Joe Rogan Experience #522 - CJ Werleman

Westboro Baptist Church issued death threat

Liberal class reduced to political correctness enforcement

Islam is primary source of terrorism and oppression

Right-wing extremism more dangerous than Islamic terrorism

Dick Cheney characterized as demonic evil

Cheney profited from military contracts while avoiding service

America is a corporate totalitarian state

Wars driven by corporate profit motives

Prison system designed to maintain incarceration business

Private prisons profit from incarcerating poor minorities

Socialism is solution to American inequality

Corporations pay lowest taxes in US history

America's infrastructure comparable to third-world countries

Harvard perpetuates wealth inequality through elite networks

Educational elitism unjustified by information access

Elite fraternities create nepotistic networks in government

Obama's 'you didn't build that' was political blunder

Catholic Supreme Court justices answer to Vatican

Mormon beliefs about race, afterlife, and American Indians

Joseph Smith was con man convicted of fraud

Mormon sect moved to Mexico to practice polygamy

Pope Benedict moved child molester, enabling further abuse

Vatican owns gay bathhouse and is fascist state

Americans ignorant of Bible's translation history

Bible and Christianity based on psychedelic mushroom rituals

Gospel accounts written decades to centuries after Jesus

America more polarized than pre-Civil War era

Republican Party functions as ideological cult

White minority status will trigger increased terrorism

White extremists motivated by loss of representation

Republicans resorting to gerrymandering and voter suppression

Obama governed as centrist, not liberal

No liberal president since Nixon

Hillary Clinton is brand without substance or liberal values

Tiny fraction of donors control campaign finance

Warren can win presidency, Sanders cannot

Rand Paul opposes Civil Rights Act protections

Rand Paul is neoconfederate supporting segregation

Stimulus was transparent but insufficient

Clinton's deregulation caused 2008 financial collapse

Worker wages stagnant while corporate profits soar

Walmart heirs own more than bottom 42% of Americans

Walmart employment destroys more jobs than it creates

Republicans don't protect small business from monopolies

Mainstream media focuses on celebrity over real issues

Corporate media suppresses criticism of corporate power

Democrats placated by Obama's NSA overreach

Political polarization prevents objective discourse

South still fighting Civil War through Republican obstruction

Conservatives want to return to 1950s liberal era

Confederate flag equivalent to swastika for Black Americans

Confederate flags traumatize Black Americans like swastikas traumatize Jews

White demographic decline will trigger terrorism

Abortion reduced crime by eliminating potential criminals

Speaker advocates for abortion access

Late-term abortion described as killing viable babies

Fat acceptance promotes unhealthy lifestyle

Obesity in poor communities caused by food economics

Corporate socialism while workers face capitalism

Koch brothers own more wealth than bottom 50%

Billionaire wealth from speculation, not productive work

Wealth gap widening dramatically

Walmart model forces cities into subsidy race

Walmart forces suppliers to move to China

Free trade benefits no one

Republicans claim to support small business but don't

Media ignores serious issues for celebrity gossip

Democrats excuse NSA overreach because Obama approved it

Millennials accept surveillance for social media exposure

Political tribalism prevents objective analysis

Socialism is solution but Americans fear the word

Need wealth redistribution reforms

Low corporate taxes prevent government services

Infrastructure investment creates jobs and markets

Union membership collapsed while other democracies maintain strong unions

Worker share of productivity gains collapsed

Government and corporations both inefficient

Liberalism as counterbalance to capitalism

Government investment produces both failures and successes

Stimulus spending was transparent

Deregulation and privatization cause more waste than government

Corporate profit motive and deregulation caused financial crisis

Obama chose Wall Street protection over systemic reform

America heading toward dystopian inequality

America facing unaffordable education, housing, and stagnant wages

Economic system creating permanent underclass

FDR's New Deal socialism built American prosperity

Free market capitalism and trickle-down economics failed

Clinton's tax increases created jobs, Bush's cuts lost jobs

Military intervention cannot solve Middle East political problems

Obama's proxy strategy and sanctions effective

Obama's Middle East policies created more problems

Iraq civil war continues after US withdrawal

Disbanding Iraqi military created civil war

US-backed Maliki perpetuates sectarian violence

Autocratic regimes necessary for Middle East peace

Iraq is artificial country with incompatible groups

Genghis Khan's invasion permanently damaged Baghdad

Partition Iraq into sectarian states

Saudi Arabia and Iran won't share wealth with poor populations

Middle East beyond repair, should be nuked

US dependent on Saudi Arabia despite oppression

Oil dependency creates global economic vulnerability

Public resistance to Syria intervention prevented war

Assad preferable to Islamist alternative

Saddam's secularism preferable to current death squads

Sectarian partition only solution for Middle East

Psychedelic enlightenment needed to solve conflicts

Laguna Beach was center of hash smuggling and acid drops

Indonesia has extreme drug penalties

Medical marijuana access in America contrasts with Indonesia

Religious texts inspire suicide bombing

Ideologies motivate self-destructive behavior

Humans need belief in higher power to deny mortality

Cosmic perspective reveals human insignificance

Stargazing would change human perspective and behavior

Alien threat would unite humanity

UFO believers cling to Reagan's alien threat speech

Reagan escaped Iran-Contra accountability through dementia claim

CIA possibly dosed Reagan with drugs to cause dementia

Reagan's sons rebelled with opposite politics

Reagan's right-wing son didn't know his father

Reagan's legacy mythologized and sanitized

Reagan raised taxes multiple times despite tax-cut mythology

Reagan's tax-cutting and job-creation claims are myths

Religious right elevated Reagan to presidency

Mob rigged Chicago ballots for JFK

Americans only celebrate leaders after death

Carter more popular than Reagan upon leaving office

Reagan and Bush rehabilitated through revisionism

George H.W. Bush's CIA role overlooked

Carter mischaracterized as weak despite philosophical depth

Americans prefer emotional leaders over intellectuals

Obama thoughtful in foreign policy approach

NSA surveillance will define Obama's legacy

Obama will be remembered as marginally better than alternative