"I'm just asking questions" being used as an excuse to host an unbalanced number of individuals purporting one specific worldview
Toxic masculinity posing as intellectualism
He is extremely popular with one particular demographic. That demographic tends to share the toxic masculinity and the Dunning-Kruger-fueled belief that they can be experts at everything from the armchair.
I'd wager that the part they aren't saying out loud has to do with a few different things:
Distraction from Epstein, which seems to be working. Iran operations now dominate the news cycle.
War offers some economic gains, at least in the short term for a few big players.
War fits into the "law and order" narrative Trump is desperately trying to milk, in a way that the DHS debacles have not done. Unprovoked attack on Iran even just as a show of force has been a conservative wet dream since at least the Bush Jr. days.
On one hand, nukes have been a clear deterrent for most of the time they have existed. Their use in these operations against Iran wouldn't just be unprecedented, but it would be wasteful too: what targets require such firepower instead of other, more sensible options? It's ironic, but nukes are arguably worse weapons when deployed versus sitting in their silos while deployment is threatened.
That said, "unprecedented" doesn't mean much any more, and Trump is totally the kind of person who would drop one just because he can. Instead of "I am become death" we'd get "I am dropping a big, beautiful bomb. Thank you for your attention to this matter."
But the repercussions would be massive. On a scale not yet seen. I'm not talking about repercussions from Iran: the world would need to stand up against MAGA in a big way. Much bigger than has happened so far. I'm not even sure what it would look like, frankly.
They like freaking out over social issues that don't affect them, like the men currently on an anti-trans crusade.
They don't like freaking out over actual problems we could fix in theory, like health care or income disparity. For those, they obstruct to stay relevant.
We (humanity) are quite fucked, tbh. It doesn't even really matter if you live in the US or not. The world's most dangerous weapons are about to get tied to an autonomous system which is already famous for getting things very wrong. The people with the killswitch are drunk with power and think that said AI provides a strategic advantage.
That was a landmark case for Hollywood and changed how things are handled with regards to an actor's likeness being used in films to which they are not attached. AFAIK, Glover got something in compensation, but it was a settlement out of court (= not public record).
Possibly, though as another commenter mentioned, using the noai URL for the moment is a good way to voice discontent. Not using it just falls into the "everyone uses google" narrative in a different way.
One issue we have now isn't exactly insider trading: it's that insider trading has been happening for so long that it feels like simply requiring no conflicts of interest, as should be standard operating procedure, now feels like inventing an entirely new system.
And of course, we have to contend with all the people who are worried about disenfranching the people in these positions.
Or, maybe, just maybe: the people who should be representing the public and running the country are those who would do so without worrying about their self-enrichment first.
Rogan is a great example of a few things:
He is extremely popular with one particular demographic. That demographic tends to share the toxic masculinity and the Dunning-Kruger-fueled belief that they can be experts at everything from the armchair.