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GOBEKLI TEPE, Turkey — Tour guide Sabahattin Alkan herds curious tourists through the scorching afternoon heat, luring them with the promise of something far stranger than your typical vacation snap. "Over here on the right, you see a spaceship landed recently," he says with a grin. He's joking. Mostly. But more on that in a minute. We're in the Urfa plain, a dry, dusty stretch about 25 miles from the Turkish-Syrian border. That "spaceship" is actually just a curved roof. But what lies beneath the dome has sparked decades of mystery, curiosity — and conspiracy. One of the T-shaped pillars...

VIDEOThe latest darling of the Democrats, James Talarico, a leftist politician out of Texas has as his shtick the PRETENSE of being a devout believer in the Bible. Of course, for him that means citing the Bible to promote leftist ideology. However, the hilarious thing is that the most effective person to discredit him is James Talarico himself as you will see. Also hilarious is how poor Talarico twists himself into a pretzel to explain how the Bible doesn't really mean what it clearly says. His excuse is that the Bible uses "ancient euphemisms" that shouldn't be taken literally. Meanwhile...

Joe Rogan was no fan of former President Joe Biden, but the podcaster raved about his scandal-tarred son Hunter Biden — gushing that a bizarre interview in which he held forth about his illegal drug use showed he was “smarter than his dad.” “And he could be president. How about that?” Rogan said on Wednesday’s episode of his “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast after playing a clip from Biden’s interview with “Channel 5” host Andrew Callaghan. “He could. No bulls–t. Hunter Biden, after all he’d been through, look, his dirty laundry’s all out there. We all see it. He was...

One additional note on the news that the FBI has opened criminal investigations into former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA chief John Brennan. Many are speculating on social media that FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a hint when he appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience a month ago, on June 6th: PATEL: Think about this: me, as the director of the FBI, the former Russiagate guy, when I first got to the Bureau, found a room that Comey and others hid from the world in the Hoover building, full of documents and computer hard drives that no one...

Joe Rogan had a big chat with Senator Bernie Sanders about climate change, and it got pretty spicy! Bernie told Joe that climate change is real and switching to things like wind and solar power could make lots of jobs. But Joe wasn’t having it. He pointed out that the Earth’s temperature has always gone up and down. There have been ice ages and hot times before.Joe even mentioned an article from The Washington Post saying that we might be in a cooling period now, contradicting Bernie’s idea that the last ten years were the hottest ever.Joe backed it up...

Podcast personality Joe Rogan broke with President Donald Trump again over a new issue. “Bro, these ICE raids are (expletive) nuts, man,” Rogan said to two guests Luis J. Gomez and Big Jay Oakerson in a recent episode of his podcast published June 18. “I don’t think if the Trump administration, if they’re running and they said we’re going to go to Home Depot and we’re going to arrest all the people at Home Depot. We’re going to go to construction sites and we’re just going to tackle people at construction sites. I don’t think anybody would have signed up...

U2 frontman Bono claimed on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast the Trump administration’s disbandment of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was responsible for some 300,000 associated deaths. Host Rogan and Elon Musk were quick to disabuse the Irish singer of his mass-casualty claim. “This will f— you off,” Bono warned, claiming tens of thousands of tons of food are “rotting” in warehouses from Djibouti to Houston because of recent USAID cuts and those running the warehouses have been let go, as FOX News writer Jasmine Baehr reported. “What is that? That’s not America, is it?” Rogan responded. “They’re...

Elon Musk just dropped a bombshell on the Joe Rogan Experience, confirming what many Americans have long suspected—Washington, D.C. is a cesspool of corruption, and the Democrats are the primary beneficiaries. “I think maybe three-quarters of the graft is Democratic. I think there’s maybe 20–25% that’s Republican,” Musk revealed, exposing how the system is rigged for political elites. “Most of the graft is going to the Democrats, but they throw some bones to the Republicans too, so then they’re in on it.” In a shocking but unsurprising exchange, Musk and Rogan discussed the absurd wealth accumulation of members of Congress,...

Joe Rogan knocked Democrats in a recent podcast episode, accusing the party of failing to connect with voters even after President Trump’s victory last fall. “They’re not course correcting at all. Ya know, they’re saying stupid s‑‑‑. It’s all nonsense,” Rogan said. “Their understanding of social media and the dynamics that you set up by having completely state-controlled mainstream media where they only said the narratives that you guys wanted,” he added. “They all said it in step so you could watch different programs repeat the exact same words, exact same phrases.”

