Joe Rogan Endorses the Guy With a Brain Worm for President

On Thursday, Joe Rogan, the millionaire lunkhead who operates the most fashionable podcast successful the world, announced his prime for the 2024 statesmanlike election. Predictably, Rogan, who likes to beryllium thought of arsenic an unconventional guy, is going with idiosyncratic likewise unconventional: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

On his podcast this week, Rogan said that Kennedy was the lone campaigner that “makes sense.” “I americium a fan. He’s the lone 1 to marque consciousness to me,” Rogan said. “He’s the lone 1 that doesn’t onslaught people. He attacks actions and ideas, but he’s overmuch much tenable and intelligent.” He added: “He’s a morganatic guy.”

Rogan besides claimed that enactment politicians “gaslight” and “manipulate” voters and that the lone campaigner who was not doing that was RFK. “That’s politics. They bash it connected the left, they bash it connected the right. They gaslight you, they manipulate you, they beforehand narratives, and the lone 1 who is not doing that is Robert F. Kennedy Jr,” Rogan reiterated.

On Friday, Kennedy responded to Rogan’s endorsement. “From 1 ‘legitimate’ feline to another, convey you @JoeRogan for ever putting substance first,” said the candidate, via X.

Of course, Rogan is not alone. At slightest immoderate percent of the colonisation is each successful connected Kennedy, FiveThirtyEight’s nationalist polling mean has him pulling astir 5 percent of the vote. Upon archetypal glance, it whitethorn beryllium sorta hard to recognize why. The database of the candidate’s foibles is long: He talks similar a crow, is reputed to person once been a serial philanderer, has been caught (multiple times) posing with pictures of dormant animals, hung retired with Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Cosby, has admitted that a worm erstwhile ate portion of his encephalon and past died, and, earlier this week, admitted that helium keeps an full freezer full of “roadkill meat.” Yeah, he’s a weird guy. But the reasons for the spot of his candidacy spell beyond the campaigner himself.

The crushed that third-party candidates are truthful appealing to voters is due to the fact that our two-party strategy sucks. That Simpsons meme says it all. But the occupation with voting for a third-party campaigner is that they’re not going to win. In modern history, nary 3rd enactment has ever managed to instrumentality the White House, which means that specified candidates beauteous overmuch ever relation arsenic a “spoiler” for 1 ascendant enactment oregon another. Voting for them truly conscionable means that you’re voting for the Democrat oregon Republican who is wounded slightest by their candidacy.

The ongoing question with RFK has been whether he’ll instrumentality much votes distant from Trump oregon Biden (now Harris). Though some polls assertion Kennedy hurts Trump more, others amusement him chipping distant astatine Democratic enactment in cardinal battleground states. Kennedy has besides received funding from the aforesaid radical backing Trump, and was encouraged to tally by Trump allies, like Steve Bannon. Kennedy precocious discussed endorsing Trump and adjacent floated the thought of taking a occupation successful the adjacent Trump administration, should helium win. Kennedy’s marque seems intentionally designed to entreaty to disaffected Democrats; his presumption arsenic the achromatic sheep of a erstwhile large governmental dynasty seems geared towards left-leaning voters who consciousness alienated from the existent Democratic Party.

Rogan’s endorsement is casual to dismiss, but it’s worthy remembering that helium has over 14 cardinal Spotify listeners, galore of which skew young and male. In a choky contention wherever each ballot counts, Rogan’s power isn’t needfully insignificant.

In 2020, Rogan endorsed Bernie Sanders for President. Later, aft Sanders dropped retired of the race, Rogan said that helium would rather ballot for Trump than Biden. Rogan later admitted that helium had really voted for Jo Jorgensen, the libertarian candidate. In 2016, Rogan besides voted libertarian, tweeting: “I voted for Gary Johnson, and I thin FAR much near than right.” In 2009, Rogan tweeted that helium had voted for Obama, but lone “because Ron Paul, a REAL enactment wasn’t connected the ballot.” Again, Ron Paul is broadly considered to beryllium a libertarian and ran for President connected the Libertarian Party enactment successful 1988.

In short, Rogan whitethorn not travel a enactment enactment but without fail, helium loves to prime a loser.