Joe Rogan Says ‘No Way’ to CBDCs: ‘Checkmate. That’s Game Over’

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Podcast personality, Joe Rogan, slammed the idea of an American central bank digital currency, or CBDC, declaring that if a digital U.S. dollar was forced on Americans, it would be โ€œcheckmateโ€ and โ€œgame overโ€ for the country.

Rapper Post Malone appeared on โ€œJoe Rogan Experienceโ€ on Aug. 8, in which the subject of CBDCs came up.

There is fear among commentators that power-hungry bureaucrats would be easily able to manipulate peopleโ€™s livelihoods to suppress any dissent without restraint by shutting bank accounts with a push of a button.

Last year, President Joe Biden instructed the federal government and Federal Reserve to lay the groundwork for a potential new U.S. digital dollar.

The order further directs the Treasury Department, Office of the Attorney General, and Fed to work together to produce a โ€œlegislative proposalโ€ to create a digital currency within 210 days, about seven months.

The Fed, at this time, has stated it has no plans to issue a digital dollar soon and would let Congress make that decision.

Social Credit Score Fears

Post Malone joined Mr. Rogan to speak about the state of the U.S. financial system, which then turned to a discussion on the potential abuse of power that could come with CBDC use in the United States.

When asked by his guest about what he thought about the CBDC that the Fed and the Biden administration have been working on, Mr. Rogan responded: “No way. Thatโ€™s what I think. I think thatโ€™s checkmate. Thatโ€™s game over.โ€

Mr. Rogan described a scenario in which the government could tie the use of CBDCs to oneโ€™s social credit score and warned that Americans could easily be cut off from their finances by federal officials for violating the rules.

โ€œBecause if they apply that to a social credit score, if they decide somehow or another that you need some social credit score system and itโ€™s for the benefit of society, and they outline that, they can track your behavior and your tweets and all your things […] They just decided you [expletive] up, and the rules are the rules,โ€ he said.

Byย Bryan Jung

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