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Feb. 7, 2022 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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Joe Rogan Smeared as a Racist. Dave Rubin Reacts | Direct Message | Rubin Report
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dave rubin
Hey everybody, don't mind my squinting into the sun.
I am in Sarasota right now at a huge meeting for Rumble and Locals and obviously I had to do something this morning because this Joe Rogan story is exactly why I started Locals and exactly why we merged with Rumble and it is almost the culmination of everything that I talk about on the show.
Cancel culture, wokeism, The whole damn thing, it's like all crashing down at this very moment.
It feels like there's a real moment of truth for all of us right now.
This isn't just about Joe Rogan.
This isn't just about one man standing up or not standing up against the system.
This is really messy.
So because I'm not in studio live at 11 o'clock as I wanna be today, I wanted to just shoot a quick video and then I'm gonna drive across the state and I'll do a live stream from home a little bit later.
But this Rogan thing, It's like, look, this thing was going to be messy from the beginning, right?
Like when he signed the $100 million deal, they took down I think 46 episodes immediately.
So he signed a deal and he took the cash while he knew they were, they were censorious people and he allowed that to be, and that's, you can judge him for that or not judge him for that.
It doesn't matter.
It is what it is.
Now this thing has been ramped up to the crazy level because last week this was all about Joe Rogan.
is spreading misinformation about COVID, right?
That's what this was about.
And look how quickly, in just three, four days, how quickly the entire machine morphed to, Joe Rogan has said the N-word.
And it's like, nobody really thinks Joe Rogan is spreading misinformation that's killing people.
If we cared about misinformation that was killing people, how about all the shit that the CDC and the Biden administration and CNN and the rest of them have done?
Nobody thinks it's about that.
And certainly nobody thinks That Joe Rogan is a racist.
Of course he's not racist.
Meanwhile, we have racist people that are teaching your kids the entire Democratic Party has been infected by neo-racism.
So it has nothing to do with any of that.
What this has to do with is that Joe Rogan became more powerful than the corporate structure.
So you've got these clowns on CNN this morning.
Acosta and Brian Stelter basically saying Spotify should censor the guy.
And it's like, you guys don't want him really Censored because you think he's bad you want him censored because he's competition and it's like man
Enough of this bullshit.
If we don't stand up now, all of us, this isn't just about Joe Rogan.
He has to make a choice as far as what he wants to do with his life at this point, and he has all sorts of pressures.
I think he's got a wife, he's got kids.
Who knows what his pressures are?
And people say, well, you know, he's got the FU money, so he can do whatever he wants.
It's like, you know, I know a lot of rich people, and just because you get a lot of money, it doesn't mean you say FU.
There was one guy who did the FU thing with a lot of money, that Trump guy, and they booted him off too.
So there's a moment of truth right now, but we are all in this together.
And that's why it's so fun for me, actually, today.
I'm here giving a big talk to all the Rumble and Locals employees about how we're gonna save this freakin' thing.
And it's like, could it possibly be more relevant?
Could it?
Could this conversation, all of the stuff we've been talking about, truckers that are more powerful than media, a comedian podcaster that's more powerful than CNN, And the system's coming to crash down on him and everybody else.
So stand up while we got a chance.
All right, I'm gonna get out of here in a little bit.
Uh-oh, face is getting red.
I'm gonna get out of here in a little bit.
I'm gonna get across the great state of Florida, and I'll do a live stream later.
Thanks, everybody.
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