Joe Rogan lambasted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for dismissing concerns about people taking unpopular hard-left stances by claiming "Woke 1 was crazy," with Rogan saying AOC needs to do more than just shrug it off — she needs to explain why her own views changed.
The veteran comic went off on AOC during his Friday podcast. He started off by saying the liberal lawmaker has been looking "hot" in her recent videos where she talks about freezing her eggs, before quickly pivoting to bashing her for her viral "Woke 1" remark.
"[It] makes me think that you're willing to change your opinions based on public reaction. I don't like that," Rogan vented. "Because if you really thought 'defund the police,' and then you just [ascribed] it to 'Woke 1 was crazy,' well how did it get you? Because it didn't get me. How did it get you?"
Rogan continued:
Give me your thoughts. How far out did you track the consequences of defunding the police? Because I immediately went to, you're going to have more crime because no one is going to be able to stop teh crime. IT's going to get scary and ten you're going to want more police and saying 'defund the police' is just going to make more police and more control and more totalitarian government.

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Podcaster Joe Rogan warned Democrats that the only way to escape their "woke" reputation is to give specifics on where their policies went wrong and why they were wrong to support them.
"If you really thought 'Defund the Police' and then you just ascribed it to 'Woke One was crazy,' well, how did it get you? Because it didn't get me. How did it get you? How did 'Defund the Police' get you?" Rogan said, rhetorically asking liberals how far they actually thought about the consequences of defunding police.
"There's a way out of it for them, but they have to be honest," he continued. "If you want us to take you seriously, you have to say how you f---ed up," Rogan said as he spoke about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Woke 1.0 comments. "You have to say how you f---ed up, and you have to say what you really think about how you f---ed up. You have to be honest, and you have to be authentic. We have to know that you are embarrassed by your choices and that you kind of went with the hive."
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Podcaster Joe Rogan challenged Democrats to actually explain what far-left beliefs they will disavow and why they were wrong to believe them in the first place.

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President Donald Trump is throwing his weight behind House GOP leaders' latest gambit to pass the SAVE America Act as some fiscal hawks are skeptical of the bill's increase to federal spending while the national debt balloons to $39.5 trillion.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is spearheading an effort to pass elements of the election integrity bill through the budget reconciliation process, which would sidestep the need for Democratic support in the Senate in order to get the bill to Trump's desk.
The legislation would also add some $73 billion in national security spending as the war between the U.S. and Iran continues after multiple stalled attempts at peace talks.
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"The fact that there is no payfor and no language defunding Planned Parenthood is enough for me to vote no," Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., told Fox News Digital on Monday. "I am open to a dialogue with the administration on how we can ensure that the SAVE language is solid and what we might be able to do with stopping abortions by mail."

As many of its candidates notch electoral wins nationwide, the pre-eminent socialist political group in the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), plans to roll out an updated platform that includes eliminating the Senate and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by Congress.
According to a source familiar with the DSA's planning, the organization plans to roll out an update next week to its long-term vision for a U.S. policy platform. The update includes eliminating the U.S. Senate and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive branch and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.
Additionally, the updated platform would include amnesty for all immigrants and defunding the Department of War.
This would be in addition to the DSA's current policy platform, which calls for an "immediate end to all deportations," free migration between countries without restrictive immigration controls, and "extending full voting rights to people with criminal convictions and noncitizens."
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Jane Fonda has urged entertainment industry leaders to do more to protect artists' "right to free expression".
The Oscar-winning actress took to the stage at the Rise Up, Sing Out concert held at The Town Hall in New York City on Sunday night.
The concert was organised by members of the Committee for the First Amendment - a collective of artists and cultural leaders who seek to "celebrate the freedoms guaranteed by our First Amendment - of speech, religion, press, ***** embly, and protest".
Addressing the crowd, Fonda claimed U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration are "routinely violating" the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution "to silence artists".
"Shuttering institutions like the Kennedy Center, defunding museums and the National Endowment of the Arts, and banning books, cancelling TV hosts who speak out," she said. "It's really bad. And it's being allowed by cowardly corporations. I'm not gonna name names right now. But I am honoured now to pass the mic to artists and activists who continue to speak up and sing out so that we might be inspired to rise up. Showing up is an act of hope, and you all give me hope."
Fonda went on to argue that it doesn't matter whether someone sides with the Democratic or Republican party.

In the first year of his second term, President Donald Trump made a special effort to deny the impacts of climate change. In a September 2025 United Nations speech, he called carbon footprints a “hoax” and criticized climate policies, jabbing, “Windmills are pathetic.” The White House defunded renewable energy subsidies, dismissing them as a waste of government funding.
But the administration launched a probe this month into Brazil’s deforestation as part of Trump’s implementation of new tariffs, which entail investigations into countries’ trade practices.
Brazil is home to about 60% of the Amazon rain forest, which absorbs carbon dioxide that would otherwise enter the atmosphere and contribute to global warming. Legal deforestation—mostly as a result of cattle ranching and agricultural expansion—has cost the country about 3.7 million acres per year.
To be sure, Trump hasn’t changed his mind about climate change, though his sudden concern over deforestation is still ironic.
Instead, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced a wave of new tariffs on dozens of major U.S. trading partners under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act, alleging they failed to enforce bans on imports made with forced labor.

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