Influence and persuasion expert Chase Hughes told Joe Rogan on episode #2278 of The Joe Rogan Experience that he bets “his career” on the COVID response being a full-blown psyop.
JOE ROGAN: “Do you think that someone sat in a room and that people discussed the best ways to get people to comply?”
CHASE HUGHES: “Yes. Oh, yes. I would bet my career because it was executed following textbook protocol.”
Hughes explained that the key sign of a psyop is “if the opinion that’s coming out needs people to be silenced.”
“So if you can’t question it—if you’re supposed to just go along, it’s a psyop,” Hughes reiterated.
During COVID, terms like “disinformation” and “misinformation” flooded the airwaves, but those terms were often weaponized to discredit voices and opinions the government didn’t like.
Doctors like Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, respected scientists at Stanford and Harvard, were silenced simply for challenging lockdowns through the Great Barrington Declaration.
“And it was openly discussed in emails,” Rogan pointed out.
“That’s what’s really crazy. They talked about the strategy of silencing these people, and then you had the actual government itself contacting Twitter, trying to get people removed, which is wild.”
They even went as far as to write headlines like “Mocking anti-vaxxers’ COVID deaths is ghoulish, yes — but may be necessary” (LA Times).
“My hope is that people have learned from this past four years and that this is an eye-opener,” Rogan said.
