Sam Harris
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You know, he's not going to take Greenland
Oh, he and his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, just accused the previous president, President Obama, of treason, which is a killing offense in most cases.
That's not serious.
You don't have to listen to any of that.
He's just playing around, right?
And so there's something about the lack of seriousness that is the style of presentation here.
It's a pattern.
It's not just Trump.
So the second point you raised, the glorification of violence.
Now, this, I think, has not been pushed nearly as far as most people think it must be pushed to justify any kind of analogy to what they consider fascism.
And this is one place where I even wonder whether Trump is the sort of person who's capable of this.
I mean, you think of, you know, the Night of Long Knives.
It's finally secured Hitler's power, right?
So this is the night where Hitler, having become chancellor, decides, all right, the SA has too much power, is not totally aligned with the SS and the army.
I need to keep the conservatives on board.
And so what we're going to do in the next 24 hours is murder Hitler.
you know, the top 200 people or 100 to 200 people in this organization who have been my loyalists all the while.
So what people think about here when you mention violence is the propensity to actually start rounding up people and killing them, right?
I must admit that, you know, as sinister as some of these guys seem to me, people like Stephen Miller and J.D.