Politics on the Joe Rogan Experience

“we got a pope that brought a South American idol into the church to worship. The Pachamama.”

Gibson claims Pope Francis brought a South American idol (Pachamama) into the church to worship, characterizing it as apostasy.

“they froze people's bank accounts that donated money to the convoy”

Joe Rogan claims that during the Canadian trucker convoy protests the government froze the bank accounts of people who donated money to the convoy.

“So President Obama in 2009 lifted the ban on the federal funding. So federal funding has been going on for it since then.”

The guest states that President Obama in 2009 lifted the ban on federal funding for (embryonic) stem cell research, after which federal funding continued.

“Now, of course, part of the question here has to do with, they'll say, well, we wasted this money on the poor. You say, well, wait a minute. Donald Trump just …”

West claims Trump passed a $750 billion military budget.

“But then you have this special category of superdelegates, which there are over 700 of them. It includes all 435 members of, or sorry, all Democratic members o…”

Gabbard describes the Democratic superdelegate system as including over 700 people, comprising all 435 members of Congress plus party-appointed leaders.

“Mitt Romney's dad couldn't run for president because he was born in Mexico. Do you know that?”

Rogan claims George Romney (Mitt Romney's father) was unable to run for president because he was born in Mexico.

“Why didn't he show up? He won't comment. Oh, wow. He won't. He's been reached out to comment on it.”

Rogan claims Bernie Sanders skipped a Senate vote on a Patriot Act surveillance provision (allowing warrantless review of internet search/browsing history), and that his absence let the measure pass when his vote would have blocked it.

“look at a guy like, I think Pete Buttigieg, he spent nine million dollars on social media ads in order to get like a four percent bump in the polls”

Gabbard claims Pete Buttigieg spent nine million dollars on social media ads to gain roughly a four-percentage-point bump in the polls.

“That Ukraine bill, the $40 billion that got put in, everybody's like, oh, the corruption over there. And I was like, we can't throw stones from where we are in…”

Kennedy claims the Ukraine aid bill was $40 billion and implies senators making around $200,000 salary become vastly wealthier through corruption.

“Do you know that she's better at stock trading than Warren Buffett or George Soros? She's got a better record than any of those guys.”

Kennedy claims Nancy Pelosi has a better stock trading record than Warren Buffett or George Soros.

“So 94, 96% of all donations out of Google go to Democrats, which I sympathize with. I'm from a family of Democrats. I lean left.”

Epstein claims 94-96% of all donations from Google go to Democrats.

“has $150 billion in the bank right now in cash, makes huge donations to political candidates, and then can shift votes, millions of votes nationwide without an…”

Epstein claims Google/Alphabet holds $150 billion in cash and makes huge direct donations to political candidates.

“we found enough bias on Google, but not Bing or Yahoo, to have shifted 78 million votes. That's spread across hundreds of elections, though, okay, with no one …”

Epstein claims his 2018 midterm monitoring found Google search bias sufficient to have shifted 78 million votes across hundreds of elections.

“because only 20% of white males voted for Joe Biden, and, well, that means, you know, the rest obviously voted for Trump, and the military is still a predomina…”

Gabbard recounts a claim she attributes to Rep. Steve Cohen (made on CNN) that only 20% of white males nationally voted for Biden, implying the National Guard likely voted heavily for Trump; she notes she has not personally verified it.

“it's safe to assume that 75% of the guard has likely voted for Trump and therefore could not be trusted to uphold their oath to support and defend the Constitu…”

Gabbard says a member of Congress (Steve Cohen) argued 75% of National Guard troops guarding the Capitol had likely voted for Trump and thus could not be trusted.

“we knew from the experiments we had run that that was enough bias to have shifted over a period of time among undecided voters somewhere between 2.6 and 10.4 m…”

Epstein claims his research found Google search bias shifted 2.6 to 10.4 million votes toward Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election without voters' awareness.

“They had this very rosy perception of communism, which always leads to military dictatorship. Always. There's no evidence of it ever not leading to that.”

Rufo claims communism always leads to military dictatorship with no historical exception.

