Trump voters weren't fooled by trump. They know exactly what he is. That's what they want.

You forgot to include that Sam is also a neuroscientist.

Treat guests with respect.

@Andrew Justis Harris gets more than a million downloads for each of his podcast episodes. Someone cares what he has to say.

This is awesome! Both these men are GREAT!❤❤❤❤

Lex did, Lex is a fraud and is more russian than ukrainian.

Respectfully, have you ever been pushed to desperation, hopelessness. The mind begins to do strange things. It doesn't give up.

Jesus is the answer to elitism.

@@Kenneth-ts7bp Nah, Thor is much better.

@@Kenneth-ts7bp My friend Felicia, who has, remarkably, never been wrong about anything, ever, not even once, says you're wrong.

Totally agree. I found David Feldman recently and he's comforting to me and shares your characteristics. However I'm in hospice and finally got to the stage where i need a big dose of humor with the truth. I like Sam and have learned a lot but sometimes -- more & more lately -- i also need comfort and laughs with the heavy topics like these. Sam is one of the most intelligent guys Ive come across & esp i appreciate his views on religion and atheism. 😊

Trump 2024. The only sane choice. Harris obviously suffers from TDS.

Anyone who supported trump should get respect for not holding back and telling people they support him with the great chance they will get alienated from their family and friends.

@@AndrewQuiroz24 Lmao not really. I bet you don't think the same for people who supported Obama or Biden when their family and friends are conservative Republicans in some rural area. It all depends on where you're from or your background and you can still get some backlash from either side. Trump supporters aren't victims lol gtfo with that.

@@rob97dani dude if you say that you support trump as a minority everyone calls you white. What are you talking about? White elitists enable this narrative through colleges for blacks and browns to overwhelmly think a certain way and when we deviate we go against the tribalistic nature of our group. It's BS. I will GLADLY explain to you in person how white liberal elites are imposing these TOXIC messages on our youth.

It's so bizarre to me that those of us who have a problem with Trump and his toxic behaviour are labelled with Trump Derangement Syndrome, when all measurable indicators of an unhealthy fixation on Trump are clearly and exclusively displayed by the individuals who support him. And the argument is such an easy call. For example: at one point, we all believed that sexism, racism, bullying, fraud, self absorption, pettiness, criminality, exploitation, combativeness, lying, name calling, bigotry, bragging, lack of accountability, cheating, nepotism, infidelity, disrespect, extortion, bad sportsmanship, deception, rash decisionmaking, intolerance, irresponsibility, hypocrisy, sore losing, immorality and lack of integriy were negative qualities in a person and anyone who exhibited more than one or two of them, let alone ALL of them, triggered red flags in all of us. The difference now though, is that while most of us still hold those same beliefs and values, there is a large swath of the population who woke up this morning feeling that those qualities are suddenly perfectly fine with us, to the point where we may even actively engage in some of them, ourselves. THAT is deranged

The wealthy family member says what is you name, his reply "I'm Chance The Gardner". Then he's being introduced to others as Mr. Chauncy Gardner. I was 15 yrs old when I saw the movie in 1979 at the theatre and even at that age found it hilarous. Classic Peter Sellers dry humour throughout.

Thank you so much for this post! I MUST watch this movie. 👍🏼

@@Splexx Yes, he was being served a stiff alcoholic beverage as he was being asked his name and gagged on it, thus leading them to assume "chance the gardener" was "Chauncy Gardner."

One of my top 3 favorite movies of all time.

Are you talking about the Trump/Russia collusion lies?

Or maybe the Hunter Biden laptop?

@@paullambert8183Clinton emails!

​@@paullambert8183 The HB laptop is a lie. I am sorry you would fall for such an obvious scam.

​@@paullambert8183Funny how the biggest thing that Maga cultists can attack Biden on, is not only yet to be proven but was also done by Dump himself.

Exactly

​@@PatrickSmithAgreed. Lex annoys me with his spinelessness, but the people he interviews are often great. The channel has value.

@@chethankrishnan6639 and he lets Sam answer uninterrupted. Very rare with many interviewers

Watch Scott Adams debate Sam about Trump. Could Sam think of a single good thing Trump did? Abraham accords? Calming things down with North Korea? Anything?

He seems a bit, um ... Irish ?

Sam Harris has revealed his competitive narcissism.

Amen to that brother! Big Sam harris fan here. And thought Lex was a fairly unbiased interviewer. But this was painful to hear someone ask questions with such clear bias and cognitive dissonance.

