The entire leadership of the so
called progressive movement is that they're totally and utterly corrupt.
Is anyone on the left pointing this out?
Has Cenk Uygur Wigger said a word about it?
The so called radicals at Chapo trap house.
>> Okay, so that is Tucker Carlson who wants to take a dig at Cenk, and
clearly does know how his name is pronounced.
But he also knows that he's supposed to pretend that he can't pronounce
most people's names to appeal to his racist audience, so
he came up with an alternate way to do it.
And we're gonna get to what he's talking about there.
But to understand why he started this whole monologue, we need to backtrack just
a little bit and take a look at what happened at a recent AOC town hall.
Look at this.
>> None of this matters unless there's a nuclear war,
which you voted to send arms and weapons to Ukraine.
Tulsi Gabbard,
she's left the Democratic Party because they're a bunch of war hawks.
>> You have done nothing.
Tulsi Gabbard has shown guts where you've shown cowardice.
I believed in you and you became the very thing you saw to fought against.
That's what you've become.
You are the establishment and you are the reason why everybody will
end up in a nuclear war unless you choose to stand up right now and
denounce the Democratic Party.
>> Okay, so those were two Tulsi Gabbard supporters who I believe are constituents
of AOC who don't like her votes to fund the defense of Ukraine and
have a particular position on nuclear war that I don't think is actually reflective
of anything that she's ever said and done.
But they're, of course, free to believe literally whatever they want.
More importantly for Tucker Carlson, this is an opportunity for him.
You can have legitimate views of AOC or anyone.
For Tucker Carlson, he wants to destroy the left.
He does not want progressives to have any power or any influence whatsoever.
And so when he saw this, he just jumps in it.
It's an opportunity for him to attack AOC and anyone else affiliated with AOC.
>> We're gonna get to more of what he had to say, but of course,
since he did name check you, Cenk, what do you think?
>> Okay, I'm gonna get to my response to Tucker in a second.
I just want to interrupt to say those two guys are total and complete frauds.
Okay, I don't know that they live in that district at all.
They're definitely not Democrats and they're definitely not progressives.
Total utter frauds, Republicans, we have the proof for it.
I believed in you he said.
Total utter liar, we're going to prove that he's a liar.
>> So yeah, so one of them apparently has said on social media that he voted for
Trump twice.
>> That guy, the guy who said, I believed in.
>> Yeah, no, I get that.
My point would be it's two people at a town hall.
I don't particularly care what any random person in town hall believes about
politics.
I mean, I'm not going to litigate it.
>> I'm gonna litigate it, fraud.
No, no, but look, they're two rando trolls or what whoever they are, right,
they're not important.
What's driving me crazy is people who are like,
the progressive peace activists are mad at AOC.
Well, why don't you just write their propaganda for them?
That was the whole point of trolling her was so
that idiots would call them progressive peace activists.
They're just Republicans.
They're like Tulsi Gabbard's the best.
We're gonna get them back to that in a second too.
She goes she'd leave the Democratic Party like her.
Why don't you renounce the Democratic Party?
I am a progressive, wink.
Get the eff out of here.
>> The only reason I said is it's impossible for me to know how genuine,
like I obviously don't agree with them.
Obviously, I don't think that AOC wants a nuclear war.
I don't get where that comes from.
But what they say is not nearly as important as the framing that comes out of
it, that people like Tucker Carlson and Jesse Waters.
I mean every white right wing media figure is jumping on this because their
goal is for especially going into 2024, there
to be no progressives that have any chance of taking over the Democratic Party.
That is their goal.
What any particular activist goal is I have no idea, but the right wing does not
want there to be a progressive alternative to either Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis.
Or most importantly, for us as leftists,
they don't want there to be any progressives that have any support that
can stand up to a Kamala Harris, to a Boettigig, to anything like that.
Because while the right wing would prefer to have a Ron DeSantis or a Donald Trump,
if it's gonna come down to an AOC or Kamala Harris,
they're of course gonna go for the establishment, more moderate Democrat.
And so it's sort of our duty to make sure that people understand exactly what these
progresses are, criticize them.
I mean, I know you feel very free to criticize even AOC and all that.
But it has to be based in fact and reality and Tucker Carlson and
all of them have no interest in that whatsoever.
>> Yeah, no, I've been furious of progressives and I did a video called
I'm burning all my bridges about Justice Democrats who I helped to get elected
because they wouldn't fight back in a critical time during the beginning part of
the Biden administration and throughout a lot of it, right?
There's tons and tons of legitimate critique of policy and strategy, and
have you ever heard me on Jayapal?
And she's theoretically the leader of the progressive caucus and
she's furious with me.
So we're not talking about legitimate criticism of progressives.
And within the progressives,
there's plenty of disagreements on actual policy as well.
No, I'm talking about frauds.
Here Alex, shoot graphic one, Jose Vega.
So this is one of the guys.
Here's his tweet.
Who's blaming the president?
I voted for Trump twice.
Pompeo needs to go before he starts a war with Iran, Trump's the one who
got us out of the Iran deal and basically almost got us into World War III.
But they're trying to get you to believe that Trump is for peace and
AOC is for war.
