Name: Sam Harris' Dissection Of Donald Trump (from Joe Rogan Experience #804)
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Sam Harris' Dissection Of Donald Trump (from Joe Rogan Experience #804)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-06-06. Transcript available.

Sam Harris' Dissection Of Donald Trump (from Joe Rogan Experience #804)

Hello, freak bitches
People are really reluctant to give up fun shit like lying and
Driving their car fast like those two things people are gonna have a hard time
with you like
Actually getting into the into their mind seeing their actual mind and being
able to do that
So we can know without a doubt whether or not someone's guilty or innocent
But my question to you is if you could get inside someone's mind and it was
like that really super
Suggestive guy that you were talking about earlier that just confessed all the
horrific demonic possession stuff and eating babies
What if it's like getting to the to that guy's mind? What if you can't tell?
well
The the case that that
worries me and this is perhaps an
inept segue to
politics, but the
I mean
We're in people's minds. I mean you get you get someone talking long enough
You know
Their minds. I mean they can only conceal what they're about
Only so well, right? Maybe you can because you're a super smart wizard type. No,
just but Jamie
I don't know about I don't know if he's a mind reader
But the question is will people care? You know, it's like like if you if you
have we don't even need a lie detector
If you have someone who's openly lying right right who just gets caught in lies
again and again
You can see it too. You feel it right
But people don't seem to care right in the in the at least in a political
process
I mean I'm thinking in this case of Trump where you have someone who
It is in some cases lying or just changing his mind in such an
incoherent way that
It's a functional equivalent of lying. It's someone who becomes totally
unpredictable. He has a stance that is a on Tuesday and it's be on Wednesday
and
When the discrepancy is pointed out he tells you to go fuck yourself, right? So
it's just there's just no
there is no
accountability to his his own states of consciousness that he's going to be
held to and
The people who love him don't seem to care they actually in as far as I can
tell I don't know so many of these people personally
But it is from based on you know social media and seeing the few articles where
someone has explained why they love Trump
People view this as a kind of this sort of
this
dishonesty what is on in my view both dishonesty and a
kind of a kind of theatrical
Hucksterism a sort of person who's who's
Pretending to be many things that he probably isn't they see it as a a new kind
of authenticity, right? Like this guy
He's just letting it rip. He doesn't care what what is true
He doesn't care what your expectations for coherence are. He's just gonna tell
you to fuck yourself every which way and
This is the new way of being honest, right?
This is a new form of intake integrity. Oh, it's amazing to watch
it's it's getting it's been I'm someone who actually I remember on my own
podcast I I
think I was talking to Paul Bloom this this Yale psychologist who's who's great
and
We had taught we got into politics and this is at least a year ago
But at that point I said there's no way we're gonna be talking about Trump in a
year
I'm this is gonna completely flame out and I was this is a I don't tend to make
predictions
But this was a clear moment that I remember of making a prediction which is now
obviously false
But I just couldn't imagine that this was this what people were going to find
this compelling enough to for the for him to be on the on the cusp of
getting elected, it's
It is terrifying. Have you taught have you talked this issue to death on your
podcast or I guess we kind of have
Well, I think this is how everybody feels
Everybody feels like you're supposed to be like with their person whether it's
Bernie or whether it's for Hillary or whether you're a Trump supporter
Whatever it is like you have to be all but like if you look at the the choices
that were given
None of these could really be described as ideal. No, no like Hillary Clinton
You could want a woman in the White House and you want to you want to show
everyone that a woman can do that job just as well as a man
And she's got the most experience and she certainly has the most experience
dealing with foreign governments
She certainly has the most experience in politics
You can make an easier, but she's also involved in two criminal investigations.
She had a
observer in her bathroom
There's all this squirrely stuff going on. Oh, she's she's terrible in many
ways. She was anti-gay marriage
Until like 2013 and then then wouldn't admit the change of mind either. Yeah,
it's a she's a politician
She's probably a brilliant woman, but she's also set in her ways and a
politician and a politician to the end
And part of being a politician is being a fucking huckster
You got to be able to get those people to see your side and the way you do that
is to talk like
This you can't talk like a normal person needs a speech coach. They all do. He's
terrible, too
Trump's not even good at it and he kicks their asses. No, but I know but her
voice she has a kind of to use the the sexist trope
She has a shrill for when you when you get her in front of a mic
And there's a crowd and she thinks she's talking over the crowd which she doesn't
have to do because she's in front of a mic
The sound you get is just it's is she's yelling when she doesn't need to yell
and someone someone has to
Teach her how to dial that back what you just did is called mansplaining
I'm explaining to the men in her crew
Talk some sense into her, but
She is she's a bat. She's a bad candidate, right?
I have no doubt that she's very smart and she's well-informed and she's
qualified and she is absolutely who I will vote for given the choices
but
You know, I totally understand people's reservations with her. She's a liar.
She's an opportunist. She is just
Almost preternaturally inauthentic. I mean, she's just like she will just focus
group every third sentence and you feel that from her, right?