And your comments about this are revelatory. Harris’ demeanor hides (for some) his corrupted personality. The way I which he speaks of trump and the legions of people that saw beyond his personality and even character flaws to what is truly important in an executive which is policy. His policies and actions as president were truly in the best interests of our nation and its survival.

another deluded trumpist. he has almost all the worst traits you could hope for in a leader. arrogance. corruptness, narcissism, lack of morals, lack of loyalty, lack of patriotism, disrespect for the constitution and peaceful transfer of power. his policies actually were terrible. tax cuts for millionaires that only added more to the national debt, and not even half a wall. Imagine if i said ill make you an umbrella and i give you like 1/4 of an umbrella - even that would be better than a fraction of a wall. people can just go around it. So what other policies did he enact? taking kids from mothers at the border? Disguisting. Defending nazis and extremists? staging a coup on the government? Attempting to bribe foreign leaders. cosying up to Putin? The only thing i can see that he did thatw as good, was getting other NATO leaders to pay more - and that was by accident! He assumed they wouldnt do it, and that he could set tjhe stage for leaving NATO. But actually they reacted positively to much surprise. In much the same way Putins war has had the opposite effect and strengthened NATO. So please tell us what these great policies were? And what great polici es he has promised for next time, other than non stop revenge on everyone who wronged him? @@satinderpinder7280

Lol these are the dumbest takes

The sad thing l questioned why doesn’t the Sam Harrises of America don’t run for president?

Trump is so selfesh he is the FIRST President to leave office with less wealth than he had the day he went in.

Trump thinks he's superior when he struggles just to be average.

I laughed out loud when Sam made this comment.

his wish came true. we got the bidet, the living cadaver. can't get more mediocre than that in america....

Sshhhush

I'll say you don't....

Thoughtful comment. @@warrenallsopp

There is a lot of that out there, both in interviews like this and his own podcast he's had for many years now.

not this one. I listened mostly to all of it and it was just as elitist as the man he criticized only in a better form.Harris is not a populist . At least the border was more secured and his relationship to Russia was not any different in principle as Israel is to the Arabs. Why critique that? Trump did a great job with our adversaries in gaining respect. Sam says nothing about Biden.and yes the election was rigged . Do want a answer to that?

Never heard of Lex but got this same vibe watching this. As I read through the comments, I'm coming to understand why.

But he had on a guest who readily criticized trump....same thing

Ha! EXACTLY.

Sure... just like people in general adapt to a degree to people, they are talking with. So what? People always have self interest in mind in some way you cannot escape that nor should you. Listener is free to make his own judgement on whatever topic.

Perhaps he's a just a fan and doesn't wanna offend. I'm a Sam fan. If I was interviewing him I'd be extra careful on things we don't agree with. Especially his TDS.

Snake oil salesman as well

As opposed to what? Any other politician? He fits right in.

Throw in rapist. When he raped ivana he pulled a clump of her hair out

I worked in NY , union sheet metal ,and he has been a LIEING grifter since the 80s And he does not pay is bills. Just a loser then as now

​@@Jackaroo.Your trolling is subpar

Everyone is a bad person on certain angle

@@lawrencemalata1503 True but not everyone is wanting to be our president.

is nt the mind and the brain the same thing? lol..........

⁠@@AsifKhan-hf9zynot exactly. People don’t say “have an open brain”. Mind is the result or synthesis of the brains biology. Brain is the physical thing. At least that’s how Id think of it. It’s lose and fuzzy though because anything that is experienced as “the mind” is happening inside the brain so how are to concepts separated..

@@vhufeosqap Agreed. I would say that the mind is more synonymous with consciousness, than with the brain. It is the result of brain activity.

Thank you for this succinct review of this hour.

I think he's trying

Lex is playing devil's advocate in a lot of this conversation. I suggest you relax a bit on the tribalism.

Sorry to burst ur bubble, but Harris has the mindset of a fascist and I can prove it.

Sam Harris R E F U S E S To Try (( continue to try )) To Find The Calm // Rational // Sen - - sible Middle Ground Between Trump Lovers & Those Who Do N O T Love Trump . Good For Sam . ✅️ ✔️ N I C E ✔️✅️

@@ManicMindTricksame 2 u

"What do we do when up to half of the populace is so misinformed and deranged and ideologically..." -- Why don't you get out of your bubble and take a look at your half of the population and admit to their derangement? The current president is a pathological liar and people like you show your ignorance with the comment you made.

I think our political system of checks and balances could take care of trump and his ilk. If it doesn't then we will need to work on our constitution in order keep fascists from toppling our countries government. And we should not see major legislation change every four years because one party stacks the supreme court.

"...the "power at all costs" mentality on the right"? Did you mean the left?

@@fgb3126nope. He meant the right, as in MAGA.

Sorry but having any plan other than "I get to be the center of attention" is giving him far too much credit. Trump has indeed never in his life strung together 3 consecutive sentences on the same topic or without invoking himself in a non sequitur..

Spot on, Joe evidently also has a moral, screw missing.

Yep, me too. Was a joe fan until he went anti-vax and used his platform to tout Ivermectin as Covid remedy. MD that Joe is. WTF, Joe.

