Joe Rogan: "I think we take Canada and then we go right into Mexico."
"Everybody keeps sneaking over. How about we just let him stay here?"
Following Donald Trump's lead, Joe Rogan advocated the invasion of Canada and Mexico in today's episode of his podcast, featuring guest Theo Von. Here's a link to the relevant section, with the transcript below. It comes in the midst of a discussion about Justin Trudeau:
Von: Do you think that they'll take Canada and it'd be the fifty-first or second state, whichever one it is?
Rogan: I think—this is what I think. I think we take Canada and then we go right into Mexico.
Von: Let’s fucking go. Woooo.
Rogan: Yeah, that's what I said. I tweeted that today.
Von: You did? I didn't see that.
Rogan: I tweeted that today. We should let Mexico in too.
Von: Fuck. I want to be fucking Mexican.
Rogan: Everybody keeps sneaking over. How about we just let him stay here?
Von: Yeah.
Rogan: Like, how about we go into that? How about what I said? How about what—[unintelligible]—instead of trying to let all the bad stuff in, how about we make this totally locked down safe, and then expand safety? Expand it. But you got to do it without stripping people their rights.
What can one even say? (Other than that it's pretty funny that Theo Von doesn't seem to know how many states are in the US.) These guys are two of the most influential entertainers in the world, and here they are salivating at the prospect of the US conquering its closest neighbors.
Maybe some will see this as a big joke; I see Trump's cheerleaders making both a rational case ("how about we make this totally locked down safe, and then expand safety?") and an emotional one ("I want to be fucking Mexican") for his expansionist ambitions. It seems clear that however evil his actions over the next four years may be, this crowd will be all too happy to endorse them.
