A MUST READ QUOTE from Jonathan Rauch towards the end of the full episode which unfortunately did not make it here, but which I believe is one of the best formulated possible blueprints of a Trump presidency: SH: What is signified by the phrase, the end of democracy as we know it, as we know it part? What are you actually imagining? JR: Well, I can be very specific. There's lots of elements of that. There's, for example, the use of pardons to immunize people against wrongdoing. But what I mean by that specifically is the open defiance of court orders and the ability to get away with that politically. SH: Do you expect that he would leave after four years? JR: Well, I don't know. SH: You imagine our institutions are so weak that even that could unravel? That there wouldn't be a 2028 election? JR: Yeah, sure. It could unravel. Robert Kagan had a widely read article in The Washington Post saying here's how we could get to Mussolini under Trump. But I don't think we go to Mussolini. I think the model is Victor Orbán in Hungary. And we know that because they're telling us, right? The right is having conferences over there celebrating the Victor Orbán model. So we don't have to guess. So I think the way it happens is this: first thing he does is sign an executive order implementing something he tried to do in his first term, which is schedule federal appointees. And that turns a lot of civil service jobs into jobs that serve at the pleasure of the president. And that allows him to replace 30,000 to 50,000 top civil servants with loyalists. That gets some foot-draggers out of the way. And it means a lot of people are indebted to him for their jobs. Then he goes through the military, and he makes a bunch of appointments to ensure that sympathizers won't do what Mark Milli did. He goes through the Justice Department and does the same thing. So Jeffrey Clark, or the equivalent, is acting attorney general. He doesn't care if they get Senate confirmation, because he'll simply put in acting appointees. He did that in his first term. He told us he liked it. The Senate proved it was toothless to stop that. So he's now suborned most of the government. He's turned the Justice Department, the FBI and so on into organs that can prosecute or persecute at will. People are afraid of them, even if they don't actually get targeted. He's done all that. And then along comes, you know, it's six months, seven, eight months, and along comes a court order that he doesn't agree with. Maybe it involves, I don't know, the border wall, or unappropriation, or maybe the Supreme Court says, look, you've had your temporary appointees in for too long. You have to send them up to the Hill for Senate confirmation or remove them, because that's what the law says. And he says, well, no, I don't feel like it, and tells his appointees to go to work as normal, and tells the civil service in the Justice Department, or wherever the appointee is, just do your job. This guy's in charge. What happens next? Well, if there's a large majority in Congress, they could try to cut off the appropriations for the Justice Department until he straightens this out. Do you think that's going to happen? Very unlikely. You could have thunderous denunciations by Democrats on Capitol Hill, and the members of mainstream media, Joe, Josh, and John, and Sam. Do you think he cares about thunderous denunciations? I think he doesn't. You could have repercussions like people worrying that if they help him in defying court orders, their law licenses, or worse, their actual criminal records, they could, well, that they could lose their licenses to practice law, for example, or in fact go to jail. That will slow him down a bit. There will be resignations, but he'll replace those people, and he will have the pardon. He'll be able to tell people, if you do what I tell you to, you can't be prosecuted under federal law. He's already said he would pardon the so-called hostages. So now we're in a situation where he's telling the Supreme Court, I won't follow this order. Meanwhile, the Republican Party, the, for example, maybe I shouldn't single them out, but the Senator Lindsey Grahams of the world, who are very bright people, are spinning a lot of arguments on, well, why he's really not defying a court order, why he has the right to do what he's doing in this case, why it's constitutionally supported, why the Supreme Court is nine people in robes, who should not be governing this country, why the Unitary Executive Doctrine does not give him that authority, why this was a 6:3 or 5:4 court decision. So it's really just all politicized. You can, you guys can spin this stuff out by the yard, as well as I can. So you'll have this spin machine in the media and in the Republican Party, backing him up and saying, what he's doing is in fact fine, he's defending our democracy and so forth. He'll defy another court order on a different subject. After a while, when it's clear three or four times that he can do this, it begins to be normalized, right? We've seen this pattern again and again. Sam and John and Josh continue to be shocked by this. And we keep saying, how can this be happening in the country we love? But most of the country is realizing that life doesn't change all that much. Gas prices don't go up if the president defies the Supreme Court. And in fact, they don't even know who to believe about whether he is defying the Supreme Court. So after six months or eight months to a year of this, the party that backs down, I think, is the Supreme Court, because it realizes it loses its authority, its legitimacy, if it's issuing orders and no one is following them. So it begins to curtail its behavior in order to accommodate the president. And now we're in Hungary. Now we have a president who has figured out how to game the rule of law in order to subvert checks and balances and the rule of law. So you tell me, what is unrealistic about that scenario and if the chief executive can defy the Supreme Court, does that mean the end of our liberal democracy, our rule of law as we know it?
@PhenomenalWorld
8 ай бұрын
Frightening.
@scratchfg212
7 ай бұрын
Thanks for transcribing dude. Honestly, I want to send this audio clip to everyone I know. To arm them to respond when they get asked ‘why are you being so hysterical? How can we lose our democracy?’
@kg356
7 ай бұрын
The problem with John's theory is that there was no reason why he couldn't have decided to flout Scotus in his first term, but he didn't. I don't think this will be convincing to anyone who doesn't already view Trump as an existential threat.