How is Trump dangerous Loretta? Trump is the first president since Carter who refused to drag America into a new war. Trump also did what Obama said he would do but never did, Trump set in motion America's withdrawal from Afghanistan. Just for comparison, Bush Jr dragged America into war with 2 countries over a lie and Obama expanded it to 7 countries. Millions died. Trump also refused to get involved in Russia and Ukraine, and Russia is threatening nuclear war if America gets involved any further, Biden doesn't care. Trump de-escalated America's long-running conflicts not only with North Korea but also countries we depend on to keep using American dollars as the reserve currency. Biden's policy has been to repeatedly threaten them to stay in line so now China, India and Russia are forming their own standard which has started the process of American money becoming worthless worldwide.

😂

I agree with you. JRE has changed money and power corrupts absolutely! It really rinse and repeat if you want anything healthy. Cheers 😎

Yes, but I'd add: Not just 'an idea in their head,' but subscribers to their podcast, money in their pockets, millionaires & billionaires in their contacts, etc. Lex seems willfully obtuse when it suites his socio-economic ladder-climbing.

@@ritornelloandrefrainI bet you have watched Shawshank redemption !!😂😂

How’s he morally corrupt?

Exactly my take take on this video. It's hard to watch Lex just not understand at all what Sam is saying.

@@billyb4790OMG, really? He's been found guilty of rape in court, for which he shows no remorse but rather continues to verbally abuse the victim. He was found guilty of fraud for using money from a "Build the Wall" non-profit entity for his personal expenses. He referred to fallen American soldiers as SUCKERS. He buried his wife at his golf course for the tax advantages. He idolizes authoritarian leaders of other morally corrupt countries such as China, North Korea and Saudi Arabia. Those are just a few of many. It would take too long to summarize all of them.

Very sound analysis. That's why most Hollywood actors and pro athletes keep their mouths shut. They could lose everything they have. And you make a great point that Trump was able to fly under the radar of scrutiny for decades because people thought he was just a clown, like people initially thought of Hitler.

Have you seen what Joe Biden has done to the country and the world as a whole?

Trump is the first president since Carter who refused to drag America into a new war. Trump also did what Obama said he would do but never did, Trump set in motion America's withdrawal from Afghanistan. Just for comparison, Bush Jr dragged America into war with 2 countries over a lie and Obama expanded it to 7 countries. Millions died. Trump also refused to get involved in Russia and Ukraine, and Russia is threatening nuclear war if America gets involved any further, Biden doesn't care. Trump put 500 billion into the black community more than Obama and Clinton combined.

"I am one who has no love for identity politics..." Very few people do, "hyper-PC" culture is largely a myth perpetuated by people who are too scared to have reasonable discussions about change. Instead they push the extreme wackos into the center so they can strawman any modicum of progressive thought that might challenge the status quo. Also the wackos are way more entertaining than reasonable discussion so are exploited and monetised by the media.

I was sick of Trump by the end of his term, but I definitely miss him now.

Trump has another character defect that hinders his autocracy: his laziness. He doesn't have the discipline of Hitler and Mussolini. Case in point: Trump told his terror mob that he would march with them on the Capitol. He watched it on TV. Hitler marched on Munich.

Or, 3) they are just like him and share his values.

@@OneEyedJacker What "values"? Be specific. These are now facts: He mocks the handicap, is repulsed by wounded soldiers, decries gold star families, slept w/ a porn star while his wife was pregnant w/ his son, he paid for that sex, he was found, by a jury, to have raped a woman and caused her harm, he has fraudulently misrepresented documents to benefit himself over decades, he paid someone to take his SAT exams, he sues people he disagrees with to stifle them because he's richer, and he lies on a regular basis. Against the backdrop of who he IS, what he "values" be specific and state what values they share?

Private equity firms are bankrupting America. Trump dumped us out of the TPP at the behest of Russia (China's best neighbor) and ripped $4 billion in one day from farmers who spent years building those relationships, the wealthy are trying to shut down public education and eliminate Social Security, and fifty other major unreported problems and what are we having to worry about? Whether the greatest con man in the history of the galaxy will ever spend one night in jail. Fashionably "woke" or ultra-conservative, it's one giant sheetshow to keep us all distracted from trying to change anything, at least in any significant manner. My advice? Take a deep breath, secure your home, and don't make any major purchases until sanity is restored. Of course, that means you'll probably be wearing the same clothes and driving the same car for the next twenty years, but the only way out of the game is to choose not to play it, or at least play it as little as possible to the point it no longer stays profitable. Find out who your friends are, the good ones, and keep them close, and contrary to TV, keep your enemies as far out of town as possible. The law of the land is the rich get richer and the house always wins - as long as we keep playing the game. Vote and support minimum wage for politicians, make lobbying illegal, and allow anyone able to secure enough signatures to freely use the PUBLIC COMMONS AIRWAVES for a reasonable amount of political advertising so that it doesn't take so much money and political pandering to get elected.

