Podcast host Joe Rogan is sounding the alarm — and he’s not wrong.
On Tuesday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan warned that America is creeping closer to a civil war — not just because of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s assassination, but because of how many people celebrated it.
“Charlie Kirk gets shot and people are celebrating like, ‘whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You want people to die that you disagree with?’” Rogan said. “Where are we right now on the scale of one-to-civil war? Where are we? Are we at seven? Because I thought we were at a five.”
Rogan said he’s stunned by how openly people now cheer for violence against those who think differently. “This is nuts,” he said. “Like what are you guys on? What’s happening here?”
He called it a moral collapse — when people in respected careers publicly post their joy over a political assassination. For Rogan, it’s not just the fringe — it’s a sickness spreading through the culture.
Months after Kirk’s death, that sickness still lingers. At a Turning Point USA event Monday at UC Berkeley, a man was caught on video beating a TPUSA supporter. Police arrested multiple agitators, including four women for felony vandalism.
“Right now at our Turning Point USA campus tour stop at UC Berkeley… Antifa is breaking through police barricades and threatening our event attendees,” TPUSA chief of staff Mikey McCoy said on X.
Rogan has warned before that America is normalizing political violence — but Kirk’s assassination, he said, “opened up” his eyes.
“It’s just bizarre,” Rogan said. “Normal people who think they’re good people are celebrating murder. I don’t agree with everything Charlie said — but no one deserves that. They’ve been indoctrinated.”
Rogan’s message was clear: the Left’s hatred is reaching a dangerous boiling point — and America better wake up before it’s too late.