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The podcast king, once a prominent supporter of Donald Trump, denounced the president’s aggressive deportation tactics on his wildly popular podcast.

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[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It appears that the credulous Fox "news" watchers really did believe that there were violent immigrant gang members in massive numbers all over the country, as they've been told for decades now. Anyone who understood that's not the case wasn't surprised that "mass deportation" meant rounding up gardeners and construction workers (duh!). But Rogan and his listeners bought into the idea that only the thousands of cartel mobsters that were taking over the country under weak Democrat rule would suffer.

Those were imaginary baddies all along! Tell your listeners that, Joe!

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Joe Rogan does not get the benefit of the doubt. He’s just a goddamn liar.

[–] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Propaganda pays well.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not to mention the fact that if cartel drug leaders were so easy to round up deport, we would’ve done it already. Or, at least, put them in jail.

But it’s a lot easier to target innocent, defenseless people.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

They believed there were millions of these criminals, because Trump promised to deport millions of them.