Yep. Joe Rogan is still spreading disinformation about the COVID vaccine. The self-proclaimed “moron,” has built a following of millions who hang on his every word. So naturally, he grabs a meme off the internet and reads it on air—without spending a moment to verify it. That’s the kind of due-diligence we’ve come to expect from a leading voice in the “do your own research” crowd.
A minute of fact-checking would reveal that the stats he regurgitated are patently false. Yet, Rogan is merely a cog in the larger right-wing machine, which thrives on attacking reality and has driven America from being a leader in science and medicine to a nation with the highest COVID death toll among developed countries. And it’s only going to get worse.
Rogan has made a career out of undermining public health, promoting conspiracy theories, and convincing countless dupes that vaccines pose a greater threat than the diseases they prevent.
Rogan’s podcast isn’t a cutting edge chat with the “bros”— it’s a veritable clearinghouse for Russian disinformation, anti-science grifters, and right-wing nihilists.
Vaccine denial has become a profitable side hustle for the right. The absurdity of pouring over Facebook pages for the correct dosage of horse dewormer created by a major pharmaceutical company, while rejecting thoroughly tested vaccines is a contradiction that seems lost on them.
Republicans Are Not Good For Your Health
Thanks to Rogan and the Republicans who elevate him, the U.S. now faces an alarming resurgence diseases we once thought eradicated. Add the fact that Trump and his America-loathing party are now limiting access to the COVID shot, and it’s a guarantee that the appalling death rate from preventable disease will continue to rise.
Yes, we’re living in a moment in time where the most selfish and ignorant among us wield power and have large, influential megaphones that they’re using to inflict damage on America—with help from Putin and other America-hating dictators who spread disinformation and sow division. Right wingers fall for it every time.
Right now, on Elon Musk’s social media safe space for Nazis and Russian disinfo bots, Rogan’s audience of easily-led dupes are apoplectic about the supposed “bombshell” the self-described idiot dropped.
Here’s just a few examples:
It would be an “explosive” “bombshell” if it were true. But, like Rogan, these right-wing useless idiots are just taking the meme’s word for it and framing the fact that it’s not being reported by mainstream outlets as more proof of a conspiracy and cover up.
It’s another example how Rogan’s popular platform and those like it have systematically eroded trust in medical institutions and in each other. He regularly features figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and quacks like Dr. Peter McCullough, who touts Ivermectin as a miracle cure for COVID. With Republicans actively suppressing public health information and vaccine access, right-wing disinformation machines like Rogan show no signs of curbing their anti-American destructive influence.
Right-Wing Influencers/Putin’s Useful Idiots
Putin’s strategy has always relied on fracturing democracies through mistrust. Rogan’s anti-vax crusade is a textbook case of this tactic. Why invade with tanks when you can weaponize a popular podcaster who is too arrogant and ignorant to recognize the chaos he helps create? Rogan sure is cashing in on his “useful idiot” status.
Of course, Rogan and his ilk remain indifferent to the grief they cause. The empty chairs at family tables, grieving spouses, orphaned children, and traumatized first responders—all casualties of the reckless narratives promoted on the right.
The Russian disinformation is working: measles outbreaks are on the rise, whooping cough is plaguing schools, and trust in science, as well as democracy, has plummeted. Rogan’s legacy isn’t merely a graveyard of victims; it’s a blueprint for the dismantling of free, democratic society.
Elementary school children are taught that free speech doesn’t mean we can yell “fire” in a crowded theater just as any responsible broadcaster knows that freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences.
Lincoln warned us that a nation divided cannot stand. Rogan and his ilk have monetized division, convincing right-wingers to see their fellow Americans as the enemy, all while other countries band together in the face of crisis.
It’s heartbreaking to think that America once led the world in scientific and medical innovation. Rogan is not a rogue truth-teller— he’s a font of disinformation whose popularity encapsulates the decline of America. He and his ilk should feel ashamed of all the damage they’ve done to America—but that would require a capacity for self-reflection they clearly don’t possess.
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