Rogan Wrap

 What breeze went rushing through Joe Rogan's head recently? Well, in case you missed it, he took to his million dollar podcast to praise the deep state. You know, the "deep state" that he introduced this way: “One of the things that the tinfoil-hat brigade likes to talk about is the deep state.” He wasn't talking about how we might all get more rest on a Sleep Number bed. Or even using a My Pillow, though it would seem that the My Pillow Guy might fit into that tinfoil-hat category. 

To be clear, Joe makes a distinction between the tinfoil-hat brigade and this deep state. He worried about how (messed) up our country would be without this mystical order, apparently located just beneath the regular state. "People who are there for a long period of time who do understand it.” In his ramble, Mister Rogan was making the connection between career politicians and what Merriam-Webster defines as "an alleged secret network of especially nonelected government officials and sometimes private entities (as in the financial services and defense industries) operating extralegally to influence and enact government policy."

Joe says, “Listen, I’ve disrespected Joe Biden enough, I don’t think I should do it anymore. I’ve said enough about him being mentally incompetent. He’s just compromised, he’s an old guy. We know, everyone knows, the guy is falling apart. But imagine if he really was the only say in how things run, and how things go? If he really was a dictator.”

So it's a good thing, according to Joe (Rogan), that there is this secret network of government types who are pulling the strings. His defense of former game-show host and twice-impeached "president" prior to Mister Biden was supported by his insistence of the existence of this cabal that was dedicated to bringing 45 down. Now Rogan would have us believe that the only thing standing between us and dictatorial oppression is this same ill-defined secret society. 

In the big book of tinfoil hats, this doesn't raise too many alarms. Until you notice that Joe Rogan maintains a base of eleven million listeners. That's a lot of tin foil.