Comments by "Kristopher Driver" (@paxdriver) on "Donald Trump Interview | Lex Fridman Podcast #442" video.

  1. When a person steps on your toe you try to keep calm, but when a drunk driver hits your dog you scream curses an nobody wonders why. For some reason, though, you seem to act like Donald Trump is just a subjective preference despite mountains of evidence too ridiculous in volume and scope to have even made credible Hollywood sensationalism. You absolutely need to look into things when you research, at least 5 minutes. Please, if you're going to ask a challenging question have a rebuttal ready because nothing he said is new here. Verifiable things can be anticipated, checked, and followed up with a sincere question. Not a gotcha, just a common sense question: He fired the FBI director investigating him and admitted he did it for a reason which was illegal. Legally liable and confessed to sexual assault. He refused an election and didn't stop the certification of election results. Filed over a dozen lie lawsuits about elections, they had to admit in court that they had no evidence to bring to the judges after lying to the courts about the filing and the evidence. We saw him intimidate a witness live in public. We heard him call a Governor to defraud voters. We heard him extort a NATO ally for political gain using aide funds for the "stick" he giggled about with you. Clinton messed up with a mail server after serving 8 years as first lady and decades as a senator before secretary of state in the Whitehouse. She wasn't laughed at by the whole world at summit meetings. She didn't defend Putin's invasion of neighbours. Trump said he'd put up a wall and even took money for it which just went missing in another fraud, so any border crisis left for Biden which he admits he campaigned on and beat Hilary because of (in his own admission during this interview), his wall was never built or it was built but never worked? We paid for it though, despite him also promising that wouldn't happen. How does any sane pers legit believe they are being rational by comparing Biden or Harris with Trump as if it's the same as comparing two normal people? You say he makes great deals, why are there no examples of this? Why can't he write essays or speak eloquently about specifics if that were true? Why do you act like it's totally normal for a person to be like Trump but still you can't imagine how someone might get frustrated by you acting high and mighty about being more tolerant or less divisive or less hyperbolic when the botanist is confusing the pot and the toilet? It's not about taking sides or being in a flame war or trolling or whatever, it's very literally obvious to anyone who thinks about it. It seems to the rest of the world you can't even be bothered to pretend to look something up 2 hrs before a show you're claiming on camera you did "research" for and "prepared"... I'm sorry, with all due respect, it is mind boggling how little we value critical thinking, even on a show founded on the want and appreciation for learning, we never learned elementary level critical thinking comparing one thing to another, or at least having a follow up question you already know the answers to. For eg, he thinks it's wrong Kamala got selected over Biden at the convention. Easy follow up "that's how the system's rules are set, you could've changed your nominee before the convention too." Or how about: "why does it matter to you, it's not your party." since when has it ever been to a campaign's advantage to switch nominees without needing to? Is that some kind of strategy that we ought follow or is name recognition for a returning candidate still the prevailing poli-sci? He's smart right? Why can't he quote a book, or exsin a theory? He's a businessman, right? So either he knew nothing about his own fraud accounting or he himself can't count, either way, I've never heard of a good business man who lies to judges or runs real estate development but confuses his own home floor space by orders of magnitude. Just make an effort, man. You could have just watched one person's YouTube video for one hour and come up with better questions and at least follow up with the absolute smallest amount of effort. I have so much respect for you and how you run your show over the years; I've had a hundred plus hours of enjoyment from your content, please do keep at it because so much of what you do is so so good, but I'd be betraying you not to call out this woeful indignity to the channel. This has been as poor as JBP with Netanyahu, and I'm a lover not a hater. Real talk is real talk. I'm not some PhD wagging a finger either, I do React web dev, study AI in my spare time projects, highschool grad from public school. I've done 50+ hrs of my own podcast long form content and I did the rendering, marketing, prep and hosting of the thing too so I'm not some "elitist" turning his nose up at you for not knowing what I know. I'm giving you heck because someone in your industry, with at least some of the same exposures, with zero benefit of higher education, a date with a former president intended for broadcasting, nor a team to help, even I could tell you with my thumbs off the top of my head where to go to spend 20 minutes preparing that would have saved you the length of this pointless infomercial. I had to each the whole thing at 1.5x for the first time in over 10 years on YouTube just to carry the beginning of a sentence to the end of it. How does a person say "that would be very bad" and the interviewer just assume "bad" means something about anything? How is it ok that Trump knows how to save the lives of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers but chooses not to end the war just because he wants to win an election? Where's your heart, all of a sudden that type of depravity doesn't so much as make you flinch??? Since when is the caring Lex who preaches love and truth silent about enabling mass murder, especially given what your grandfather went through. This is just absolutely unbelievable coming from this channel, I really hope you all get your act together because this right here was shameful, man. Peace, love and respect, for real. Please smarten up though. If I meant this comment to be mean rather than constructive I would've just said "it was bad, very very bad" like your guest and I know nobody would even question it. You'd all just believe it if I repeated it often enough... I'm writing all this because I believe in you, not because I get my rocks off hating on strangers on the internet. My track record on here, twitter, podcast and published books/music over the past 10 years will vouched for me there <-- "evidence supporting a subject e claim"... <-- me showing you how it's done by example by way of a serious lack of charm lol It's in you to be so much better than this.
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