@kg356
7 ай бұрын
Also the idea that Lindsey Graham of all people would act as the primary legitimizing mouthpiece for trump is just comical
@jamesedward9306
6 ай бұрын
Thank you for transcribing this. I'm a libertarian/conservative (not republican), and someone who feels the liberal lunacy has gone completely off the rails. That said, this sounds truly frightening. I'm in my 60s and this is truly the worst set of presidential choices I've seen in my lifetime.
@thepiggishshow
8 ай бұрын
Josh Szeps is an Australian national treasure ❤
@SnakeAndTurtleQigong
8 ай бұрын
May everyone everywhere be free, happy, and safe. 💙🙏
@jakeroper1096
8 ай бұрын
Except Putin. He stole Russia’s future of being humanities gateway to the stars for his personal power. Imagine if military funds had been loaded into dominating the space industry. Spacex might be a Russian company today.
@f__kyoudegenerates
7 ай бұрын
yes, abolish the government.
@jordanlover23
8 ай бұрын
I'm a subscriber and listened to the full podcast. Very informative and articulate as usual for Sam and his guests. However, I didn't like that the border crisis was given short shrift towards the end of the episode, with one of your guests (I forget if it was Josh or Jon) speaking to it a bit but admitting along with Sam that it was perplexing that Biden/dems wouldnt just take action there and shore up a gaping hole in their favorability which has broad public consensus. And then it's just sort left to dangle there. The border crisis is, at minimum, one of the two most pressing matters we need to tend to (the other being the geopolitical situation vis-a-vis Russia/Israel/Taiwan/NK). Many folks, including moderate dems, tend to chalk this up to fishing for future voters (provided that a path to legality/voting rights is subsequently provided in the short- to mid-term); I don't believe that holds water, however, for a number of reasons - not least of which that hundreds of thousands are being bused and flown into blue cities which were never in any danger of turning red to begin with. I believe that there is some other agenda at play here, possibly far more sinister (e.g. destablization of the country/economy, infiltration of military/cartel/terrorist elements etc.) that hasn't yet come into full focus. However, it is patently obvious that, were there not some overriding agenda, the dem establishment would have zero reason to not take decisive action here to garner a win simply for political expediency. That's how you know. Sometimes the answers are right in front of you, but they may be uncomfortable to confront. So to me the question is not why the President and dems haven't taken action - it is obvious that it's because there is an agenda here that is not strictly humanitarian in nature - but rather "what is the end game"? "Refugees" and "asylees" actually used to actually have strict legal definitions which were adhered to - these people are not fleeing Pol Pot or Saddam, nor do they appear malnourished. Do many/most of them come from more impoverished countries than America? Sure, but so does 70+% of the world - that doesnt mean we can or should absorb all those folks. This crisis presents enormous national security, personal security (due to the fact that a large percentage of these folks - at minimum 15-25% were criminals in their home countries), economic, and cultural risks, particularly given the speed at which we have been asked to absorb 9M+ illegals in less than 3 years, with basically ZERO vetting in place. It is high time this issue be front and center and not an afterthought.
@rcrosby9
8 ай бұрын
Well said re the immigration issue. Josh and Sam seemed to have left the thoughts on it to Jonathan, and not surprisingly he gave the excuse that “it’s complicated” and it’s the republican’s fault.
@hnl2sfo
8 ай бұрын
@@rcrosby9 Jonathan did say that the Biden administration might be wary of the courts because they said Obama overstepped his authority when dealing with immigration issues. Josh said Biden and the Democrats can and should make the case that the US should know who is crossing the border and even if they succeed, it’s not a license to remain indefinitely. Other countries in Europe and his native Australia are considered liberal democracies but have strict immigration policies and enforcement. A more sensible argument would preclude far right moral ground with voters.
@williamthompson3288
8 ай бұрын
Sam (or anybody close to him), if you see this, the second half of this episode is not only worthy of being a PSA, it would be negligent not to make it so. The domino-by-domino scenario Jonathan sketches is the best takedown of Trumpism I've heard come from this podcast. It's persuasive and doesn't have nearly the biased undertone that many a Trump supporter rightly or wrongly picks up.
@tomtruhelka
8 ай бұрын
Exactly how I felt when the podcast suddenly stopped after 40ish minutes. I must hear the rest!
@rjurban101
8 ай бұрын
@@saviormoney. It's very appropriate, seeing as how it is a cult.
@rjurban101
8 ай бұрын
I actually came here after listening to the whole podcast just to see if it was released in its entirety for everyone. More than worthy of a PSA!
@saulkorzenecki
8 ай бұрын
@@saviormoney. If you think its not a cult, consider for a moment there is not a single critique one could make of Trump that wouldn't have you triggered to the rafters- in your mind anyone who doesn't support him is simply a CNN watching libtard. And your ilk are a dime a dozen. That makes it a cult, for all intents and purposes (in fairness, so are BLM supporters, etc. but two wrongs dont make a right)
@CP-nl2zb
8 ай бұрын
You shold avoid sharp objects
@stephaniesavage9276
8 ай бұрын
Oh Jesus, I get so excited when I see a new Sam Harris video, I feel like I’m 16 again and waiting for Miami Vice to come on
@brucegregson621
8 ай бұрын
The music is different but the same.
