Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson offers support for Joe Rogan - “Great stuff here, brother”
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It's in the comments of Rogan's video.
Takes a minute to look it up yourself if you're that concerned!
To be fair, those boos were for his cousin Roman Reigns, who Rock thought by joining him in the ring would have the opposite effect. It didn't work.
That explains what in the elk meat that Rogan always loves to talk about.
Yup. He voted for Biden. I don't know about confusing.
I think the Dude wants to fit in everywhere with the least amount of controversial statements possible.
He's not gonna go full Aaron Rodgers
I don't have an Instagram account. But thanks for taking the time to verify. Considering what the source was, I think it's important to have confirmation :)
Good!
Arnold is right wing, but the rare instance where a right wing person isn't a full blown dickhead
I mean, he's Republican, and keeps 90% of his opinions silent unless they can generate revenue for him. He's not a good dude, lol.
Well if you clicked the daily wire link you are now forever going to be getting right wing news sources in your Google/Apple story recommendations. Algorithms are on that like flies to shit.
Rock will be president camacho and rogan will be his vp as joe rogan himself, no need to create a character.
Cena got flack for the China incident but I can't really blame him given the circumstances. It wasn't like he went out of his way to do some Jackie Chan style Communist Party bootlicking.
It was either "do a forced apology video" or "refuse to apologize and torpedo a chunk of the production along with his mainstream career".
Does the rock have any independent thoughts? He just seems like a walking/talking advertisement. Nothing about him seems genuine. I get that he's looking to always get paid, but damn. Bro needs to take a step back.
It has to be exhausting to schill as much as The Rock does. That guy is constantly posting about his tequila.
I don't understand how Steroid users are so against vaccines. Rogan, Lebron, Hogan and now the Rock? Is there some Joe Wieder "literature" out there saying that this offsets Deca?
Oh? Is that a qualifier for being a good person? Extremely low bar.
I knew something was off with this try-hard. Was never a fan so I don't mind skipping his one-note movies.
People here want to fit everyone into very narrow/specific views but that's not at all how the world works or actually is. There are conservatives who don't like Trump. There are Trumpers who are pro vaccine. There are liberals who are anti vax. There are lots of libertarians who support Rogan on some "People should have the freedom to say what they want" shit. Joe Rogan is a shit heelmeathead whose biggest appeal to most of his audience is that he's "Just asking questions", plays both sides, isn't afraid to platform "controversial" views, gets to hide behind the "I'm a comedian" shield when called out for stupid/racist shit he's said in the past, yet claimed he would have supported Bernie for President.
The Rock got his start in professional wrestling, where 90 % is selling. He wasn't the first. Now Hulk Hogan, that guy was a schill master during the 80s and 90s.
He's also friends with Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris. Rock just seems like one of those free speech dudes who thinks you should be able to say whatever you want without repercussions. He seems mostly left leaning on on social issues.
His entire public facing everything is a brand. He's the biggest fence sitting, widest net, lowest common denom mother fucker out there.
This is 0% surprising. He'll go on Trevor Noah or Ellen something next and talk about how he just wants to have a drink (a Tequilla drink, that is!) with everyone. He's fuckin lame.
This is 0% surprising. He'll go on Trevor Noah or Ellen something next and talk about how he just wants to have a drink (a Tequilla drink, that is!) with everyone. He's fuckin lame.
This is going down exactly like Joe Rogan wants it to, and his ratings are undoubtedly gonna get higher from all this. He makes his living as a provocateur, and knows that his controversial guests will create a controversy. He probably popped a fresh bottle of HGH like champagne when the Neil Young news broke out.
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Thank you for the better link, much appreciated
Found the link on Reddit, didn't know it was from that shithead Shapiro. So no, I'm not browsing that website, FOH
I, for one, am shocked that a roidy action sports celebrity would support the false contrition of another roidy action sports celebrity in an instagram ad for tequila. I don't have any confidence that the Rock even understands why people would be calling out Joe Rogan and be critical of Spotify for promoting a message that's dangerous public health.
It's not that "The Rock is pro-vaccine" (he did a PSA on social media after getting vaccinated), or "is anti-vaccine," or "is liberal, moderate, or conservative." He's a celebrity who is not engaged with issues, doesn't understand them, and wants to publicly spread his brand in the most profitable, effective, and least divisive way. He's literally shilling his stupid tequila in this reply, it's basically an ad. And the right wing culture war peddlers know what they're doing when they promote this "event" (which, btw, the updated Yahoo News post is no better or worse than the original source of Ben Shapiro's The Daily Wire; Yahoo News regularly peddles utter bull shit, it's not a news organization), they're trying to drum up passion and division for something that is utterly meaningless. A celebrity promoter like The Rock, a celebrity like Joe Rogan, they love that shit, it's more eyes on The Rock's tequila, and Rogan is millions of die hard fans who will probably be exposed to The Rock's tequila because of it.
Also the "updated article in the OP" is a Fox News article reprinted by Yahoo. Yahoo News is generally not a news organization, they largely don't do reporting. Yahoo did hire a few veteran news people ~2-3 years ago, but they very rarely do original reporting, they largely just republish content from other organizations because Yahoo is an advertising company. In this case it's a direct copy paste of a Fox News piece, based on a Daily Wire piece, based on an ad for The Rock's tequila.
