He's also big in the revived Libertarian Party, and has been a staunch anti-war advocate for years, as well as talked to a bunch of highly knowledgeable people while doing his podcast.

None of those things make him smart or knowledgeable.

You acting like just because someone is also a comedian means their opinion is worthless is a really bad take.

His primary job is "comedian". That isn't a reason for me to respect his opinion at all. Therefore, if he wants me to respect his opinion, he needs to demonstrate mastery of the subject matter.

he does the opposite.

He's quite knowledgeable on the topics he cares about.

This clip tends to refute that. He's an absolute & total idiot whose every utterance can be proven false with a basic google search or reading wikipedia.

If a person doesn't even possess wiki-tier knowledge, they can only be called ignorant and ought to keep their mouths shut.

He's not some hypocrite celebrity who spits out the party line, he's someone who spends most of his job talking about and learning about the things he cares about.

If he actually does that, and THIS is the result, then he must be actually retarded, like sub-80 IQ levels of stupid.

If he has any popularity at all, it's because zoomers these days are vegetable levels of retarded.