@daheikkinen
8 ай бұрын
This is the Miami Virtue podcast.
@fredkeeler1234
8 ай бұрын
A good analogy
@aidanquick3151
8 ай бұрын
This is so funny
@Wamagirii
8 ай бұрын
@@daheikkinen ppp
@Muzafer13
8 ай бұрын
Thanks Sam!
@Matzes
7 ай бұрын
2 journalists whining about how hard journalism is and therefore gatekeeping the truth from us plebs who dare to listen to podcasts.
@gd3714
7 ай бұрын
One of the guests on 27.7min of the podcast talks about lack of the diversity opinion in tribal information centers,, well - Sam has fallen in same trap, - very little daylight beetween him and his guests on most of his episodes, and that's the problem!!! While I am on opposite side of spectrum from PBD Valutainment guys - they bring guests who they vehemently disagree, and in that sense they give more value than this boring echo chamber where I agree with most of it, and therefore it would be not very wise to record myself and then listen to it, and then subscribe and pay for it,, imagine?
@kg356
7 ай бұрын
PBD doesn't provide value besides viral clips of them yelling at each other and the guest
@PhenomenalWorld
8 ай бұрын
I went to Sam's site to hear the whole podcast, which later gets super deep/powerful/sad with Rauch painting the most realistic yet grim portrait of what could be expected in a second DJT White House. I've never heard anyone forecast any details or break it down domino by domino of how easily the elimination of a liberal western democracy could happen. Well worth the listen, but chilling and super sad.
@DB-sd3cw
8 ай бұрын
It's wild how we're in 2024 and DJT haters still don't see how democrats and the media began this nonsense when they tried to overturn the 2016 election with a made up Russian collusion witch hunt. It's nonsense like this which makes sane people with functional pattern recognition ability move toward the right.
@PoetlaureateNFDL
8 ай бұрын
Thank you for this information and interesting discussion. 😊
@PhenomenalWorld
8 ай бұрын
@@PoetlaureateNFDLmy pleasure 😊.
@JohnnyTwoFingers
8 ай бұрын
Watch out for appealing stories.
@genzcurmudgeon8037
8 ай бұрын
Lol the melodrama on the left about Trump is legit so funny. Hey babe, he was already president. It wasn’t that bad. He’ll have four more years, he’ll finish the wall, he’ll excise Wokeness in the military and that’s about it. Foreign powers will take the president seriously again. Jihadists will be less inclined to kill innocents. And then he’ll leave after 4 years and talk a lot of shit. So please relax. Because no sane normal person is buying the “dictator wah wah” crap anymore. You’ve been trying that for 8 years and it hasn’t worked.
@jjgreen5206
8 ай бұрын
Great discussion!
@plgoddard1
8 ай бұрын
When will you have Norman Finkelstein in your podcastistan?
@alienígena-e1p
8 ай бұрын
Mr. Harris has learned to not have people on that make him look the fool in their area of expertise e.g. Noam Chomsky, Ezra Klein. Having Finkelstein on would weaken Harris' already weak reputation beyond recovery.
@Waterhorse1
8 ай бұрын
Hear hear. Harris only enjoys the company of his fellow apologists for the slaughter of children.
@kg356
7 ай бұрын
@@alienígena-e1p Ezra Klein doesn't really have an area of expertise besides health care, but he is incredibly well-spoken like Sam and quick on his feet.
@alienígena-e1p
7 ай бұрын
@@kg356 Klein knew everything there was to know about Charles Murray including his background, writings, academic career, status, social impact etc while Harris knew only what he thought he needed to spin and impose his narrative on Klein when he had him on. He even admitted as much to Klein insisting that anything Klein brought up (beyond the one book of Murray's he had read part of) about Murray as being irrelevant. The encounter with Chomsky (50 + years of geopolitical experience) was even more embarrassing.
@yodog1446
8 ай бұрын
I have a bone to pick with the statement on the university presidents. Gay didn’t say that “context matters” with regard to court protected free speech. She said it in the context of calling for the genocide of Jews. Active calls to violence are not protected speech. Additionally, targeted harassment of a protected class must surely be part of Harvard’s student code of conduct. This isn’t a claim like, “Israel should not exist as a s state.” Though the logical conclusion of that speech would be genocide, it is not explicitly a call to violence. Again, her response wasn’t to that kind of nebulous language. Though one might uncharitably ascribe the phrase “dog whistle” to such language, and one might also use the same phrase to describe her response.
@healthdoc
8 ай бұрын
Knowledge is knowing a lot of facts. Wisdom is knowing which are important.
@naturalisted1714
8 ай бұрын
Sam, please do another episode on Generic Subjective Continuity. It should be as or more popular than the free will controversy.
@stanley5394
8 ай бұрын
I second that motion😊
@jbon123
8 ай бұрын
all in favor... yay!
@memoid7777
8 ай бұрын
He definitely should
@GainesThomas-t7t
7 ай бұрын
Would love to see that also
@jaggerlags
8 ай бұрын
The full version on his website is quite sobering when they touch down on Trumps likely dismissal of the Supreme Court. I recommend checking it out.