Or they are awake and realize there was going to be no way to vote America out of tyranny in the future (now). The harm done by media focus on the 'deplorables' voting for trump and their dehumanization instead of on the experiment that failed hard enough to enable him, will be studied for a century. First president not to start a new war since Carter? hmmm

4.) There's a clear need for someone to be able to talk and form sentences?

Exactly - although Sam can sometimes put his foot in his mouth, if you hear out the depth of his positions, they are always well-reasoned, articulate, and most often objectively correct. How so many people doesn't see Trump the same way Sam does will never cease to baffle me. The man is just so blatantly contemptible.

Lex's attempts to defend Trump are so ... pitiful. You can see on his face how anguished he is that his feeble rationalizations keep being dismantled by Harris.

Read your mind? You should go on the podcast then. Are you famous?

@@user-zz5je1ry1o only in my mind am I famous

@@GiuseppeSan "if you hear out the depth of his positions, they are always well-reasoned, articulate, and most often objectively correct. " - like this one here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nKiWf6ik0ra8lI0.html do you believe we all should see Trump as sam Harris?? and have a similar opinion?? whats your thought on the video I put here?

Trump didn’t start any new wars the first president in 50 years America to do that. Sorry. Reality. These people argue Trump was incompetent they mean he was incompetent at funding the money laundering death machine the military industrial complex that Democrats like Biden are extremely competent in doing. Missing moral compass! Lolz 😂 What a clown act these two are. America was at its best. All of these two in the video and your crying about nothing is you at your worst.

And what has sleepy joe done for you?

@@markderamo9229 you’re a bot

@@TheRealAbraxas Prove it. I'll wait here patiently...... 😀

@@markderamo9229 President Biden did'nt try and overthrow our government, when it was a fair election.

Sam Harris seems deranged.

Are you being facetious?

@@Kenneth-ts7bpyeah he seems so wild and out of control 😂😂😂

@@Pntngbrn TDS?

Absolutely

Sam is the same person who advocated ending democracy so the elites can pick our leaders in secret. Not only that he's too biased to see that Trump wasn't dangerous compared to other presidents. For example: Trump is the first president since Carter who refused to drag America into a new war. Trump also did what Obama said he would do but never did, Trump set in motion America's withdrawal from Afghanistan. Just for comparison, Bush Jr dragged America into war with 2 countries and Obama expanded it to 7 countries. Millions died. Trump also refused to get involved in Russia and Ukraine, and Russia is threatening nuclear war if America gets involved any further, Biden doesn't care.

Sam hates the American people and is a spokesperson for the donors, foreigners and elites who oppose his America First agenda

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nKiWf6ik0ra8lI0.html - whats your thought on this?

Sam has TDS big time.

Trump needs no deep dive by a PhD...anyone with 2 connected brain cells knows a person that's nothing more than an illiterate bigot.

Yes incredulous lol. I guess the one thing that absolutely blows me out of the water shock is that a very sizable number of Americans could ever in a million years vote for this guy for anything much less President! I think djt has made me aware of things I would never be aware of is that we have people that would in a zillion years think this guy should be the President of the most powerful country in the entire history of the known world and have his reprobate (being kind) fingers on the nuclear button!!! Jeez Louise I need my brain rewired for real!!

@@EmmettHenderson-hf1zm it is also unfathomable to me lol

I know! I couldn’t tell if Lex was playing devil’s advocate or is just a Trumper

@@jlump228 yeah, it is hard to say honestly, but that he seems to have the 'other sides' point down so clear, makes it seem like its his perspective, plus he kept going on about how he always respected Sam for his level headedness but that he was not being level headed about Trump.

​@@EmmettHenderson-hf1zm the most incredulous part is that he got 10 million MORE votes in 2020. 10 million people in this country couldn't stand to pull the lever for him in 2016, but the following 4 years of nightmare won them over. What in the actual hell.

Morality has a side and so does integrity...not blind adherence to a belief - that's dogma. I'm talking about something much easier to understand. Lex engages in the same BS that Joe Rogan and countless others due where they launch into these false equivalency justifications about everything they do or what others say even when they know it is wrong; it's almost always done for views, money, etceteras. Honorable men and women realize this. That doesn't mean we have to agree with everything someone says.

I truly believe that destructive sociopaths do not deserve empathy. You can recognize what they are, and sort of thank whatever thing you are spiritual towards that you aren’t that person. But when people actively and overtly seek to harm and make other people suffer, and they have no experience with possessing a conscience, then they just do not deserve it back. I don’t know how else to say that. I don’t think people who are truly at the bottom in terms of antisocial behavior have any hope of improving. Trump and people like him, especially nearing their age in anyway, are never gonna get better. They’re never gonna turn the page or really get past the place they’ve come to. They just wither away and then they die.

