Joe Rogan: “I Think They Are Eating Cats”
"That’s not their fault. How the fuck did they get here? How'd you get 20,000 shipped to one town? What is that? What's the real story behind that? Is that organized?"
One of the most influential figures in American media and certainly the most powerful man in comedy just weighed in on the blood libel against Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian community. In a fabulously racist conversation with Tom Segura yesterday, Joe Rogan full-heartedly endorsed the conspiracy theory, spread by JD Vance and neo-Nazis before him, that migrant are eating cats. From there he wound his way to great replacement theory and transphobia before lamenting that nobody knows what’s true anymore because people just read things on the internet.
Here’s what he said.
Rogan: By the way, I think they are eating cats.
Segura: Yeah.
Rogan: I think some people are eating cats. I think you get a bunch of poor people that are from an island where they occasionally eat cats and you throw 'em in a city where there's 50,000 people, you throw 20,000 people in there and there's ducks at the pond, I'm going to go get a duck if I'm hungry.
Segura: Sure. My fucking son took one out of there, so I—grabbed it by the net. So yeah, I would not believe—
Rogan: Yeah, dude, if I was starving, if I just came from another country and there's ducks laying around, I'd grab a duck.
Segura: Sure. I don't think that's crazy.
Rogan: That’s not their fault. How the fuck did they get here? How'd you get 20,000 shipped to one town? What is that?
Segura: No, I, it's—
Rogan: What's the real story behind that? Is that organized?
Segura: The immigration issue is a legit, real issue in this country. It's in our state predominantly too.
Rogan: It's a lot of in here. Yeah.
Segura: Yeah. So I mean—
Rogan: Lot of it in California, a lot of it in Arizona, but it's a real issue. And look, you and I are both the products of immigration. Immigration is fucking awesome, but hey, maybe when they do stuff that's bad, you should put 'em in jail. Maybe. Hey, maybe you should use the same laws on them. Hey, maybe we should check to see if they're murderers before they come across the border. Hey maybe.
Segura: They just turned—I mean, this current administration just was like, oh yeah, we should—just recently,
Rogan: Recently—I think they're also flying people in, which is crazy. But recently I think it's because they want people that are on the fence. The people that are on the fence. 'Cause this is not—
Segura: This is all it plays to. It's all that matters.
Rogan: But once they're in, again, if they're in again, they'll probably do the same thing. Because what you're doing is you're essentially changing states that are swing states into blue, because if you're going to give these people money, debit cards and food stamps, and let them come in, and even, they're even talking about gender reassignment surgeries.
Segura: Yeah, I heard this. Yeah.
Rogan: I don't know if that's true. Find out if that's true. That's part of the problem with this whole, "people are eating cats." It's like you don't fucking know what's true anymore. You just read things on the internet or you hear things on the radio who fucking knows what's true?
Indeed, Joe.
PATRICK AFTOORA ORSAGOS
