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Cenk Uygur (0:00)
Foreign.
Sean Ryan (0:06)
Welcome to the show, man.
Cenk Uygur (0:08)
Thank you, brother. Appreciate it.
Sean Ryan (0:10)
It's going to be a hell of a discussion today. There's a lot of. To talk about.
Cenk Uygur (0:15)
There is. So.
Sean Ryan (0:16)
But I really appreciate you coming on. You know, throughout the years, the country's obviously become extremely divided. It has been probably for the majority of my adult life, but, man, it's speeding up fast. And so I appreciate you being here because I think we both come from opposite ends of the spectrum. And listening to you recently, and just my own feelings, I think maybe both of us are pretty fucking disgusted with the parties we come from. And I heard Joe Rogan call it politically homeless, and I think that's the perfect term, politically homeless. I feel like. I don't know. I always thought I was a Republican. Turns out I'm not a fucking Republican. I'm not a Democrat either. But I'm just an American who wants to fix stuff, that wants a brighter future for my kids than I had. And so I hope we can come up with some solutions today on all the problems that are going on.
Cenk Uygur (1:24)
So don't worry. I've got the solutions. So. So we're the first online video show, right? And we're the first YouTube partner. So I've been doing this 24 years, so I've seen it all. And I give you that context because this is both the worst of times and the best of times. So as. As shitty as things are, things are gonna get, I think, are gonna get better because we're nearly at the bottom of Pandora's box. And if you know that old Greek story, all the demons fly out of Pandora's box once you open it. And at the very bottom, the last thing left is hope. Okay? So we're almost at hope.
Sean Ryan (2:10)
I hope so, man.
Cenk Uygur (2:13)
So here's why. The reason I gave the context is because I've seen this movie so many times where the Democrats say they're the good guys, the Republicans say they're the good guys. They both do propaganda. Mainstream media loves that propaganda. They put it on steroids, right? And the most important thing is make sure you're divided and you're. And you hate each other. And you're constantly attacking one another, okay? And they tell you that you don't agree on anything. And then. But in old days, they would celebrate anytime there was bipartisan consensus. And mainstream media said that was, like, the greatest thing in the world. And on the young Turks, who we've been pointing out for 20 straight years now online, longer on the radio, saying, hey, wait a minute. What Are they agreeing on? Let's look at what they're agreeing on and what they're disagreeing on, right? So what they agreed on every single time was corporate subsidies, corporate tax breaks, corporate this, corporate that, foreign government, this, foreign government that. Every time, it was a giveaway of our money, right? So Joe Biden didn't do much, but they declared him FDR 2.0. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's these amazing things he did? In my opinion, he did some good things. More Internet across the country. That's a good thing, right? And I can name a couple other good things. But then they talk about the semiconductor bill and they're like, oh, okay, It's. I'm like, okay, look, we need more semiconductors in America were too dependent on Taiwan. I get it. But what's in the bill? Oh, it's a 54 billion dollar giveaway to the semiconductor industry. I'm like, okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. But did we protect Americans? Like, did we protect American jobs? Did they have to produce it here? Right? No, we didn't protect any American jobs. And as soon as the bill passed, intel fired 8,000 people, and then they fired another 12,000 people. Right. And they outsourced. So. But the media was like, yes, Joe Biden delivers, but did he deliver for us? No, he took $54 billion from us and gave it to huge companies. Right. Maybe it was necessary, but it needed guardrails and it needed it to not be a giveaway. But the bottom line is that I can give you dozens of examples like that. Like with oil companies, we give them $35 billion a year in subsidies. What the fuck? They're the biggest companies in the world. They're the most profitable companies in the world. What do they need John and Susie's money for? Who are barely making the rent in Kansas. Right? So. And every time, mainstream media, when they do that bullshit unity, they celebrate. Oh, bipartisan unity, Right. And what do they split you on? Things that you actually agree on. So an example I use is paid family leave. So mom's getting 12 weeks off after they have a baby. 84% approval. Because right wing's like, oh, that'll lead to moms having, you know, more babies, bigger families. We love moms. We do. We want time for them to bond with the Maybe. Of course we do. Right. And the left likes it. It's a bill that they've always liked. Well, 84%. Where's the question? We can't get it passed. Why can't we get it passed because they're all full of shit. They all work for their donors. Most of the donors are corporate. But now, as we know, famously, there's one foreign government that is, in the last cycle, the biggest donor of all, and that's Israel. And so when you lose your sovereignty to a corporation, that's already a big problem. But when you lose it to a foreign government, that's a problem that I cannot accept.
