Sam Harris
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And they're not informed about the other risks we're running, really.
I mean, in Trump, you had a president
who was repeatedly asking his generals, why couldn't we use our nuclear weapons?
Why can't we have more of them?
Why do I have fewer nuclear weapons than JFK, right?
As though that were a sign of anything other than progress, right?
And this is the guy who's got the button, right?
I mean, somebody's following him around with a bag, waiting to take his order to launch, right?
That is a...
It's a risk we should never run.
One thing Trump has going for him, I think, is that he doesn't drink or do drugs, right?
Although people allege that he does speed, but let's take him at his word.
He's not deranging himself with pharmaceuticals, at least, apart from Diet Coke.
I occasionally have some myself.
No, I don't know.
I hope you're right.
I mean, everything you said about the military-industrial complex is true, right?
And we've been worrying about that on both sides of the aisle for a very long time.
I mean, that phrase came from Eisenhower.
It's... I mean, so much of...