I don’t think that Joe is doing any noseguarding.
Joe is
absolutely engaged in noseguarding. He was engaged in noseguarding when he took MANdy's phonecall to try and own the Farms on Rekieta's behalf.
Which, of course, ended up blowing up in his face.
The only reason why I feel a
little sorry for Joe is because he made an honest boomer mistake in showing the phone number, that had massive unintended consequences, and he's almost certainly catching a disproportionate amount of shit from Rekieta (and maybe the rest of the Balldo Brigade) because of that. I feel sorry for Joe in the same way I felt sorry for Sean when he was getting that gay tongue lashing from Rekieta (though in Sean's case, Sean did absolutely
nothing wrong).
My perception of this is colored by the fact I know the Rekieta cult tries
really hard to pressure you to defend him at all costs and criticism of him isn't countenanced.
I also know his ultimate salvation lies in getting the fuck out, but that's on Joe to decide to do that.
At the end of the day, the dumbest person in this whole situation is Rekieta. Nothing can ever be his fault though, and he demands everybody to toe the line. Which is more or less what Joe is trying to do here.
Is earning 5000$ from a tranny LARPing based or not?!
It sounds more like homosexuality.
I’m sure he does feel some guilt, but IMO the way to handle that would be to fess up, admit you fucked up, apologise to Nick / MANdy for adding to the drama and then shut up about it. Chastising everyone else for looking into it or commenting is being hypocritical and self-righteous when he doesn’t have that right.
Well, TBF, he did the first parts...
He catastrophically failed on the last one though. You're right that he should just have shut the fuck up. That 10 minute lecture he gave was fucking stupid.