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Joe Rogan Experience #2391 - Duncan Trussell

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Hello, Duncan.
Hello, Joe.
Hello.
Father, Father Trussell.
Hello, Father Rogan.
Are we allowed to do this?
What?
This religion you can kind of goof on a little bit.
Catholicism?
Yeah.
They get testy.
I don't, you know, having now gone to more than a few Catholic masses, which
are beautiful,
and hung out with Catholics who are awesome, I've really had to reconfigure
everything I
used to think about it because they're just really sweet.
Had a long conversation with a priest.
Brilliant dude.
Totally like nonjudgmental, kind of intellectual, you know, philosophical.
Like right away, I'm like, oh, I should have this guy on my podcast.
Interesting.
Yeah, it wasn't, it's not what, it's the, you know, I feel like the
Christianity that most
people are angry at is not even Christianity.
You know what I think it's like?
What?
Like saying that you're a liberal person?
Because I'm pretty liberal and you're pretty liberal.
Yeah.
In the greater spectrum.
Yeah.
But then you get lumped in with Antifa.
That's the part.
Then you get lumped in with, you know, whatever, crazy LBGT issue of the day.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, and even Antifa doesn't want to be called liberal.
Did you know that?
What do they know?
Well, Antifa is anti-capitalist and that is not liberal.
So there's a, that's the problem.
It's like the terms are really muddy right now.
So when you're looking at like Portland, um, the, the protesters in Portland.
Yeah.
What exactly is going on in Portland?
I'm trying not to pay attention.
Oh, well, what's happened is.
I know they've brought in the national guard.
Is that happening?
Yeah.
Where they tried to and they got blocked?
No, I think they have now.
I think they're there.
So what's happened is they're in front of the ICE facility.
There are ongoing protests at night.
Now it's, I, I watch these streams and I've been watching a self-professed fascist
named
Carlin who drinks and, and, and basically roasts these live streams.
But weirdly, she like, well, she, she has apparently embedded herself with Antifa
before.
And so it's such a funny stream.
Cause like, so they tolerate her.
Oh no, not anymore.
She like, no, no, no, no.
She's like, I mean, I don't know if she's trolling or not, but on her stream,
she's like, I am a fascist.
Right.
So she's a proudly proclaiming.
She's a fascist.
I don't know how much of that is trolling.
How much of it is real, but conservatives who are drawn to her stream will say
things like these
people are funded by George Soros and it's the funniest thing.
Cause she gets so mad and she's like, get off fucking Fox news.
Stop watching that shit.
It's all wrong.
Do these people look funded?
Do these people look like they have money?
They're not funded.
It's, it's so, and I guess her bigger point is by saying these are funded agitators
and not saying what they actually are, which is anti-capitalist revolutionaries.
You dilute what's really happening because what's really happening, according
to her, and I think a fair amount of people is that the economy is so fucked.
The middle class is diminishing so much.
The cost of living is so high that this is the tilled, the perfect soil you
need if you wanted communism to grow anywhere, because you're some kid you've
been like glued to Reddit or Tik Tok.
You've been getting your fucking amygdala jerked off on by the devil.
You're, you're just filled with like unease.
You've watched assassinations, attempted assassinations, the banking crisis,
all of it.
And it's like, then you like some Marxist theorist starts telling you a little
bit about like dismantling capitalism.
You got it.
Yeah.
And you know, I don't know, man, back when I was in liberal arts school, if
shit was the way it was.
And some, especially if it was a, like some hot goth girl started talking to me
a little bit about dismantling capitalism.
I think I would be like, yeah, let's dismantle, but that, so that's what you're
seeing there.
The, the breakdown of it is that this Democrats and Republicans, what they have
in common is they believe in private property and they, they believe the power
of the state should be used to protect private property.
And so anti-capitalist is communists.
They were, they think that that's just fucked up.
Essentially the breakdown of it, as far as I could tell, sorry, all the communists
out there, I'm going to ruin Marxism.
Just I'm saying, I don't, it's very complex, you know, but from what I
understand, the idea is this, you have a bunch of money.
You buy a factory, you hire someone to run the factory, you get a bunch of
workers to go into the factory, the workers are the ones who are making money
for you.
They're the ones who are skilled.
You just knew what number to call, got yourself a factory, got yourself
managers for the factory.
You are now going to take a huge cut of the profit and the workers are not
going to get very much at all.
And Karl Marx, as I understand it, was saying, that's bullshit.
Like, all you do is buy an apartment, keep it, keep it sort of painted in
between tenants and sit back and collect money.
Why?
Just because you had some money.
And then when you look at the way money flows uphill, you see this creates a
perfect situation for a world of renters, a world of workers, a world of people
getting paid minimum wage.
While the person who owns the means of production gets the most money.
And so this is a growing sentiment in the world right now.
Right.
And honestly, it's like you're working two fucking jobs, you're getting paid
minimum wage, you know how much the CEOs are making.
Or how about the people that came into this country because they were told that
the borders were open?
They established a life here for four years.
20 years.
Or how about the most recent ones, even?
