Liberal meltdown as Joe Rogan tears into transgender people and COVID vaccines in brutal new comedy special
Joe Rogan’s latest Netflix special has caused a liberal meltdown after the podcaster lambasted transgender people and COVID-19.
The 56-year-old comedian defended some of the controversial positions he has expressed on his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience on COVID vaccines and transgender people during his live Netflix special Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats on Saturday.
He also lashed out at media critics who accused him of spreading misinformation.
But many left-wing people who watched the Burn the Boats special criticized Rogan for his comments on controversial topics, calling him “weird,” unfunny and “dumb.”
“I mean, at least be funny if you’re going to be ignorant and offensive,” Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali wrote on X.
Joe Rogan has angered liberals with his latest live Netflix special
“Joe Rogan’s biggest crime during his comedy special was that he wasn’t funny. His cult loves it so it doesn’t matter, but he’s making too many smart people stupid.”
Joshua Reed Eakle, Co-Founder of Project Liberal also wrote that “Rogan is a testament to the dangers of falling down the ‘red pill’ rabbit hole.”
“Avoid at all costs. It rots your brain.”
Another X user, meanwhile, said Rogan proved ‘he was right when he said he can’t tell jokes anymore: just not in the way he intended.’
In the special, Rogan questions whether society has become too tolerant of biological males who identify as trans women, a debate that has been reignited since Olympic boxer Imane Khelif failed a gender eligibility test.
“I just want to be very clear. I believe in trans people,” Rogan told an audience in Austin. “Because I think the world is strange and nature can throw surprises at you and you think you’re in the wrong body.
‘And I fully support your right as an adult to do what you want, what makes you happy.
“I believe in freedom and I believe in love. But I also believe in crazy people,” the podcaster continued.
Joshua Reed Eakle, co-founder of Project Liberal, said the special “rots your brain”
Another X user said Rogan proved ‘he was right when he said he ‘can’t tell jokes anymore: just not in the way he intended’
“I’m open to new ideas. I just want to know what happened.”
‘It’s almost as if some perverted wizard has cast a spell over the entire world. “With one wave of this magic wand, you can walk into the women’s locker room with a hard cock, and anyone who complains is a Nazi. Abracadabra!” And it just works!’
He went on to say that it is the “new reality” that is strange.
“You can’t just put on lipstick and then take a shit in the ladies’ room!”
In another viral clip, Rogan jokes that he’s more open to conspiracy theories after the COVID pandemic.
“We lost a lot of people during COVID and most of them are still alive,” he joked.
“Before COVID, I would have told you that vaccines are the most important invention in human history,” Rogan continued.
‘After COVID, I thought, I don’t think we’ve been to the moon. I think Michelle Obama did an ad. I think Pizzagate is real. I think there are direct energy weapons in Antarctica.
“I’m just kidding – I don’t think Michelle Obama is advertising, but I do believe all that other nonsense.”
He then lashed out at media critics who claimed he was spreading misinformation.
“But this is my honest opinion on this: If you get your vaccination advice from me, is that really my fault?”
At one point he made a joke about Michelle Obama, saying he didn’t believe she had done an advertisement.
At other times, Rogan joked that he didn’t want to be “surrounded by gay men.”
“I think about gay men the same way I think about cougars: I’m glad they exist, but I don’t want to be surrounded by them,” he said.
“It’s a bunch of dudes fucking dudes. I don’t like my chances, okay? They’re not unicorns – they’re just guys fucking guys.”
But Rogan said he’s “not homophobic at all.”
“I’m the opposite. I wish I was gay.”
He also recounted how a female TSA agent once asked for a “male assistant” to frisk him, to which he asked with mock condemnation, “Did you just assume my gender?”
The New York Times wrote that Rogan “tends to stereotypes that have made generations of drunken club crowds laugh”
The Wrap also hit out at Rogan, saying he had “fashioned himself as a conduit for anger”
Those moments turned out to be fodder for critics, with the New York Times Writing that Rogan “tends to stereotypes that have made generations of drunken clubbers laugh.”
“Rogan has found a podcast audience that loves conspiracy theories and engaging in culture wars with the left,” writes columnist Jason Zinoman. “And he’s giving them that chance.
‘But he also indulges in his own obsessions and eccentricities.’
The Wrap also strike out at Rogan, saying he had “constructed himself as a conduit for anger,” and the Daily Beast said He ‘fixated the entire hour on men experiencing sexual pleasure in ways the comedian found unnatural’.
“Rogan did not disclose how much of his Netflix salary he planned to donate for all the insults he used on his live broadcast,” columnist Sean L. McCarthy wrote.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Netflix for comment.