Posted on 01/15/2026 9:53:48 AM PST by nickcarraway
A top Department of Homeland Security official fired back at Joe Rogan after he defended protesters comparing ICE to Hitler’s Gestapo amid ongoing unrest in Minneapolis over the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good.
The mega-popular podcaster told US Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) that he understands the “point of view” of critics who have likened federal immigration agents’ tactics to those of the Nazi-era secret police.
“You don’t want militarized people in the streets just roaming around, snatching people up — many of which turn out to actually be US citizens that just don’t have their papers on them,” Rogan said on Tuesday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
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What is Joe Rogan’s solution?
The Democrat Party better be careful. If the notion that battling a branch of law enforcement which is enforcement unpopular policies gets acceptable then the Democrat Party will find itself unable to cram down its 1984 future upon the American people.
Was the Gestapo trying to remove foreigners from Germany or rounding up Germans? The guy needs to read a book once in a while.
Think Joe is buying into the Nazi narrative a bit much? That “papers” remark is just plain stupid.
“What is Joe Rogan’s solution?”
He first has to acknowledge the problem.
What Bs
Rogan says ICE is roaming around detaining many Americans who didn’t have ID on them
Who got to Rogan
How many people are driving or out and about with no ID
I used to like Rogan but he is lying
Rogan is in very bad territory here.
He and uninformed people like him who have media positions express opinions that are uninformed and have no connection with our foundation and laws
Respect for Rogan has really dropped. If he can’t see the difference then there is something seriously wrong with him. I guess he thinks that we should just letting all the illegals stay in the country and that since a bunch of paid radicals are trying to impede ICE in doing their job we should just let it go. Pretty pathetic thinking if you ask me.
It’s one thing to criticize a govt. agency, it’s quite another to compare to Nazis.
Do more drugs?
I see he’s still got that leftist libtard gene. Go to hell Joe.
The Iowaka has really fried his brain.
I’ll tell you mine. Arrest any business owner that has more than 10 illegals (to demonstrate a pattern and not one innocent mistake) A Treasury Dept rule that illegal immigrants may not use banks and all accounts are frozen. Illegals may not use money transfer services.
That they may not buy property, use Buses, Trains or register cars.
All welfare money to someone who cannot demonstrate legal status or citizenship is immediately stopped.
They apologize to Elon and unleash his DOGE to audit all of that and put it on the blockchain where things like the Somali scam would be instantly apparent.
I think all of those would be infinitely better that a gaggle of masked men dressed like the 82nd Airborne chasing Mexicans across the Home Depot lot.
The stupid methods being used have removed about 600,000 illegals. We have 30 million in this country if we have 1. It’s pissing in the wind and giving the communists a very visible rally point.
A lot of smart things need to happen. But that would piss of the banksters and big agriculture and HIAS. So we get treated to the soldiers chasing rando Mexicans at the Home Depot, or stopping someone with a Spanish accent and demanding papers.
Bye, Rogan.
I never got into rogan, he only cares about getting high. Constantly. Screw him.
Criminals are being deservedly snatched.
As for the claim of innocent citizens being (temporarily) detained, whet is that percentage, and where is it documented?
The DHS is talking to Rogan
He was talking to a senator at the time
Senator Rand Paul, who neglected to straighten him out. Was he wimped out? Or was he in his anti trump mode?
What a disgrace Rand Paul is
“Joe Rogan’s formal education includes graduating from Newton South High School (Class of 1985) and attending UMass Boston for a few years before dropping out”
This is the education credential of the most listened to podcaster
My suggestion for him would be to remind the audience that he does not have a proper grasp of world history, laws, order and/or government to have any valuable opinion that he is using/abusing his platform to try it out on
Sounds like Joe had to pay slightly more to get his lawn mowed
It’s not mentioned enough that we wouldn’t be in this situation if it weren’t for Biden and Obamas failure to secure our borders!
Of course, they got a lot of help from the anti American democrats and do nothing Republicans.
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