More Nazi Shit from Joe Rogan and Dave Smith

On Joe Rogan’s podcast today, comedian and Nazi sympathizer Dave Smith complained that the Trump administration’s efforts to deport legal residents over pro-Palestine speech is “counterproductive” to the project of mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. In agreement, Rogan spouted off a bunch of Great Replacement Theory rhetoric: Democrats brought immigrants into the country, he argued, and put them on Social Security and other programs “that would get them eventually to be voters, and these voters would vote for that party, and you’d have a uni-party.” A transcript of Rogan and Smith’s conversation follows below.

Forgive me for repeating myself, but this is unvarnished white nationalism on one of the biggest podcasts in the world. As we’ve seen lately from Tim Dillon, Theo Von, and Andrew Schulz, it is also an increasingly mainstream sentiment among A-list standup comedians, the crew that Marc Maron described last year as “the anti-woke flank of the new fascism.” In comedy as in politics, might makes right: thanks to their massive audiences, these figures can say the quiet part as loud as they like without jeopardizing their career prospects. Tony Hinchcliffe brings Kill Tony to Netflix in just a few days, while Tim Dillon’s new standup special debuts on the same platform in two weeks. It’s a great time to be a fascist podcaster.

Smith: I'm not saying this is really how it works, but the idea is that we are a free country because we have self-government, and in other words, the American people get to decide how many people we bring in here and how many we don't. At this point, nobody actually knows the number for sure, but it is north of 30 million illegal immigrants in the country.

But my God, if you wanted to, wait, to start deporting people who are legal residents, who are not violent criminals, because they wrote a pro-Palestinian op-ed, you're diving into the most contentious issue, and then picking one side of that, and then—this just seems like it's almost as if you're trying to poison the possibility to ever really have mass deportations. It just seems so counterproductive by his own stated goals, and—

Rogan: Yeah. But there's so many layers of it that are hard to unpack for the average person. What's really hard to unpack, especially for tried-and-true, blue-no-matter-who Democrats, is this idea that they were bringing people into this country, moving them into swing states, getting them on social security, giving them money and incentives and all sorts of government programs that would get them, eventually, to be voters.

Smith: Yeah.

Rogan: And these voters would vote for that party and you'd have a uni-party. So in that sense, that's the big one that a lot of people that are left-wing people have a really hard time swallowing. They don't believe that's true. And they'll take you—"Well, what about when Texas sent those people up to New York? The governor of Texas sent people to New York." Right. But do you know that New York's not a swing state? Yeah, he did that. But why did he do that? He did that as a big fuck-you to New York for the government turning a blind eye to the problem at the border. And saying, "Okay, you think this isn't a problem? I'm going to send this problem to you."

Smith: Yeah, it was to expose the hypocrisy, yeah.

Rogan: "You have a sanctuary state? You have a sanctuary city? Oh, that's cute. I'll send you thousands and thousands of people that you're going to have to take care of now." And they did. And then that's even weirder because then they took over fucking luxury hotels and they had to deal with it. I think it was—is it Pakistan owns one of those hotels?

Smith: Oh, is that right? I didn't know that.

Rogan: Yeah. Who owns the big one that was in the fucking Jennifer Lopez movie where she was a hot maid? Remember that movie, Maid in Manhattan, I guess?

Smith: I never saw it, but I vaguely remember it, yeah.

Rogan: I watched it recently with my family. It's the most ridiculous thing. She's a 10, she's just like this poor little sad maid.

Pakistan International Airlines has owned the structure. They own the Roosevelt. So the Roosevelt's an iconic hotel in New York City, and they get paid by the federal government, or they did get paid by the federal government, to house immigrants there. And they give them food and they give them money, they give them—and like, "What are you doing?" If you're allowing these people to vote in regional elections, okay, you've essentially—now you've bought regional elections, and if you want them to eventually become United States citizens and give them a pathway to citizenship, which all good people would want, Dave Smith. Okay, now you have voters.

And if you do that en masse, which they did, they brought people in, they invited people, helped people, the Red Cross was giving them maps, like, "This is how you do it." They had stops along the way where you give them water and walk right through when everybody just gets to be on a bus and you get shipped off to swing states. That literally happened, and people on the left do not want to address it. They want to deny it. It was an attempt to take over.

Smith: Yeah. Look, I'll say I know this, because I'm—I guess one of the benefits of getting older and paying attention to this shit is I can remember shit from 15, 20 years ago. I was paying attention then, and I remember all of them admitting this was their plan. Literally all of—Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow and all, they used to call it The Browning of America, and they used to openly brag about how the Democrat [sic] will have super permanent majorities forever. Because look, like, "Hey, you old dying white Republicans, sorry, that's it for you, 'cause the Latinos vote overwhelmingly for Democrat [sic], and we're going to be a majority minority country and then a majority Hispanic country, and then the Democrats rule the day forever." So, this is just Mitt Romney or whoever's running for president right now, this is the dying throes of the end of a—

But then, when people started objecting to that policy, and they called it the Browning of America, and then when people objected to it, they would call it "the Great Replacement" or whatever, and then they'd go, "You're not allowed to say that. That means you're a Nazi." And you're like, "But I just heard you saying it. Like, five years ago I heard you saying this."

Rogan: You can't use the term "replacement theory."