My very quick thoughts after listening to it:
- Some Good: I was pleased to listen to a sane, adult conversation between an experienced host, and a rational man who was clear thinking and coherent, in a relaxed and informal long conversation format. This observation is important because most of what I see from Western politicians are nearly insane rantings far from reality as well just absurd sound bites, with Kamala Harris being the worst I have ever seen because she cannot even be absurd in a plausible way, and has no logic. So that being said, the bar is pretty low now, and so I can forgive these two guys from not having a stellar, well informed, intellectual conversation and I will accept just basic reasonableness (is that a word?) for now.
- Some Bad: Trump's words about the Middle East and geopolitical matters and even the way he talks about trade and economics (tariffs will fix everything?) seem pretty far off from the way I see things after putting in some serious personal effort to try objectively understand these things (which does not make me an expert, nor does it mean I have everything right, only I probably do have a chance of seeing reality better than the average person who only consumes mainstream narratives all the time). Come on Trump: open your eyes, USA is not top dog empire anymore, do you still think it is an exceptional nation that has the power you think it does to bully any more? (So I would like to ask him).
- I found Trump somewhat frustrating in that he jumps to a different thought without first finishing a sentence he started many times. There are so many better conversationalists than he is.
- Of course he shows no signs of reigning in the psychopathic genociders of the West/Israel, but... by now I have accepted that those same powers are so powerful, or at least perceived to be so powerful, that even if Trump and RFK jr secretly would want to end the genocide, it MAY be that it does not matter right now at this particular moment in history. That is because they would be dead if they even spoke against Israel at all, or at least they could get nowhere near the levers of power, and then they can do nothing. So I am forced, even if I don't want to, kind of have to put the genocide on the shelf in my mind when listening to anything about the coming 2024 election (drives me nuts to do so, but there it is - for now).
- So to me this talk is just what it is, a glimpse of what might be going on in the mind of a person history has chosen to play an influential role at a major turning point of the world. It is some more data for the objective observer to do with as he/she will.
- I could offer to someone just focusing on the election in the USA, and believing they MUST participate in it (some do not, you know) then a conversation like this comparing to the Democrat candidates, tells you pretty clearly how they should vote if they are certain it is only a 2-party system as Trump said it is at the start of this conversation. From a wider perspective, the world is on a destructive course with mass suffering and death that is too late to be stopped no matter who is inaugurated as the next president, and so only the speed or form of the descent into hell might be different. (Then humankind might to say to itself, when going through hell, keep going... to get to the other side eventually - I suppose).
- A lot of people following the extra-terrestrial right hand turn by the mainstream media might be interested in what Trump, having been a president for one term, personally thinks about aliens now. Trump even was the one who brought up the topic, not Joe Rogan! However I don't think he said anything substantial about the topic (you can be the judge), and the topic was suddenly dropped for something else in the middle it seems to me.
Also I kind of laughed at this part, when Joe Rogan asked Trump about the scar on his ear from the bullet:
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