Cenk Uygur experiences leftist intolerance firsthand after volunteering to help Trump admin



Cenk Uygur of "The Young Turks" appears to have undergone a rapid metamorphosis in recent weeks. Months after calling the once and future president "an actual fascist" and a "mad king," Uygur asked to join the incoming Trump administration.

Leftists immediately attacked Uygur over his willingness to serve at the pleasure of a Republican he just days ago characterized as "unstable and unhinged." Some fellow travelers suggested that the progressive host was an insincere turncoat, while others concluded he was just another opportunistic talking head.

Ultimately, Uygur was provided with a clear demonstration of the left's intolerance and the right's relative openness.

Uygur — whose interest was evidently piqued by the promise of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency — tweeted Monday, "Hey @elonmusk, put me in charge of the Pentagon. I'll slash $400B easy. That'll get you 20% to your goal of $2T, right out of the gate. I went to Wharton three years before you. I own a media company, so I know how to run a business. If you really want to cut, put me in, coach."

Elon Musk, whom Uygur attacked on Election Day, responded, "Specific suggestions are welcome."

Afforded the opportunity to chime in — something Uygur later noted no Democratic leader had ever asked him to do — Uygur recommended precluding generals from acquiring jobs with defense contractors for 10 years, noting, "They authorize so much wasteful spending because they're going to get hired by those same companies."

Donald Trump Jr., magnanimous despite Uygur having viciously attacked his father for years, tweeted, "This is a great idea that has been discussed."

'Knock it the f*** off.'

The positive engagement stunned Uygur and enraged his fellow travelers.

Emma Vigeland, a former fan of Uygur who hosted "TYT Politics," was among the leftists who couldn't stand the thought of her former boss cooperating with the Trump administration, writing, "Why does your assessment of politics change based on who pays attention to you, specifically a billionaire?"

"Holy s***. This ain't it. You're talking about the 'lock her up,' 'retribution' guy?" wrote Joanne Carducci, the host of "Are You F'ng Kidding Me? with JoJoFromJerz." "Do not obey in advance, Cenk. Knock it the f*** off."

Another leftist podcast host tweeted, "Amazing to watch some of these life-long progressives line up, one after the other on bended knee to kiss the ring."

'Now, which side seems more open and inclusive?'

Even Uygur's nephew, Hasan Piker — a radical who justified the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks and insinuated the terrorists' civilian victims were "criminals" — lashed out, writing, "This is preferring someone to lie to you rather than one who doesn[']t even do that."

Uygur suggested that effective pragmatism was better than political impotence.

"While the left is yelling at me not to work with MAGA, here's @DonaldJTrumpJR saying we should limit generals from working for defense contractors," wrote Uygur. "That's a policy we've been pushing for and gotten nowhere with Democrats on. Who cares who does it as long as it gets done?"

"A little common sense never killed anyone," wrote Donald Trump Jr.

"Now, which side seems more open and inclusive? Which side seems more welcoming and which side tries really hard to drive you away if you disagree even a little with orthodoxy? Which side is asking for suggestions and which one is demanding compliance and obedience?" added Uygur.

While numerous liberals criticized the progressive media host, Uygur was flooded with messages of welcome from Trump supporters and other right-leaning populists.

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Whoopi Goldberg says 'I work for a living' on 'The View' — and even far-left pundits are saying she's woefully out of touch



Whoopi Goldberg said on "The View" earlier this week during a discussion about the economy in relation to the presidential election that "I appreciate that people are having a hard time. Me too. I work for a living."

Uh-oh. But she wasn't done. The outspoken co-host of the far-left talk show added stridently that "if I had all the money in the world, I would not be here, OK? So I'm a working person, you know? ... I know it's hard out there."

'She made it seem like she's struggling and that she has no choice but to ... really pick herself up every day and just head over to work a lot of manual labor.'

In regard to Goldberg's 2016 contract extension with "The View," Variety reported that "she will continue to earn her current annual salary, which is in the $5 to $6 million range."

Not incidentally, when her heavy-duty Manhattan shift is over, Goldberg reportedly retreats across the bridge to a tony Northern New Jersey community, where her nearly 10,000-square-foot "Georgian Colonial-style residence" with eight bedrooms awaits her. Goldberg reportedly bought the place in 2009 for a cool $2.8 million.

So as you might expect, head-shaking outrage erupted once everyday people picked up on Goldberg's pronouncement about her "working person" plight.

But perhaps the most eye-opening responses came from Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur, hosts of the far-left show "The Young Turks." Neither of them were pleased with Goldberg's words, either.

"Whoopi, you can't say ... you work for a living and then 'I know your pain' et cetera as if you're a person who isn't spectacularly wealthy," Uygur reacted. "You have to at least acknowledge, 'Look, guys, I get it. I'm wealthy, and I used to be poor, but I haven't been poor in a long, long time. But, you know, here's the ways that I can relate.' Just be honest about it, no problem, right? But when you make it seem like you're barely getting by and you're worried about your grandkids ..."

