Joe Rogan Is Backing Justin Baldoni, Of Course

A few weeks back, I had an encounter in the real world that was notable for two reasons: First and foremost, I actually left my house. It’s a miracle CNN didn’t cover this groundbreaking event. Second, it became very clear that backing Justin Baldoni has seeped into the manosphere. I’m not going to get into the details, but the conversation involved a person who had no reason to be following this story calling Blake Lively a “b*tch” while demonstrating a bare minimum grasp on the details, if any at all.

Granted, the fight between Baldoni and Lively hasn’t entirely reached Johnny Depp and Amber Heard levels yet (and not without lack of trying), the PR battle has weirdly broken across battle lines in the culture wars. Why weirdly? Here’s what Dustin wrote:

Baldoni is a performative feminist with a man bun — the type of guy anti-woke scolds would normally ridicule. And yet, the right has chosen to back him, seemingly because Reynolds and Lively are more aligned with the political left. It’s ultimately another senseless culture war, driven by the right’s reflexive urge to embrace troubled outcasts as long as they’re in conflict with the “Hollywood elite.”

I’ll take it one step further, and say that the culture war battle lines are as lizard brain as: “Man right, woman wrong.” Case in point, here’s Joe Rogan randomly barreling into the topic to cape for Baldoni because people still can’t get it through their thick gourds that Rogan is a full-on right-wing reactionary. The dude is literally boycotting Canada for Chrissakes. C’mon.

Via Page Six, who of course, is laundering this mess:

“The whole thing’s crazy,” he said. “[Baldoni’s] suing the New York Times and he’s got a great case there, too.”

Rogan then agreed with guest Brendan Schaub’s point that Baldoni’s only option was to fight back in court and go “hard in the paint” if he had any hopes of salvaging his career.

The podcast host added, “Especially, a guy like that who’s, like, known for being really sweet, nice guy and then he’s, like, ‘All right, enough.’”

He said many people in Hollywood would be too “scared” to go up against a power couple like Reynolds and Lively since they are “A-list.”

As I’ve apologetically stated several times, Joe Rogan’s stance is where I landed when this whole mess first broke back in August. It definitely read as Blake and Ryan throwing their weight around and sidelining a no-name star/director to take creative control of a film. But then I did this amazing thing where I adapted to new information. Specifically, the PR mechanizations that Baldoni tried to use to “bury” Lively and learning the reason why anyone would be stupid enough to f*ck with Mrs. Deadpool.

Turns out, Baldoni is a Baháʼí religious freak backed by a fellow billionaire Baháʼí-ist, and there’s your recipe for a power structure that made Baldoni allegedly treat the set of It Ends With Us like a weirdo playground for weirdos to get weird with Ryan Reynolds’s wife.