@jaggerlags
8 ай бұрын
@@saviormoney. What won’t happen? You don’t think Trump will dismiss the Supreme Court if he’s elected again? We’d be lucky if he did? I think it’d be a huge detriment if he’s elected and dismisses one of their rulings, thus normalizing ignoring them.
@jaggerlags
8 ай бұрын
@@saviormoney. You’ve deleted your previous comments. This took a cynical turn- anyway, I enjoyed the full pod, good day.
@jaggerlags
8 ай бұрын
@@saviormoney. So accurate you were embarrassed and deleted all your comments? 😂🤦🏻 Sure thing big guy. I would’ve deleted that nonsense too, seems like you’re growing a little. 👍
@press.agency6475
8 ай бұрын
Muh "sobering." @jaggerlags, you live in Fantasyland.
@jaggerlags
8 ай бұрын
@@press.agency6475 Woah, a real live “muh” guy! Are you like a “meh” guy but cooler? Could you please show me reality?! 🫣 I only live in Fantasyland so I’m lost and need your help!
@greenbankrecords8863
8 ай бұрын
Engineering, industrial, pharmaceutical, agricultural, medical, surgical, military. All vast professional areas of the "reality-based" community you might think might get a mention beyond lawyers, journalists, government civil servants and academics. Do they even know there are working environments where the need for "reality" is so high that mobile phones and social media are banned? No they are just the visible icing on the world's reality cake and perhaps not quite as important to it as they might imagine.
@maggiedu1032
8 ай бұрын
Great episode
@wowzers1237____
8 ай бұрын
"Babe, wake up, a new Harris podcast just dropped"
@tomaszdziecielski2634
8 ай бұрын
Diversity of opinions and not skin color. This makes many people freak out .
@brangrah1717
8 ай бұрын
'Separating sports by Sex Doesn't Make Sense' actual Atlantic article. Stuff like this undermines these 'expert' opinions 100%.
@drlangattx3dotnet
8 ай бұрын
See debate about trusting mainstream media with Michelle Goldberg, Douglas Murray Malcolm Gladwell
@SebyVarghese-v1y
7 ай бұрын
There can be a way to break bias in social media and reduce the power of people with large followers to influence opinion on social media platforms. Similar to comments section, we can add a views (viewpoints or connections or context) section - Where anyone can add any view related to the post and people can like and react to the view just like the post. Context 1/ #keyword combo : specific context to the post in limited words like in twitter Context 2 : Most important part of the context section could be checking the balance b/w different context as a percentage or in a pie chart. This distribution could tell if the discussion is biased or balanced, majorititarian view or nuanced. Multiple inferences could be drawn from the distribution of context, views, sides or connections.
@Ryanrobi
8 ай бұрын
My little brother is a journalist in meteorologist for a local news station He's trying to get into a bigger market and his literally been told four times even though he is gay he's still a white man that looks straight and they need a person of color to meet their diversity I mean it's literally right in there emails back to him. It's quite literally the case that probably the only way he'll get a job in a top market will to be trans. Not only that but two times one time we got fired and the other time he didn't but girls at the station accused him of misconduct even though he's gay and didn't want to touch the girl with a 10-ft pole and had lots of voicemails and text message from them flirting with him even after they made the claim. So yes I think these institutions are quite corrupted and extremely biased politically to the left.
@jmc5335
8 ай бұрын
Sounds like these institutions need more leftism to be honest
@Milkmans_Son
8 ай бұрын
Only one company owns more tv stations in the united states than The Sinclair Broadcast Group, who might as well change their name to MAGA Broadcast Group. But it's the other guys spewing all that propaganda, amirite? kzitem.info/news/bejne/wJx-zJuLcaF-hqQsi=O6_8O0uWKALsJ6aI And the company that owns more stations than everyone else? The name escapes me but I do remember the name of the network they just launched a couple years ago (News Nation). These two companies are the mainstream media in this country. But yeah, it's the democrats fault.
@press.agency6475
8 ай бұрын
@@Milkmans_Son And the people who work for those companies? All Jews who hate white people. Hilarious you think legacy media is rightwing though. Literally delusional. For real, for real.
@phillipblack
8 ай бұрын
I get tired of the phrase legacy media. It’s meant to diminish it in some way, as if podcasters are the only ones who can be trusted now.
@BassGoThump
8 ай бұрын
That’s clearly your interpretation. However most people think legacy is good and venerable.
@JohnnyTwoFingers
8 ай бұрын
it has diminished itself.
@NobuhikuObayashi
8 ай бұрын
We don’t have to slander legacy media to diminish it, it diminishes itself by its own merits or lack thereof
@sshender3773
8 ай бұрын
Dear Sam, PLEASE do an episode expanding on that doomsday blueprint that JR had painted towards the end of the full episode. I think you don't focus enough on the specifics of how Trump could subvert US democracy. Simply saying he's a danger without proposing concrete steps isn't effective at changing hearts and minds of the undecided.
@PhenomenalWorld
8 ай бұрын
I couldn't have said (or asked) better. Yes!