Kasparian added, "She made it seem like she's struggling and that she has no choice but to ... really pick herself up every day and just head over to work a lot of manual labor. ... The way she carried herself in that segment was ridiculous. ... She's not a working-class American."

You can watch the Young Turks' reaction to Goldberg's "I work for a living" commentary here.

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Here Are The Corporate Media Meltdowns You’ve Been Waiting For

As the inevitability of Donald Trump's electoral victory became clear, leftist hysteria kicked into high gear.

Levin unpacks Trump's rally rhetoric twisted by the mainstream media: 'This is totalitarianism'



Former President Donald Trump is no stranger to the media taking him out of context, and its reaction to recent remarks he made about the automotive industry is no exception.

After a recent speech at a rally, multiple outlets ran out-of-context headlines on a prediction the former president made about there being a “bloodbath” in the auto industry job market if Biden wins and can continue his disastrous policies.

Trump was simply explaining to his audience that China was building manufacturing plants in Mexico to sell cars in the United States “with no tax at the border.”

“Those big, monster car-manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now and you think you’re going to get that,” Trump said, addressing China’s president, “you’re going to not hire Americans, and you’re going to sell the cars to us?”

“No. We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going be able to sell those cars if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That will be the least of it,” he said.

“He’s talking about our auto industry because communist China is trying to get around the tariffs he put in place,” Mark Levin explains, adding, “Donald Trump says, ‘No, that’s not going to happen. I’ll put 100% tariff on them,’ and in that context, he talks about a bloodbath.”

The media spun his words to sound like he was calling for violence if he loses the 2024 presidential election.

“This is totalitarianism,” Levin says. “This is how you lose countries, this is how you lose societies. When the truth is irrelevant, when the law is irrelevant. When you can say whatever you want to say and it sticks.”

“You see the lies, you see the propaganda, and it’s one after another after another,” Levin adds.


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Why Cenk Uygur’s Candidacy For President Is An Absolute Disaster For Biden

The threat Uygur poses to Biden is twofold.

Progressive Cenk Uygur of 'The Young Turks' announces presidential bid



Progressive media figure Cenk Uygur of "The Young Turks" has announced that he will run for president in a bid to pressure President Joe Biden to drop out of the contest.

"We must change course," Uygur said, asserting that at most Biden has "a 10% chance" of securing victory in the presidential race. "Donald Trump is an actual fascist," he declared.

While Uygur said that he is "running to win," he also said that he is running in the contest "as a proxy for any other candidate. We have got to get Biden outta the race," he said.

BREAKING: Cenk Uygur Announces 2024 Presidential Campaign www.youtube.com

"So my job is to be basically Paul Revere: Biden's gonna lose, Biden's gonna lose, Biden's gonna lose," Uygur said, noting that he will pressure the president to exit the race.

But there is a major constitutional problem with Uygur's presidential aspirations. He is a naturalized citizen, and the U.S. Constitution stipulates that no individual "except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."

Uygur rejects the notion that he is ineligible to seek the presidency.

"Case law is clear. Naturalized citizens can run for President," Uyghur wrote on X. "Winning this case in the Supreme Court is going to get rid of the albtatross [sic] around the neck of 25 million Americans who are naturalized citizens. The Supreme Court has already said we have the same exact rights," he added.

Biden is on course to become the Democratic Party's 2024 presidential nominee. The president has been walloping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson in the polls, and Kennedy recently announced that he will now run as an independent candidate.

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Left-Wing Pundit To Primary Biden Despite Being Ineligible To Run Under Constitution

'So the Supreme Court ruled it is unconstitutional'

Leftist Ana Kasparian says California is 'a s[***] show under Newsom'



Leftist commentator Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks described California as 'a s[***] show under" the leadership of Golden State Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat.

"California is *without question* a s[***] show under Newsom. But I guess propping up proven failures is what the Democratic party excels at these days," Kasparian opined in a post on X.

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Newsom, who has served as governor since early 2019, won reelection last year after surviving a gubernatorial recall election in 2021.

When Chuck Todd of NBC News raised the prospect of Newsom mounting a White House bid if President Joe Biden does not run, the governor responded by suggesting that Vice President Kamala Harris is the person who would be "lined up," but he added that Biden will run and people "need to move past" the idea that the president will not run.

Prior to serving as vice president, Harris served as a U.S. senator from California. She had previously served as the state's attorney general.

Newsom: Democrats need to ‘move on’ from worries over Biden re-election www.youtube.com

Biden, who announced his reelection bid earlier this year, is already the oldest president in U.S. history. He holds a decisive lead over Democratic primary challengers Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson, and appears to be on track to easily clinch the Democratic presidential nomination again.

Former President Donald Trump has been trouncing the entire field of GOP presidential primary candidates and will likely become the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, which means that American voters could see a rematch of the 2020 presidential contest in 2024.

