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Sam Harris is a petulant child. He’s lost Bret Weinstein, Doug Murray, Eric Weinstein, Majid Nawaz and Winston Marshall- 5 brave , outstanding intellectuals who aren’t afraid to step outside the box. Ben Shapiro’s a bit too ideologically Conservative for my taste, but he’s moral, decent and rid of Candace Owens, the malignant narcissistic fraud , so desperate for relevance, she has adopted virulent antisemitism. But it’s an act. A persona. It’s her MO. She stands for nothing. Only desperation.

Shapiro was on to her.

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Election Day voting does not begin in Vermont.

It begins at midnight, traditionally, in a little town in northern New Hampshire called Dixville Notch. The entire voting population goes to the local polling station and votes. There are only six registered voters now.

Donald Trump 3, Kamala Harris 3.

And we're off...

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While Shapiro did much better than Harris in the FP debate, these essays make it clear that Harris's case is the stronger one.

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Thank you Ben. I did vote early for Trump & so did my whole family. I am a mom of 3 daughters & an MD. We have to make sure all Trump voters get to the polls!! I have been texting friends & family

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Both of these overview were terrible so didn't read the rest. Sam pretty much said orange man bad, Harris is not him.

Ben, really? That's the best you can do?

How about no tax on tips or social security and that b.s. about national ban on abortion when Trump is the one that helped push it back to the states?

Now who do you trust the most?

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Today, the left feels it’s ok to break into your home fully armed, have you wait outside while they capture, and later kill, your pet squirrel #Peanut you adopted and raised.

Tomorrow they will come for you for a social media post they disapprove of- as already happening in the UK under far left tyrannical Labour government.

Vote Trump/Vance like your life, our basic freedoms and the America of our founding fathers depended on it.

🙏🏻

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Kamala Harris is literally on the record saying she wants to censor free speech on the Internet. Tear up the first amendment. If you can still make a case for her after that (not to mention a HOST of other things), you're either deranged or a flat-out villain. Period.

The great irony is that it was Sam Harris and his new atheist cohorts who spent their life's work severing the roots of the tree of Christianity that this country was founded on, convinced in their hubris that they could teach a generation or two of people that they are meaningless, purposeless, accidental blobs of tissue and morality is a meaningless human construct and our very free will and sense of consciousness is an illusion, and things would actually get BETTER. But people need meaning, and so generations are left adrift to try to decide their own meaning. Wokeness and transgender madness etc. was the logical outworking of it.

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Agree & I very much hope that we can bring back good religious values back to the youth & to the culture.

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Sam Harris' repeated reference to "40 senior appointees" was sounding so much like "50 former intelligence officials" saying Hunter laptop was Russian disinformation. We know how that story went.

That said, I very much enjoyed listening to the well moderated debate between Sam Harris and Ben Shapiro in its entirety - and ICYMI, can highly recommend it.

After listening it was clear that for many Kamala supporters, as articulated by SamH, was the issue of "character". I suppose it makes sense - if one is fortunate enough as most coastal elites are and don't have to worry about the high prices of grocery, gasoline, rents, or migrant crime in their neighborhoods, or don't care about invasion of the illegal hordes and drug and human trafficking across our southern borders, or the decimation of small rust belt towns due to the export of our manufacturing jobs to the third world, and don't seem to notice the very real & regular attacks on SCOTUS, a key pillar of our democracy - then of course one can indulge in the luxury of sitting back and pontificate on how very much they care about Character above all else.

For the rest of us, Trump/Vance is a no brainer. As Nikki Haley puts it, #PolicyOverPersonality

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This is the same Sam Harris who was ok with Hunter Biden having "the literal corpses of children in his basement" and his argument is.... well Kamala "PROBABLY" doesn't believe in crazy wacko far left things anymore, even though she did in the past. PROBABLY? An assertion he puts for without a shred of evidence.

I don't know why people used to respect this guy - I had never heard of him before Jordan Peterson got famous and was always fawning over him - so I missed this cultural moment from the early 00's - but from my current prospective of 2024 - Sam Harris is a sad out of touch joke who deserves no air time or attention from serious people.

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His atheist materialism has led him to believe in strict determinism, that both free will and morality are an illusion. He is here writing a piece trying to convince people to make a free will choice at the ballot box because he thinks one candidate is a moral monster. Has there been a bigger irony in history? Of course, on his view, he has no choice but to write such an ironic disasterpiece of an article, so I suppose we should excuse him.

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Or - and hear me out - don't vote, in most states your vote doesn't matter anyway, get a good smoothie and watch a comedy movie. Screw this stress, I can't take it anymore.

(Unless you live in a swing state, in which case, educate yourselves and make an informed decision, please, for all of us.)

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The Afghanistan withdrawal disaster keeps me, singly, solely, dispising the Biden Administration. Kamala proudly associates herself with that pathetic military decision and execution. I will feel physically sick to my stomach if she becomes the Commander in Chief. It is unimaginable. That pathetic action killed 13 of our finest, hundreds of civilians, too many interpreters promised safe haven who were murdered in the most creative ways, millions in military equipment left behind, trust lost internationally and a weakened military, which can't seem to bounce back. We are losing our edge in the world. We are no longer respected. We, as citizens of the United States of America, are no longer willing to serve. We march in support of a sect, Hamas, that murders and rapes adults and murders children. We cannot police ourselves and those who break the law go through the revolving justice door to do it all over again. Lastly, the open border has allowed millions to enter this nation. While our own people struggle, they receive money, housing, three squares and education. This nation is finished as founded and will simply vanish under a Harris Administration. Semper Fi.

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The withdrawal/retreat from AFG alone - a 20-yr effort that spanned an entire career for many, and the absolute waste of so much sacrifice for others - should have extinguished ANY hope of this administration getting another term. <2>

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And reading the comments. Seems Sam didn't make the case. But good try Free Press.

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I listened to the entire podcast and it was good. But Sam Harris' TDS is evident. I voted for Trump.

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Trump Derangement Syndrome is when people who know what he is, a lying narcissist who only cares about himself but still supports his candidacy for president.

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Harris Derangement Syndrome is when people see the left's dysfunction - guys putting on dresses to compete with women, little boys and girls cutting off healthy body parts, watching illegals rape and murder with impunity, but is still voting for more of the same because those things happen to other people's kids.

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Sadly these morons have no idea that it will happen to their own kids too

Progressive families are at the highest risk

I'm an MD & mother & I have seen way too many of my own pediatric patients fall victim to forced gender transition, brainwashing, toxic drugs & mutilation surgeries

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Here's to the 2024 DEI presidential election.., excessive White and Black noise with no inclusion of ideas or diversity of ideas. Everyone wants to give bartenders who earn over 150 thousand a year on tips a pass on taxes. WTF?

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