Name: Joe Rogan compares ICE tactics to ‘the Gestapo’
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Here is how podcaster Joe Rogan described it.

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You don't want militarized people in the streets just roaming around, snatching people up, many of which turn out to actually be U.S.

They just don't have their papers on them.

That has also become a big part of this so called enforcement.

I mean, Minneapolis is not a huge place, okay?

And they are absorbing thousands of federal officers, more than any other deployment that they've done so far.

And we are seeing these encounters where you're seeing federal officers, maybe ICE agents, maybe border patrol, walking down the street, stopping people sometimes because they look Somali or they look brown or whatever it is.

This is according to those people who were stopped and asking them, where are your papers?

And Americans like Joe Rogan are concerned about it.

And I think part of it is, look, Joe Rogan's identity does not depend on defending Donald Trump and his administration doing things that are indefensible.

And I see people all the time mending themselves on tv, mending themselves into all sorts of pretzel shape because.

Because they subsist from being a Trump supporter.

Joe Rogan, I think, is speaking out of conviction, is speaking out of what he is seeing.

And I think it's reflective of what a lot of Americans feel right now.

People are showing up at the streets because they are pissed off at what is happening in our country.

It is heartbreaking to see these images in America.

We are the country that's supposed to be an example for the rest of the world.

the things that are happening in our streets are the type of things that happen in these third world countries.

And they do bring all sorts of bad memories when you see these masked men targeting people.

I mean, we remember the woman who got pulled out of the street in Boston by masked men.

We have seen pregnant women drag in in Minnesota.

We saw two young teenagers who were working at Target like so many of our children do.

American citizens have a job while going to school, being pulled out while screaming, I'm a US Citizen.

Because they look Latino and they were Latino.

That is un American and unacceptable and good for Joe Rogan for standing up and denouncing it.

More of Trump supporters, if they want him to be a good president, should be doing the Same.

Let me play what he said about the Renee Goode video that we've been discussing.

it's also very ugly to watch someone shoot a US Citizen, especially a woman, in the face.

When people say it's justifiable because the car hit him.

It seemed like she was kind of turning the car away.

Now, Jo, what was really striking to me about this Quinnipiac poll, 53% said it was unjustified for the ICE agent to shoot Renee Goode.

But I was also really surprised by how this has penetrated.

82% of registered voters say they saw that video.

So you're talking almost universal impressions of what happened there.

Is it, I don't know, are Republicans misreading the situation or risking misreading the situation?

Look, if anyone saw the last segment, right, I had no problem defending the officer, and

I think Joe Rogan's factually wrong about his assessment.

But I am a big Joe Rogan fan and I listen all the time.

And he is really emblematic of one of the most successful things Trump did in the campaign.

It was to engage podcasters and win a lot of people who listen to that type of forum.

I have a conversation in my head with Joe Rogan for hours every week.

So when I hear him challenging something that I believe or gut reaction to something, I actually listen to him.

So I do think this is a problem for Trump because I think he is a very good barometer of where people stand.

Again, this instance, he might be factually wrong on.

But he is a good barometer of where a lot of Trump supporters are.

You know, they have the Waffle House indicator for a hurricane.

Like if the Waffle House is closed, there might be, there should be a Joe Rogan indicator.

With us now, CNN political commentators Karen Phinney and David Urban and friends.

What I'd like to do is not relitigate the video or the events.

I actually want to talk about how they're landing in comments like the ones David just made by Joe Rogan, who seems to be saying, I support the president's immigration effort.

Notionally, I do not like what I'm seeing on the ground, though.

He seems to be saying, how pervasive do you think that opinion is?

Yeah, John, listen, I think it is very pervasive, right.

Americans overwhelmingly voted, one of the president's strongest suits.

Americans overwhelmingly voted for this president.

If you look at the Numbers and reasons given to secure the border and crack down on kind of the sieve that was the border under the Biden administration.

And this administration effectively sealed that border up and did that.

And then the president promised to go after the bad hombres and the drug dealers and get those people out of America.

And, you know, there's a lot of support for that in America.

It bears out that people do not want to see what you're seeing on your screen right now.

They do not want to hear what Joe Rogan is saying.

They don't want to see masked men geared up like Delta Force walking down the streets of America asking people for their papers, throwing them on the ground, zip tying.

People who are doing Sheetrock, you know, gardeners, nannies.

And so it is really hurting this president in the numbers on an area where he was strongest on immigration strongest.

President Obama deported lots of folks, but he did it in a completely different way.

The Obama administration grabbed lots of folks who just came across the border, people who were, who were.

Who hadn't really integrated themselves in the communities, hadn't become people's neighbors.

And, you know, surprisingly or not surprisingly, people don't like it when ICE shows up in their neighborhood and take away people that they have relationships with.

The Obama administration was very effective because they snatched people people didn't really know.

And in this case, neighborhoods see this happening and they don't like it.

So I think the tactics need to be addressed.

Well, you don't even know what I'm about to say, David, so why don't you let me talk.

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