>> And importantly Trump kept us in the wars,
whereas Biden got us out of Afghanistan.
Trump dramatically increased the number and
severity of the drone strikes during his time.
>> So we're gonna go back to Tucker, but
guys the reason I keep emphasizing them is because this is coordinated.
These two right wing trolls go in to start this thing.
They're taping, right?
And then immediately Tucker and Jesse Waters and Jimmy Dore and
all those guys are on it and they're like boom, right?
Yeah, so progressive activist, peace activists.
My God, AOC is not progressive.
Later I'm gonna tell you why they're attacking progressives because that's
super important.
But keep going.
>> Interesting, yeah, well we wanted to get into more of what Tucker Carlson had
to say particularly about you.
So let's jump into that next clip.
>> Okay, so those are actual progressives.
Now there's no doubt that on virtually any other issue we wouldn't agree with them.
I don't know what their beliefs are, probably don't intersect with ours.
But on this specific issue, which does matter, they're absolutely right.
Sandy Cortez is not a radical, she's not a progressive, she's a neo con.
>> [LAUGH] >> Just to be clear,
in the same way that he had to pretend that he couldn't pronounce your name.
He calls her Sandy, because in addition to having to reassure his audience on
a nightly basis that he's a racist,
he also has to reassure them that he's a misogynist as well.
And if you're an actual leftist who actually is anti war and all that,
you really need to understand, and I'm sure the vast,
vast majority of you do, that Tucker Carlson doesn't care about any of that.
Jesse Waters doesn't care about any of of that.
They're not interested in cutting the military budget or anything like that.
So the idea that Tucker Carlson is just calling balls and strikes when it comes
to progressives and everything, he doesn't have an agenda or anything.
Let's just be clear about who Tucker Carlson is.
>> Yeah, I mean,
look, why do we keep saying he's pretending to mispronounce my name?
Because we had an hour long debate at Politicon.
And what you might not know is it was kind of delayed and
we talked for half an hour before that behind the scenes.
And then we talked afterwards as well and
he pronounced my name perfectly well in all of those instances.
So he knows, he's doing it on purpose to be like ha ha he's a foreigner.
And so that's why we're saying it.
Otherwise, my name is super easy to mispronounce.
But not in his case because he knows it for a fact.
And then they call AOC a neo con hilarious, right?
But remember the two guys who are progressive, how funny was that?
The guys like I voted for Trump twice, I'm so proud of it.
And he's like, no, these are progressives, I don't agree with, okay.
But then they were they're all backing Tulsi because she's for peace, is she?
Because she was totally in favor of the drone strikes all across the world.
She was totally in favor of torture, even back before she started pretending to be
a progressive, she had all those positions.
She's been in favor of every single war against, coincidentally, Muslims.
So she's like, Putin started a war.
Yeah, I'm against the Ukrainians fighting back.
I'm definitely against the Ukrainians fighting back.
But she was also in favor of Russia starting what they did in Syria, right?
She was in favor of Assad.
He's the one that started the civil war in the first place.
Well, to be fair, he didn't start the civil war, correction, right?
It was a civil war against him, but he did massive atrocities.
Why randomly go and support Assad?
She went and met with him, right?
She's supported every Russian war.
Every war against Muslims and they're like she's the one for peace.
Okay, every part of this is fraudulent.
That's the important part, keep going.
>> Yeah, exactly, yeah, and by the way you can say that she's against American
intervention, which might be generally true.
I get that.
I'm saying like she's against specifically long term occupying nation
building, I guess.
>> She's not against- >> I don't
believe that either, but I hear you.
>> Sure, sure, but even like if you say I don't want arms to go to Ukraine,
I don't want money to be spent on it.
You can say that you're against intervention, but
that's not pro peace because peace is not the result.
The devastating loss of massive numbers of civilians is the result of
that Ukraine being conquered.
People being killed, shipped off to Russia, raped, thrown into mass graves.
That's not peace.
You can say that you're against intervention, but there's no peace here.
Let's just be clear about that for Tulsi Gabbard or whoever.
>> Yeah, one more thing about that.
So I hear Tulsi and Tucker and Jimmy Dore all saying like we're for
against the war, that's why we should not help Ukraine.
Do not help the Ukrainians, but I've never heard them say,
we're also of course against Putin that monster that started this war.
Well if you're against war, wouldn't you lead with that?
Wouldn't you reiterate that whole time?
Wouldn't you say it once?
Wouldn't you say Putin's a monster?
He murdered all those civilians.
Started an imperialistic, aggressive war.
What a horrible, horrible person, a tyrant.
But God damn damn it, we don't want to make the war worse.
So hey, listen, we shouldn't do this kind of rhetoric.
We shouldn't do that kind of funding.
I say, okay, well then you have a legitimate opinion.
I might not agree with how we do the funding and
there's a ton of nuance there, right, but okay, I respect that.
No, no, never, never, never.
So go ahead, Tulsi Gabbard, go ahead.
I dare you to say that Putin is a monster who started this war.
She'll never say it because she works for him.
Guys, everything about this is fraudulent, fraudulent.