@govindagovindaji4662
7 ай бұрын
See @sshenderr3773 's comment above for specifics. (Posted on or about 1/28/24) He/she laid out the remaining podcast in a transcript - I guess Sam and guests do answer your query in the extended portion of the podcast (for subscribers). Forget bunkers, we live in a world where only subscribers will be saved, lol.
@riffking2651
8 ай бұрын
I reckon we need to start going to community gatherings in some kind of secular version of religion. I'm sure there are plenty of ways to make it engaging for people so they actually value showing up, as well as enabling necessary engagement on sensemaking, consensus building, and like a bunch of other really important and seriously neglected areas. It seems tough because we all know people are complicated, but I really think this is the beginning of so many solutions for societal problems which are only going to continue to grow and disrupt a positive trajectory into the future
@DB-sd3cw
8 ай бұрын
Wow secularists are halfway towards circling back to Christianity, amazing.
@riffking2651
8 ай бұрын
@@DB-sd3cw but not because of the Christian truth claims that many of us secularists think are totally unbelievable
@saulkorzenecki
8 ай бұрын
We have secular religion, its called "Buddhism" i.e. the best, truest, and most advanced 'religion' (except aesthetically, where Christianity remains the undisputed champion). The issue with your idea is that for most, the most tempting aspect of religion is the promise of continuation of ego after death: the alleviation of death anxiety. In other words, its the delusion that gets people in the door, while non-deluded secular religion has always been niche as a matter of course
@riffking2651
8 ай бұрын
@@saulkorzenecki All just needs some more pazzaz! I actually think there's a lot that could be offered in our modern context with a different vibe to Buddhism. I agree that ego and death anxiety are big parts of what draw people in, but I think there seriously neglected aspects of people's life which they would really appreciate having connection to again.
@caroltroy
7 ай бұрын
AA fits the bill?
@ricksanchez1393
8 ай бұрын
Jonathan Rauch lives in the olden days. Great talk, but he comes off as disconnected from 2024
@menzlo
7 ай бұрын
Is it ironic that in a podcast that stresses diversity of viewpoint as one of the essential 3 pillars of the Constitution of knowledge, the three speakers are so ideologically similar? Why did Sam go through the trouble of bringing on a co-host just to choose his ideological twin? How often does Sam invite guests with whom he disagrees being that disagreement is essential to knowledge?
@kg356
7 ай бұрын
Yeah there's a paradox in their thinking on the issue where disagreement is necessary as you say, but at the same time it's nearly impossible to have productive conversations when you can't agree on the facts. Unfortunately we're in a situation where ideological differences tend to create intractable disagreements about facts. We're also in a situation where popular political figures have such wildly differing ideologies that they may not have the same values (e.g., preserving democracy or free speech) which also makes conversation much more difficult. Sam has proven over the years that he doesn't handle these ideological differences well and often resorts to insults and maligning the motives of his political opponents. He's best just sticking to guests who he largely agrees with politically.
@kg356
7 ай бұрын
Also i think the main reasons he wanted a co-host is that he really enjoys Josh Szeps and he's dealing with a respiratory illness as he mentioned at the start.
@chickenfishhybrid44
7 ай бұрын
Yeah, as soon as I finished hearing the descriptions of the two guests, I was wondering why you would have two people on at the same time that I'm betting agree on most things.
@sunnyinvladivostok
8 ай бұрын
refreshing & grounding perspectives provided here
@ChrisDaChemist
8 ай бұрын
He stated the problem right off the bat. Trying to form a valuable story on such short deadlines! The incentive structure of traditional journalism is completely off. These long-form conversations should replace all the news.
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8 ай бұрын
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8 ай бұрын
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8 ай бұрын
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8 ай бұрын
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@designhub1130
8 ай бұрын
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@tanukeshari7219
8 ай бұрын
@JD..........
8 ай бұрын
18:24 - the NYT still has its values in tact? Complete delusion.
@menschen23
7 ай бұрын
This full-length episode goes from really good to absolutely amazing. The conversational maturity makes listening to these guys so easy. I love how they're all incredibly well-read and intelligent, yet they all ask for each other's opinions once they're finished expressing their opinions. Incredible content and devastating analysis of a 2nd Trump term. We need at least a once-a-quarter episode with these guys.
@Jules-Is-a-Guy
8 ай бұрын
I'm a pretty big Curtis Yarvin fan, even though I don't actually agree with him. If Sam ever had Yarvin on this show, the planets would align, and I could retire from YT.
@JohnnyTwoFingers
8 ай бұрын
That would be a great episode, but I can't see Sam taking on that much risk, he's got it pretty much made in the shade, why rock the boat?
@doug3691
8 ай бұрын
David Brooks has been the reasonable conservative voice on PBS (Fridays) for decades. Excellent discussion, guys.
@chickenfishhybrid44
7 ай бұрын
"Reasonable conservative" unfortunately often seems to mean someone that doesn't challenge the status quo or disagree with Democrats too much.
@doug3691
7 ай бұрын
@@chickenfishhybrid44 It's important to challenge the staus quo when it's seriously messed up and has substantial room for improvement. But if it isn't done in a principled manner it tends to create at least as many problems as it solves. Regardless of the side that you're on. Also, I suggest doing a KZitem search for David Brooks, give him a listen, and then get back to me.
