Joe Rogan has always had friends in the industry. Dating back to his days hosting Fear Factor.
Politically dude has changed in recent years though, He used to be essentially Liberal. Lately he's been leaning right more and more Conservative, although he claims he's Libertarian.
Realistically he mostly just seems to be a bit ignorant when it comes to most political issues, and a bit of a conspiracy theorist. Even in this video he tries to claim credit for Theories he clung to before any evidence was available. and is saying he was correct in retrospect, when he could've just as easily been wrong.
Like his point about cloth masks.
It's Harmless to take precaution and later find out you were wrong. but very dangerous to take no precautions and later find out you should have. What negative consequences did people have from cloth mask use?
People are trying to be safe rather than sorry, thats it. but white people have no real issues to argue over in their life, so this is the major thing for them. And obviously some c00ns will buy into their rhetoric as well.