Name: Joe Rogan Experience #801 - Gary Johnson
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #801 - Gary Johnson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-05-17. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #801 - Gary Johnson

Johnson, what's happening, buddy?
Joe Rogan.
Thanks for coming aboard.
I appreciate it, man.
Oh, man, other way around.
You're on the short list of people that folks consider a rational person that's
running for president.
We're in a very strange time.
Would you agree?
I think we're in the strangest time ever, maybe in the history of politics,
certainly in my lifetime.
Yeah, it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
It almost seems like this is the last gasp of the idea of running for president.
You know, when you just do the mathematics of the fact that Hillary and Donald
Trump are arguably the two most polarizing figures in American politics today,
that Trump has to go out and get 30 percent of the far right to get the
nomination.
Hillary has to go out and get 30 percent of the far left.
When 50 percent of Americans right now who are registering to vote are
independent,
at the end of the day, don't the two major parties represent about 30 percent
of the electorate?
And so where is where are the interests?
Where is the representation for the majority of interest in America?
I think it's the Libertarian Party.
I think it's Libertarian.
People just don't know it.
And speaking with a broad breaststroke, Libertarian, fiscally conservative,
socially liberal.
Yeah, that seems to be where most people hang their hat.
But it's not something that most people identify with when they talk about
their actual political persuasion.
They usually say, you know, they're on the left or they're on the right.
When someone says they're a Libertarian, that's that dude at the office that
has guns.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
That what?
The dude at the office, the crazy dude at the office, you know?
Well, so we hit the streets the other day in New York, a film crew, and asked
40 people what a Libertarian was.
And it was zero.
No one knew.
No one knew.
So, you know, I'm with you.
I understand the crazy guy with the guns.
But for the most part, Libertarian is just undefined.
Nobody knows.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with being a Libertarian.
I'm just saying when you think about Libertarian, it's the guy who is fed up
and is like sort of on the fringes.
That seems to be what a lot of people associate with being a Libertarian.
I would, and I'd carry that a little bit further and say that the baggage that
the Libertarians carry is survival of the fittest.
You know, the notion that you're about no government whatsoever.
People are going to die in the streets.
Anarchists.
Yeah.
No government.
Well, that's the rap.
Yeah, that is a rap.
And it's almost like everyone knows that the two-party system is kind of stupid.
But everyone seems to think that any other party other than the two-party
system is unrealistic or any other party.
Like a Libertarian, Green Party, somewhere along, anything independent is
unrealistic.
Well, I'm back to right now.
Fifty percent of all people that are registering to vote are registering as
independent.
Statistically, right now, 43 percent of America is independent.
But new registrations, 50 percent.
So I don't know.
As people do identify with the two parties, the rig game of the system is that
we're only presented with two choices.
And that really starts with just being in the polls.
Look, right now, if Mickey Mouse were the third name in any poll, Mickey would
be polling at 30 percent.
But Mickey's not on the ballot in all 50 states.
And if I'm the Libertarian nominee, and I hope to be the Libertarian nominee,
that happens next weekend, I'm going to be the only other candidate on the
ballot in all 50 states.
So polling, I just want to be in the polls.
There is no way a third party wins without being in the presidential debates.
That's just not going to happen, a Super Bowl of politics.
To get in the presidential debates, you have to be at 15 percent in the polls.
Joe, the rig game is, is that if you're not in the polls, there's no way that
you can poll at 15 percent.
But it has to be a consistent polling starting now.
I was in the first national poll that I've been in a month ago.
I haven't been in a national poll since, but in a month, a month ago, I was at
11 percent against Hillary and Trump.
And was this all established back when Ross Perot sort of shook up the
political establishment?
Because there was a lower percentage required to get involved in debates before
that.
Wasn't that 5 percent?
Well, actually, there was no percentage points prior to Ross Perot.
That was something that got established after Ross Perot.
And what is amazing to me is Ross Perot, after having gotten 19 percent of the
general election vote the first time, the second time he ran, they did not
allow him in the presidential debates, which is just, I mean, that's the rigged
nature of the game.
The rigged nature of the game is, is come this fall, if my name does not appear
in another single poll, the presidential debate commission will say, eh, Gary
Johnson, he just didn't poll high enough.
What they won't say is that he wasn't in the polls.
And the commission for presidential debates is a privately funded institution.
Private.
Democrats and Republicans were suing the presidential debate commission also.
We think that it's antitrust.
We think that, not think, it's Democrats and Republicans, and they collude with
one another to exclude everyone else.
Bruce Fein is suing the presidential debate commission.
Bruce Fein's claim to fame is that he brought Nixon down in Watergate.
But in the next sentence, he will tell you that the biggest thing he's ever
done in his life is suing the presidential debate commission,
because this has the opportunity of changing politics in America.
I mean, this is really at the heart of this rigged game.
