Comments by "" (@charlesvan13) on "Sam Harris: Trump, Religion, Wokeness" video.

It's going to get much worse for Sam Harris. The expert class he respects installed an incompetent dotard who has made everything worse in just over a year.
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@ianinkster2261 There's the viral video of protesters at the entrance to Trump Tower with a banner "Lock up Trump for his crimes". Someone asked him "What crime has Trump committed". His response "Um, um, um...well ahhh...we're done." There's something wrong with these people.
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I'm just blown away at how an intelligent person can consider Trump a danger on par with Hitler. Trump hasn't done anything. Hitler is considered bad because he started a war which killed 30 million, if you exclude the Pacific theater. And how are the people he says he trusts, McCain, Romney, Bush, better? Bush started a war which killed a million.
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“he looked like someone who would do that” Of all people you'd think he would avoid that prejudice. Jeffry Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, etc.
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I used to listen to his discussions and debates all the time. But quit all together after 2016. Things like the podcast where he said he had more respect for Osama bin Laden than Trump. And that Hitler had more virtues. I don't waste my time with cranks like that.
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The Trump presidency was a period of peace and prosperity, better than the Biden term. The Biden administration is simultaneously weaker and more authoritarian. The current conundrum, is that the "expert class" which is in charge now, is grossly incompetent, and absolutely convinced of its moral superiority.
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@Theactivepsychos Those conservative justices are the last hope for preventing leftists and Democrats destroying the Republic. An attorney general who will send the FBI after his political opponents, is 1000x more dangerous that some yahoos storming the Capitol, which has happened many times. Riots are a common occurrence in the US, and Jan. 6 wasn't particularly bad. Antifa rioters set off a bomb at the Portland federal courthouse, which gave people working in the building hear damage.
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@SalivatingSteve Gas prices went up long before the Ukraine war. They went from $2.4/gal average when Biden entered to $5.00/gal. Dropping to $4 isn't an accomplishment. Same with the Stock market. It crashed 25% early this year, then went up 15%. I still lost wealth since Biden entered, when I was making 20% per year under Trump. Crime is also spiking with murders way up in cities, particularly Democrat strongholds. Every think Biden has done has made things worse. The bungled Afghanistan withdrawal was also quite a shameless display of weakness, incompetence, indifference to the lives of former partners.
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@dickmonkey-king1271 Trump did what he said he was going to. Defeated ISIS, Got the unemployment rate to a 50 year low, worked on trade deals that put US workers and business at a disadvantage, didn't get the US involved in wars. How is that less predictable than other presidents?
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@dickmonkey-king1271 It's not like there were any speeches or a book for anyone to read to know that Hitler wasn't a good guy. He was already Fuher in 1933. Most people (I suppose not Sam Harris fans) consider dictators to be bad. The Night of Long Knives were murders.
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@dickmonkey-king1271 Part of the reason Trump won in 2016 was aversion to Clinton and the Democrats' authoritarianism. And that's one of many things that's going to sink the Democrats in 2022 and 2024.
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@dickmonkey-king1271 He used the same travel ban list Obama did which included N. Korea and Venezuela. And didn't include the Muslim countries, Saudi Arabia, that have good US relations. Because it was about whether they cooperate with the US regarding crime and terrorism.
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@blurglide "We know Trump is an asshole." The current president snickered when a reporter mentioned people were falling from airplanes desperate to get out of Afghanistan. He's also called "Pedo Peter" by Hunter in their social media exchanges.
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