Sam Harris

The purpose of those shots were not self-defense.

This is not a fleeing fugitive who has, you know, several murders on her record, and you know she's a threat to the public, right?

So it's just, there's nothing about this that makes sense from a law enforcement point of view, and yet you have people

I mean, forget about all the liars and maniacs who are calling her a terrorist and Trump said the guy was in the hospital and lucky to be alive, right?

That's the level of communication, but forget about all that.

There's still people right of center defending this as somehow a kind of normative policing that we want our law enforcement to come in this hot.

And if you simply don't obey them,

you have fucked around sufficiently so as to lose your life, right?

I mean, that's basically the center of narrative gravity over there.

It's insane.

And again, it's coming from people who, from the right, these people who get radicalized by every, or at least heretofore got radicalized by every overreach of federal power, right?

I mean, think of Ruby Ridge that radicalized the entire far right for a generation.

Or Waco, right?

I mean, this is what got Timothy McVeigh to blow up the federal building, right?

It's like any intrusion of the feds coming into our lives.

And what the feds are doing now is stopping traffic randomly and hauling people out of cars who are just driving home from work and throwing them on the pavement, restraining them and beating them up after they've been restrained.

It's awful.

Well, I think, you know, technically everything Trump is doing now bodes well, because it's all quite unpopular, at least from the polls I've seen.

You know, the ICE operations are unpopular.

The Greenland stuff is unpopular.