Joe Rogan said former Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign “lied” about him not making time for her to appear on The Joe Rogan Experience, saying her staffers never committed to his show, and even lied about sending someone to his studio for a walk-through. Rogan added that he believes the false statements were made simply because someone on Harris’s staff is “trying to cover their ass for the fact that she never did it.” On a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the podcast host cited a book that recently came out “about the Kamala Harris campaign, where they...

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[H/T aMorePerfectUnion]Alessandro Palombo@0x_ale Mike Benz just revealed everything.On JRE, he exposed:- Why USAID is a tool for control, not aid- How “democracy” was redefined to silence you- The chilling truth behind Pentagon-backed censorshipI've never seen Joe Rogan so quiet...Here are 8 must-see highlights: Alessandro Palombo @0x_aleDec 91. The Ukraine CoupBenz explained how the 2014 Ukraine coup wasn’t just a geopolitical event, it was a testing ground.The CIA used tools to combat media influence in the region, but…Post-2016, these tools weren’t just used for foreign regimes...ransomnote: Link to 3 minute x.com Part 1 video segment: https://x.com/0x_ale/status/1866210734730002685?s=46 Alessandro Palombo @0x_aleDec 92. “Democracy”...

Mike Benz is a former official with the U.S. Department of State and current Executive Director of the Foundation For Freedom Online, is a free speech watchdog organization dedicated to restoring the promise of a free and open Internet. Drop the Mic

In 2020, I began asking questions I was not supposed to ask and noticing things I wasn’t supposed to notice. I was an establishment liberal, a “good soldier” for the Left. Right about now, I’d be that person on X with the Ukraine flag, the mask, the vax, and the pronouns in my bio. But my problem is that I am an internet person. I got online in 1994 and never left. I have been running my own website since 1999. I remember when the internet was free and its objectives when it began. I also remember how things were...

In a post-election jeremiad at Slate, Jill Filipovic opined that President-elect Donald Trump rode to victory on a “particular kind of masculine identity” that “imperils men and women alike.” Ms. Filipovic is right about the first point and wrong about the second. Men have risen: young men and old men, as well as men of all races. Women also voted for Mr. Trump in unexpected numbers, but commentators on the left and right seem to agree that men — especially young men — are the ones who propelled Mr. Trump into the White House, and his allies into Senate and...

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California expressed concern during a recent interview about his son’s interest in right-leaning figures like Joe Rogan, Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson. Newsom spoke to Bloomberg for an interview published Sept. 7, in which he focused on the topics of AI and its implications for governance. During the interview, the outlet asked Newsom whether he had talked to his children about potential issues surrounding AI. “I had a very serious conversation with my oldest daughter about the chatbots on Snap,” Newsom responded, before pivoting to a discussion of his son’s interest in online content creators...

Democrat Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said everything we are all thinking about his party— and he couldn’t be more right. Fetterman, a “blunt, says-what-he-means” guy described by NBC News, is different from the rest of the Democratic Party. He understands the Trump movement and why President-elect Donald Trump has such a massive following. He also stands out from the rest of his party members because even though he might not like Trump, Fetterman doesn’t spend his days thinking of ways to destroy his legacy. Instead, he has a message for his Democrat colleagues. Stop “freaking out” over everything Trump does,...

Joe Rogan has joined a list of Donald Trump fans who claim Joe Biden secretly hates Kamala Harris and is happy she lost the election. The podcaster, who interviewed Trump for three hours last month, pulled up photos of Trump visiting the White House on Wednesday. He said Biden looked far too happy at the traditional meeting where the transfer of power begins, and was convinced Trump had won the president's support.

A campaign official reportedly said Vice President Kamala Harris backed out of appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast out of fear of backlash within the Democratic Party. The Financial Times reported on Wednesday that Jennifer Palmieri, senior advisor to second gentleman Doug Emhoff, said talks about Harris appearing on “The Joe Rogan Experience” fell through “because of concerns at how the interview would be perceived within the Democratic Party.” “There was a backlash with some of our progressive staff that didn’t want her to be on it, and how there would be a backlash,” Palmieri reportedly said. She added there was...