Joe Rogan on the Equinox/Trump Fundraiser Controversy

Did you see the Gillette Razor commercial where they... Is it the Gillette one where the two firemen kiss? I don't think I saw that one. Maybe it's Blue Cross. It's the fucking Army National Guard. It was the fucking Army National Guard. It was the Chinese company's two firemen. I wrote it down. Shit. It's a commercial. Who are you going for? Do you think gay guys are going to go, you know what? We want to fight fires now. But it was like, I get it. You're progressive. God damn it. I want to know what the commercial is. Is it offensive though? Isn't it like, dude, if you buy into that, like, oh my God, I'm so happy this company is woke, you're just a mark. They're just taking advantage of you. They're just trying to make money off of you. Sort of, but it's also hot. There's like a hot fireman and his hot boyfriend and they're making out. And the guy comes back from a fire and he's ready to get some dick, right? Yeah. Holla. Looks fun. He's a hero. As long as they're not lesbians. They're parents or whatever the fuck they're selling. I don't remember who did the commercial, but I remember saying, okay, we're being progressive. I love it. Why not? I don't give a shit. Go for it. I just find it weird. I find it strange, the woke capitalism thing that people, that companies will take a position that you think would turn off like 50% of the people who buy from them, but they do it to prove their, their, I don't know, goodness. Yeah. But it doesn't hurt. Does it hurt? Like, does anybody go fuck Blue Cross? I'm getting my fucking insurance from that. People are lazy. Whatever, whatever the cheapest option is they're buying that. It's like the equinox thing that just happened. Nobody's fucking leaving equinox. Let me tell you something. There's no other option. It's convenient. You got your fucking gym membership, a handful of people are virtue signaling, but all the people complaining saying boycott equinox online, they're not fucking equinox members. They're fucking fat. Do you know? One of the owners was a Trump supporter. He gave money. Oh, that's right. He held a fundraiser last week for Trump. So people were freaking out saying to boycott the brand, but it's like, where else are you going to go? There's not another high end gym that's all over the place. Do you know what praise on your. You have to have the exact same political beliefs. Oh, it's so weird. It's like if I go to, if I go to buy a sandwich, do I have to go like, so where were you on the Iraq war? No. Okay. Okay. A company that preys on your laziness is the insurance that you get through like SAG AFTRA. They like, it's, you know, you get it for free if you qualify and then when you don't qualify for it, you're still enrolled in it and it's like the most expensive insurance. Does that make sense? You know what I mean? Like, and they kind of pray and they kind of got me almost in that way where a year where I, it wasn't taken care of. I was like, well, I don't want to switch out and then have any doctors. You know what I mean? Like be different. So they kind of get you like that. Do this Trump thing is that if you support anything that he does, even in just his business practices, then you're racist. Like everything that you support, if he supports it, you're racist. Yeah, it's crazy. It's your, your Nazi, your racist. And when somebody calls your racist or a Nazi, even people that don't believe that they don't want to stand with you and defend you because then they're being perceived as defending a racist or a Nazi and it's a trick and it's very effective. It's a juicy soap opera. I don't know why this guy supports Trump, but maybe he could explain it. Right. And he's a real estate guy. He's a big real estate guy related properties. He is nothing to do with this gym. Okay. And that's the fact that he probably has real estate deals for a very, very long time with Trump and his gym is inconsequential compared to the billion dollar company that he runs. Well, that makes sense then. That makes sense why he would support Trump, especially if he knows Trump. But it's, uh, if you, if you can't see that, I mean, if you have a problem with that and many people would, right, many people would have a problem with that. Like that's a different thing. If you, if you, if you hear what people are saying, they're saying, if you support Trump that you support racist, you support white nationalists, you put, and I think you're leaving so many people out of the conversation when you do that. Oh yeah. I mean, the guy got what was 62 million people to vote for him. So if you're saying anyone who supports him is some type of Nazi white nationalist, then we got bigger problems. But you're saying the whole country shouldn't break up. No one knows definition of those things anymore. When Milo used to about Milo, when he came on, the things he was called that just like, yeah, on paper couldn't even apply to be right. Would never be accepted into being a Nazi or a white suppressor. Do you guys remember when we were kids, we read about McCarthyism and the red scare. We only always thought like, God, we're past that. That kind of shit's never going to happen again. But what that is, is like a symptom of people worried about people defecting from their tribe or turning on their tribe. We have this built in fear of this kind of shit happening. Well, there's that aspect to it, right? It's the people who are worried about people defecting. And then you have the opportunists who can play off that and go, instead of having to win an argument or having to convince people, I'm just going to say you're with the other tribe. You're in this bad group. So don't even talk to that person anymore. Don't even listen to what they have to say. And if you're in one tribe on every issue, you're a fucking dolt. I was going to say, why do you have to be so defined by your, you know what I mean? I would love to hear the argument about what it does good for him for his real estate ventures. I would love to hear it like an honestly laid out argument of why someone like Trump's better if you're a real estate developer and it might be a significant part of his business. I'm not being an apologize. And he might not. People also will just like, there's this weird thing where people think that business owners and people that make a lot of money are inherently bad, but it's like, I don't know, dude, just because somebody's really good and really successful. He's got kids he wants to feed. He has grandkids he wants to watch grow up and go to college. It's like, I don't know. I don't think this is necessarily just bad people that have a lot of money. I think that there's a lot of good people that have a lot of money as well. And I think they do a lot of good shit. Well, I just, you know, whenever someone gets really upset about an issue, you always have to wonder like how much of it going in there was, I mean, what is upsetting to you? It was upsetting to you that anyone who supports Trump, Trump represents all the things that are wrong with America today in terms like white nationalists and terrorist attacks, mass shootings and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and,oey, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and and, and, and, and, and, and, and is colluding with a hostile foreign power. He's a Russian puppet, he's working with Vladimir Putin. And then by the end you're like, we have to impeach him because he thought about obstructing the investigation that he was declared not guilty. And it's like, this is getting weird. You guys were gonna be upset no matter what you found. 100%. Dave loves Trump. It's Dave. I'm trying to say. Sounds like he does. Dave just loves Trump. I'm going hard Nazi this time. I'm not coming back on the show, I'm going hard this time. The fucked up part is only having really two choices. Like we're scrambling to see who's choice number two. Who's gonna be the one that opposes Trump? And you see people starting to crack under pressure, like re-entry pressure. They're trying to figure out who's gonna be. Ben Gleib. Maybe. Imagine, imagine we all get doubted him. He gets through and becomes president, we'll be fucked.