@@MrWorldasmaya Lex tries to prop himself up as some kind of "intellectual podcaster" as opposed to Rogan's conspiracy theory podcast show --- but he's very weak when it comes to analyzing underlying themes and core tenents of the subject matter he's talking about --- he keeps defending Trump but fails to see the vast immorality of a lifelong crook and fraudster the sinister intentions of the MAGA Swamp

Lex and Joe, to your point, use false equivalency. But additionally, they are both pretty empathic and while I find that honorable, the truth is, they're speaking to millions of people. Many of whom that do not have the faculties to parse put what is what. People that think Joe is qualified to comment on astrophysics, virology or any other deep science. So, they want to hear the other side of the story l, but then take it too far and Lex prides himself on not pushing back hard because of his caring, empathetic style. And the average intellect gets very confused.

I like Lex a lot. But his credulity concerning Trump is WEIRD. He claims the coup attempt was......a joke. 1) How? What was funny about it? I have a hard time believing Lex's sense of humor is that....undeveloped. 2) Trump & Co _clearly_ didn't consider it a joke. Indeed, it's an empirical all-consuming axiom at this point. 3) NONE of his supporters think the coup attempt was a joke. They buy into Trump's premise entirely. Indeed, ask them about it being a joke...and get ready for their lack of emotional regulation to fully show itself. Lex is smart. And he's compassionate....but I think sometimes to a fault. He's far too naive about one thing in particular: He doesn't seem to be _able_ to recognize actual sociopaths and psychopaths. He's so charitable with people and their intentions....steel-manning everything he comes across....that it's totally blinded him to the malicious actions of malicious people. I don't get it. Especially when this flaw in his thinking is gone over with a fine toothed comb by Sam for nearly an hour. Lex's stance on all this is just baffling. Is he _genuinely_ this naive...?

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Losers. Spelling is important. It helps you to appear smarter.@@jamesmcnaughton5092

It’s spelled losers.

Thank god we woke up and elected dementia Joe

@@casualobserver2380Thank god we fired dementia Don, the traitor and fascist.

​@@casualobserver2380hes doing so much better than Trump. Cry about it.

​@@casualobserver2380you obviously dont understand dementia...

You don’t just get to trash millions of people and then say “together is better”. You lost us and now you are on your own. To build, to save lives and most importantly to fight wars. We will no longer give our lives and damage our families to provide you with the space and freedom to shit atop our heads. Good luck and try doing some pushups. You’ll need some upper body strength.

Is it, though? Is it really? I have lost so much respect for these people. I feel like they can't be trusted to make good decisions or consider the good of the many and I really don't feel confident that they can hold on to their integrity or consider the best interest of others going forward

You’re talking about Trump, aren’t you?

@@stephanhansen5931 I'm talking about Trump and his cult members

infinite jest

He has probably read the book, it’s amazing.

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@@amberackerson5916 Elmo Musk

Yes that came through. His bad faith defenses of Trump were transparent.

Apparently that is what pays the most money for podcasters this days... Carry the water for wealthy narcissistic shitheads and keep the bases of half-brained conservative troglodytes in a permanent state of hate and paranoia...

@@MugRuith Agree 100%. A bit surprising and sad IMO.

The truth lies somewhere in the middle, Trump isn't a deranged maniacal goofball demon as Harris makes him out to be. Lex is just pushing back on that and even confronted him about TDS, which Sam very clearly has developed a severe case of.

My thought exactly.

Please give an example instead of making generalizations. And I doubt you know what a "Red Herriing" even is.

Was it just to ensure that all of Trump's doings were discussed and debunked. To truly lay bare how dangerous Trump was and still is.

Well lex is trying not to lose the trumpies, he wants them to keep watching so they don't just get lost in their echo chamber of insanity

It's easier to fool a man than to convince them that they have been fooled.

This !!!

Don't you mean "disabuse" them..... of the perception that Trump is qualified....... ?

@@warrenallsopp either works

You prefer accomplishment-free lying lawyers as president?

Like a crime scene in slow motion, littered with incriminating evidence being sham investigated by the Keystone Cops.

the chaos is so harmful. trump traumatizes and abuses everyone who enters his orbit. as president, we were in a car with a drunk driving maniac. i don't know how to be happy anymore. families and friendships are hopelessly destroyed. along with his flippant, careless and toxic response to the pandemic, it will be generations of working through this. our lives will never be the same because we now know the truth about who we really are...

@@pastelartguys3161 well said!

