymond
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Joe Rogan’s stupidity is not “he does not know a lot.” It is worse than that. It is the kind of stupidity that cannot tell the difference between a fact and a good story. It is the kind that hears a confident man say something dumb and goes, “Yeah, maybe.” Then he hands that dumb thing to millions of people and calls it “just a conversation.”
Rogan does not check. He does not test. He does not demand proof. He nods. He marvels. He gets excited. He lets the guest drive. That is not “open-minded.” That is being easy to fool. And when the host is easy to fool, the audience becomes easy to fool too.
Now add the part his fans do not want to face: the whole “anti-establishment” thing is a con. It has been a con for years. Rogan is not outside the system. He is paid by the system at the highest level. Spotify signed him to another giant deal reported to be worth up to $250 million. That is not rebel money. That is establishment money.
And look at who he rolls out the red carpet for. He brings on billionaires and treats them like sages. Elon Musk has been on the show again and again, including a 2025 episode that Spotify distributed as a flagship product. This is what Rogan does: he gives the richest people on earth hours of friendly time, lets them sell their image, and rarely hits them with the one question that matters: “Prove it.”
Then he turns around and sells the audience a bedtime story: “I’m just a regular guy. I don’t trust the elites.” Meanwhile he is sitting with elites, smiling, helping them look normal, helping them look smart, helping them look like they are on your side.
He even does the most insulting part out loud: he defends billionaires as hard workers, pushing the idea that they are grinding like everyone else. That is billionaire propaganda in plain clothes. It tells working people to stop being mad at wealth and power and start being mad at “the system” in some vague way that never threatens the people at the top. It is anger laundering. It keeps the audience mad, but harmless.
So yes, Rogan is stupid. But the bigger point is what his stupidity is used for. His show is a delivery system. It takes money-and-power people and makes them look like truth-tellers. It takes gullible listeners and makes them feel brave for distrusting experts, while they trust a comedian with no guardrails.
That is the trick. Rogan sells the rebel costume to the rubes while he cashes establishment checks and plays footsie with billionaires. The audience thinks they are “seeing through it.” In reality, they are being played.