Tony Balloney

Got 99 problems

[Tony Balloney @BalloneyTony]

Don't give up the fight.

[Fanpage.it @fanpage]

Il governo israeliano sta comprando annunci su Google per screditare Francesca Albanese: l’indagine di https://t.co/NN3zpghRyP https://t.co/toPo2mnuPe

[Ruth_L @ruth_less_4_P]

https://t.co/ank3hPMurC

[Ruth_L @ruth_less_4_P]

Reading about Effective Altruism and Longtermism, a thread.

Don't buy into the Hype.

https://t.co/yRs2c9iS8p

[Ruth_L @ruth_less_4_P]

I think you’ve been played, Kyle, and though you might have gained something from it, let’s not pretend Rogan wasn’t pushing MAGA long before it was a thing. Some self-reflection might be in order since you, along with other leftists, helped create the image of Rogan as “open-minded.” Reality? He was always promoting a far-right agenda. People love to point to Rogan’s lukewarm “endorsement” of Bernie as proof he wasn’t MAGA. In truth, it was a carefully calculated “maybe” that perfectly suited his brand. Anyone who actually watched his content closely would see the pattern.

Rogan is out here selling luxury wellness “solutions” – saunas, ice baths, supplements – in a country where most people can barely afford healthcare, much less afford these costly “remedies” for problems rooted in corporate greed, Big Pharma, and the food industry. He promotes individual willpower as the answer to systemic issues, sidestepping the deeper causes and wrapping it all up in self-help talk and alt-right rhetoric.

Much like Fox News and other right-wing pundits, Rogan lumped neoliberal Democrats in with “the left,” pushing the laughable narrative that the political spectrum had veered “too far left.” In reality, since Reagan and Thatcher, politics has skewed hard to the right – from Clinton’s DNC takeover to today. People want universal healthcare and basic worker protections, yet Rogan tries to scare his audience by portraying centrists like Trudeau as “socialist leftists,” and every corporate Democrat as part of an extreme left-wing movement.

Rogan even helped rehabilitate Alex Jones, despite Jones having aired footage from Rogan’s own show, where Rogan compared going to a Black neighborhood to “Planet of the Apes.” Jones released this as a threat, accusing Rogan of “abandoning ship.” Yet, Rogan later had Jones back on the show alongside Eddie Bravo, spinning a narrative about Jones being “under stress,” and effectively giving him a PR reboot. Rogan normalized Jones’ conspiracy theories for the mainstream while ignoring real issues like UFC fighter pay. Meanwhile, he praised anti-woke crusaders like Jordan Peterson, gave Douglas Murray a platform to shift blame away from billionaires, and handed Gad Saad airtime to push his “woke mind virus” hysteria and genocide denial propaganda.

Though Rogan made his fortune in California’s entertainment industry, he fled to Texas, shouting “socialism” like every other tech bro who cashed out from public resources. Now, he’s just another mouthpiece for Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, peddling MAGA’s cultural war talking points.

His show was never about empowering working people – it was a gateway to alt-right ideology, instrumental in building a new digital right-wing ecosystem. He’s not counter-culture; he’s the new mainstream, promoting billionaire-friendly politics wrapped in a pseudo-masculine package. That “Bernie endorsement” was just a smokescreen for his true role in the right’s culture war machine.

[Ruth_L @ruth_less_4_P]

Rogan's been on the mainstream train since NewsRadio, the Fear Factor, where he convinced people to drink donkey piss and cum. He went from stand-up, pushing the idea that comics shouldn't face any backlash, to the UFC - be coming the main gateway linking fitness and martial art to far-right politica. But Hey, he once flirted with a Bernie endorsement and had two leftists on his show, so he's obviously 'for the people' right?

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

Kamala Harris ran a right-wing, pro-war, pro-Israel campaign alongside neoconservatives like Liz Cheney, and lost by a huge margin, including in Michigan.

Palestinian-American Rashida Tlaib ran a left-wing, anti-war, anti-genocide campaign, and won by a huge margin in Michigan.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

This is the textbook definition of ethnic cleansing.

[Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomsky_quotes]

We’re the only major industrial democracy that doesn’t have a labor-based political party—a party based on the poor or the working class. We have only one political party—it’s the business party. We have two factions of the business party called the Democrats and the Republicans.

[Massive Attack @MassiveAttackUK]

Really smashed the elite there guys.

[Tony Balloney @BalloneyTony]

@KyleKulinski Graeber explained this already.

https://t.co/O041h0Zzzb

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Everything That's Wrong with Liberal Centrism in Under 3 mins

As told by the late great David Graeber

[Tony Balloney @BalloneyTony]

Kyle, you've been fooled. On the other hand, he did give you a boost. Rogan has always been an establishment figure pretending to be a rebel. Thankfully, my fellow Americans are politically illiterate enough to believe that a millionaire shilling for billionaires is anti-elite.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

I've been on Rogan's podcast 4 or 5 times. He would always agree with my left-wing (and even anti-Trump!) arguments. But let's not infantilize him. He's a grown ass man and he eventually cocooned himself in a right-wing misinformation bubble surrounded by right-leaning edgy comedians and even flat out Republican propagandists like Ben Shapiro. He's responsible for his own radicalization. All that's left to do now is correct the tsunami of bullshit that emanates from his show on weekly basis.

[Tony Balloney @BalloneyTony]

@KyleKulinski Kyle, you've been fooled. On the other hand, he did give you a boost. Rogan has always been an establishment figure pretending to be a rebel. Thankfully, my fellow Americans are politically illiterate enough to believe that a millionaire shilling for billionaires is anti-elite.

[Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomsky_quotes]

Less educated workers may not know the details or understand the mechanisms that have been designed to undermine their lives, but they see the outcomes. The Democrats offer them nothing. They long ago abandoned the working class & have been full collaborators in the racket. (1/2)

[Tony Balloney @BalloneyTony]

@tancredipalmeri 2024.

[Aecio de Papelao @aeciodepapelao]

FALE COM O MOTORISTA
APENAS O INDISPENSÁVEL

EU:

[Tony Balloney @BalloneyTony]

@ruth_less_4_P @FranceskAlbs "Razzismo, il Consiglio d'Europa ha denunciato il clima in Italia
E chiedo di indagare sui controlli di polizia. Nel mirino dell'organismo internazionale anche il linguaggio di politici come Salvini e Vannacci."

https://t.co/n2eDdp9zHR

[Tony Balloney @BalloneyTony]

@ruth_less_4_P @FranceskAlbs "Razzismo, il Consiglio d'Europa ha denunciato il clima in Italia
E chiedo di indagare sui controlli di polizia. Nel mirino dell'organismo internazionale anche il linguaggio di politici come Salvini e Vannacci."

https://t.co/n2eDdp9zHR

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

25 years ago today.

[Stefania Maurizi @SMaurizi]

per me conta solo questo:
in 79 anni di Repubblica italiana, i servizi segreti italiani NON hanno MAI prodotto uno di loro che abbia rivelato la verità sulla criminalità di Stato, come invece hanno fatto
Daniel Ellsberg
Chelsea Manning
Edward Snowden

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Israel's war on Gaza is a genocide, says U.N. rights expert @franceskalbs, who has just released a new report titled "Genocide as Colonial Erasure." There has not only been a failure to prevent genocide, but it has been "enabled through the various organs of the state," she says.