After the “corporate media” attempted to manipulate Donald Trump’s “bloodbath” observation about the health of the US auto industry as a call for violence, Joe Rogan refused to buy into their narrative.
Rogan indicated this as such during an interview with author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt.
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Rogan pointed out how the media lied about Trump’s controversial “bloodbath” comment, and said this is why people don’t trust the mainstream media.
The popular podcaster said: “It’s actually important to highlight how not only inaccurate but how deceptive the media has been in its portrayal of what he said, and that they’re taking this quote out of context and trying to say that there will be a civil war if he doesn’t get elected, which is not what he was talking about at all.
“It’s so disturbing that, first of all, they think they can get away with this in this day and age, with all the scrutiny and social media and all the independent journalists that exist now, which is one of the most interesting aspects of the demise of corporate media,” he added.
Rogan then praised “the real ones” – journalists like Matti Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald.
“The end of trust,” Rogan said. “Trust in corporate media is at an all-time low, so this has led to a rise in truly independent journalists. The real ones out there. The Matt Taibbis and the Glenn Greenwalds, the people who are really just trying to say, ‘what’s really going on and what are the influences behind these things and why are these things happening?'”
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Rogan and Haidt then watched a video of Trump’s speech in Dayton, Ohio. During the speech he said that if he were not elected there would be a “bloodbath”. Trump was undoubtedly talking about the American auto industry and what might happen to it if Joe Biden is re-elected.
Haidt summed up Trump’s argument this way: “If I don’t win, the country is finished.”
Rogan disagrees, saying, “Yes, but what he’s talking about is the subversion of our economy and the subversion of our democracy, that we’ll never have elections again. I don’t think he’s saying it’s going to be a bloodbath in terms of a civil war.”
“He’s saying the economy is going to be destroyed,” Rogan said.
“It’s an unfortunate term. I don’t think he’s saying it’s a civil war,” she added.
