When Joe Rogan sat down with country artist Oliver Anthony, what started as a conversation about music and culture quickly turned into a deeper look at the chaos unfolding in Los Angeles.
Rogan wasn’t vague about what he believes is happening.
He dropped a bombshell.
In his view, the riots aren’t organic—they’re astroturfed.
“We are better off today than anybody else in human history and this is a struggle and it is a battle,” Rogan said.
“But I think we come out of this on the other side if we can all realize that we’re being played against each other.”
Rogan described what he sees as the machinery behind the unrest: protests that aren’t spontaneous but funded, coordinated, and staged for political impact.
“You know, when you’re paying people to protest, you’re leaving pallets of bricks around and you’re organizing the whole thing and you’re shipping people in on busses and you’re making sure that all the people show up at a certain amount of time and they’re all compensated and you give th…