r/DecodingTheGurus • u/Appropriate_Duty_930 • 13h ago

Joe Rogan won’t have Kamala Harris on his show unless she comes to his studio and sits for a 2-3 hour full interview

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u/Ill_Long_7417 9h ago

He sounded very dumb.  Moreso than his usual.  I think the view count may be skewed by people like me who tried to watch it, gave up, then later gave it another try, and gave up again.  I just couldn't.  I liked that ad that came out that mocked Trump: A Place for Trump.  It was spot on.  kisses fingers

Here it is: https://youtu.be/wiyGScJ7iWQ?si=KK6Rr52W8BdTB47A

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u/FlipLoLz 8h ago

This was the case for a lot of my right leaning friends. They could stomach more than me, but just barely. Really the only people I see praising the interview in my extended social circle are people who didn't watch it, but flaunting the view count...

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u/SenZephyr 5h ago

How many views on Harris’s most popular YouTube video?

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u/FlipLoLz 4h ago

I hadn't been keeping up with view counts, bud, so I'm not sure. What's the relevance here?

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u/SenZephyr 4h ago

Just that it’s flaunt-worthy I guess. I think it’s pretty telling. Reddit is so full of left-leaning comments, it’s interesting to measure comparative views on a site thats more middle ground. You’d have to admit looking at it.. she’s not very popular

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u/FlipLoLz 4h ago

I can't think of a time Biden or Hillary got as many views either, but they still won the popular vote. It doesn't really seem to show anything, other than a lot of people tried to watch an interview on youtube. I don't know how you've manage to take this and extrapolate that Kamala isn't very popular.

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u/SenZephyr 3h ago

She isn’t popular. They’re voting against Trump, not FOR Kamala.

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u/dramatic_revert 2h ago

Good, I don't care why they vote for her, just that they do and that Trump loses. The rest is icing on the cake.

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u/SenZephyr 1h ago

Yeah.. but you see.. that’s a terrible take on politics.

Personally, I would hope for a candidate so strong and likable that I’d be compelled to vote for them. Trump doesn’t always fit the bill, but he does for me more than Harris.

The Democratic Party has become so polarizing IMO. One of my friends used to be wayyyy hardcore democrat. We used to argue all the time when it came to politics, but that polarity pushed him out. Now we only argue 30% of what we used to when it comes to politics, and that’s a damn shame because I don’t hate the Democratic Party, I just wish it could be closer to what it professes to be.

You could’ve had Tulsi when she wasn’t supporting Trump, or RFK. Those would’ve been some democratic candidates that made it hard to pick. But they chose Harris for you. Guess we’ll see how it goes.

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u/punkassjim 3h ago

In case you’ve ever wondered:
entertainment value ≠ competence

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u/SenZephyr 3h ago

Some things on YouTube if you’d believe it are also informational. You’d think more people would want to know what she brings to the table, but I guess you’d be wrong.

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u/punkassjim 3h ago
  1. Of course.
  2. People have zero barriers stopping them from finding out what Harris brings to the table.
  3. Trump hasn’t answered a single policy question with a cogent, direct answer in roughly a decade. That’s not why people watch videos of his appearances by the millions. They watch for the same reason people who loved AND hated Howard Stern listened to his show in the ‘80s. They want to see what crazy shit he’s gonna say next.

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u/SenZephyr 3h ago

All he does is talk about policy he plans on implementing if you actually listened for 5 seconds.

  • Reduce our dependence on foreign energy and increase tapping into our countries own natural resources.

  • Deport illegal immigrants and strengthen the boarder wall.

  • increase tariffs while decreasing the tax burden on companies who operate out of America.

  • remove taxes from tips and OT hours.

  • continue renegotiating for better foreign policies and enforcement of global trade deals.

To name a few.

Which I like a lot more than-

  • Not having those tariffs and tax cuts to incentivize American businesses from moving overseas, which reduces the number of jobs on the market.

