Cenk Uygur

And oh, well, now, sorry, you couldn't vote this time. Remember to re-register next time. And so do they go, hey, we're going to take black people off the voter rolls? No. What they do is we're having more issues in these districts, right? Here's another way they do it. How many voting booths do you have in the area? Yeah.

So primarily Republican areas will get tons of voting booths so you don't have to wait in line. You go in, you vote, you go to work, no problem. You're in a black area run in a Republican state. All of a sudden, hey, look, that city, well, we sent you four voting booths. Oh, you got a million people there? Well, what are you going to do? I guess you got to wait in line the whole day.

You can't go to work, et cetera. So that's the way.

So that's why I paused.

The Democrats are so weak. They mainly don't do that, but they do do the third thing, which is gerrymandering. So both Republicans and Democrats.

Yeah. So gerrymandering is the best way to rig an election. That way the politicians pick their voters instead of the voters picking their politicians. Right? So all these districts are so heavily gerrymandered that the incumbent almost can't lose. They'll push most of the voters into one district, most of the voters in another district because they don't want competition. Right? So...

Then you're screwed. The vote isn't rigged, but the district is rigged so that the incumbent wins. no matter, almost no matter what, right? So that's why we've gotten so polarized because the gerrymandering creates like 90% of seats that are safe. So they don't have to compromise. They don't have to get to a middle. They could just be extreme on either side because they already locked it up.

Okay, so that's the number one way to rig an election. Now, finally, the last part of it is maybe the most important, maybe even more important than gerrymandering, and that's the media. So it just happened to RFK Jr., It happened to Bernie in 2015. It happens to any outsider, right or left. The media, if you're an outsider, will say, well, radical. Number one, they don't platform you, right?

So they're not going to have you on to begin with. Nobody's even going to find out about you. If nobody finds out about you, you're done for, right? So Bernie broke through that because he He was so popular and the rallies were so huge that local news couldn't help but cover him. Jesus Christ, what are all these people doing in the middle of the city, right? And he slowly broke through that.

But do you know that in 2015, as he's doing this miraculous run against Hillary Clinton, nobody thinks he has a chance. And here comes Bernie and he's almost at 48%. He had seven seconds of coverage on ABC that year. They just will not put you on. That is the number one way they rig an election. Bobby Kennedy Jr. sitting at 20% in a primary. No town hall. 20% is a... Giant number, right?

And you're not going to do a town hall. You're not going to do a debate. 12% in the general election. A giant number in a general election. No town hall, no debate. If no one finds out about you, they don't know to vote for you, right? If they don't find out your policies. Corporate media rigs elections more than anything else in the world.

Okay, so let's break that down. Tech and media are totally different. So let's do media first, then we'll do tech. So on mainstream media, corporate media, and I actually think that right-wing media like Fox News is part of corporate media. They just play good cop, bad cop. And so... In, in that realm, the bias is not right or left except on social issues. Okay.

So, and that's where that image comes from on social issues. Yes. The media is generally on the left and right wing. Sorry, but like this started in the 1960s and the right wing got super mad at mainstream media saying that black people were equal to white people. That's not the case anymore, okay? Right wing, calm down. I'm not calling you all racist. But in the 1960s, were there racism?

Was there racism? Of course! Of course they wouldn't even let black kids into the schools, right? There was massive segregation in the South, but a lot in the North as well. And at that point, the mainstream media says, well, I mean, they are citizens. They should have equal rights. And the right wing goes, bias! Okay, yeah, I mean, you're kind of right. It is a bias.

It is a bias towards equality in that case. But that is perceived as on the left. Now, fast forward to today, you don't have that on the racial issues as obviously as much as you had it back then. But on gay marriage, that existed for a long time where the media is like, well, they kind of should have the same rights as straight people, right? And the right wing went, bias, right?

So, okay, you're kind of right about that. But at the same time, I would argue, Their position is correct, right? So can they go too far? Of course they can go too far. Okay, now, but that's not the main deal, guys. That's to distract you. The main deal is economic issues. And again, we say it ahead of time, and you can see if we're right or wrong, right?

So we will tell folks, when we get to an economic bill, you will see all of a sudden the guys who theoretically disagree, Fox News and MSNBC close ranks. And you just saw it happen with price gouging, that issue of price gouging. All of a sudden, there's a lot of MSNBC hosts, CNN hosts, Washington Post writes an op-ed against it, and everybody panics. It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

You can't control anything a corporation does. This is wrong. This is wrong, right? Oh, what happened? I thought you guys were hated each other. All of a sudden you totally agree. Fascinating. Okay. Same thing happened on increasing wages. When they were talking about increasing the minimum wage, Stephanie ruled giant screed against it on MSNBC. All of a sudden Fox news at MSNBC agree, right?

Do not touch beloved corporations. So now that gets us to our real bias. It's not left or right. It's pro-corporate for all the reasons we talked about before. Corporate media, corporate politicians. So if you don't believe me today, whether you're on the right or the left, watch. Next time an economic issue, where do they fall? How do they react?

When anytime it's a corporate issue, where does the media go, right? So that's the real bias of the media. And so since the real bias of the media is pro-corporations, right? That is not a left-wing position. That is considered more of a right-wing position. I even think that's a misnomer because, to be fair to right-wing voters, they're not pro-corporations. They're not pro-big business.