You Idiot Podcasters Did This to Yourselves
On the Rogansphere's "turn" on Trump over the Epstein coverup.
One thing I cannot prove but nonetheless believe to be true is that Donald Trump’s return to power would not have been possible without the failures of so-called cancel culture and MeToo, by which I mean their defeat at the hands of conservative and centrist reactionaries.
A fundamental premise of these movements, to the limited extent that they can be called movements with coherent goals, was that sex abuse is bad and sex abusers should not be in positions of power. Their opponents by and large believed that sex abuse is a private matter to be sorted out between abuser and abused, and that the rest of us should mind our own business.
Whereas these movements argued that the existing paradigms for holding sex abusers accountable and protecting people from sex abuse are inadequate, their opponents said no: the existing paradigms are fine, if anything they’re too strict. The natural endpoint of their position is that a serial pedophile should be permitted to seek the highest office in the land and use it to protect his pedophile friends, which is exactly what has come to pass.
So it causes me no small amount of consternation to watch all of the comedians-slash-podcasters who cheered Donald Trump’s return to power, and who before that led the cultural backlash against cancel culture and MeToo, react with shock and outrage to Trump’s efforts to squash the Epstein controversy.
In the last few weeks Andrew Schulz earned complimentary headlines for his supposed turn on Trump over Epstein; Shane Gillis joked about the coverup while hosting the ESPYs; Theo Von questioned JD Vance’s hypocrisy on the issue; Joe Rogan accused the administration of lying; Dave Smith called the Epstein coverup worse than the coverup of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline; and Tim Dillon has demanded Attorney General Pam Bondi’s firing while speculating that Trump is afraid he might get assassinated if he reveals the truth. (More on that later.)
To which I can only respond: you stupid fucking idiots, this is your fault!