And then all of a sudden you're getting hunted down.
Yeah.
Hunted fucking, hunted down.
Now this, and, let's forget, let's just...
Wouldn't that start this idea as well?
Wouldn't that feed into the idea?
Well, yeah.
Of dissolving the state?
Absolutely.
You're watching this shit, you know, and you're high as a kite, you're watching
this stuff.
Let's just say that you, this appeals to a lot of different people, by the way.
Let's just say you're the garden variety Info Wars person.
You've been listening to Alex Jones.
Right.
You've read Behold a Pale Horse, or you have any kind of connection to
conspiracy prognostications, which all say at some point, there's going to be
martial law, troops in the streets.
And you're seeing this play out.
And so, my God.
And even worse, imagine you're in the fucking military.
And you actually join the military.
You're one of those people, September 11th happens.
You're like, I'm going to defend this country.
And suddenly, you're in a bus going to Portland.
You know what I mean?
Like, I don't think they want to be there.
If I had to guess, it's got to be a weird feeling to be in your own country
with, like, military-grade weaponry, looking at people in duck costumes.
Yeah.
It's a very blunt instrument to deal with a very complex problem.
Yeah.
And first of all, it's the way, let's just talk about the immigration thing.
The way it looks is horrific.
It looks, when you're just arresting people in front of their kids and just
normal, regular people that have been here for 20 years.
That, everybody who has a heart can't get along with that.
No.
Everybody who has a heart sees that and goes, that can't be right.
That can't be right.
That can't be the only way to do this.
Right.
Because you have to think, look, yeah, we have to have a border.
Yes, it should have been secure.
Yes, they should make sure you know who everybody is before they get in.
Yeah.
But when people have been here for 20 years, like, come on.
Come on.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
Let's find a way.
If they've been productive members of society for 20 years, no criminal record,
they worked the entire time, they paid taxes.
Find them a pathway to citizenship.
Find a way where you can do this thing that you want to do, which is keep
terrorists and cartel members from getting across the border with drugs that
kill 100,000 people a year.
OK, but also have a fucking heart, because if you don't, you're not going to
get anybody on your side.
If you're doing this stuff publicly, throwing women to the ground, handcuffing
people just for existing on the wrong side of the dirt.
Not a criminal, not the only crime they ever committed was coming over here as
a kid.
Yeah.
They probably didn't even know what the fuck was going on.
Yeah.
Yeah, man.
You know, a lot of kids got snuck across when they were already born in Mexico.
But they've grown up their entire life in America, they can't even speak
Spanish.
Yeah.
And they could get sent back.
That's, dude, I mean, that's it.
You're describing exactly the reality, and there just isn't...
No one gets on board with that, man.
No one with a heart.
Well, no.
I mean, the only way you can get on board with it is you have to essentially go
like pure Machiavellian.
Here's the argument, and the way I just gave an argument for Marxism, which I
am not.
A Marxist.
I'll give...
I heard a great interview of the guy running ICE on NPR, which I thought was
wild NPR had him on.
And they gave him a fair interview.
I figured they would be all up his ass.
So his defense of the Machiavellian tactics that are being employed right now
is that he apparently has worked as some kind of border agent for 20 years.
He says, you could hear it in his voice, man.
It fucked him up.
He's like, you know, I've seen the back of trucks filled with dead bodies.
You know what I mean?
With children there who died.
No oxygen.
I've seen these horrors that have come from the open border and how awful it is.
If we give any semblance of compassion or mercy for the people who've been here
for 20 years, for the people with kids, the kids who get any, any, any loophole
that we convey is going to produce more people trying to come over the border.
And many of those people are going to get killed.
They're going to, you know, they're going to drown.
There will be many deaths because of this, not to mention the drug smuggling
and all that stuff.
And so every time the NPR reporter would push back with the human rights
compassion angle, his take is, yeah, but which do we pick?
Which do we choose creating some way for people to stay in the United States
who came here as kids and do the nuanced compassionate thing?
But it gives the impression to the rest of the world that we're doing that and
that gets X amount of people killed, that many people die.
That was his take on it, which is why they're doing this.
They're still going to have human trafficking.
And if you've got a very closed border and you give amnesty, they're going to
let, they're going to figure out a way to get people in.
That was his argument.
And people are going to die doing it.
That's his argument.
And, you know, when he was talking about like all the awful shit he's seen and
you hear it in his voice, you're like, okay, maybe I don't completely agree
with your point of view, but I can understand where you're coming from there.
And yet when you see this in practice, you know, when you, when you, when it's
not an NPR interview and you see the videos you've been seeing and everyone
else has been seeing, then you realize like there's, okay, sure.
But there must be a way to do this that doesn't involve ripping parents out of
their communities away from their children.
That doesn't involve like actually removing people who've been contributing to
society, to American society from American society, sending people to other
countries when they can't even speak the language.
You know what I mean?
No, no one with a heart is going to go along with that.
No.
And no one, I did not, I did not ever anticipate seeing that on TV on a regular
basis.
Me either, man.
Me either.
It's shocking.
It's shocking.
I really thought