Sam Harris

Yes, there are bad incentives and entrenched interests.

And I'm not a fan of the concept of the deep state, because it has been so propagandized.

But yes, there's something like that that is not...

flexible enough to respond intelligently to the needs of the moment.

So there's a lot of rethinking of government and of institutions in general that I think we should do, but we need smart, well-informed, well-intentioned people to do that job.

And the well-intentioned part is hugely important.

Just give me someone who is not the most

selfish person anyone has ever heard about in their lifetime, right?

And what we got with Trump was literally the one most selfish person I think anyone could name.

And again, there's so much known about this man.

That's the thing.

It predates his presidency.

We knew this guy 30 years ago.

And this is why, to come back to those inflammatory comments about Hunter Biden's laptop, the reason why I can say with confidence that I don't care what was on his laptop is that there is, and that includes any evidence of corruption on the part of his father, right?

Now, there's been precious little of that that's actually emerged.

So it's like, there is no, as far as I can tell, there's not a big story associated with that laptop as much as people bang on about a few emails.

even if there were just obvious corruption, like Joe Biden was at this meeting and he took this amount of money from this shady guy for bad reasons, given how visible the lives of these two men have been, given how much we know about Joe Biden and how much we know about Donald Trump and how they have lived in public for almost as long as I've been alive, both of them, the scale of corruption

can't possibly balance out between the two of them.

If you show me that Joe Biden has this secret life where he's driving a Bugatti and he's living like Andrew Tate, and he's doing all these things I didn't know about, okay, then I'm gonna start getting a sense that, all right, maybe this guy is,

way more corrupt than I realized.