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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Sam Harris's DELUSIONAL Anti-Trumpism | 3/17/23

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Lex Fridman recently hosted Sam Harris on his podcast, and to no one's surprise, Sam Harris continues to suffer heavily from Trump derangement syndrome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And in the final moment, not to see how untenable it was to still support someone who, you

0:10.8

know, a sitting president who was not committing to a peaceful transfer of power.

0:14.3

I mean, that was, if that wasn't a bright line for you, you have been deranged by something.

0:19.6

Sam Harris is exactly what happens when you mistake arrogance for intelligence.

0:24.7

And frankly, I personally am tired of pretending that he is still at this point,

0:28.9

a rational actor, because frankly, he's not.

0:31.8

And I know a lot of people out there will say that Trump broke his brain, that he used to be

0:37.2

a perfectly logical person, even if he was a leftist or an atheist before Trump,

0:41.3

but then something happened and then that compounded with COVID.

0:44.4

But I disagree. Honestly, I think Sam Harris has always had a bit of an

0:49.9

illiberal deranged streak to him.

0:51.8

It's just that these few years have really brought it out of him.

0:55.2

And now there is no hiding, no pretending that he is actually a a serious person, because I'm

1:02.0

at the point now where it's like Sam Harris, Joy Bayar, whoopie Goldberg, I really don't see

1:08.3

any difference between these types of people. They're all as shrill and shrieking in my opinion.

1:13.5

But recently, Sam Harris was on the Lex Freeman podcast.

1:18.3

And now I don't really follow Lex Freeman very much, but I understand that he is someone who

1:21.9

likes to have in-depth conversations with all types of different people.

1:26.0

So naturally, when it came to his interview with Sam Harris, he did ask him about a lot of the

1:31.4

criticisms people have had about Sam Harris over the past few years to Lex Freeman's credit.

1:36.8

And oh my goodness, Sam Harris just can't stop destroying his own credibility.

1:42.3

I don't know if you guys remember, but not that long ago on the Trigger Nometry podcast,

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