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Podcast host Joe Rogan used Tuesday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience to deliver one of his bluntest warnings yet about the state of the country, saying the left-wing celebration that erupted online after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk shows America drifting toward something far more dangerous than partisan division.

Rogan told guest Brian Redban that watching ordinary people cheer Kirk’s killing — a murder that unfolded in front of Kirk’s wife and child — revealed a level of moral decay he didn’t think possible in the United States. “Charlie Kirk gets shot and people are celebrating, like, whoa… You want people to die that you disagree with?” he said, recounting the avalanche of social media posts he saw in the aftermath. Rogan admitted he once believed the country was at a four or five “on the scale of one to civil war,” but after witnessing the reaction, he now puts it closer to “seven,” calling it “step seven on the way to a bonafide civil war.”

🚨NEW: Joe Rogan says *CELEBRATION* of Charlie Kirk Assassination shows US well on way to "CIVIL WAR"🚨

"You want people to die that you disagree with?"

"Where are we right now on the scale of 1 to civil war? … I thought we were … 4 or 5. But after the Charlie Kirk thing,… pic.twitter.com/IEsrK35ivE

— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) November 11, 2025

What shook him most, Rogan said, wasn’t fringe extremists or anonymous trolls — it was everyday Americans, people with ordinary jobs, openly celebrating a political assassination on Instagram. “If the worst thing you could say about that guy is, ‘He said some things I disagree with,’ and you’re celebrating that he got shot in the neck in front of the world… and you work at an insurance company? This is nuts,” he said. Rogan warned that when “regular people” feel comfortable glorifying murder in public, “you’re in dark territory.”

Redban jokingly blamed “estrogen pills,” to which Rogan laughed before circling back to his point: the celebration of political violence is growing, and it’s coming from people who should know better. It’s not the first time he has sounded the alarm. Days after Kirk was gunned down on September 10, Rogan said the response “opened up” his eyes to how normalized the idea of violence against conservatives has become in certain circles.

Two months later, on Monday, that concern was reflected on the ground. A Turning Point USA event at UC Berkeley erupted  into violence after a rioter identified only as “Jihad” was arrested and charged with assault and robbery. A TPUSA attendee wearing a “Freedom” shirt was left bloodied in the chaos, and several other individuals were detained in connection with the attacks. Across the country, students have been arrested for vandalizing or attacking TPUSA display tables, emboldened by the climate that followed Kirk’s killing. At the University of Arizona, one student was caught on video calling conservative students “Nazis” and warning them to “watch your neck,” a chilling reference to the way Kirk was murdered.

The hostility hasn’t slowed the organization’s growth. In fact, since the assassination, Turning Point USA says more than 120,000 students have requested to start new chapters — a surge the group attributes to both outrage over the killing and the broader backlash to campus radicalism.

Rogan’s message Tuesday was aimed squarely at that growing acceptance of brutality — not just among activists, but among the everyday people cheering them on. The warning was stark: a nation where political assassination is celebrated is a nation in real danger, and the shift from division to something far more violent may already be underway.

From LifeSiteNews

By Jonathon Van Maren

The tourists allegedly paid £70,000 to gun down civilians during the Bosnian War of 1992-1995, with the Serbs charging extra to shoot children.

Italian prosecutors are investigating claims that wealthy Western tourists embarked on so-called “human safari” hunting trips to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War of 1992-1995. According to press reports, rich “manhunters” allegedly “paid members of the Bosnian Serb army for weekend trips to the besieged city where they participated in the massacre of residents for pleasure.”

The wealthy tourists allegedly paid £70,000 to gun down civilians during the four-year siege of Sarajevo, in which over 10,000 people died by shelling and sniper fire; the Serbs charged extra to shoot children. The Daily Mail stated that Milanese prosecutors are looking into the “wealthy foreign gun enthusiasts” who traveled to the warzone for “sniper tourism” by flying from Trieste to Belgrade on the Serb airline Aviogenex and were charged up to £88,000.

The claims originated in a 2022 documentary by Slovenian filmmaker Miran Zupanic titled Sarajevo Safari, in which he explored claims that wealthy customers from Italy and other nations flew in to gun down innocent people during the Bosnian nightmare. The tourists allegedly paid members of Radovan Karadžić’s army to escort them to the surrounding the city, where they would set up position and fire at residents. Karadžić was recently sentenced to 40 years in prison for genocide.

The documentary claims that the “safari manhunters” came from Canada, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia, as well as Italy.

The claims are difficult to parse because the killing of civilians by Serb snipers was incredibly common, with the infamous “Sniper Alley” Meša Selimović Boulevard, the main road into the city, turning into a shooting range for the besiegers. The claims in the film are based on the testimony of a Slovenian who worked for an American agency during the war; a retired Bosnian intelligence officer; and three surviving victims. A U.S. Marine also recounted seeing wealthy non-military snipers being escorted into the warzone.

The tourists, described by one interviewee as “bored millionaires” who wanted to hunt people like they “hunted deer,” were allegedly taken by Serb military personnel through UN-protected routes or tunnels, sometimes disguised as aid workers or journalists, sometimes wearing civilian clothing. Estimates indicate dozens of tourists involved, with potentially hundreds of civilian victims.

Now a 17-page legal complaint has been submitted by Milanese writer and journalist Ezio Gavazzeni, with backing from Guido Salvini, a former magistrate, and Benjamin Karic, who served as mayor of Sarajevo from 2021 to 2024. Gavazzeni stated that the Bosnian Attorney General had “shelved an investigation into the ‘sniper tourism’” due to “the difficulty of probing such a case in a country still deeply scarred and divided by war,” although the Bosnian authorities have promised full cooperation with the case.

“We are talking about wealthy people, with reputations—businessmen—who during the siege of Sarajevo paid to kill unarmed civilians. They left Trieste for a manhunt and then returned to their respectable daily lives,” Gavazzeni told the press. The Serbs have denied the allegation, calling it “propaganda”; the Hague Tribunal found insufficient evidence.

Lead prosecutor Alessandro Gobbi, however, is “understood to have a list of several people who can provide testimony,” and Gavazenni stated that up to 100 tourists could have been involved; the case specifically cites the Milanese owner of a cosmetic surgery clinic, as well as others from Trieste and Turin. A Bosnian intelligence agent, says Gavazenni, has agreed to serve as a witness, and has claimed that classified files with evidence are still in existence.

According to the Daily Mail: “Other witnesses include a Slovenian intelligence official, victims, and a wounded firefighter who, during the 2002 trial of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague, described ‘tourist shooters’ with distinctive clothing and weapons that distinguished them from Serbian soldiers.” Now these claims will finally get the thorough investigation that has long been badly needed.

Jonathon Van Maren

Jonathon’s writings have been translated into more than six languages and in addition to LifeSiteNews, has been published in the National Post, National Review, First Things, The Federalist, The American Conservative, The Stream, the Jewish Independent, the Hamilton Spectator, Reformed Perspective Magazine, and LifeNews, among others. He is a contributing editor to The European Conservative.