Joe Rogan Explains His Political Views

What's your organ experience? Kind of weird how they cited some of the same parts of the Code of Conduct where, oh yes, every employee should do their utmost of reducing bias and harassment and legal discrimination when really my document was about eliminating the bias against conservatives and the harassment against them and the legal discrimination that we're doing in multiple parts of our pipeline. There's no room for conservatives today, sir. I mean, are you a conservative? Do you feel like you're conservative? I'm pretty much just libertarian. But that's thought of as conservative because it's convenient, right? You just immediately pushed off into that right-wing angry white male group. Yeah, everyone that's in the center or right of that is alt-right. You favor smaller government, less intrusion. Yeah, I'm not super libertarian. I obviously believe that there's places where the government should be. But just my internal leaning or in philosophy is more like that. Yeah, I think socially I lean more left, socially, in terms of welfare and things on those lines. Obviously, this protected status is driving me crazy, this thing that Trump's doing with children that were born in this country or born in other countries and then brought over here as children and then they're talking about deporting them. That drives me fucking crazy. Yeah, that's scary. The hard right version of that is despicable. These people that I see online, why didn't they apply for citizenship? Oh, who knows? Maybe because they're fucking 13. Were you out there applying for citizenship if you were 13? No. I mean, when you're 13 years old, you're playing games and hanging out with your friends and then you find out you were born in Guatemala and you're like, what? You have to go back to Guatemala. What? It's crazy. I lean way left when it comes to those kind of things, gay rights and things like social programs for disenfranchised people and disenfranchised communities. I lean way left. If I want my tax dollars to go to anything, I want it to go to making people's lives easier, whether it's socialized medicine or whatever we could do to make people have an easier path to success and to not have them so burdened down by their environment and their circumstances. That I think is our responsibility as human beings to try to, I don't want to say even the playing field because there's never going to be an even playing field, but to give people opportunity. That's it. Just give people an opportunity to do well, not have it so completely stacked against them. In that sense, I'm not very conservative in that way. I'm not one of those pull yourself up by your bootstraps thing because that's so delusional. Some people are just fucked. They're born with a terrible hand and it would be nice if more of us were charitable in that regard. Some people think that that charity should be a personal issue and that we should all just do it as part of our community and our society. Maybe. That's a good argument. Maybe the argument is that our government should be a part of our community and that we should think about it that way instead of thinking of it as this overlord that decides and designates where our money should go, that maybe we should have some more say in it. It should be some sort of a more kind approach. In that sense, I lean pretty far left, but I'm also pretty pragmatic. I also know that if you give people too much, it's like sort of that winning lottery ticket thing. If you make things too easy for people, they don't try hard. It's just a natural part of human nature. In that sense, I'm conservative in a lot of ways. You definitely need some sort of safety net to ensure that people can actually achieve the American dream. Well, just be healthy. I've been leaning more and more towards universal basic income than anything. I think universal basic income at a certain point, like enough that you can just eat and survive. Then maybe that would open up a lot more people to pursuing dreams, to going after things. I don't know. I don't know. There's arguments for and against. I think it's debatable. It'll be interesting to see Finland, I think, was proposing to start this because we don't really know what will happen. Maybe people will start doing their hobbies and really find their passion. Maybe they'll just sit at home and watch TV and die. These are the problems that we as a society will have to overcome. Of course, these are just first world problems, but that will be what the world is like. There was another country today, I read about it on Google, another country today that's considering universal basic income. Was it South Korea? Oh, really? See if you can find it. Scotland. Is that what it was? I think there's many people that are... I mean, Elon Musk has been promoting this lately. Scotland will be getting funding universal basic income experiments. Yeah. Hawaii, that's what it was. Hawaii considers universal basic income. As robots seen stealing jobs, fucking robots running on the streets stealing jobs. Yeah, it's Hawaii. I think there is some real arguments to be made. I think Elon Musk, who is of course a part of this automated car revolution, and he's creating these trucks that they're going to start using to haul things, and they're going to be automated, and it's going to remove a lot of jobs. They're starting to talk about universal basic income as a real solution to that. I mean, it's entirely possible. It's certainly an argument. It's certainly worth discussing. Yeah, something like that. Hopefully, the incentives will be better than some of the current welfare systems where you're not incentivized to get off of it. If you start working, then you'll lose all of it while universal basic income can be made such that you start working and then you'll lose a little bit, but it's never an actual incentive to not work. Yes, right. It's not an incentive to not work, but it gives you food and shelter. Then you could go pursue a dream, which I think would be wonderful. I mean, look, if there's anything that our tax dollars should be going towards, it's creating less losers, less people who feel disenfranchised by the system. If you can pay X amount of tax dollars but live in an exponentially more safe and friendly and happy environment, I think most people would be leaning towards that. I think it would be good. I mean, and we'll see this too in people that start companies where it's a huge risk to start a company. Most people fail and most entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are men who are much more willing to take risks. But if we do have some sort of strong safety net, then it won't be so bad if you fail. Yeah. And maybe that'll help address some of the gender gap too. That's interesting.