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Controversial pop culture figure Kid Rock said during a conversation with Joe Rogan last week that he supports the idea of Israel killing “between 30,000 and 40,000” Palestinians at a time if the Israeli hostages are not returned soon.
During an appearance on Rogan’s immensely popular podcast, Kid Rock, a musician and more recently pseudo-political figure, shared his wartime philosophy with the host and audience:
“The only wars we won were the ones where we were the most brutal sons of bitches on the planet,” he said. “Which, I don’t disagree with what Israel is doing.”
‘It’s like they should go in there and say, you know what? We want our hostages back. If we do not recover them, the clock starts now,” he said, sharing his idea of how the IDF should proceed with the challenge of ensuring the return of the remaining 134 hostages.
He continued his profanity-laced tirade: “And within 24 hours, we’re going to start bombing motherfuckers and killing civilians, thirty or forty thousand times.” So you civilians better pack your bags and take these damn sons of bitches away. And you go against Hamas. You, damned king, go against them. We’re not going to play shitty games with you.
More than once during the segment, Rogan rejected Rock’s outlandish claims about how wars should be fought.
“Civilian targets are not supposed to be targeted,” he said. “That is actually a war crime.”
You can’t fight war like that! Kid Rock said.
“But you’re not supposed to pick civilian targets,” Rogan reiterated.
In the months since the outbreak of the current conflict in the region, Rogan has many times criticized the actions of radical Palestinian terrorists in Gaza who are still holding hostage more than 100 innocent Israelis taken captive during the murderous October 7 attack.
During the conversation, Rock made the oft-made point that Hamas is “hiding behind civilian targets.”
Rogan agreed, but added that “if you’re a person who was born in Palestine, you’re screwed.” You are under their (Hamas’) control. It’s not your fault.’
Rock agreed, saying that those people are “screwed… from birth.”
“Those are not our enemies,” Rogan said, again suggesting that civilians should not be targets.
Musician Kid Rock told Joe Rogan that Israel should kill tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians if the hostages are not returned.
More than once during the segment, Rogan rejected Rock’s outlandish sentiments.
Online critics were quick to take aim at Rock for his radical stance and Rogan for giving Rock a platform.
‘This is revealing. First of all, Joe Rogan is very nHe nonchalantly platforms this progenocidal rant from said pop influencer, effectively incorporating ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity into #Loop.
‘Second, Kid Rock he presents himself as a genocidal maniac. Neither Rogan nor Rock would ever be censored by this depraved idiot from the celebrity circle. These two showed themselves well…’ wrote pro-Palestinian journalist Patrick Henningsen.
Journalist Whitney Webb shared similar sentiments, although she also did not acknowledge the moments during the interview in which Rogan responded.
‘Kid Rock evolved into Neocon Rock. Yo“It’s crazy that the most popular podcast in the country has platformed these unanswered comments,” he wrote.
‘Oh! Kid Rock says“Israel should kill between 30,000 and 40,000 civilians in Gaza if the hostages are not released within 24 hours,” wrote the popular X news account Breaking911.
Others called the rant “unhinged” and “extreme.”