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Cenk Uygur

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1845 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

So how do you get to the best possible answer, which is related to an earlier question you asked, Lex, which is the number one thing you have to do is get big money out of politics. Everything else is near impossible as long as we are drowned in money and whoever has more money wins. And by the way, when it comes to legislation, again, that's true about 98% of the time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

Like we predict things ahead of time. People are like, wow, how did you know that that bill wasn't going to pass or was going to pass? It's the easiest thing in the world. And we like literally like teach our audience on the young Turks. Watch, you'll be able to see for yourself. And now like our members comment in, they do these predictions. They're almost always right. Right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

Like we predict things ahead of time. People are like, wow, how did you know that that bill wasn't going to pass or was going to pass? It's the easiest thing in the world. And we like literally like teach our audience on the young Turks. Watch, you'll be able to see for yourself. And now like our members comment in, they do these predictions. They're almost always right. Right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

Like we predict things ahead of time. People are like, wow, how did you know that that bill wasn't going to pass or was going to pass? It's the easiest thing in the world. And we like literally like teach our audience on the young Turks. Watch, you'll be able to see for yourself. And now like our members comment in, they do these predictions. They're almost always right. Right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

Because it's so simple. Follow the money. So if you get big money out of politics and I can explain how to do that in a sec. Um, Then you're at a place where you got your best shot at honest representatives that are going to try their best to get to the right answer. Are they going to get to the right answer out of the gate? Usually not. So they pass a law. There's something wrong with the law.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

Because it's so simple. Follow the money. So if you get big money out of politics and I can explain how to do that in a sec. Um, Then you're at a place where you got your best shot at honest representatives that are going to try their best to get to the right answer. Are they going to get to the right answer out of the gate? Usually not. So they pass a law. There's something wrong with the law.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

Because it's so simple. Follow the money. So if you get big money out of politics and I can explain how to do that in a sec. Um, Then you're at a place where you got your best shot at honest representatives that are going to try their best to get to the right answer. Are they going to get to the right answer out of the gate? Usually not. So they pass a law. There's something wrong with the law.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

They then fix that part. it's a pendulum. You know, you don't want it to swing too wildly, but you do need a little bit of oscillation in that pendulum to get to the right balance.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

They then fix that part. it's a pendulum. You know, you don't want it to swing too wildly, but you do need a little bit of oscillation in that pendulum to get to the right balance.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

They then fix that part. it's a pendulum. You know, you don't want it to swing too wildly, but you do need a little bit of oscillation in that pendulum to get to the right balance.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

Yeah, so we did a video on our TikTok channel then and now of Joe Biden. This is when I was trying to push Biden out. We should say you were one of the people early on saying Biden needs to step down. Yeah, I started about a year ago because I was positive that Biden had a 0% chance of winning.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

Yeah, so we did a video on our TikTok channel then and now of Joe Biden. This is when I was trying to push Biden out. We should say you were one of the people early on saying Biden needs to step down. Yeah, I started about a year ago because I was positive that Biden had a 0% chance of winning.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

Yeah, so we did a video on our TikTok channel then and now of Joe Biden. This is when I was trying to push Biden out. We should say you were one of the people early on saying Biden needs to step down. Yeah, I started about a year ago because I was positive that Biden had a 0% chance of winning.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

And it turned out, by the way, two days before he dropped out, his inside advisors inside the White House said, yeah, near 0% chance of winning. So we were right all along. You got a lot of criticism for that, by the way. But yeah. Yeah, we can come back to that. Yes, I did. And which makes it Tuesday for me. I get a lot of criticism for everything.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

And it turned out, by the way, two days before he dropped out, his inside advisors inside the White House said, yeah, near 0% chance of winning. So we were right all along. You got a lot of criticism for that, by the way. But yeah. Yeah, we can come back to that. Yes, I did. And which makes it Tuesday for me. I get a lot of criticism for everything.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

And it turned out, by the way, two days before he dropped out, his inside advisors inside the White House said, yeah, near 0% chance of winning. So we were right all along. You got a lot of criticism for that, by the way. But yeah. Yeah, we can come back to that. Yes, I did. And which makes it Tuesday for me. I get a lot of criticism for everything.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

uh and by the way democratic party you're welcome um so but uh biden's a really interesting example i'm really glad you brought it up so the video on tiktok was just showing by and then by now and you're right biden was so dynamic when you see how dynamic he was we did like side by side right and then you see him now going like you're barely finishing anyways Right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

uh and by the way democratic party you're welcome um so but uh biden's a really interesting example i'm really glad you brought it up so the video on tiktok was just showing by and then by now and you're right biden was so dynamic when you see how dynamic he was we did like side by side right and then you see him now going like you're barely finishing anyways Right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

uh and by the way democratic party you're welcome um so but uh biden's a really interesting example i'm really glad you brought it up so the video on tiktok was just showing by and then by now and you're right biden was so dynamic when you see how dynamic he was we did like side by side right and then you see him now going like you're barely finishing anyways Right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#441 โ€“ Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

You're like, oh, that's not the same guy. I get it. Right. So and I got like five million views because because it resonates. They're like, yeah, yeah, of course. Right. But when he first started to the point you were making, Lex, he want to. In fact, I know because I talked to him about this. His very first bill was anti-corruption. Why? Because at that point, everything changes in 1976 and 78.