#441 – Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism
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🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 263 minutes
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Cenk's X: https://x.com/cenkuygur
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Justice Is Coming (Cenk's book): https://tyt.com/justice
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(14:27) - Progressivism
(20:37) - Communism
(35:24) - Capitalism
(41:27) - Corruption
(46:13) - Money in politics
(1:03:00) - Fixing politics
(1:22:11) - Meritocracy & DEI
(1:33:10) - Far-left vs far-right
(2:07:43) - Donald Trump
(2:28:00) - Joe Biden
(2:46:27) - Bernie Sanders
(2:59:56) - Kamala Harris
(3:07:25) - Harris vs Trump presidential debate
(3:20:55) - RFK Jr
(3:30:37) - The Young Turks
(3:38:49) - Joe Rogan
(3:48:30) - Propaganda
(3:55:46) - Conspiracy theories
(4:03:33) - Israel-Palestine
(4:13:20) - Hope
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Jenk Uger, a progressive political commentator and host of the young Turks. |
| 0:07.0 | As I've said before, I will speak with everyone, including on the left and the right of the political spectrum, |
| 0:13.0 | always in good faith with empathy, rigor, and backbone. |
| 0:17.0 | Sometimes I fail, sometimes I say stupid, inaccurate, in eloquent things and I frequently change my mind as I'm learning |
| 0:26.4 | and thinking about the world. |
| 0:28.8 | For all this, I often get attacked, sometimes fairly, sometimes not. But just know that I'm aware when I fall |
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