@brucegregson621
8 ай бұрын
"Two days of fact checking at the Atantic" ?
@JohnnyTwoFingers
8 ай бұрын
I like how he says the media MUST produce truth 😂😂😂😂😂
@JohnnyTwoFingers
8 ай бұрын
'There is only one reality based community" well demonstrates how in over his head Sam is here.
@loxtuf
8 ай бұрын
the irony is Johnathan even talked about the big problem of lack of diversity of opinions while having a conversation where they all agreed on everything and saw things from a single point of view.
@JohnnyTwoFingers
8 ай бұрын
@@loxtuf Can you please explicitly state what you believe to be the irony in my comment?
@loxtuf
8 ай бұрын
@@JohnnyTwoFingers no. Because i didn't mean to reply to your comment, was meant to be a reply to the video, the irony was meant to be in my own comment.. Oops.
@vvggg12
8 ай бұрын
The guy who can’t form a coherent sentence thinks Sam Harris is in over his head.
@JohnnyTwoFingers
8 ай бұрын
@@vvggg12 Note that coherence of a sentence has an important dependence on the skills of the reader.
@jaymt1982
8 ай бұрын
Lol these dudes think they and their cohort are the paragons of virtue and truth and everyone else is a bad actors. That alone makes anything they say ridiculous. There is no self reflection and examination of their own failings and bias.
@press.agency6475
8 ай бұрын
“We’re elites,” said three members of the same cultural tribe.
@kg356
7 ай бұрын
Sam Harris is surprisingly lacking in self-reflection given how much he calls it out in others.
@kg356
7 ай бұрын
@@press.agency6475Ah I didn't know Rauch was also a J-boy. Figures.
@kg356
7 ай бұрын
I'm happy to see Josh Szeps has replaced Dave Rubin as Sam's new gay best friend 😂
@erinwilliams8797
8 ай бұрын
We are in an "emotional reactions only" time in history
@JohnnyTwoFingers
8 ай бұрын
I dunno, these guys are fairly educated also.
@erinwilliams8797
8 ай бұрын
@@JohnnyTwoFingers you think I'm criticizing the podcast? Sigh....
@JohnnyTwoFingers
8 ай бұрын
@@erinwilliams8797 You should be criticizing it.
@erinwilliams8797
8 ай бұрын
@@JohnnyTwoFingers self awareness isn't your thing, is it?
@DB-sd3cw
8 ай бұрын
Sounds exactly like Sam Harris and the majority of the anti-trump cult
@haroldcheeseburger
8 ай бұрын
Thank you Sam!
@FirelightProds
8 ай бұрын
Amazing thank you
@Danny_6Handford
7 ай бұрын
I do not think it makes a difference how intelligent or how smart humans are, there are also strong disagreements among academics and there is also depraved, nefarious and criminal behaviour among the most intelligent among us. When it comes to competing for power status and money, kindness, fairness, honesty and morality are usually left behind and forgotten.
@NoFeckingNamesLeft
6 ай бұрын
Criminality and low intelligence very reliably correlate and attitudes like fairness and honesty reliably correlate with high intelligence as well.
@Danny_6Handford
6 ай бұрын
@@NoFeckingNamesLeft OK, I will accept that. I was pointing out that when it comes to competing for power, status and money, criminal, immoral and evil behavior is also common among the brightest and most intelligent among us.
@NoFeckingNamesLeft
6 ай бұрын
@@Danny_6Handfordyeah, positions of power and fame will filter for a somewhat narrow combination of (relatively) intelligent and power-hungry / dark triad, in part simply because virtuous people wil be restricted by their principles and thus disadvantaged when up against machiavellians. We don't have accurate examples of typical very highly intelligent people because they are not famous.
@Danny_6Handford
6 ай бұрын
@@NoFeckingNamesLeft Would you consider any of these people highly intelligent? Stalin Hitler Hirohito Mussolini Pol Pot Mao Zedong Al Capone Pablo Escobar El Chapo. Ayatollah Khomeini Saddam Hussein Osama bin Laden Berni Madoff Sam Bankman Fried Jeffrey Epstien Trump Putin
@yucafries7681
8 ай бұрын
The « reality-based » community has been captured by true believers
@JohnnyTwoFingers
8 ай бұрын
This conversation is surreal and I'm only 30 minutes in...how can these people believe these things, in 2024? 😮
@Malt454
8 ай бұрын
How can you type that in 2024 without realizing that no one can tell what you're talking about?
@JohnnyTwoFingers
8 ай бұрын
@@Malt454 I am talking about the phenomenon where genuinely intelligent (on a relative scale) people can collectively fail at accurate discernment. It is especially mind boggling considering Sam's background in neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, etc....you would think he'd learn that how things seem are not always how they are.
@Malt454
8 ай бұрын
@@JohnnyTwoFingers - What I'm talking about is just that you make these claims about Harris without giving any examples/evidence, as if your POV is somehow self evident, when it certainly isn't to me. If you don't have the inclination to make your case, how can anyone judge your conclusions?
