{"id":655156,"date":"2026-08-20T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=655156"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:10:07","slug":"joe-rogan-has-a-brutal-prediction-for-what-happens-when-socialists-get-their-way-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=655156","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan has a brutal prediction for what happens when socialists get their way"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Popular podcaster Joe Rogan ripped into know-nothing democratic socialists on Wednesday for being so ignorant about the realities of Marxism.<\/p>\n

Speaking with California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, a Republican, Rogan started by mocking democratic socialists for being know-nothings who\u2019ve had their perception of their world twisted by social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are really [arguing], \u2018Oh maybe being socialist is cool.\u2019 Like, this is all coming out of social media. 100 percent,\u201d he started. \u201cIt\u2019s not natural that people are sitting around reading Marx and going, \u2018What a great idea, let\u2019s implement this.\u2019 They\u2019re not doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cVery few of these quote-unquote Marxists that you find on social media are even aware of the consequences, the historical consequences of these strategies and what it ultimately leads to,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n

Rogan continued by summing up how so-called democratic socialism actually works.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like checkers,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s, like, real simple: You\u2019re going to have a military that controls everything you do! As soon as you give up everything to the state, well, the state has the guns, and you have nothing, and they tell you what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hilton responded by pointing to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s publicly run grocery stores as a perfect example.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had that when I was a kid,\u201d he explained. \u201cI literally went to them in Hungary. It was a communist state. There was only state-run grocery stores. I saw them. There\u2019s one, like, at the end of the block where my grandma lived, and I would go there in the morning to get the whatever it was, and it\u2019s just terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogan continued the discussion by admitting that capitalism can be \u201cbrutal\u201d \u2014 an admission many stubborn capitalists refuse to make \u2014 but stressing that socialism certainly isn\u2019t the answer. What is then? Better \u201csocial safety nets\u201d that help people without incentivizing laziness.<\/p>\n

As an example of a valid social safety net recipient, he mentioned \u201ca woman who has children and her husband dies and she doesn\u2019t have an income \u2014 and now, oh my god, I have to feed these children.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, we should have social safety nets\u201d for people like her, he said.<\/p>\n

The problem, he added, is that sometimes \u201csocial safety nets encourage people to rely on them and have zero ambition.\u201d<\/p>\n

These remarks from Rogan follow remarks he made a couple of weeks earlier when he slammed democratic socialists as people with good intentions but who don\u2019t have a single clue:<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe idea comes from a good place,\u201d he began. \u201cI know in their heart of hearts they think that they\u2019re being kind and they think they\u2019re doing the right thing. They really do. They think they\u2019re being inclusive, they think they\u2019re righting the wrongs of colonialism, and they think that this idea of democratic socialism is a really good idea, because there are some examples of socialist policies that do work, like the fire department.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem with enforcing any of this stuff that they don\u2019t understand is it always comes down to power. You have to have massive authority, and usually guns, because you can\u2019t just steal people\u2019s money. They\u2019re not going to let you. They\u2019re not going to let you just come in and decide, \u2018Hey, we devised a new tax where everybody who makes more than $500,000 a year, everything over that, you have to give 100% to the state,’\u201d he correctly added.<\/p>\n

He continued by insisting that making an already awful government even more powerful wouldn\u2019t be such a swell idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe f-cking program that you have in place that takes the taxes and disseminates it is massively flawed and corrupt. It\u2019s corrupt! It\u2019s filled with waste. FILLLLED with waste,\u201d he exclaimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s scammers all over the place. You\u2019ve got $24 billion missing in just the homeless [programs] in California, and then they veto the audits when everybody\u2019s trying to find out [what happened]. So just saying, \u2018More taxes is what we need\u2019 is f-cking nuts!\u201d<\/p>\n

These socialism-centered discussions from Rogan come amid an upsurge of democratic socialists winning primary elections in the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

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Democrat socialists are winning in blue cities like New York, DC, Seattle and Los Angeles. Now they\u2019re also winning in purple and swing states. House races in Pennsylvania and Colorado and US Senate races in Michigan and Minnesota. Watch. Get involved. Help us save America. pic.twitter.com\/dHBvqIGshg<\/a><\/p>\n

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Popular podcaster Joe Rogan ripped into know-nothing democratic socialists on Wednesday for being so ignorant about the realities of Marxism. Speaking with California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, a Republican, Rogan started by mocking democratic socialists for being know-nothings who\u2019ve had their perception of their world twisted by social media. \u201cPeople are really [arguing], \u2018Oh maybe… Continue reading Joe Rogan has a brutal prediction for what happens when socialists get their way<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":655144,"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-655156","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\/655156","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=655156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/655144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}