You can't win the presidency if you're not in the Super Bowl of politics.
We figure the dollar value alone of being in the presidential debates is
several hundred million dollars.
Just think of the Super Bowl and the ads that sell during the Super Bowl.
And imagine being having second biggest audience, you know, like 75 million
people for, you know, 90 minutes, two hours.
That's a couple hundred million dollars worth of advertising.
Yeah, that is the show.
And if you're not in the show, people don't consider your vote.
Like they think of even if you have 50 percent of these people that are
registering and saying they're independent, what they're really saying is they're
not committing to a left or a right.
They're not committing to a Democratic or Republican.
But are they going to vote independent?
That's a lot of people.
They have this idea that if you vote independent, you're throwing away your
vote.
That's that is a statement that has to be overcome.
Right.
No, no, no, I agree.
But but for those people that they do vote.
Right.
And they end up voting on the basis of the lesser of two evils.
But since they're registering to vote and they're registering to vote as
independent, they end up at the polls.
I mean, for the most part, most most people don't even go to the polls.
Most people don't even vote.
Yeah.
It's it's is there a way to fix it?
Do you think that there's a way to maybe somehow or another allow people to
vote online and change the way it's set up now?
We don't have to physically go to a location.
You don't have to sign up physically in a place.
You can actually just do it from your computer the same way we bank.
That has to be the future that does not exist now, but that has to be the
future.
And from a legislative standpoint, meaning, OK, you're president of the United
States or governor of New Mexico.
You could sign legislation that and these are the things that are going to
happen.
It's going to be easier and easier to vote.
And that's what should be the case.
Which should be the case if the system isn't totally right, because the problem
is people like Hillary, the people that are the longtime establishment people
that have been a part of politics forever.
The last thing they want to do is turn over the reins to the Internet because
she's had what how much they said they say they were spending spending over a
million dollars just to combat online trolls just to go on Reddit and forums
and correct people.
Yes. And I would I would be surprised if the number was that low.
Yeah, I would be surprised to.
Yeah, I think they're probably being pretty conservative about that.
But the idea is that the Internet doesn't like the establishment.
They know that there's a real problem with the system in place as is and the
Internet when I say the Internet, the broad stroke that you're painting is
obviously young people who are a little bit more aware of how screwy this whole
system that they're sort of born into is.
And that the people that are in charge don't want to change.
They want to keep it a two party system.
They want to keep this silly white hat, black hat, goofy game going on forever
and keep control of the power.
Right on. And this but this cycle for the first time in my lifetime, this might
change.
I mean, this because of just how polarizing the two of them are.
Yeah. And I think Bernie Sanders is what a lot of people think of as the
alternative right now, mainstream alternative.
And he stands pretty far out there from the other guys.
So have you seen the Web site?
I side with dot com.
No, I haven't.
You're going to write it down.
You're going to take take this political quiz.
I side and everybody listening.
Take this political quiz.
I side with dot com.
It's about 60 questions.
It's really easy.
You don't have to you know, you don't have to sign up on the Web site, but you
take this quiz.
And at the end of the quiz, you get paired up with the presidential candidate
most in line with your views.
It just makes real sense.
I think everybody should take the quiz and whoever you line up with, I think
you should knock yourself out supporting that person.
Well, for me, taking the I side with quiz, amazingly, the next politician that
I align with outside of the libertarians that are running for president is
Bernie Sanders.
I align with Bernie Sanders, 73 percent of what he says.
Now, when it comes to economics, we come to a T in the road.
When it comes to socialism versus, you know, being an entrepreneur, when it
comes to big government versus small government, we come to that T in the road.
But on the issues of legalizing marijuana, same sex marriage, a woman's right
to choose, hey, let's stop with these military interventions.
This is just this is just crazy.
We're in line.
So I I push this website because it should work the other way around.
OK, I side with Bernie most of the time.
But oh, my gosh, the libertarian candidate, Gary Johnson, I side with next in
line.
And I do believe that Bernie is not going to get the nomination.
I don't think that's going to happen.
And where do all those voters go?
Where does 50 percent of Republicans go that really are at the end of the day,
you know, socially tolerant and fiscally conservative?
And I think that is the majority of Republican voters.
But they've been co-opted by the social conservatives that have an agenda that
I think is really a turnoff to most of America.
And it's OK to be a social conservative.
There's nothing wrong with being a social conservative.
But if you if you if you make that public policy, if you pass laws regarding
social conservatism, you end up putting people in jail for personal choices.
And we do have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world.
And I think that starts with the drug war.
The word conservative is interesting, too, when you apply it to social issues
like social conservatism, because conservatives really want the original
conservatives were stay out of my business.
I'll stay out of yours.
So social conservative really wouldn't apply to, like, things along the lines
of gay marriage or same sex unions or anything along those.
You would say we'll leave those people alone.
That would be the conservative approach.
The government should stay out of those