The quote associated with PT Barnum comes to mind. "There's sucker born every minute". For some people thats a tragedy, others are made filthy rich by it. Seems theres an audience willing to suck up to any lie. 'Credulous ,Credulous, Credulous....' Its a growing whisper spreading on the wind during this age of social media. I sense our biggest challenges concerning this are still ahead of us

Hum, you might answer some of my questions. I often wonder why those people voted against their own well-being as Trump’s and GOP’s policies are totally opposite of what will benefit those voters. I am just a curious and concerned Canadian.

@@freedomlife3623 That's been a puzzler in the US for the entire history of the country. Our own Civil War is a perfect embodiment of your question...one can hardly fathom what was going on in the mind of the typical VOLUNTEER infantryman in the southern army....poor, probably just a generation or two in his own family removed from indentured servitude, extremely unlikely to have owned slaves and in fact for the few agricultural products that he was able to harvest beyond his own subsistence needs actually competed against the products produced by the large plantations which were run by slave labor...and yet, the wealthy elites in the south were able to convince these poor, but easily agitated fools that the fight to protect slavery was their fight, getting hundreds of thousands of their poor, white neighbors to eagerly sign up to become cannon fodder, and sending tens of thousands of them to their deaths, to protect the lifestyle of the wealthy southern slaveowners. It's truly a puzzle but you see a lot of the same dynamics in today's GOP, with the use of moral panics and outrage motivating so many undereducated and ill-informed Americans to essentially cut taxes and regulation for the benefit of the most well off Americans. Truly, a puzzler.

@Freedom Life I hope you don't mind my interjection, but as humans have a tendency towards selfishness, a degree of which is associated with our base instincts for survival, I truly believe that politics can be boiled to its essence, which can best be described with the phrase "follow the money." In order for the elite to maintain (i.e., increase) their wealth and power, the propaganziation of the masses is essential. The objective is to keep them fighting amongst themselves, and it is largely accomplished via state sponsored media. Fox News and the MAGA movement are good examples. Hitler did the same with the German people in the 1930s - millions of people were convinced that he was doing right by them. That is largely where the Trump and Hitler comparisons end because, as Sam Harris stated, Trump has no ideology beyond serving the ego. Honestly, I believe Trump was/is probably a greater threat than Hitler when you consider his climate policies and access to nuclear weapons, if not his complete incompetence and ignorance. Still, their accomplishments were dependent on convincing millions of people to support policies that were detrimental to their self-interests. It is proof positive that anyone can be propagandized if they are repeatedly lied to long enough. These people are angry after experiencing 40+ years of increasing inequality and an unprecedented distribution of wealth from the working class to the elite. They want someone to blame, but they are barking up the wrong tree, so to speak, as the real enemy are the wealthy and powerful. Until they figure this out and direct their ire upward, nothing will change for the better. That is the $500 billion question: how do we effectively shield people from the constant barrage of misinformation that is perpetuated by the elite? However, I disagree with Lex and Sam about one thing - I think Trump has revealed just how strong our institutions actually are. Yes, there are definitely weaknesses that could be exploited by someone who has more wherwithal than Trump, but in the end, our democratic institutions withstood a coordinated assault by the most powerful network of people on the planet who exhausted all attempts to dismantle it. The same can be said regarding Hitler and the Nazis. In the end, humans tend to follow their better angels.

​@@nlabanokgood points...but remember those weren't highly educated men and they were told the north wanted to destroy them..I doubt they signed up to defend slavery because in today's dollars a single slave would cost a quarter million bucks...only the richest could buy slaves

Worship of Trump , has clearly become a cult, after seeing the people clamoring to put his half eaten pizza in their mouth, I mean , it's clearly a cult .

Been that way forever. I stopped listening mid way through 2016 because I couldn't stand the constant fawning over Trump. Otherwise, been a fan of Lex, but can't square falling for such an obvious danger to this country.

You probably need to take a step back and think about how if half the country likes Trump, it's very important that they hear conversations like this one, especially since it's a much richer point of view than the one-sided garbage people spew in the media.

Lex does same re Elon

@@cosmocalisse "Half the country" is not accurate at all. Only half of the Americans who are eligible to vote, vote. Of that half of the population, less than half voted for trump. He never won the popular vote. So, if every voting republican was 100% in love with trump, it would only be about 25% of the population. I would argue that half of the republican voters are not happy with trump and would rather have someone else conducting the same policies. That would mean about 12% of the country "likes" trump. Certainly not half. And that doesn't include people who are either ineligible to vote or too young to vote, only the eligible voting population. So technically, it would be

He's playing devil's advocate for the sake of discussion

No, sorry, they are not good people. If they aren't racists, they are racist tolerant. If they aren't liars, they are liar tolerant. If they aren't cheaters, they are cheater tolerant. If they aren't corrupt, they are corruption tolerant. If they are not traitors, they are traitor tolerant. Lots of MAGAs like him just because he's nasty. Not good..

