Podcast host Joe Rogan blasted California Democrats for shutting down the economy with lockdowns during the pandemic, saying it ruined countless lives and businesses.
Rogan made the remarks during an interview with comedian Gabriel Iglesias about the businesses that had to close.
“Those businesses, I bet all those people got Covid anyway,” Rogan said.
“Everybody got Covid anyway, I bet. And I bet if those people got Covid and recovered, they woulda been safe to run their f***ing store,” Rogan added.
“Like, they just took the decision out of people’s hands,” Joe Rogan said of the lockdowns.
“And it’s been proven that it was a disaster, it was a disaster for the economy, it was a disaster for mental health, it was a disaster for people’s careers, it was a disaster for people’s long-term businesses that they had to close, family businesses, that they had, restaurants for 30 years,” he continued.
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“Little local neighborhood places that everyone went to,” Rogan said.
“‘Sorry you can’t work!’ For a year and a half. They just bled people out.”
He went on to say that large online outlets succeeded because governments didn’t allow people to go patronize small businesses.
“They told people their job was essential or non-essential!” he said with disgust. “Like, who the f* are you? Yeah, guess what’s non-essential? You! You, you f*in’ halfwit!”
In 2020, Rogan fled California to Texas due to the state’s high taxes, worsening living standards, and high crime rates.
“Telling people what they can and can’t do, based on what? No debating the science of it, no real conversations with experts of disagreeing opinions. It was gross, man,” he continued.
“I was happy to get out of there,” Rogan concluded.
Rogan also mocked California Gov. Gavin Newsom for defending his policies in what many consider to be a run-up to a presidential campaign.
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