Summary
A new book alleges that Kamala Harris was set to appear on Joe Rogan’s podcast during the 2024 campaign but was blocked when Rogan’s team suddenly scheduled Donald Trump instead.
Harris’ team carefully planned a trip to Texas to align with Rogan’s terms, only to be told he was unavailable—only for Trump to secure an interview that same day.
The book claims Elon Musk and UFC CEO Dana White influenced Rogan’s decision.
Harris’ team made a last-minute attempt for an interview, but Rogan declined.
I’ve been a pretty consistent listener of Joe for a decade, since before he really gained true popularity. He’s never been perfect and he’s said and done a whole lot of dumb shit over the years, but I took him for entertainment and nothing more, so his missteps were always forgivable.
But last year’s Trump, Vance, Musk, and Gabbard interviews back-to-back on the eve of election proved to me without a shadow of a doubt that Joe Rogan is bought and sold, and I’ve not listened to him since.
I don’t hate him, but his appeal to me was that right or wrong, he was always at least genuine. Now he’s just a 3-hour advertisement.
In my opinion, what fucked him was reaching ‘escape velocity’ as he calls it. He knows he’s untouchable now so he’s stopped auto criticism.
I think her going on his podcast would have been a fucking disaster.
She probably would have given a bunch of PR nothing sandwich answers and Joe would have lost interest.
I mean who knows, maybe it would have gone over amazing, but thinking Kamala lost because of that podcast or Trump won because of that podcast is a fucking anatomical amount of cope from the Democrats.
There is a long list of consistent missteps that come before the whole podcast fiasco for the Democrats.
If Kamala just would have done that porn, Kamala Does Rogan, she would have had it in the bag!
I am disgusted to live in a world where Joe Fucking Rogan is king-maker, and it’s a legit political strategy to keep your opponent off his stupid podcast.
As much as Rogan probably insists he is, I don’t think the podcast made all that much of a difference.
People like Rogan shouldn’t exist.
They should all have their excess wealth redistributed
Get their organs too, there’s plenty of people waiting for them who aren’t Nazi psychopaths. Fuck letting them run around causing chaos while the rest of us do actual work.
Whoever is lucky enough to get Joe’s organs would be high for days.
Is the article supposed to make Harris’s team look good or bad? They didn’t want to appear desperate so they tried to make him fly out, were told no, tried to change the time format, were told no, went to Texas and told Rogan they could meet last minute, were given an alternate time and declined (because they didn’t want to seem desperate) left Texas, and then invited to fly Rogan out (again) and were told no.
Blaming Trump, Musk and Dana White here is like…
Sounds like Rogan was jerking them around as well:
"“We could do Friday, the 25th,” Harris’ deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty reportedly told Rogan’s associates on October 18.
“Wish we had known about this sooner, because he has the 25th blocked out as a personal day,” a Rogan rep allegedly responded.
“What about Saturday morning?” Flaherty countered, according to the book.
A terse response allegedly followed: “Only if it’s before 8:30 a.m.”
Flaherty noticed the tone from Rogan’s camp was now “different.” The same people who had previously seemed open to a Rogan-Harris interview, as long as there were no topic restrictions, were now less eager."
That’s not how you negotiate an imterview with the sitting Vice President and candidate for President.
Can’t forget that they sent John Fetterman instead of Tim Walz or literally anyone more likeable to do Rogan.
But we can’t ask what the democrats did wrong, then they might have to do something other than move to the right every election and complain that rightwing policy and messaging is unpopular.
Didn’t Kamala’s team also want to edit the interview? Whereas Rogan does a long form, stream of conciousness type of inteview, so he told the Harris team ‘No’ to editing.
Initially they wanted the moon and Rogan said no to all of it. They wanted to do it like a news interview, seemingly not understanding how a podcast works.
His offer was come to his studio, don’t cram the room with her team, and accept her performance as it happened with no editing.
Then you have JD and Trump, who he only had to add them to his schedule.
I still wouldn’t listen to Rogan for that. “Ever do DMT? Imagine that, a president on DMT. Wait, has any president ever done DMT? Jamie, pull that up.”
