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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

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.

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.

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

It's Supreme Court decisions that basically legalized bribery. But remember, Biden is ancient. So he's coming into politics at a time when money has not yet drowned politics. And in fact, the American population is super pissed about the fact that it's begun. They don't like corruption. So early Biden, because he's reading the room, is very anti-corruption.

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

It's Supreme Court decisions that basically legalized bribery. But remember, Biden is ancient. So he's coming into politics at a time when money has not yet drowned politics. And in fact, the American population is super pissed about the fact that it's begun. They don't like corruption. So early Biden, because he's reading the room, is very anti-corruption.

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

It's Supreme Court decisions that basically legalized bribery. But remember, Biden is ancient. So he's coming into politics at a time when money has not yet drowned politics. And in fact, the American population is super pissed about the fact that it's begun. They don't like corruption. So early Biden, because he's reading the room, is very anti-corruption.

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

And the first bill he proposes is to get money out of politics. Okay? But as Biden goes on for his epic 200-year career in Washington, he starts to get not more conservative, more corporate, because he's just taking more and more money. By the middle of his career, he has a nickname, the Senator from MBNA. Okay. MBNA was a credit card company based in Delaware.

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

And the first bill he proposes is to get money out of politics. Okay? But as Biden goes on for his epic 200-year career in Washington, he starts to get not more conservative, more corporate, because he's just taking more and more money. By the middle of his career, he has a nickname, the Senator from MBNA. Okay. MBNA was a credit card company based in Delaware.

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

And the first bill he proposes is to get money out of politics. Okay? But as Biden goes on for his epic 200-year career in Washington, he starts to get not more conservative, more corporate, because he's just taking more and more money. By the middle of his career, he has a nickname, the Senator from MBNA. Okay. MBNA was a credit card company based in Delaware.

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

And the reason he had that nickname is because there isn't anything Joe Biden wouldn't have done for credit card companies and corporations based in Delaware, which are almost all corporations. Okay. So he became the most corporate. senator in the country, and hence the most beloved by corporate media. And corporate media has protected him his entire career until about a month ago.

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

And the reason he had that nickname is because there isn't anything Joe Biden wouldn't have done for credit card companies and corporations based in Delaware, which are almost all corporations. Okay. So he became the most corporate. senator in the country, and hence the most beloved by corporate media. And corporate media has protected him his entire career until about a month ago.

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

And the reason he had that nickname is because there isn't anything Joe Biden wouldn't have done for credit card companies and corporations based in Delaware, which are almost all corporations. Okay. So he became the most corporate. senator in the country, and hence the most beloved by corporate media. And corporate media has protected him his entire career until about a month ago.

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

So for example, in the primaries, both in 2020 and 2024, if you said the senator from MBNA, I guarantee you almost no one in the audience has heard of it. If you heard of it, good job, you know politics really well, okay? But the reason you didn't hear of it is because the mainstream media wouldn't say that's outrageous of Joe Biden to be such a corporate stooge. They'd say,

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

So for example, in the primaries, both in 2020 and 2024, if you said the senator from MBNA, I guarantee you almost no one in the audience has heard of it. If you heard of it, good job, you know politics really well, okay? But the reason you didn't hear of it is because the mainstream media wouldn't say that's outrageous of Joe Biden to be such a corporate stooge. They'd say,

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

So for example, in the primaries, both in 2020 and 2024, if you said the senator from MBNA, I guarantee you almost no one in the audience has heard of it. If you heard of it, good job, you know politics really well, okay? But the reason you didn't hear of it is because the mainstream media wouldn't say that's outrageous of Joe Biden to be such a corporate stooge. They'd say,

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

That's outrageous of you to point out something that's true and something we reported on earlier, okay? And so they protected him at all costs. Now, finally, when you get to this version of Joe Biden, he can't talk, he can't walk. He bears no resemblance to the young guy who came in saying that money in politics was a problem. Now he's saying money in politics is the solution.

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

That's outrageous of you to point out something that's true and something we reported on earlier, okay? And so they protected him at all costs. Now, finally, when you get to this version of Joe Biden, he can't talk, he can't walk. He bears no resemblance to the young guy who came in saying that money in politics was a problem. Now he's saying money in politics is the solution.

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

That's outrageous of you to point out something that's true and something we reported on earlier, okay? And so they protected him at all costs. Now, finally, when you get to this version of Joe Biden, he can't talk, he can't walk. He bears no resemblance to the young guy who came in saying that money in politics was a problem. Now he's saying money in politics is the solution.

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

And in 2020, he said, well, I can raise more money than Bernie. I can kiss corporate ass better than Bernie. I'm the biggest corporate ass kisser in the world. So I'm going to raise a billion dollars and you need to support me. Now, of course, he doesn't say it in those words, but that was the message to the establishment. And Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Obama, Clyburn, everybody goes, oh, that's right.

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

And in 2020, he said, well, I can raise more money than Bernie. I can kiss corporate ass better than Bernie. I'm the biggest corporate ass kisser in the world. So I'm going to raise a billion dollars and you need to support me. Now, of course, he doesn't say it in those words, but that was the message to the establishment. And Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Obama, Clyburn, everybody goes, oh, that's right.

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

And in 2020, he said, well, I can raise more money than Bernie. I can kiss corporate ass better than Bernie. I'm the biggest corporate ass kisser in the world. So I'm going to raise a billion dollars and you need to support me. Now, of course, he doesn't say it in those words, but that was the message to the establishment. And Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Obama, Clyburn, everybody goes, oh, that's right.