Cenk Uygur

And there isn't any amount of money you can give Tom Massey for him to change his principles. Why? He's on the principled end of the spectrum as a human being, right? So is Bernie. They're on the same part of that spectrum, right? But for most people, the great majority of the spectrum, if you overload them with software that incentivizes them to not have integrity, they will succumb.

And now let's switch to politicians in particular. Why do I think that they're on average far more likely to be on the sociopathic part of the spectrum? because of the incentives and disincentives. So this changes every congressional cycle. And when just Democrats were winning a lot, it got all the way down to 87 and a half percent.

But on average for congressional elections, the person with more money wins 95% of the time. It doesn't matter if they're a liberal conservative Republican or Democrat or any ideology they have 95%. Okay. So now let's say you got the 5% that went in, uh, that are not hooked on the money. Well, they're going to get a primary challenge. Then they're going to get a general election challenge.

And 95% of the time, the one with more money wins. So eventually, this system cycles through until almost only the corrupt are left.

Yes, that's true. You're right. So you know why? So the presidential race is ironically, in some ways, the least corrupt. So let's dive into why. If you're running a local race anywhere in the country, you're going to get almost no press coverage, meaning a congressional race, right? If you're running a Senate race in the middle of Montana... you're gonna get almost no media coverage.

So that's where your money in politics has the most effect, because then you can just buy the airwaves. You outspend the other guy, you get all the ads, plus you get the friendly media coverage, because you just bought a couple of million dollars of ads in the middle of Montana. So the local news loves you, the TV stations, the radio stations, the papers, So some of the papers are principled.

They might say, oh, no, but overall, they're not calling you a radical. They're not calling you anything. And you're buying those races. But when you get to the presidential race, that's much harder because presidential race, you have earned media, free media that overwhelms paid media. Perfect example is 2016. Hillary Clinton outraises Trump by about two to one, but she loses anyway. Why?

Because Trump got almost twice as much earned media as she did. And the earned media is better. It's inside the content, right? It is definitely better. So in a presidential election, as long as you got past the primary, you could actually win with not that much money. And that's part of the reason why I have hope, Lex. Because all you gotta do is get past a Republican or democratic primary.

And now that's very, very, very difficult, but Trump did it right now. He took it in the wrong direction, but he did get leave a blueprint for how to do it. And so once you get to the general election, you're off to the races. You could do any goddamn thing you like. Okay. You could be super popular. You don't have to give a shit about the donors. You can get into office.

You could bully your own party and the other party into doing what you want and you can get everything done. You could even get money out of politics. So don't lose hope. I mean, we even started Operation Hope at TYT and our first project was to knock Biden out. And everybody said, you guys are nuts. That's totally impossible. And we knocked Biden out, right? Did we do it alone? Of course not.

We were a small part of it, right? But we laid the groundwork. for hope, and we laid the groundwork for when he flopped in the debate, people had already been told, remember, he's bad, he's old, he's not right, and the debate proved it.

If we hadn't done that groundwork, and not just Young Turks, obviously, but Axelrod and Carville and Nate Silver and Ezra Klein, et cetera, Charlemagne the God, Jon Stewart, all these people helped a lot so that when the debate happened, it confirmed the the idea that out there that he was too old and couldn't do it.

So my point is hope is you, if you lose hope you're done for, then they're definitely going to win, right? Hope is the most dangerous thing in the world for the elites. So whether you're right wing or left wing, I need you to have hope and I need you to understand it's not misplaced. We just got to get past the primary and we're going to turn this whole thing around.

Okay, so number one, I have the same exact thing as you. The fake elector scheme is unacceptable, totally disqualifying. So the fake elector scheme was a literal coup attempt. So he doesn't win the election.

For folks who don't know, I need to explain why it's a coup attempt because you just throw out words and then people get triggered by the words and then they go into their separate corners, right? So... The January 6th rioters, they were not going to keep the building. That was not a coup attempt. It's not like, oh, the MAGA guys have the building. I guess they win, right?

No, that was never going to happen. So what was the point of the January 6th riot? It was to delay the proceedings. Why did it matter that they were going to delay the proceedings? Because if you can't certify the election, they wanted general confusion and chaos so that the Republicans in Congress could say, well, we don't know who won, so we're going to have to kick it back to the states.

In the states, they had the fake electors ready. Remember, the fake electors are not Trump's electors. There's both candidates have a slate of electors, Biden's electors and Trump's electors. They go to the Trump electors first in this plan. And the half the Trump electors go, no, I'm not going to pretend Trump won the election when he didn't win the election.

So they're like, shit, now we've got to come up with fake electors. Okay. So they enlist these Republicans who go, yeah, I'll pretend Trump won. Right. And so they sign a piece of paper that's fraud. And that's why a lot of them are now being prosecuted in the different states.

And so the idea is the Republican legislature legislators then go, we're sending these new electors in and we think Trump won Arizona and Georgia and Wisconsin. Right. That was the idea. That was the plan. And then you come back to the House. At that point, when there are two different sets of electors, the rule, constitutional rule is the House decides.

But the House decides not on a majority because the Democrats had the majority at the time. They decide on a majority of the states. They vote by state. And the Republicans had the majority of the states. So in that way, you steal the election. Even though Trump didn't win, you install him back in as president. That is a frontal assault on democracy. And I loathe it.