​@@---Dana---- I don't think you could scream I'm an empty headed lunatic louder than you did there. Well done!

And there’s not a mountain of propaganda coming from the Left?

Good in what way? Good providers, mothers, fathers, Christians, citizens, patriots? Trump appealed to the parts of the tribal, reptilian brain that fears and hates the success of the others. As if other's gains were proportional to your losses (or perceived losses). I'm heartened by your self awareness but see no convincing evidence that the majority of true believers share your epiphany. Many of my family members fell for the outsider myth and now are reticent to speak about him at all. Now it's Biden bashing, trying to equate, with little success, the failures of the current administration with the unmitigated disasters of the previous. I don't believe the current political debate is an education opportunity for Republicans in general, I tell Trump apologists to vote their conscience and I will do the same.

I would rather have the propaganda of Trump than the outright destruction coming from Biden and the radical left.

thank you, exactly Apotheosis of this simping is on the pod with Jeremy Suri, I think the title of the video is "jan 6 was a big deal". I was astounded at claims that Lex was making. This wasn't just "playing devils advocate" it's pure audience capture.

Exactly right. Unfortunately Lex got caught up in the Joe Rogan bro circlejerk. It's funny because lex and his accomplices complain about the mainstream media when they show bias for one side, and then proceed to repeat the exact same behavior. With all the bragging they do about how big Joe Rogan s audience is compared to CNN that they'd figure it out; they ARE the mainstream media now. The contrarianism and conspiracy theories are just the sugar that makes the medicine go down.

Same here..

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I don't think he is as intelligent and empathetic as you think, and I'll explain. For one example, Lex uses the premise of "empathy" to make his behavior look more noble, than the simple pandering and kowtowing it often is. He also appears more opportunistic about his base on the right, which is where he then aims his submissiveness towards. The mask of empathy is, ironically, likely largely disingenuous in that way, and serves as a tool to knowingly excuse empowering the dangers that Sam here has fairly poignantly outlined.

Is this because he’s not talking good about Trump?

@@ianokay maybe you are right ... haven't considered this before

It's just like saying the sky is blue dude. It's just sad to see how susceptible so many Americans were to this obvious and pathetically insecure con man. Sad! The movie Ideocracy was soooooo prophetic.

@@davearbuthnot5809 - because Biden/Obama is better somehow? How?

Yeah I don’t get the comment section. I have been watching all the Sam clips and it’s the same thing. They all can’t be bots right

@scoobihu1090 okay, but they actually like him. They’re not saying he’s awful and that he’s going to destroy everything. They think he’s doing a wonderful job making america great. And plus it’s not “broken beyond repair” you can literally vote someone in you actually agree with rather than someone you simply think will destroy it all. Like if that’s what you think that’s just an objectively bad strategy.

Everyone’s lives were better when he was President. Low taxes, low gas prices, no new wars.

Frightening. Especially when he is quoting from Mein Kampf. He seems to think Americans are stupid when he repeats others thoughts. He's not that intelligent he just studies that book and even admitted over 20 yrs ago he had it on his nightstand.

We are still really just a different version of monkeys that wear clothes and have learned to talk. We have not evolved much. Enlightenment is a stretch for us.

not at any stage during this part or any part of the podcast did he recognise the potential for his own biases or blind spots on every issue he has touched over the last 5 years (btw he has been wrong on numerous stances and that fact makes this all the more insane. his self admiration is 'trumped' only by donald himself)

Take it from someone who was a Sam Harris fanatic for 9 years and who never liked Trump pre 2016…..Sam has a massive blindspot regarding his assessment of Trump and Trump supporters and Trump defenders. He straw man’s the shit out of all of it. You can listen to the podcast he did in 2015 were the cracks in his brain slowly formed. I think it was with Paul Bloom but i may he wrong.

@@camcunningham9443 Not really. He literallly admitted that government is usually corrupt and that’s why people voted for trump because they wanted someone that wasn’t a career politician. That’s literally a fact. But we all know trump is a narcissist whether your e a fan of him or not. Sam’s view of trump is the fairest I’ve seen so far from someone that isn’t on his side lmao.

@@SP7000SP i don't waste more oxygen than necessary on people who talk like you

They don’t listen at all. They simply can’t get past the fact that someone doesn’t like their hero, Trump. It’s a shame. Same repetitive, boring strawman arguments and ad hominems in every comment section.

Just had to say, "I'm Catholic," . That's it. We'll automatically know your position. Left wing

​@@bobbyblazes4398 oh hush.

@@bobbyblazes4398 Please do not include me in your idiocy.

​@@bobbyblazes4398 what? lol that stereotype is news to me

Not just a catholic but devout 🙈

Sam has something rare: integrity

Nah Trump fans aren't introspective so they're not into Sam. He lost very few fans

It's way less than half. Trumpists are not interested in reason and correcting mistakes, the small fraction of them that are atheists or anti-islam and listen to Harris have been deteriorating since 2015 when Harris first gave his opinion on Trump.

