Cenk Uygur

Yeah, so here's where it gets absurd. I'll give you a good example of absurdity. So... In a school, I believe in California, they noticed that Latino students were not doing as well in AP and honors classes. So they canceled AP and honors classes. Oh, come on. What are you doing? That's nuts. No, your job is to help them get better grades, get better opportunity, et cetera.

That's the harder thing to do and the right thing to do. Your job isn't, I'm going to make everything equal by taking away the opportunity for higher achievement for other students. If that's what you're doing and you think you're on the left, you're not really on the left. I actually think that's like an authoritarian position that no progressive in their right mind would be in favor of.

But it's all definitional. So here's another example of definitional. Communists. Like they say, oh my God, Kamala Harris is a communist. Well, when you're telling on yourself, brothers and sisters, when you say that, that means, A, I don't know what communism means, and B, I don't have any idea what's going on in American politics. Kamala Harris is a corporatist. That's her problem.

Not that she's a communist. She's on the other end of the spectrum, right? The idea that Kamala Harris would come into office and say, that's it, there's no more private property. We're going to take all of your homes and it's now government property, all your cars, et cetera. She was not going to get within a billion miles of that.

Her donors would never allow her to get within a billion miles of that. That is so preposterous that when you say something like that, it's disqualifying. Like I can't debate someone who thinks that Democrats are communists when they're actually largely corporatists. You see what I'm saying?

Yep.

Okay. So here, let me give you an example so you see what I'm saying. So if you just wanted votes... you would do a lot of what Tim walls did. Okay. And, and by the way, a lot of what Bernie did, that's why Bernie who had no media coverage went from like 2% in 2015 to by the end, about 48% because he was just doing things that were popular. Right. And that American people wanted, et cetera.

Right. Because he's not controlled by corporations, by the way, neither is Tom Massey on the right wing side on the Republican side. Right. So, It's not all, that's why I always say almost all, right? So if you're doing things that are popular, people love it. So today, what would Kamala Harris do if she actually just wanted to win, right?

So number one, she was trying to pass paid family leave right now. Why? It pulls at 84% and even 74% of Republicans want it. Why? Because it says, hey, when you have a baby, you should get 12 weeks off. Bond with your baby. Right now,

In a lot of states that don't have paid family leave, you have to go back to work the very next day, or you have to use all of your sick days, all your vacation days, just to have one or two weeks with your baby, right? So conservatives love paid family leave. Liberals love paid family leave. That's why it pulls so high. So why isn't she proposing it? It's not in her economic plan.

Tim Walz already passed it in Minnesota. He showed how easy it was. If you want votes, and then you know what's going to happen if you propose paid family leave. The Republicans are going to go, no! Our beloved corporations don't want to spend another dollar on moms, right? And they fall for that trap. And then you're in an infinitely better shape. So why doesn't she do it?

She doesn't do it because her corporate donors don't want her to do it. $15 minimum wage, layup. Over two-thirds of the country wants it because it not only gives higher wages for minimum wage folks, but it pushes wages up for others. And what do the elites say? Oh, that's going to drive up inflation. You shouldn't get paid anymore. Wait, wait, wait, hold on. So you're saying...

All other prices should go up. But the only thing that shouldn't go up is our wages. No, our wages should go up. Okay. So these are all easy ones. Here's another one. Anti-corruption. Why isn't she running on getting money out of politics? It pulls it over 90%. Why isn't Trump running on it anymore? He won when he ran on it in 2016. He didn't mean a word of it, but he ran on it. It was smart.

They don't do it because their corporate donors take their heads off if they do it.

Because that's easy because that is something that's super popular and she's not going to do it. That's why. So guys, this is where I break the hearts of Blue Maga. Blue Maga thinks, oh my God, these Democrats, they're angels. And the right wing is, and the Republicans are evil. And they work for big business, but not Kamala Harris, not Joe Biden, right?

Okay, well, Donald Trump took the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. So that's trillions of dollars that got transferred. Because guys, you got to understand, If the corporations don't pay it, we have to pay it because we're running up these giant deficits and eventually either they're going to, not eventually, they keep raising our taxes in different ways that you're not noticing.

They keep increasing fees and fines and different ways for the government to collect money. So we're paying for it. And on top of that, eventually they're going to cut your social security and Medicare because they're going to say, Oh, we don't have any options left anymore. Yeah, you don't have any options left anymore because you kept giving trillions of dollars in tax cuts to corporations.

So we're going to have to pay for that. So then Biden says, oh my God, I'm going to bring corporate taxes back up to 28%. I'm like, wait, hold on. They were at 35%. You already did a sleight of hand and said 28%. Okay, then he gets into office and Manchin says, no, 25%. That's the highest. I'll go. And he goes, okay, fine, 25%. And then while you're not looking, they just dump it.

They don't even do 25. It's still at 21. So hear me now, quote me later. I do predictions on the show all the time because you should hold me accountable. You should hold all your pundits accountable. If you held all your pundits accountable, we'd be the last man standing, and that's kind of what happened. Okay, so... I guarantee you she will not increase corporate taxes.

So it's not price controls, it's anti-price gouging? It is price controls, but minimum wage is price controls also. Now we're going to get into a lot of minutiae, but I'll try to keep it broad. So price controls are a disaster. They never work. If you say, oh, here's a banana, it has to stay at a dollar, a pound, make up a number, right?