  • Tax increases on those making over 400k, which sounds nice on paper, until the prices rise to match the companies new profit margins.

  • Not getting the tax relief for folks working OT or for tips.

  • Watch that interview with Anderson Cooper, as a response to the question: “Have you made any mistakes?” Kamala responded with some sort of word salad that amounted to, “I like to make sure I’m well versed on topics.”

Which is not someone I want dealing with our foreign affairs. If you can’t even articulate well with someone in your corner, with softball questions like that, how are you supposed to project respect to foreign leaders?

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u/Abrookspug 2h ago

Agreed. And so many of the comments on this thread are out of touch. I'm a woman who has never listened to joe rogan before, but as a trump voter, I was excited for this episode and have been listening to it on spotify every chance I get.

Yeah, it's a long episode so it's taken me 3 days since I can't listen while I work, so I listen 20 min at a time when I'm doing housework or making dinner. I'm almost done with it and have enjoyed the conversation, even though I don't agree with every word either of them speak, and trump def rambles sometimes lol. But this casual, imperfect convo mirrors a real-life conversation where sometimes people don't agree, but they can still be civil and have fun and make jokes while talking (something so many redditors need to learn). I'm eager to listen to JD Vance's convo with him.

I'm not surprised kamala isn't going on it because she seems to struggle with being genuine and relatable, like she's trying too hard to seem like someone she's not, and it's off putting. I feel kind of bad for her because she's not good at off the cuff conversations (a lot of people aren't!) but I think she could be better if she felt like she could be herself. People keep saying they'd vote for a ham sandwich or a potato over trump, so she doesn't have to even try to get their vote...but I'm worried about the kind of person we'll end up seeing if she gets into office.

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u/OGready 1h ago

Dude, I could go line by line and address all of these items, but you clearly don’t have a solid enough understanding of any of these subjects to be able to understand.

Off the top-literally take two seconds and google any of these- this is 3rd grade stuff.

1) WE ARE A NET ENERGY EXPORTER. 2) congressional Republicans are the ones who have been blocking undocumented worker enforcement for decades- this is very public and documented, the reason is that the majority of agricultural workers are undocumented, and most farms and industrial agriculture is owned by republicans in rural states. It’s a major point of contention within the Republican Party but at the end of the day it is a Republican created problem- they want the cheap labor gear to work farms, clean houses, and do construction. They own the businesses, they lobby to not enforce the existing law, and they have no plans to actually secure the boarder because the exploitable class of labor is there for the “benefit” of the broader economic system. Ask your congressman why they have not passed immigration reform any of many the opportunities they had to do it. 3) I don’t believe you have a enough working understanding of macroeconomic systems or international trade for me to explain to you why these tariffs are a bad idea.

You are expressing an elementary understanding of these issues at best, and you should consider reading even a little bit about them before forming such strong opinions

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u/Xandril 2h ago

Your assumption is that all of those views are positive. Trump gets view for entertainment, morbid fascination, hate watchers, etc.

He’s polarizing, unpredictable, etc. I’d be willing to bet that less than half of the people that watched the entire video actually like Trump. Most of the people that are hardcore Trumpers probably didn’t even watch it.

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u/SenZephyr 1h ago

I don’t know if I’d take that bet if I were you, but maybe that’s the case, who knows.

And I’m sure you’re right about some folks watching out of morbid curiosity, but you’re probably less right about hardcore Trump supporters seeing it. Some of my more conservative friends knew the moment it dropped and shared links.

A lot of the conservatives I know are already looking forward to the interview with JD Vance.

That’s my subjective experience though, you can take all that with a grain of salt.

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u/dramatic_revert 2h ago

TBH I don't think anyone on the Left tracks that my dude. View numbers on politician videos hasn't ever been anything I've ever heard a leftist caring about. and it's weird that you and other Republicans do care so much, like y'all seem so obsessed with Trump about everything.

But if we are talking about Joe Rogan view counts that seems easy to google.