@@vargatamas6422 you’re right. Being a Trumpist and Sam Harris fan must surely create considerable cognitive dissonance…

Seek help for your TDS pal and don't forget your boosters. @@vargatamas6422

"the pornography of attention" great line to explain Trump's motives

Noticed!!

Yes.

Freedom and liberty are a form of empathy. The right already donates far more to charity volintarily. While the left lives to use the goverments monopy on force to express their "empathy" and "aultism" .

Because he has no empathy himself

I've heard the word "rigged" so many times I don't remember what it means anymore. Now it's just a meaningless small mouth noise.

About what?

Trillions in tax breaks for the most wealthy in America . When America was great they paid their fair share. i am done with lex he is just another sycophant.

he's amazingly intelligent.

Hes a dunce.

You will find a whole bunch of public speakers with similar qualities, mostly working in the fields of philosophy and political analysis. Some are content creators doing podcasts, blogs and vlogs, but some are on the telly or the radio. There are many of them, thousands in fact. They are quite small though, not celebs, because they are "not interesting". You know, not being controversial, causing drama and acting like clowns. Alike the many content creators making millions who double down on shock value, but are truly not smart or knowledge at all. So the truly remarkable thing about Sam is that he is famous, despite being a sober and non- scandalous intellectual.

Christopher hitchens and sam harris are my biggest intellectual role modes

Empathy for Trump. Wtf?

@@roddyboethius1722 Trump has used up any empathy or goodwill that was allotted to him. He’s an objectively bad man. It’s been a legit year since I watched Friedman, I’m sick of his poor judgement and naivety.

@@jackcorbin6757 💯

There's at least one.

You would think there’s more😉🤣😯

LMAO😂

And the Sam haters are random schmucks on KZfaq who haven't achieved what Sam has.

@Conn30Mtenor Replace Sam with any famous intellectual that leans conservative and find a mirror?

Tireny awaits huh. Ok

@@rsdouglass4Did you understand the message, misspellings aside? Tyranny DOES await, in the form of Don and all other traitors.

LOL!!! Have you taken a look at what the current administration has done in the last 2.5 years? You are just as brainwashed as the Trump crowd.

2 hours of “We just need to love each other more” and no addressing the blatant fascism at work.

Lol😁

that would be terrible business, he would alienate trump supporters if he didnt say the election was stolen. He would become an agent of the deep state. Doesnt matter how much he defends trump every other time, it only takes one slip up and your corrupt, just ask Mike Pence.

Probably not. Him being a computer scientist, and the hoops of absolutely ignorant shit he'd have to pretend to not know would probably be to obvious for his thickly veiled dishonesty.

Lex is a fascist. He was raised that way. Loves Putin and doesn’t give a fuck about the USA.

Tax cuts for the investor class and expansion of executive power.

Back of his head

Wow you got that right. Reagan was the first American president genuinely dumb. Meaning he was not curious or thoughtful. The Republicans keep finding one dumber than the last

Lex is pretending to be an "intellectual" but is clearly not --- he's too dumb to realize that "see the other side" is just another facet of a right wing fascist propaganda toolbox

Old adage, stand for nothing, fall for anything

Excellent comment. I'm surprised You don't have more "likes"

Yes exactly, look at the supposed Supreme Court. Look after themselves thats why there here like the donald. Period

@@johnalden948 Over 304k Views and only 5k thumbs ups means he got a sh!tload of hidden thumbs downs because they don't agree with his BS. He needs to stick with aetheism and get off politics because peeps are calling out his BS.

@@matrox Specific. Be specific. What of "his BS" occurred here? What, specifically, was/is he wrong about?

@@johnalden948 In part because a lot of people watching are intent on their tribalism - they'd rather look first for division 'how does this comment point out the failures of my enemy' or 'how does it specifically agree with me' rather than looking at the problems from 30k feet. And, frankly, they're afraid to admit that what they've been taught their entire life 'capitalism is perfect' any hints that its not fall upon deaf ears.

About as dumb, dangerous since he handed Cheney all the power but still more likable and way less narcissistic.

@@Studeb, you can find Bush's old readings lists from his presidency. He was voracious. I don't think he's dumb, just unwise and unethical. With the education he was gifted he would have had to try not to pick up some decent things. I bet he knows a little Ancient Greek and could discuss Leo Strauss.

😂😂😂

W was a more dangerous idiot. he was a walking puppet. and the military industrial complex took full advantage of that. Trump is a less dangerous idiot. because his ego does not allow him to be turned into a puppet. he loves to do what W did, but his ego keeps blocking the puppeteers from taking control of him.