“That’s Dangerous” – Joe Rogan Gives Verdict on the Alarming Differences Between the Old Twitter & Elon Musk’s X

Joe Rogan’s effusive praise for tech mogul Elon Musk has become a recurring theme on his podcast, with his admiration stemming from both their personal friendship and Musk’s contentious acquisition of X (formerly Twitter) in 2022. During JRE segment #2269 with Bret Weinstein, the UFC commentator once again steered the conversation toward Musk, lauding him as a champion of free speech – a narrative he’s consistently promoted since Musk’s $44 billion takeover of the social media platform.

“The difference between the new Twitter, thank God for Elon Musk, and the old Twitter. [On] the old Twitter, you guys [pointing towards Bret] tried to put together a Unity party where you would get the best representatives from the left and the right together for the good of the country. And, like [the old Twitter] that’s dangerous,” Rogan said.

Weinstein, for context, had attempted to put together a political platform, called ‘Unity2020’ whose aim was to have a Presidential ticket, where one candidate was from the center-left and the other from the center-right. 2016 candidate Andrew Yang was tapped as the potential center-left candidate, while retired US Navy four-star Admiral William H. McRaven was to be the center-right candidate.

Ultimately, the ticket fell through, partly because the ‘Unity2020’ handle was banned by Twitter, allegedly for using bots to bolster the account. “Even lied about us. They said that we were engaged in inauthentic behavior- basically, they accused us of using bots, which we didn’t. So anyway, that’s the world we were in 2020,” Weinstein said on the podcast.

But Joe Rogan and Weinstein (correctly) feel that this would never have happened on Elon Musk’s Twitter (or X as the tech mogul rebranded it). After all, X is the most lenient major social media platform, allowing types of speech on the platform- for good and bad- that were prohibited under the pre-Musk-takeover terms of service. However, at the moment, the tech mogul has bigger fish to fry, namely the federal government.

Joe Rogan is happy with Elon Musk-led DOGE shutting down USAID

Elon Musk, of course, was appointed the head of a newly constituted Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after Donald Trump was elected President last year. The Tesla CEO has taken his new role quite seriously and has made many big moves already. Musk has announced that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) will be shut down, as well as aggressively reviewing the workings and details of various US government agencies and welfare programs.

This, of course, has been met with a lot of criticism from the Democrats, who have termed DOGE’s moves a ‘hostile takeover’ of the US government. But Rogan, who is a bellwether for a significant part of the young male population (his biggest fan base), is quite happy. In fact, Rogan, who isn’t very fond of the ‘government’ thinks that Musk is doing exactly what is needed.

“What’s fascinating right now is we’re getting a chance to see what happens when you take a business approach to the government in the White House… The same people that say we need radical change, right? ‘We need radical change. We’ve got corruption. We need radical change.’ Okay, well, here’s your radical change,” Rogan said on episode #2268 of his podcast. What do you think about Joe Rogan’s comparison between the ‘old Twitter’ and ‘new Twitter’?