And and this is all true and yet I also believe the people who say I've never
met her
But people who know her and have met her say that you know behind closed doors,
you know one-on-one
She's incredibly impressive and and great
Um, but that doesn't translate into her candidacy. She's probably thinks she
has to do it old school, you know
I mean the way she's doing it, but she I mean the thing is she's
When you look at the
What's work what worries me is I went out on Facebook the other day
And I have said very little about this, but I've made enough noises of the sort
that I just made that people understand that I've that
I'm you know for Clinton despite all my reservations about her
and
What I got on my own Facebook page which you have to assume is filtered by the
people who are following me on Facebook and and already like me in some sense
Just like a thousand comments of pure pain. I mean no one loves Hillary. No one
no one said oh, thank God
Someone's someone's smartest for Hillary
It was all just bernie people and trump people
Flaming me for for for the the most tepid possible endorsement of Clinton all I
said was
Listen, I understand, you know Clinton's a liar and she's and she's an opportunist
and she's
um
I completely get your reservations about her, but at least she's a grown-up,
right and
She's going to be the candidate. It's not going to be sanders for so
Now's the moment to put your political idealism behind you if you're a sanders
person
And recognize that there is a vast difference between clinton and trump
And no, she's not going to change the system, but she's also not going to run
civilization off a cliff, right
and
I didn't I forget how I said it on facebook, but it was just the most it was
just it really was a lesser of two evils argument
And it just it was um, it's amazing to see how energized and passionate people
are in defense of trump and sanders
And there's almost none of that for clinton. It's like if people are just sheepishly
saying
That they just divulging that they will vote for clinton
but they are
They may be somewhere that I haven't noticed someone absolutely loves clinton,
but it's just it's she does not have her defenders the way
These guys do have you seen the man enough to vote for her campaign?
No, it's with like hipster dudes with tattoos and beards that are going to vote
for hillary
No, I hope it's fake because it's so brilliant. I hope it's not real
Is it fake? Thank god. Is it?
Thank god
It's so good though, because it's not that fake
It's pretty good. Like you could almost see
So wait a minute
I mean, this is not bad for her, right? This is no, no, no, it's not bad for
her
It's just funny that someone would like make a joke
Political ad right, you know that you have to be man enough to vote for hillary
Like there's guys out there that would buy that they would they would like i'm
not enough bro. They'd do it
It's a scary time because
It doesn't seem like anybody that you would want to be president wants to be
president
And so we're left with all right. What do you pick?
It's like as if we're gonna play the super bowl with three of the shittiest
teams we could find
We're just gonna go get some drunk high school kids get some inmates with club
feet
We're just gonna throw whoever we're gonna have the worst game ever
And that's what this game is. It's not a good game. This is not a game where
you've got like
A john f kennedy versus a lyndon johnson or it's not it's not like like
powerful characters
It's trump. I guess is a really powerful character, but in more ways like a
showman character
Yeah, like what what he's doing is like he's putting on a great show
And he's gonna win probably because he's putting on such a great show and
people like a great show
but I do think i'm now of
Among the people who think something new
We're witnessing we're witnessing something new with trump. It's not just
the same old thing where
The process is so onerous
That it's selecting for the kind of
Narcissist or you know thick skin person who is willing to submit to the
process and then there are many
Most of the good people who just aren't going to put up with this
I mean, yes, there's that too, but
There's um, there's something there's a it's a moment among
um
The electorate where it's like it's like it's a fun. It's an anti estate. There's
an ant there's enough of an anti-establishment
Mood and and vote now this is happening with with sanders, too
Where people just want to
Jam a stick in the wheel of the system just to see what happens. It's just like
this is
The main gripe against hillary really is that she's politics as usual. She's
not going to change the system, right?
Right people want to change the system, but they're not really thinking about
the implications of radically changing the system
and in in the case of trump
I mean
Here is someone who is who is advertising his lack of qualifications for the
office in every way that he can it's like he like this
There is no
I mean, I'm not even but
I'm not even bothered by his racism or his misogyny or his
Demagoguery or his bullying. I mean all of that. I'm willing to to guess
Is an act right that he's he's decided that that's somehow pandering to his
base
And he's actually in truth. He doesn't have a racist bone in his body say
I'm willing to it to believe that I mean
I don't know why I would think that's plausible, but it's it's
It's a you know, I have a hunch that he's far more liberal than he seems
And it's just pandering but the thing that that
Can't be true is
There's no way he's actually
Brilliant and well informed about all the issues
And is saying the things he's saying he's not pretending
To be as uninformed and as incoherent and as irresponsible as he's seeming
Because you wouldn't withhold information. It would make you look like a better
leader. Well, it's just it's yeah
And it's just it was just the vacuousness of his speech. It's like he's
He'll say he'll say the same thing three times in a row
And it was meaningless the first time, right?
He'll say it's going to be amazing. It's going to be very very amazing. Trust
me
It