Joe Rogan and the Jews

It gives us no pleasure to report this, but we figured you should hear it from us. Jeffrey Epstein—the late New York financier—was a “Jewish organization of Jewish people working on behalf of Israel and other groups,” including organized crime and elements of the Central Intelligence Agency, to collect blackmail on American politicians and businessmen. This Jewish blackmail ring is so powerful that Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, despite their promises of transparency, will never be able to produce any documents to prove its existence. Nor will President Donald Trump and his administration be able to cut U.S. support for Israel—the blackmail runs too deep. 

Now, it may horrify ordinary people to learn that a substantial portion of Jews believe their existence depends on their ability to manipulate powerful Americans into compromising positions with sexually trafficked teenagers, but we should have some sympathy. It is not their fault that Israel was founded by organized crime syndicates, sinister transnational bankers, and terrorists, who brought the methods of the Jewish underworld into the present day. Perhaps they felt they had no choice. But in the modern day, these methods have grown “cancerous on the Jewish religion” and must be excised—for the good of Jews as well as Americans. Fortunately, thanks to Oct. 7, we can finally talk about this. America is waking up. That won’t stop surviving elements of the Jewish mafia from trying to smear us truth-tellers as lunatics, conspiracy theorists, and antisemites. But they are losing. Information wants to be free, and the arc of history bends toward justice. 

There, we saved you 2 hours and 41 minutes. That was the run time of Joe Rogan’s interview with Ian Carroll, a TikTok influencer whose short rise from total obscurity to Rogan’s show—one of the most coveted slots in the entertainment business, which many a content creator would kill to appear on—would normally lead us to ask questions about foreign intelligence operations and shadowy behind-the-scenes influence networks, had Carroll not already helpfully answered our questions about such things (it’s Israel). On the other hand, we did not have the heart, or the patience, to sit through Candace Owens’ simultaneous appearance on Theo Von’s show, so you’ll have to dig through that one yourself. For those interested in further research, please consult Carroll’s videos about how Yale’s Skull and Bones society blackmails elites by making them do “gay stuff.” Or just wait for Rogan’s (real) forthcoming episode with Darryl Cooper, aka Martyr Made, who we hope will clear up any lingering misconceptions about World War II. 

All kidding aside, Rogan—whatever his penchant for kooky theories about the moon landing or ancient aliens—never struck us as an antisemite, periodic hyperventilating from the Anti-Defamation League and other adjuncts of the Democratic Party notwithstanding. He is, or traditionally has been, an American everyman, and he doesn’t appear to be a resentful or damaged person, which is usually a prerequisite for going off the deep end regarding Jews. Which makes it all the more difficult to figure out what’s going on here. Does Rogan believe this stuff? Is he playing for relevance at a time when deranged talk about all-powerful “Zionist” and “neocon” influence, boosted by Elon Musk’s X algorithm, is all the rage on social media? Is there a network? Did someone—a booker, a friend, a tech baron, a political operative, a godfather—tell him that Carroll and Cooper are great guys and that he should help to get their message out? 

Or maybe we’re looking at an op. “The Joe Rogan Experience,” after all, has 19.5 million subscribers on YouTube, and it became clear after last year’s election that many in the upper reaches of the Democratic Party saw Rogan and the wider podcast world as key to Trump’s victory. It’s obviously the sort of thing that would interest intelligence agencies, state and state-backed actors, and others with the resources to rival states. We have recent hard evidence of Chinese state actors boosting conservative-branded antisemitic content on X and of Russian state actors attempting to buy off right-wing social media influencers. Tucker Carlson, who appears to be the head (or at least the public-facing head) of the antisemitic power vertical on the American right, is financially backed by the fortune of the Iranian American businessman and (prior to 2020) lifelong Democrat Omeed Malik, who is also now Donald Trump Jr.’s business partner. In February, Carlson hosted on his show the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the largest media investors in the world and a major shareholder in X. This afternoon, he released an interview with the prime minister of Qatar, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. 

The truth is we have no idea what the real story is. But as we’ve been trying to point out at Tablet for years now (see here and here), the sorts of questions we’re now forced to ask about Rogan are, in at least one sense, similar to the sorts of questions that guys like Carroll are posing about wealthy Jewish sex traffickers collecting blackmail on behalf of Mossad. That is to say, both are downstream of the hall-of-mirrors reality we now live in, in which the cumulative effect of two decades of official lies, secrecy, propaganda, and censorship has combined with the destabilizing impact of digital media on our collective psychic health.

It Was Always Obama

For three and a half years, no one wrote about the two most striking and significant phenomena in American political life—in part because they were connected to each other.

The first was Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline.

The second was that Barack Obama not only hand-picked him to be president but was also running large parts of his administration. Over the past three weeks, the mainstream American press has professed to be shocked by their discovery of Biden's incapacities.

For their part, right-wing press figures have fallen prey to vague, disjointed, sometimes conspiratorial talk about who is in charge of what's happening in America: the deep state, DEI bureaucrats, woke professors, "the Cathedral," etc. They throw out all of these secondary players in lieu of pointing at the one demonstrably obvious source of power.

Starting tonight, millions of people will sit around Seder tables and memorialize the exodus of the Jews from Egypt.

We'll talk and talk and talk about the miracle of liberation, parse the details of its unfolding, and assert in words and song the gratitude we feel for being the lucky descendants of those who escaped from slavery.

One thing we do not generally discuss, however, are the Jews who didn’t leave. “God led the people round about, by way of the wilderness at the Sea of Reeds. Now the Israelites went up chamushim out of the land of Egypt.”

What does “chamushim” mean?

Torah commentator Rashi offers a shocking idea: “chamushim” relates to the Hebrew word for five, and the text should be understood to be saying that only one-fifth of the Jewish people chose to leave Egypt.

Why?

“There were sinners among the Jews who had Egyptian patrons, and they had wealth and honor there, [so] they didn’t want to leave.” Or, in the words of Rav Yehuda Henkin, they were “disinclined to trade flesh-pots for freedom.”

I’ve been thinking a lot about these Jews lately.