“what they did is essentially lock up the 1% of the El Salvadoran population that were the violent, committed gang members and drug runners, and they reduced th…”

Rufo claims El Salvador's mass incarceration of 1% of the population cut the murder rate over 90% and that it was previously the world's most dangerous country by murder rate.

“I became mayor of Burlington, Vermont in 1981. There was not a computer in the building.”

Sanders became mayor of Burlington, Vermont in 1981.

“And it has been slow-growing, but we are up to 252 politicians who will go on record just to state that these shots should be pulled off the market.”

Bowden claims she founded Americans for Health Freedom and that 252 politicians have gone on record stating COVID shots should be pulled off the market.

“Yeah, and Rachel Levine is the first female Admiral. Exactly. Yay, women win.”

Rachel Levine was recognized as the first female four-star admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

“because we know how many people are coming through the numbers that are being reported. I think it's close to 9 million now, just over the course of the Biden …”

Close to 9 million people have come across the border over the course of the Biden administration.

“She said the people that are coming in to this country, most of them it's because of climate change.”

AOC said that most people coming into the country are doing so because of climate change.

“It's what I focused on in my book, For Love of Country. The truth about what is happening in our country, the experiences that I had in the Democratic Party th…”

Tulsi Gabbard wrote a book titled For Love of Country about leaving the Democratic Party.

“The New York Times published a story in the wake of, you know, this contested 2016 election, where they looked into the history of electoral interference in Ru…”

Snowden claims a New York Times study found Russia/the Soviet Union interfered in foreign elections 36 times over roughly 50 years, versus 81 times by the United States in the same period.

“Now it's like 95% or something Democrat. So the legacy media, the mainstream media is not balanced at all. They're just a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party.”

Musk claims journalists' political donations have shifted from roughly two-thirds Democrat to about 95% Democrat, and concludes legacy media is simply a mouthpiece for Democrats.

“That was the big climate meeting in the UK just a few months ago. You know, the one where all the COVID rules were suspended so the important people”

Peterson claims that COVID rules were suspended at the COP26 climate summit in the UK so that attendees could meet.

“I recently published an article where they looked at 22 high-profile bannings from 2015 and found 21 of them were only on one side of the cultural debate.”

Tim Pool claims he published an article analyzing 22 high-profile social media bannings since 2015 and found 21 of them fell on only one side of the political spectrum.

“Obama's saying, you know, that's not who we are that's not what we do um and yet within 100 days of him becoming a president uh now he's sitting in that chair …”

Snowden claims candidate Obama campaigned against Bush-era warrantless wiretapping but within 100 days of taking office reversed course and expanded the surveillance programs.

“So in the office of the presidency over the years, all those presidents you've had, 92% were politicians and 8% were generals. General Eisenhower, General Wash…”

Trump claims that across U.S. history, 92% of presidents were politicians and 8% were generals, citing Eisenhower and Washington as the generals.

“I think those guys killed 100 million people. So Trump has killed zero people.”

Musk states that Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin collectively killed 100 million people, contrasting this with zero deaths attributable to Trump, to argue media comparisons of Trump to these dictators are absurd.

“the Russia gate hoax the three fucking years They said that he was Putin's toy. Yes, and that Putin had him compromised the steel dossier was completely fabric…”

Rogan claims the Steele dossier was completely fabricated and that the years-long Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a total hoax.

“Trump says he wants to execute Liz Cheney. I'm like, that is utter bullshit.”

Musk claims media reports that Trump wanted to 'execute' Liz Cheney are utter bullshit and that Trump only said she should face combat risk before being a warmonger.

“this thing in New York where the 34 different felony counts, they were essentially misdemeanors that there are bookkeeping bookkeeping errors”

Musk claims Trump's 34 New York felony convictions were essentially misdemeanor bookkeeping errors improperly elevated to felonies past the statute of limitations.

“For the longest time, that was a left-wing perspective, legalize marijuana, legalize psychedelics. You didn't hear about it from former Republican governors li…”

Kennedy characterizes psychedelic and marijuana legalization historically as an exclusively left-wing cause before Rick Perry's involvement.

