1969: Tom Seaver and the Mets. Joe Namath and the Jets. Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali. Jerry West and the Lakers. Neil Armstrong on the moon. We hadn’t lost Vietnam yet. ’69 Boss Mustang. ’69 Vette. We still made things. We had damn near paid off the national debt in 1968. Joni Mitchell and Neil Young at Woodstock (probably).

Now those two want to force Spotify to take Joe Rogan off the air. Now the “freedom generation” wants to shut people up who don’t think right. How times change in 53 years. A country that held such promise has degenerated into a seething cauldron of cancel culture.

Joe Rogan’s crime was when he caught the COVID was to take treatments (they would have preferred he died). Treatments that these freedom pioneers didn’t want him to take. Treatments that Big Pharma didn’t want him to take. Treatments that Project Veritas showed our government has known since April of 2020 work.

They don’t want to let the “arena of ideas” determine whether or not Joe Rogan stays on the air or not. They want to force him off. Now Peter Frampton has joined the fray. These “do your own thing” hippies don’t want to let the marketplace determine Joe’s fate, they want to give it a nudge. They want to drop an anvil on the scales of justice.

I laugh at this as it highlights their hypocrisy. They spout the phrase ‘misinformation’ like an oil gusher. Problem is though if you stop and think about it, the wisdom of the crowd will decide if Joe is a crackpot or not. If he’s a nut or not. Their side has been the one found to be lying at every step along the way.

Joe Rogan averages 11 million listeners per episode. A crackpot spewing “misinformation” wouldn’t get that. Its like on social media, if you try and fudge the facts or state an untruth, somebody is going to call you out. They will either know better or they will have researched it.

When you have thousands of people looking at you (or in Joe’s case millions), people will know if you’re spewing garbage. They don’t need two hippies to tell them. (Joe Rogan breaks silence after Neil Young controversy)

This was one of those posts that’s just rather disjointed. In my head it made sense. In 1969 America was at its zenith. In a year or two it would start start its inexorable decline, but it hadn’t yet. As a nation we were almost 200 years old at that point. While freedom, hope and opportunity seemed it would forever be on the horizon, by where we are now, its clear it wasn’t. In ’69 we faced the world head on, in ’22 we cower in our COVID bunkers. In 2022 we try to silence anyone who ventures outside the box.