#2391 - Duncan Trussell

Duncan Trussell (0:01)

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.

Duncan Trussell (0:06)

Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day. Hello, Duncan.

Duncan Trussell (0:16)

Hello, Joe. Hello.

Duncan Trussell (0:19)

Father, Father Trussell.

Duncan Trussell (0:21)

Hello, Father Rogan.

Duncan Trussell (0:23)

Are we allowed to do this?

Duncan Trussell (0:25)

What?

Duncan Trussell (0:25)

This religion, you can kind of goof on a little bit.

Duncan Trussell (0:28)

Catholicism? Yeah.

Duncan Trussell (0:30)

They get testy.

Duncan Trussell (0:31)

I don't, you know, having now gone to more than a few Catholic masses, which are beautiful, and hung out with Catholics who are awesome, I've really had to reconfigure everything I used to think about it, because they're just really sweet. Had a long conversation with a priest, brilliant dude. Totally like, non-judgmental, kind of intellectual, you know, philosophical. Like right away, I'm like, oh, I should have this guy on my podcast.

Duncan Trussell (1:02)

Interesting.

Duncan Trussell (1:03)

Yeah, it wasn't, it's not what, it's the, you know, I feel like the Christianity that most people are angry at is not even Christianity.

Duncan Trussell (1:14)

You know what I think it's like?

Duncan Trussell (1:15)

What?

Duncan Trussell (1:15)

Like saying that you're a liberal person. Because I'm pretty liberal and you're pretty liberal.

Duncan Trussell (1:21)

Yeah.

Duncan Trussell (1:22)

In the greater spectrum. But then you get lumped in with Antifa.

Duncan Trussell (1:25)

That's the first-

Duncan Trussell (1:26)

Then you get lumped in with, you know, whatever crazy LBGT issue of the day.

Duncan Trussell (1:31)

Yeah. Yeah. Well, and even Antifa doesn't want to be called liberal. Did you know that?

Duncan Trussell (1:36)

What do they know?

Duncan Trussell (1:38)

Well, Antifa is anti-capitalist and that is not liberal. So there's a, that's the problem. It's like the terms are really muddy right now. So when you're looking at like Portland, the protesters in Portland.

Duncan Trussell (1:54)

What exactly is going on in Portland? I'm trying not to pay attention.

Duncan Trussell (1:57)

Oh, well, what's happened is-

Duncan Trussell (1:58)

I know they've brought in the National Guard.

Is that happening? When they tried to and they got blocked?

Duncan Trussell (2:03)

No, I think they have now. I think they're there. So what's happened is, in front of the ICE facility, there are ongoing protests at night. Now I watch these streams and I've been watching a self-professed fascist named Carlin, who drinks and basically roasts these live streams. But weirdly, she has apparently embedded herself with Antifa before, and so it's such a funny stream because like-

Duncan Trussell (2:41)

So they tolerate her?

Duncan Trussell (2:43)

Oh no, not anymore. She's like, I don't know if she's trolling or not, but on her stream she's like, I am a fascist. So she's proudly proclaiming she's a fascist. I don't know how much of that is trolling, how much of it is real, but conservatives who are drawn to her stream will say things like, these people are funded by George Soros. And it's the funniest thing because she gets so mad. And she's like, get off fucking Fox News. Stop watching that shit. It's all wrong. Do these people look funded? Do these people look like they have money? They're not funded. It's so, and I guess her bigger point is by saying these are funded agitators and not saying what they actually are, which is anti-capitalist revolutionaries, you dilute what's really happening. Because what's really happening, according to her, and I think a fair amount of people, is that the economy is so fucked. The middle class is diminishing so much. The cost of living is so high that this is the till, the perfect soil you need if you wanted communism to grow anywhere. Because you're some kid, you've been like glued to Reddit or TikTok. You've been getting your fucking amygdala jerked off on by the devil. You're just filled with like unease. You've watched assassinations, attempted assassinations, the banking crisis, all of it. And it's like then you like some Marxist theorist starts telling you a little bit about like Dismantling capitalism. You got it. Yeah. And you know, I don't know, man. Back when I was in liberal arts school, if shit was the way it was and some especially if it was a like some hot goth girl started talking to me a little bit about dismantling capitalism, I think I would be like, yeah, let's dismantle. But that so that's what you're seeing there. The breakdown of it is that the Democrats and Republicans, what they have in common is they believe in private property and they they believe the power of the state should be used to protect private property. And so, anti-capitalists is communists.