{"id":643824,"date":"2026-07-30T12:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=643824"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:44:06","slug":"joe-rogan-warns-liberals-they-could-ruin-what-makes-texas-work-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=643824","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan warns liberals they could ruin what makes Texas work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Podcaster Joe Rogan is happy that the Texas town of Austin is blue but believes that the rest of the state needs to stay red.<\/p>\n

Rogan revealed this belief during a 3-hour conversation Tuesday with conservative author Forrest Galante.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people, especially coastal elites, coastal snobs, they have this idea of [Texas] being filled with rednecks and ignorant people and foolish people,\u201d Rogan began. \u201c[It\u2019s] not that way at all, especially Austin. Austin is one of the most liberal, easygoing, progressive cities. But even the progressives here, they\u2019re more reasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re definitely more crazy than they were 20 years ago when I first started coming here, but way less crazy than liberals in L.A. or liberals in New York,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Rogan used to live in California but relocated to Austin in 2020 for \u201cmore freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joe Rogan: \u201cThe liberals who want to turn Texas Blue, like, don\u2019tttt. You\u2019re going to ruin it. You\u2019re going to ruin it for you, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a saying about Austin: \u2018Keep Austin Weird and Surrounded.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSurrounded by red people. Like, it\u2019s all Red states around you and it\u2019s\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/HFLFHux3g6<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) July 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Continuing his remarks, Rogan noted how Austin is essentially the only \u201cprogressive\u201d city in Texas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a saying about Austin: Keep Austin weird and surrounded,\u201d he said. \u201c[As in] surrounded by red people. It\u2019s all red states around you, and it\u2019s this pocket of blue that\u2019s in the center of this red state. I think that\u2019s good for everybody. I think that\u2019s good. It\u2019s a balance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the liberals that want to turn Texas blue, don\u2019t. You\u2019re going to ruin it. You\u2019re going to ruin it for you too. You don\u2019t get it. Balance is important,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

To explain why \u201cbalance is important,\u201d Rogan turned to the food chain.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s, like, you can\u2019t kill all the predators because then the deer will get overrun and you\u2019re hitting them with cars, and you can\u2019t kill all the deer because then there\u2019s no food,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s what they did when they were market hunting. Balance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you need balance with humans too. And the Austin balance is a great balance. It\u2019s a liberal city surrounded by hardcore Republicans with guns and tigers. It works. It makes for nice people. It\u2019s a good mix,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

Rogan addressed his 2020 move from California to Texas during a 2023 episode of his podcast. He said the violent Black Lives Matter riots and California\u2019s anti-business policies\u00a0played a role in his decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like \u2018This ain\u2019t going in a good direction and I f\u2014ing smell chaos,’\u201d he recalled, according to Fox News<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s f\u2013king madness. There\u2019s so many businesses that are closing down, they don\u2019t want to be a part of it anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t like when I don\u2019t see any course correction, I don\u2019t see any readjustment, I don\u2019t see any \u2018Hey we need to take care of disenfranchised people, but we also need to keep our streets safe, and we have to stop crime.\u2019 There\u2019s none of that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Rogan reiterated some of these complaints during a recent sit-down with Vice President J.D. Vance.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time I\u2019m in LA, you can see why this was, like, the quintessentially American city,\u201d Vance said during the episode, according to SFGate<\/a>. \u201cThe architecture is beautiful. It\u2019s got its own vibe going. Like you said, the weather is amazing. And then you drive through Skid Row, and you\u2019re like, how could any state or any city let this happen?\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogan didn\u2019t disagree.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time we go back to California, we\u2019re like, \u2018We were right.\u2019 \u2026 It\u2019s falling apart,\u201d he said. \u201cEspecially Los Angeles and San Francisco, they\u2019re falling apart.\u201d<\/p>\n

During prior remarks in March, Rogan blasted California over its rampant government \u201cwaste and fraud,\u201d according to the New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing that drives me the most nuts is when these progressive talking heads saying they don\u2019t want to pay their fair share,\u201d he said. \u201cWith the amount of waste and fraud, why would you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t think there should be some accountability to how much f\u2014ing waste and fraud that has been clearly demonstrated? Like, the solution is just give more money? Oh, and they can do it because they have it. So what \u2014 you just give more money and now it\u2019s $30 billion goes to homeless with no accountability?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Podcaster Joe Rogan is happy that the Texas town of Austin is blue but believes that the rest of the state needs to stay red. Rogan revealed this belief during a 3-hour conversation Tuesday with conservative author Forrest Galante. \u201cA lot of people, especially coastal elites, coastal snobs, they have this idea of [Texas] being… Continue reading Joe Rogan warns liberals they could ruin what makes Texas work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":643797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/643797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}