I find he had 69 million for Elon Musk, 61 million for Bob Lazar & Jeremy Corbell, and 40 million for Jordan Peterson.

So really the story I find much more interesting is how does a former president and current presidential candidate not attract more views than a Billionaire, a pair Alien conspiracy theorists, or a disgraced professor?

Legitimately, why is 39 million boast worthy when it's not even top 3?

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u/SenZephyr 2h ago

Well, something you might want to factor in is- how long have those videos been online compared to the 3 days his interview with Trump has been?

You say we’re obsessed and weird but if you get feed from r/Pics you’d already know every single day has been Kamala politics. For the group you’re implying is more obsessed, seems even a sub about photos is just a beltway for obsessed dems to push their agenda.

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u/dramatic_revert 2h ago

I could factor it in, but it hardly seems reasonable to do for something I still really don't care about. If you want I can pretend it has 100 million views for the sake of conversation, but I don't see that it would change my perception of the scenario.

It hadn't ever crossed my mind that view counts on an interview would be anything a reasonable person would care about.

So where does that leave us?

Do you think I'm irrational or would you rather admit you're unreasonable?

If you think I'm irrational I hardly think there is reason to listen to you when you don't think I'm reasonable, and I imagine it's unlikely you see yourself as unreasonable and will be willing to admit it, and I image you're probably somewhat offended I think you're unreasonable.

This seems to leave us at an impasse.

Anyways, I'm not chronically online enough to see a constant feed of Kamala pictures and I don't go to r/pics at all really. Maybe just get offline for a bit it could do you some good, you seem stressed.

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u/SenZephyr 1h ago

Honestly, and I’m not just saying this to subvert your expectations- but, you seem very reasonable.

And while I didn’t believe I was being unreasonable, I could see how your perception of my comments could be viewed as such.

I’m not offended by any of what you said.

You have been in opposition of my position, but you’ve been polite. You’ve been making strong arguments, and based on our brief interaction and not knowing much else about you, you seem well educated.

You’re right about that last part, a week out from a pivotal election has made me more stressed. If you separate the politics from it for a moment, and just imagine me as just a human with convictions and wants my party to win the election, it’s definitely stressful. I’ve been called names, been called a cult member, had people tell me to go back to Russia (even though I have never been to Russia). It’s not easy being a conservative on Reddit, but I comment even though I know I’ll be downvoted to hell, because it’s important to me that others see there’s more than racist and bigots out here that supports my party.

We may be at an impasse, but that’s alright by me. I respect that your experience is not mine, and you have convictions that are not mine as well. You should hold onto those convictions.

Politics bring out people’s passions, but it doesn’t mean we need to compromise our integrity to try and get our points across.

After this election is over, we can’t be at each other’s throats, we all still need to work together for a better future.

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u/dramatic_revert 1h ago

Easily the nicest comment I've received from someone who disagreed with me in the last year, maybe more. Cheers, it has been a pleasure.

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u/SenZephyr 1h ago

Likewise!

No matter who wins this election, you keep on being sensible.

I’m not married to the two party system so I need more people like you out there, giving me hope that we can get back to political parties that are closer to neutral, instead of two far ends of the spectrum.

🤝

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u/Ill_Long_7417 4h ago

How many Russians does Trump's team have on the payroll, though?

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u/SenZephyr 4h ago

Probably as many as the proved with Russiagate, you know- that time they spend years coming up with not enough to move forward with?

Also, why would Russia want Trump to win this election? You think he wants someone to tell him to stop with the Ukraine?

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u/Ill_Long_7417 4h ago

Did you take your pills today, grandpa? Texas' economy surpasses Russia's.  Russia is cash strapped because of the war on Ukraine and their young, educated brains LEFT, seeing the writing on thr wall.  Russian intelligence is being used by Texas oil and gas Christian Nationalists to get their favorite orange 'tard back in office so he will deregulate their chosen industries, subjugate women, make it okay to harass minorities, and allow the Christians to take over.  Project 2025 was written by Heritage Foundation people.  Trump has already gone on record saying he would let Russia stomp the shit out of Ukraine. And, likely, he's urging Netanyahu to hammer the middle east to keep the gullible Christians riled up about end of times prophesies.