@JohnnyTwoFingers
8 ай бұрын
@@Malt454 I've made some more specific claims throughout the comments. The number one problem with these fellows, and most humans, is they do not distinguish between facts and opinions when speaking, and the majority of their claims here are opinions. NO WONDER so many people are confused!!
@Malt454
8 ай бұрын
@@JohnnyTwoFingers- People are probably far more confused by your repeated claims about Harris without examples/evidence, which you consistently refuse to provide, and they're probably not going to search the comments to see if you can actually provide an argument instead of just a claim anywhere because you're just not that important. Certainly I have no interest in doing any such searches. You provide opinions without anything to back them up, so you've seen the enemy and you are it... except that you don't see it. Just food for thought.
@drlangattx3dotnet
8 ай бұрын
Thanks very much for this truly frightening discussion. I wonder how the media (especially the media I love) will respond to a trump/Hungary-styled autocracy. What will I do? At 74 years old (son of a fascist fighter in the US Navy) I think of giving up listening to all news. If anyone reads this comment, please respond to this question. I think I need some advice! Good Job Jonathan, Sam and Josh.
@JackSchitt-p9t
8 ай бұрын
You are 74 and Trump makes you quake in your boots?
@drlangattx3dotnet
8 ай бұрын
The fear is for the way of our country I was raised to believe in. Fear of what the angry and sadness would do to me. I am not sure where I said quake, but whatever. What is your point? DO you have a question? @@JackSchitt-p9t
@jonaskerner1274
8 ай бұрын
So uhhhh Trump 2024?
@PhilipPedro2112
8 ай бұрын
In the forty-two minutes I listened, consensus reality and how we arrive at it seems to be the issue. If we could agree that the natural world is all that exists, and that the supernatural world doesn't, we would be making the first and most important step. Religion has always been the obstacle but recently I am hearing claims that we don't really exist, that the universe itself doesn't exist, and that these ideas are being presented as scientific.
@Tempus64
8 ай бұрын
People will never agree that some sort of "super natural" world or existence isn't out there so you might as well give up that pipe dream. If you think that "disagreement" can actually be resolved, then hold onto your seat for when Sam and his ilk decide to try and convince everyone that we don't have free will, that it's an illusion.
@JohnnyTwoFingers
8 ай бұрын
You have a proof the supernatural doesn't exist do you?
@loxtuf
8 ай бұрын
Just fyi, In the full version at the end Jonathan says he thinks democracy won't work without christianity.
@chrislejuez
8 ай бұрын
@@JohnnyTwoFingers He doesn't need proof in the same way that we don't need proof that dragons don't exist. Absent evidence that it DOES exist, disbelief should be the default position.
@JohnnyTwoFingers
8 ай бұрын
@@chrislejuez Can you link to an academic resource that explicitly agrees with this so we can feel confident that what you are describing is reality, as opposed to your heuristic based opinion of reality? I predict that you will not be able to do this.
@00Julian00
8 ай бұрын
Can you invite Norman Finkelstein on? He called you a moron I think.
@brucegregson621
8 ай бұрын
Norman has his own sacred cows... so I'd tap the brakes on that.
@00Julian00
8 ай бұрын
@@brucegregson621 Okay, so why don't they both debate? Norman seems up for it, but Sam doesn't seem to want to have his mind possibly changed.
@JohnnyTwoFingers
8 ай бұрын
Oh, Sam would never have Norm on, it would be a disaster!!!
@JohnnyTwoFingers
8 ай бұрын
@@brucegregson621What are Norm's sacred cows?
@NobuhikuObayashi
8 ай бұрын
Norman is a very serious intellectual and academic…..
@nealkelly9757
8 ай бұрын
How about the dangers of second Biden term?
@BrettCoryell
8 ай бұрын
The opportunity cost of having Biden instead of a good President are far, far less than the societal cost of the anti-democratic vitriol that flows so freely from Trump and those who mindlessly follow him.
@brucegregson621
8 ай бұрын
We're not doing that now!
@PhilipPedro2112
8 ай бұрын
Kinda like the danger of me going to work or just staying home.
@wasneeplus
8 ай бұрын
Which are those?
@g3synth205
8 ай бұрын
Present some compelling concerns and I bet he'd be willing to talk about it.
@carloslope159
8 ай бұрын
This silence is deafening. Does the Palestinian not deserve compassion from this world?
@TizBaz5
8 ай бұрын
Unfortunately they can't receive much compassion until the civilized world ends the danger posed by their once-elected government.
@Pod6168
8 ай бұрын
No, they don’t deserve any compassion. As my Mother used to say, “you made your bed, now you have to lie in it.”
@brucegregson621
8 ай бұрын
You must be under 30
@juanrodriguez7729
8 ай бұрын
@@Pod6168it’s not all of them
@NobuhikuObayashi
8 ай бұрын
@@Pod6168you said it! You don’t have compassion. I pity you, seriously I hope you find love in your life and forgive yourself
@Ritch98777
8 ай бұрын
Great conversation
@captainbringdown4373
8 ай бұрын
As a decades long Sam fan I'm just astonished at how far he's lost touch with reality. This episode has to be the pinnacle of demonstrating that. And both his guests are equally lost. It depresses me to say as a long time Sam fan that even most MAGA hat wearing boomers have a clearer vision of the world than Mr. Reason.
