Sam Harris

Yeah, so if we plug those holes eventually, that would be a good thing and he would have done a good thing for our society, right?

I mean, one of the things we realized, and I think nobody knew, I mean, I certainly didn't know it and I didn't hear anyone talk about it,

is how much our system relies on norms rather than laws.

Yeah, civility almost.

Yeah, it's quite possible that he never did anything illegal, truly illegal.

I think he probably did a few illegal things, but like illegal such that he really should be thrown in jail for it.

At least that remains to be seen.

So all of the chaos, all of the, you know, all of the diminishment of our stature in the world, all of the, just the opportunity costs of spending years focused on nonsense, all that was just norm violations.

All that was just, that was just all a matter of not saying the thing you should say.

But that doesn't mean they're insignificant, right?

It's not that, it's like, it's not illegal for a sitting president to say, no, I'm not going to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, right?

We'll wait and see whether I win.

If I win, it was, the election was valid.

If I lose, it was fraudulent, right?

But that wasn't a humorous perturbation because he did everything he could.

Granted, he wasn't very competent, but he did everything he could

to try to steal the election.

I mean, the irony is he claimed to have an election stolen from him, all the while doing everything he could to steal it, declaring it fraudulent in advance, trying to get the votes to not be counted as the evening wore on, knowing that they were gonna be disproportionately Democrat votes because of the position he took on mail-in ballots.

I mean, all of it was fairly calculated,

The whole circus of, you know, the clown car that crashed into, you know, Four Seasons Landscaping, right?