“There's a lot of tax problems. He's he he definitely did some uncool things, and then there's the Burisma thing. But the crazy thing about his pardon is it sta…”

Rogan claims Biden's pardon of Hunter Biden retroactively covers everything from 2011 (when Hunter joined Burisma's board) through the date of the pardon, and separately states Biden has pardoned over 8,000 people, more than any president ever.

“Zip. Zip. Zip. And in 2019, I think Newsom said, you know, I'm gonna take care of the forest and maintain the forest and do all that kind of stuff. He didn't d…”

Gibson claims Governor Newsom promised in 2019 to maintain California's forests to prevent wildfires and then did nothing.

“I'm sure. When he was lying to Rand Paul about whether or not they did gain of function research. Like, how is that not perjury? How is he not in trouble?”

Rogan claims Anthony Fauci lied under oath to Senator Rand Paul about NIH funding gain-of-function research, and asserts this should constitute perjury.

“The powers of our political system are still anchoring on Electoral College, which was based around slavery, about the idea of slaves being three fifths of man.”

Kanye West claims the Electoral College itself was based on the three-fifths compromise regarding enslaved people.

“Bernie yeah, Bernie would have won, he would have won.”

Kanye West claims Bernie Sanders would have won the 2020 Democratic nomination or general election had he been allowed to run unimpeded.

“so if people got up people that never voted uh got up registered voted for me they'd have to take it take it to the house because i would you know i could poss…”

Kanye West claims he is "definitely 100 percent winning" the 2024 presidential election.

“I would I'm on 12 ballots and in 17 states that you could write me in on.”

Kanye West claims he was officially on the ballot in 12 states and eligible as a write-in candidate in 17 additional states.

“Yeah. We were just talking about the wildfire situation and how crazy it is that they spent 24 $1,000,000,000 last year on the homeless.”

Rogan claims California/Los Angeles spent $24 billion on homelessness last year while spending nothing on wildfire prevention.

“Yeah, a lawyer at Perkins Coy Who was paid by the Clinton campaign”

Musk claims the Steele dossier was commissioned and paid for by a Perkins Coie lawyer working for the Clinton campaign.

“I met with Congress. I was at a meeting of all 50 governors and talked about just AI danger. And I talked to everyone I could.”

Musk claims he met with Congress and with a meeting of all 50 US governors to warn about AI danger.

“I'm sorry. Homeland Security in New Jersey has listed them under domestic terrorism. OK, so so here I understand there's a conundrum in that the general concep…”

Tim Pool claims that New Jersey's Department of Homeland Security has officially listed Antifa as a domestic terrorism organization.

“if you look at the voter district data on a district by district basis, there's a straight line up between the adoption of industrial robots in that voting dis…”

Yang claims a direct, straight-line correlation exists between industrial robot adoption by voting district and the shift toward Trump, dismissing racism, Russia, Facebook, or the FBI as explanations.

“what they claimed to the New York Times was that it was a false flag. New York Times said they reviewed internal documents that showed they admitted it was a f…”

Tim Pool claims the New York Times reviewed internal documents proving a named individual's company ran a false flag operation using fake Russian bot accounts during the Roy Moore Senate campaign.

“We're talking about as many as 70 plus invented gender pronouns like Z, XE, XIR, HIR, a bunch of weird ones.”

Rogan states there are over 70 invented gender pronouns that people are being compelled to use.

“What we're seeing is triple digit increases in the number of illegals in every swing state. In some cases, 700% increases. These are gigantic numbers.”

Musk claims government data shows triple-digit (in some cases 700%) increases in the number of undocumented immigrants in swing states, implying a deliberate strategy to flip elections permanently to Democrats.

“The hurricanes still have hit, the earthquake still hit, and people are still suffering from that. And no one has really gone to fix it. And when that 11 billi…”

Kanye West claims $11 billion in aid intended for Haiti does not reach the people.

“we automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs that were based in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, all the swing states he needed to win”

Yang claims automation (not trade or other factors) eliminated 4 million manufacturing jobs in swing states and that this explains Trump's 2016 win.