So we went from The Daily Wire to Fox News.
There's are reasons why The Daily Wire, Fox News, and other advertising companies publish bull shit like this. One, to make money through stupid stories that they know people are addicted to and will engage with. Two, to drum up a narrative and promote these stupid stories that will subtly undermine public health, normalize anti-vaccination opinion, and hurt government efforts to get people vaccinated. The way you think it works is that people will read the headline "The Rock supports Joe Rogan's video," and people will think "oh, I guess the Rock is a shithead too?" But the way it actually works -- and why this is published on The Daily Wire and Fox News -- is that most people exposed to this garbage will read "The Rock supports Joe Rogan's video" and think, "aaaah, even Dwayne, the liberal pro-vax anti-Trump, Johnson thinks that the looney left is wrong and Joe Rogan is right." Or, more often than not, it's just a way to goose algorithms. Reading the stupid article my brain actually got dumber because it's like "Joe Rogan says something controversial," "these irrelevant celebrities who conservatives hate [Joy Bayhar, Joni Mitchel, Meghan Markle (and yes, one of my faves, but equally irrelevant) Neil Young] criticized him for it," BUT LOOK [dun, dun doo doo doo doo The Rock Says ... THAT'S THE ROCK'S MUSIC, KING!] THE ROCK SUPPORTS ROGAN!"
We all need more media literacy, it's bad, and it's going to get worse.
*OP has been updated to a Fox News article reprinted by Yahoo News.
It's not that "The Rock is pro-vaccine" (he did a PSA on social media after getting vaccinated), or "is anti-vaccine," or "is liberal, moderate, or conservative." He's a celebrity who is not engaged with issues, doesn't understand them, and wants to publicly spread his brand in the most profitable, effective, and least divisive way. He's literally shilling his stupid tequila in this reply, it's basically an ad. And the right wing culture war peddlers know what they're doing when they promote this "event" (which, btw, the updated Yahoo News post is no better or worse than the original source of Ben Shapiro's The Daily Wire; Yahoo News regularly peddles utter bull shit, it's not a news organization), they're trying to drum up passion and division for something that is utterly meaningless. A celebrity promoter like The Rock, a celebrity like Joe Rogan, they love that shit, it's more eyes on The Rock's tequila, and Rogan is millions of die hard fans who will probably be exposed to The Rock's tequila because of it.
Also the "updated article in the OP" is a Fox News article reprinted by Yahoo. Yahoo News is generally not a news organization, they largely don't do reporting. Yahoo did hire a few veteran news people ~2-3 years ago, but they very rarely do original reporting, they largely just republish content from other organizations because Yahoo is an advertising company. In this case it's a direct copy paste of a Fox News piece, based on a Daily Wire piece, based on an ad for The Rock's tequila.
So we went from The Daily Wire to Fox News.
There's are reasons why The Daily Wire, Fox News, and other advertising companies publish bull shit like this. One, to make money through stupid stories that they know people are addicted to and will engage with. Two, to drum up a narrative and promote these stupid stories that will subtly undermine public health, normalize anti-vaccination opinion, and hurt government efforts to get people vaccinated. The way you think it works is that people will read the headline "The Rock supports Joe Rogan's video," and people will think "oh, I guess the Rock is a shithead too?" But the way it actually works -- and why this is published on The Daily Wire and Fox News -- is that most people exposed to this garbage will read "The Rock supports Joe Rogan's video" and think, "aaaah, even Dwayne, the liberal pro-vax anti-Trump, Johnson thinks that the looney left is wrong and Joe Rogan is right." Or, more often than not, it's just a way to goose algorithms. Reading the stupid article my brain actually got dumber because it's like "Joe Rogan says something controversial," "these irrelevant celebrities who conservatives hate [Joy Bayhar, Joni Mitchel, Meghan Markle (and yes, one of my faves, but equally irrelevant) Neil Young] criticized him for it," BUT LOOK [dun, dun doo doo doo doo The Rock Says ... THAT'S THE ROCK'S MUSIC, KING!] THE ROCK SUPPORTS ROGAN!"
We all need more media literacy, it's bad, and it's going to get worse.
*OP has been updated to a Fox News article reprinted by Yahoo News.
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the way a lot of people in his industry lionize people like Hogan and particularly Ric Flair, im not sure how much it would even matter if Rock were aware.
The Rock is corpo as fuck. All he wants to do is sell his alcohol.
He's so "on brand" all the time and it seems like all he cares about are his business ventures. I mean, fair play, but it's annoying. Not a fan.
He's so "on brand" all the time and it seems like all he cares about are his business ventures. I mean, fair play, but it's annoying. Not a fan.
Nah, that was a rebuttal to "he's a republican."
I get he's super-center, but was hoping being on the "take Ivermectin" train was too far right for him.
The Rock is a businessman, of course he'd love to get on that "show" and do some PR for himself, lol.
Money >>> everything else.
Money >>> everything else.