PACs, Presidents, Ex-Presidents Tried To Cancel Me
Podcast host Joe Rogan said last week that the "blowback" he got for talking about Covid-19 vaccine side effects included "PACs," "presidents, and former presidents" trying to get Spotify to cancel him over "misinformation." "I had almost quietly snuck up to this and had this large audience that they weren't aware of," Rogan said about how he was able to speak out about it. "And the blowback was crazy." "They tried to crush my sponsors. They organized campaigns. There were PACs involved," he said. "Thank God I was on Spotify, and thank God Spotify is not an American company. Also, it helped that I was No. 1 in, like, 90 countries and not No. 90 in one country." "And then there's the Streisand thing. When you try to silence something, you're just going to make it bigger. If they kicked me off of Spotify and I had to go to Rumble, it would have just blown Rumble's stock up, and it would have helped everybody." "I can't even talk about it. But there was presidents involved and former presidents involved that were contacting Spotify. Trying to get me removed for vaccine misinformation. And it turned out to be right. All of it." "And not a single apology from anybody. Not a single retraction, not a single mea culpa, not a single 'we were wrong.' And I lost a lot of sponsors." JOE ROGAN: The position that I was in during the COVID thing was very unique. So it was almost easy for me, because I had already gotten such a head start. I was so far ahead of them. They didn't realize that my ability to say, "Wait, this doesn't make any sense. None of this makes any sense. And also, why am I green? And also, why are you guys lying? Why are you lying about all sorts of different things? Why are you measuring troponin levels when you're talking about myocarditis, and not the actual scans of people's hearts, when you realize young people are getting legitimately f---ed up from this vaccine? Not all of them, but some of them. Why aren't you looking at that? How come you guys a
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