@govindagovindaji4662
7 ай бұрын
How about giving us a small taste of how you see it? It might save some of us who read comments before deciding whether to watch a video. You may have saved me, in fact b/c many comment that they are now frightened and I really, really do not need that today. Thanks.
@pontiuspilatus964
7 ай бұрын
At least you won't have to wait long to see how wrong you are.
@kg356
7 ай бұрын
@@govindagovindaji4662I'm guessing the concern is that Sam and his guests have a lot of respect for the accuracy of legacy/establishment media and believe they play a vital and noble role in shaping the information environment. Many of Sam's fans are much more distrusting or are even conspiratorial about the liberal media and its influence.
@DarrylElliott-fl3le
7 ай бұрын
I will be forever grateful to you, you changed my whole life and I will continue to preach on your behalf for the whole world to hear you saved me from huge financial debt with just a small investment, thank you. Jorgen Barkley
@Nataliapeters-vx3nx
7 ай бұрын
I started investing in may 2023, today I have 70k invested. I haven't changed anything about mine, I live as if I earned minimum wage. I invest 80% of everything I earn. Towards 100k. I'm 39 years old and my only regret is not having started sooner.
@Sergoisantos23
7 ай бұрын
Wow. I'm a bit perplexed seeing him been mentioned here also Didn't know he has been good to so many people too this is wonderful, I'm in my fifth trade with him and it has been super.
@LindaStepney-vs1cm
7 ай бұрын
I have seen many positive reviews about him. Please how can I contact him?
@DarrylElliott-fl3le
7 ай бұрын
He’s mostly on Telegrams, using the user name
@DarrylElliott-fl3le
7 ай бұрын
@jorgenbarkley1
@justins.5222
8 ай бұрын
Thx for the boot 🥾 💔
@chrisrus1965
8 ай бұрын
Has he understood about the genocide yet?
@TizBaz5
8 ай бұрын
There is nothing to understand. You're just wrong.
@jmc5335
8 ай бұрын
@TizBaz5 Precedence tells the OP they are correct
@alienígena-e1p
8 ай бұрын
By the way he ignores it you can tell he has.
@chrisrus1965
8 ай бұрын
@@TizBaz5 How much longer are you going to be able to believe that? Are you still going to be saying it's not genocide or will you have moved on by this time next year?
@yamishogun6501
8 ай бұрын
None of these three think scientifically.
@CP-nl2zb
8 ай бұрын
Sheep TV
@CP-nl2zb
8 ай бұрын
Sam Harris logic- If everything was different right, I would not be wrong right, and since eveything could be different right, I am correct right. Somone suffering from NPD is incapable of admitting when they are wrong.
@joshwilliams2038
8 ай бұрын
You must be religious
@troy3456789
8 ай бұрын
So, you are either a hard leftist or a religious nutter, since they both share many similarities. How interesting.
@jj-mcgreezies
8 ай бұрын
You posted this comment a minute after this went up, clearly you're an obsessed and bitter lunatic, keep your incoherent ramblings to yourself
@ataraxia7439
8 ай бұрын
I don’t think that’s what he meant when he brought up a the hypotheticals. I think he meant that we can imagine a scenario that’s actually a real possibility where a certain response would be justified so if we don’t think that response is justified in a different scenario we have to outline what the meaningful difference is between the two instead of just saying the response is never justified.
@Thisisahandle701
8 ай бұрын
-"We did the magic dance and it rained" Sam: But it could easily have not rained, dancing is unlikely to influence weather -"Stop using hypotheticals!!"
@CP-nl2zb
8 ай бұрын
Sam is a World Champion Pseudo intellectual. Sammy The Pseudo Harris.
@troy3456789
8 ай бұрын
So, what thing did he say that was pseudo intellectual? Surely you can think of a single thing, right?
@jj-mcgreezies
8 ай бұрын
I'm sorry you're struggling so hard to understand the clear and rational points he makes, keep trying and I'm sure you'll get it eventually
@Thisisahandle701
8 ай бұрын
@troy3456789 don't argue with the monkies, they'll remain monkies and you just get covered in bananas and feces.
@troy3456789
8 ай бұрын
@@jj-mcgreezies I am pretty sure he is echoing pseudo intellectual leftists, Christian and Muslim apologists that hate Sam's guts. He subscribed to the channel to drop in and troll it, which actually helps its algorithm get more viewership. He will never watch or listen to what Harris says, because his icons don't like Harris. They would not bother if Harris wasn't incredibly astute at identifying and unpacking the nonsense of the religious left, and the Abrahamic religious. Harris is well read, so he always seems enlightened on issues of today. Right now, the antisemtics of the world cannot stand Harris at all, and genuinely wish they could silence his voice on all things Israel, and what he exposes about Islam.
@alexmacharia4549
8 ай бұрын
@@troy3456789what he says is rational only if you accept his framework and premises which are not rooted in reality, read manufacturing consent by noam chomsky,
@healthdoc
8 ай бұрын
If you believe something that isn’t true you are fooled. If you do it often you are a fool.
@healthdoc
8 ай бұрын
What you think is a product of how you think. Don’t be fooled. Be better at understanding how to understand.
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