Joe Rogan tore into the wave of online sympathy surrounding Lindsay Clancy during a recent episode of his podcast with comedian Brian Simpson, calling out the “free Lindsay” movement as a sign that “the world is out of its mind.”
The conversation turned to the case after Simpson brought up how strange it is that certain topics are treated as fair game for jokes while others are considered off limits. Simpson noted that Clancy strangled her three children and then attempted s*icide by cutting her throat and wrist before jumping out a window, but survived and ended up paralyzed. He joked on stage about her lack of problem solving skills, pointing out she was “three for three” on the strangulations but used unproven methods on herself.
Rogan then shifted into a more serious take on the public reaction to her case.
“You know, I think if those ladies could see the c*ime scene and see those d3ad kids with their vacant eyes staring up because their mother took their life, the last thing that they saw was their mother standing over them, ch*king them to death, I don’t think they would feel so bad,” Rogan said.
Brian agreed, saying, “I think everybody that is saying free Lindsay out, if she get free, they should have to let her babysit. Watch your kids.”
Rogan continued, saying he cannot fathom the mental state required to reach that point. “She’s out of her mind. The world is out of its mind. It’s like more of these things come up where you’re like, ‘This can’t be real. This can’t be real.’ And it is real. More of these things where like people are showing up in support of a woman who k*lled her children.”
He continued, “I don’t care how rough it was. The ability to k*ll your children is crazy. That’s a level of crazy that anyone who has kids, you know how much you love them, what you would do to save them, what you do to protect them from harm. The idea that you can get to a point where you could strangle your kids and chase your son.”
Simpson pointed out that some online commenters have gone as far as suggesting Clancy’s husband was actually responsible, despite her own admission. Rogan responded by noting that conspiracy theories tend to follow nearly every major news story, driven by people who want to avoid attributing blame where the evidence already points.
The Lindsay Clancy case has also drawn a reaction from UFC star Sean Strickland, who used the public support for Clancy to argue that women are too compassionate to govern society.
Strickland wrote that the situation made him think the Salem witch trials “weren’t such a bad thing” and called for the repeal of the 19th Amendment, adding, “Sorry women but you shouldn’t be able to vote….”
Strickland later doubled down on the argument, explaining, “Women are far too compassionate to rule a functioning society,” and claiming that women “just cannot grasp” the idea that some people cannot be helped and should instead face “ex3cution or permanent incarceration.”