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Liberal 'Young Turks' host apologizes for repeatedly amplifying Democratic activist's lies: 'I screwed up royally'



Leftist script-reader Ana Kasparian of "The Young Turks" apologized Wednesday for parroting multiple false claims made by a disgraced critic of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

For having been fooled and in turn fooling her audience for years, Kasparian said, "I should've done my due diligence. I failed to do so. By failing to do so, I feel like I misled the audience into thinking that Rebekah Jones is some sort of hero."

What did she get wrong?

Rebekah Jones, the woman who lost a congressional race in a landslide to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) last year and who has up until recently enjoyed Kasparian's support, is a former Florida Department of Health data analyst who was fired for insubordination, having intentionally crashed the state's COVID dashboard.

Around the time of her dismissal, Jones accused the DeSantis administration of fudging its coronavirus data — a claim later determined to have been false by Florida Inspector General Michael J. Bennett.

"Based upon an analysis of the available evidence, the alleged conduct, as described by the complainant, did not occur," concluded the inspector's report.

Police later executed a search warrant on Jones' Tallahassee house after a data breach involving the theft of 19,000 employees' personal information was linked to the disgraced former data analyst's home IP address.

The National Review noted that while DeSantis had nothing to do with the warrant or its execution, Jones accused the governor of targeting her with his "gestapo." Furthermore, she suggested that police pointed weapons at her children, which bodycam footage later proved to have also been false.

Despite indications that Jones had a loose relationship with the truth, liberal media outlets, including Kasparian's, continued to give her the benefit of the doubt.

Last week, Jones' 13-year-old son was arrested after allegedly threatening to shoot up his school.

Officials in Santa Rosa county indicated that Jones' son had made threats online in February that he would shoot up Holley Navarre Middle School and stab students who angered him, reported the Pensacola News Journal.

According to investigators, the teen wrote:

  • "I want to shoot up the school";
  • "Okay so it’s been like 3-4 weeks since I got on my new antidepressants and they aren’t working but they’re suppose to by now so I have no hope in getting better so why not kill the losers at school";
  • "I’m getting a wrath and natural selection shirt so maybe but I don’t think many ppl know what the columbine shooters look like"; and
  • "If I get a gun I’m gonna shoot up hnms lol.:
These threats resulted in a digital threats of terrorism charge.
Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Jillian Durkin indicated that following a vacation to Mississippi, Jones turned her son in.

However, Jones later took to Twitter, claiming her son had been "taken on the gov's orders."

"There is no freedom here," wrote Jones. "Only retaliatory rule by a fascist who wishes to be king."

\u201cMy family is not safe. My son has been taken on the gov's orders, and I've had to send my husband and daughter out of state for their safety.\n\nTHIS is the reality of living in DeSantis' Florida.\n\nThere is no freedom here. Only retaliatory rule by a fascist who wishes to be king\u201d
— Rebekah Jones (@Rebekah Jones) 1680741734

Jones insinuated that her son's arrest was politically motivated and that he was targeted because his mother was "a legally-protected whistleblower."

The Democratic activist and failed congressional candidate also accused police of kidnapping her son.

Here is footage allegedly showing Jones waiting with her son at the sheriff's office:

\u201cVideo of the arrest after Rebekah Jones\u2019 son was caught threatening to shoot up a middle school\n\nhttps://t.co/9T6SbspQhQ\u201d
— Facts Nordau (@Facts Nordau) 1680882685

Partisan blindness

Kasparian admitted Wednesday that Jones' latest string of lies gave her pause, prompting her to re-evaluate the other claims she repeated on her show.

Not only did "The Young Turks" host call into doubt Jones' self-description as a whistleblower but the accusations she leveled in 2020 against DeSantis regarding COVID death numbers, the details pertaining to the alleged raid, and the arrest of her son as well.

"Part of the reason why I screwed up is because I had all these biases, of course, against Ron DeSantis," she added. "And I don’t really feel bad about that because I think Ron DeSantis has done some pretty terrible things in the state of Florida, but it becomes a problem when that bias blinds you to what the facts of various stories happen to be."

"We bought this. I bought this. We reported exactly what she said," said Kasparian. "And now I have some degree of regret for doing that."

While admitting some accountability, she suggested the "mainstream media" was especially deserving of blame.

"If they're not doing their due diligence, if they're allowing their personal biases to stand in the way of actual, factual reporting, well, that's unfortunately going to trickle into the way independent news sources cover these stories as well," said Kasparian.

In her apology, Kasparian said, "I want to correct all of those errors that we had previously reported. And I want to be clear that out of everyone who works on the main show, the only person who should be held responsible for that is me. I’m the executive producer of the show and I screwed up royally."

Mediaite reported that Kasparian and "The Young Turks" weren't alone in celebrating Jones and amplifying her lies. MSNBC, CNN, the Washington Post, and the Miami Herald also peddled her narrative.

TYT Correction: Update on Rebekah Jones Story youtu.be

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