Joe Rogan has his podcast with its figurative finger on the proverbial pulse of the country, and he is perhaps too popular or visible to be silenced. In the traditional media, he is maligned, mocked, criticized, dismissed, and given an intentionally misleading label of "alt-right." Much of his considerable audience has expressed frustration and anger regarding the current political climate, a reaction to the bombshell dropped by Facebook's own Mark Zuckerberg on the "Joe Rogan Experience." In episode 1863 of the podcast, Mr. Rogan listens as Zuckerberg lays out how people within the government had warned his company about "Russian propaganda" in the week before the release of Hunter Biden's laptop. As a result, Facebook censored accurate report from the view of its users, and thereby suppressed important material with the power to sway those few votes that ultimately decided the election. The former press secretary for the White House, Jen Psaki, describes just one way that the Federal Government is attempting to control the narrative, "We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook."Countless examples exist elsewhere of the attempt to label Hunter's laptop as lies and propaganda. We know now that it was a legitimate story and that the FBI lied to Facebook as the media hid the truth, all to keep that message from getting out or from being believed. President Biden gave a prime-time address in September that attempted to create a narrative of a democracy that is under constant "threat" from within. He pointed to an angry mob of people in the nation's capital as the group violating the rule of law and poses a remaining risk to our country. In truth, few have affected an election or its results in a way as dramatic as our country's own FBI. In an election as consequential and as close as 2020, was it the angry mob afterward that was the "threat to our democracy?" Or was it the direct censorship of potentially harmful material concerning the candidate by Silicon Valley and the FBI? Biden didn't mention those efforts as "thwarting the rule of the people," although it most certainly does. "Chaos," "anger," and "lies" are the choices made by Republicans says President Biden, in an effort to mislead the American people. In his September address, he cited the Capital riots as evidence that the "freedom to vote and have your vote counted" was being taken away from us. Nobody's ballot went uncounted, nor was anyone denied the freedom to vote. Those are words attempting to incite anger from people, exactly the accusation the administration levies against former President Trump for his statements on January 6th of last year.
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Non-FictionA divisive article in response to a prime-time address by President Biden