Cenk Uygur

Well, supply and demand is going to move and then that's going to, and so the minute it moves to $2 of where the price should be, then you're going to run into shortages. So we all know this, it's a bad idea, right? But are there laws against price gouging? There already are, and they're a good idea. So why? Like you have a natural disaster.

All of a sudden, the water that was a dollar, now they're charging $100. The government has to come in, democratic capitalism. They come in and go, no, I'm going to protect the people. So you're not allowed to price gouge. Maybe you charge $2, et cetera, but you're not going to charge $100. But it is temporary.

We get that done, we end the problem there, and then we bring it back to a normal supply and demand, okay? So that's what she's proposing. That's all political because the price gouging has already passed. They did it in 21 and 22. And so now the grocery stores are actually a low margin business. She says grocery stores.

That's how I know she doesn't mean it because the grocery stores weren't the problem. Consumer goods were the problem.

Those companies.

100%.

And you could tell in which proposals she means it and which proposals she doesn't because of the framing, right? So this is a mediocre example, but in housing, she said, we have to stop private equity from buying houses in bulk, right? I'm like, huh, curious that they put the word in bulk there. Why does it have to be in bulk? Why don't we just stop them from buying any residential home?

Like you could set up normal boundaries, right? For example, Charlie Kirk was on the Young Turks this week.

Yeah, that's right. That's nice. Yeah, quick tangent. Look, I've done a lot of yelling online, okay? And I yell when A... there's a issue that you should be passionate about 40,000 people, 25,000 women and children, uh, slaughtered in Gaza. If you're not emotionally upset by that and you think it's no big deal, I think that's a problem.

But when you add gas lighting on top, that's what drives me crazy. And then when you add filibustering on top, then that sets me off. So for all my life, right wing has gone on cable and filibustered. They take up so much more time than the left wing guests. Um, And the left-wing guests always like, oh, okay, well, I'm offended. He's taking up too much time. No, brother, go over the top.

Go over the top. You're not going to talk over me. I'm going to talk over you, okay? And then when you gaslight and you go, oh, no, 1,200 people in Israel being killed is awful, which it is. but 40,000 people being killed in Gaza is no big deal. We should keep giving them money, keep killing, keep killing. And that that's normal. No, it's not normal. I'm not going to let you say it's normal.

That's nuts. Okay. When you, like we were against the Iraq war, there was only two shows that were on the air nationally that were against the Iraq war, us and democracy now with Amy Goodman. And, uh, And at the time, I used to yell all the time because mainstream media would gaslight the fuck out of us. We're going to be greeted as liberators. Me and Ben Mankiewicz on the air.

Ben doesn't yell as much. He's now the host of Turner Classic Movies. But he's saying it in a calm way. I'm saying it in a screaming way. We're not going to be greeted as liberators. When you drop a bomb on someone's head, they don't greet you as a liberator. Stop saying insane things. And seven out of 10 Americans thought that Saddam Hussein had personally attacked us on 9-11.

We got lied into that war by corporate media. Okay, now there's a couple of good things that Trump has done. One is get people to realize corporate media is the matrix, right? And so now, and get them to an anti-war position. He himself doesn't have an anti-war position, but his voters do, and that's a positive. We can come back to that.

But these days, the reason why the Charlie Kirk conversations are going great, and Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Lindell, and historically, though, we've been... Go back, again, 10 years, 20 years. We've always been respectful when someone comes on our show and we have a debate. As long as they're not yelling, I match the tenor of the host, right? You and I are having a reasonable conversation.

I'm not raising my voice. I'm not yelling at you for no reason, right? So now when Charlie's not going to battle anymore for, like... Talking points. I'm shutting off my mind. All I'm doing is yelling at you. Then I'm going to yell back at him. But now he's saying, okay, let's have a reasonable conversation. Great. I love it. I love reasonable conversation.

Yes. So Charlie, when he was on said, uh, Hey, listen, you know, I think that there should be a cap, though. I forget if you said $10 billion or $100 billion in assets. If you have less than that, you should still be able to do real estate as an investment, even if it's residential. But above that, it gets to, okay, that's good. No problem. We can have a debate about that.

We can figure out, is the right number 10, 125? No problem. You could put in reasonable limitations. But we got to get them to stop buying the homes. So when Kamala Harris says, oh, we'll stop them from buying homes in bulk, I'm like, okay, there's the loophole. And so they're going to use that loophole. And besides which, it's not going to pass. Wall Street owns the government.

So there's no way corporate Republicans and Democrats, which are about 98% of politicians, are going to limit private equity. And so when do we ever get a little bit of change? When Democrats are in charge, they do 5% to 15% of their agenda. And that's not because they're warm-hearted. It's a release valve, right? Oh, see, under Obama, we got about 5% change. And... What was that?

That was Obamacare, right? That was most of the change that we got. And what's the greatest part of Obamacare? And now a lot of right wing also agree, almost all of right wing agree about this portion, which is they got rid of the bias against preexisting conditions. Why did they do that particularly? Because the country was about to get in a fucking rage. We all have preexisting conditions.