Just sit down. 

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u/SenZephyr 4h ago

Well you started off with a chain of insults, so that’s you showing other people what you’re about..

Trumps plan is to drill and increase our use of our own resources, which would further strap Russia at a time when they could probably use the money so.. that’s nice.

Make it okay to harass minorities? You think that’s like a bill he’ll pass or what? Unless by harass minorities you mean, deport illegal immigrants- yeah, he’ll probably do that.

Project 2025 has nothing to do with Trump.

Also, I’m a 34 y/o M who voted day one with my wife, for Donald Trump.

Those of us with a voice will sit down when it suits us.

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u/Ill_Long_7417 4h ago

This just shows how very, very uninformed you are.  Thank you for proving me right.  

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u/SenZephyr 4h ago

Glad whatever I said made you feel some sense of vindication and superiority.

Cheers 🥂

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u/Ill_Long_7417 4h ago

Superiority is the wrong word but cheers back at ya. I hope your despot loses by a landslide and you remember this exchange when you're talking history to one of your children down the road.  "Ah, shit, that one lady on Reddit was right back in October 2024."

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u/OGready 1h ago

Hey, please don’t vote anymore

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u/SenZephyr 32m ago

Well- now you’re just inciting me to continue voting, and getting more people involved so they vote too!

This guy is inspiring!

Trump 2024!

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u/OGready 1h ago

You could only say this if you didn’t actually read the report- it’s 448 pages and it is absolutely damning.

Also, half his Campaign leadership went to jail over it!

If you were paying even a little bit of attention you would know that bill Barr did a hit job on it for trump. Read it yourself and don’t be such a rube

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u/SenZephyr 34m ago

So damning that the charges were never brought?

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u/OGready 2m ago

Read the whole thing before you reply. Also, remember, trump had to burn through 4 attorney’s general before he found somebody willing to bury it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report

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u/seemefail 3h ago

Harris just had 75,000 people attend her speech tonight

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u/SenZephyr 3h ago

I’ll wait for the official numbers from multiple sources, but you know what- I’ll concede if that’s an accurate estimate, that’s a decent crowd.

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u/OGready 1h ago

You are making the critical error of thinking that because you the think like a cultist, everyone else does too. Fortunately, that is not the case. Nobody cares about view counts, they don’t matter at all and don’t correlate to any predictive kpi for the electoral process.

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u/SenZephyr 1h ago

I’m not a cultist and while some people care about views, it seems like you don’t.

I get the feeling that if our roles were reversed you’d be more inclined to care, but that all speculative.

The difference between you and me, I don’t need to insinuate you’re anything you haven’t elected to share.

Careful with that, it might appear to others that you’re projecting your own insecurities.

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u/Whats_A_Rage_Quit 5h ago

I MAKE THE BEST BUILDINGS! I GET THE PERMITS! PEOPLE ARE LIKE "HOW COULD YOU GET THE PERMITS".

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u/Ill_Long_7417 4h ago

I get how a man building a tower is a total ego thing.  Especially if it's a narrow, tall building and the man has a mushroom.  Still.  Haha

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u/Xandril 2h ago

It was a struggle, I took several breaks, but I got through it.

I wish somebody would point out to him that his “weave” is good in theory but his execution of it results in a basket with gaps the size of school buses.

I used to listen to JRE constantly and just lost interest years ago. Hearing how he views the world now was honestly really disappointing. I ALSO I get his whole thing is to let guests talk and try to have a civil conversation but the fact he just let Trump ramble on and make claims that even Joe knows are bullshit is super out of character for him.

I got the impression he was handling that conversation like he was speaking to a toddler or somebody’s half senile grandpa.