LegendOfKage
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Finished listening. Trump is seemingly much more moderate in his views than Joe is now, because of Joe’s shift in recent years. He gently chided Joe for being antivax, mentioning how important the polio vaccine is. When Joe tried to get onto the notion of big pharma conspiracies to allegedly intentionally destroy everyone’s health Trump wasn’t on board and said he had a great relationship with pharma companies.
Nothing really groundbreaking. If Trump ends up winning I guess it’s reassuring that he’s not aligned with a lot of Joe’s nonsense.
Turns out Joe was censoring his real positions in the Trump interview. Joe doesn't even believe the polio vaccine is real now and had to hold himself back from "correcting" Trump about it.
That really is unfortunate. I hope it at least helped some of Rogan's listeners hear that sort of difference of opinion. On the topic of Trump and the vaccines, there's a funny thing about vaccines and Trump being removed from social media that I realized myself, and I've never seen anyone else talk about. Government officials went after social media for "vaccine misinformation" to censor legally protected speech. Government officials literally said that social media companies were "killing people" by allowing vaccine skepticism on their platforms. It seemed heavy handed to me, and it still does, but that's not my point.
My point is that Trump was all about the vaccines. It was "operation warp speed," if you remember. It was a great accomplishment. Yet, Trump was removed from social media by that time. So why only ask the rhetorical question "how many vaccine skepticism deaths are you responsible for due to you allowing anti-vaccine opinion on your platform?" Wouldn't another valid question be "how many vaccine skepticism deaths are you responsible for due to you removing Trump from social media?" After all, he would have been THE conservative voice telling people to take the vaccine. Not having that just made everything even more politicized.
If Trump was around to promote the vaccine and people were allowed to freely discuss covid over social media without censorship, I have to wonder if Rogan would have ever gone down this rabbit hole. Regardless, it's sad to see where Rogan is with some of these things now.
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