So you can say, hey, that's hyperbole that she works for him, I guess.
Okay, but she certainly acts like it because she's like,
I can't believe America is doing this.
America is doing what you dumbass?
He's the one that started the war.
He started the war and you have no criticism for him.
Guys, please look their target.
So I'll just get to this right now.
Why are they going after progressives?
Think about it guys.
It's so weird, we're out of power.
It's not like Bernie's president.
It's not like AOC is the speaker of the house.
We get crushed on a regular basis by corporate media.
We get attacked by conservative Democrats nonstop.
Why are they going after us?
I don't mind, I love the fight, but it's weird, right?
So there's two reasons why.
Number one, they're trying to pick off because the elections are decided a lot
of times by tiny margins, certainly under five points.
So you got really close to the races that might be happening in Pennsylvania,
Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada etcetera, right?
They're just trying to pick off the lowest IQ people on the left.
The ones that will believe that Donald Trump is a peaceful, honest,
decent person and that Trump is more progressive than AOC.
I mean you'd have to be the bottom of the barrel lQ to believe that, but
they think, yeah, I think we got maybe 2 to 5% of progressives, we can get on that.
That means some people listen to Jimmy Dore.
I think we might be able to find these elusive bottom of the barrel IQ people and
get them to vote for Republicans who'll start more wars.
Who is the most corrupt people on earth because we think that
progressives are suckers.
You're gonna let them treat you like a sucker?
That believe that Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump are more for
peace than AOC and Bernie Sanders?
I mean you'd have to lose your mind to believe that.
The second reason is because, and then Tucker is a long term thinker and
I've never called him dumb.
We've talked about that a lot.
Who's the only one that could actually beat a Republican in 2024?
They're already thinking way past Biden.
Biden's hopeless.
Kamala Harris is hopeless.
They already beat those two up.
Only a progressive because they would be populist could beat a Republican in 2024.
They're like, please give us give us Pete Buttigieg.
Please give us Biden when he's 98, please, please.
Progressive, no, no, let's go ambush them now.
I mean that is thinking ahead.
So credit where credit is due a weirdo attack on progressive makes no sense.
Otherwise he's wasting Fox News airtime not attacking Biden and Pelosi,
but going after people who have no power at all.
No, that's long term strategy.
>> So the claims that Tucker's making specifically and again, to your point,
he's not just attacking AOC.
Why is he attacking leftist media?
Come on, it's so weird because he doesn't want there to be a movement going to 2024.
Anyway, the claim he's making is that people like Cenk or I guess me or whoever,
all we want is war, who want nuclear war?
I want to live out fallout for something.
So why aren't we criticizing any of the money or the spending or whatever?
Well, here's a little mash up of Cenk and Ana doing exactly that.
>> Biden is planning on soliciting Congress for
tens of billions of dollars in additional funding for Ukraine?
The money would go toward, of course, military weaponry, also humanitarian aid.
But what this reveals is that the government seems to have
a bipartisan effort to easily appropriate money for
any type of defense spending, any type of war related effort.
And this is a perfect example of that.
>> Look, we love Ukraine, we love that they're fighting back.
What Russia did was horrific.
So, but whenever it's bankers or defense industry, it gets approved right away.
Child tax credit, paid family leave.
You want to get paid family leave, hell no.
How are we gonna pay for that?
That's for the average American.
They didn't bribe any politicians at all.
Last word goes to one of our members, dragon with the girl tattoo said, I kind
of doubt Boeing and Raytheon care where the weapons go after they get their money.
So of course that's true.
>> There's a caveat to that.
If the weapons do end up in the wrong hands, that paves the way for
them to send more weapons and whatever future war we have to deal with as
a result of some dangerous militia having, you know, these dangerous weapons.
That's exactly what I, I was gonna say.
So, tucker Cross has said, why hasn't jake Ugur spoken out against the all this money
to go into the defense contractors except that I did so wow tucker crossing lying.
Who could have guessed that I'm gonna leave on Tulsi Gabbert because this is
their their they're all saying, my God, Tulsi is like the queen of the left and
she's the real leftist and AOC is too conservative neocon neocon, right?
So walker bragman tweet here about army General Don Bolduc, he's running in new
Hampshire okay, for a very important seat and Tulsi Gabbard decided to endorse him.
Whoa.
A Republican, Trumpy republican.
Well, maybe he's a reasonable guy.
Well, let's find out.
As bragman points out,
Boulder doesn't think Medicare negotiating drug prices is a good thing.
He's a corporatist, he doesn't, you know, jimmy's like one thing is I I care about
Medicare for all, that's why I'm supporting Garber.
She's supporting a person who says no,
the government should not negotiate drug prices.
They should just let the drug companies pick any price they like, so
they could kill you with how high their prices are.
She's actively campaign for that monster.
Okay. But it's a lot more and
wants to end direct election of senators cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
He opposes legal abortion.
Of course he does.
But Tulsa's leftist, hilarious has promoted trump's big lie and
suggests that Covid jabs are installing microchips for Bill Gates,
That's the kind of lunatic right winger,
corporatists that Tulsi Gabbard is campaigning for now.
So if you hear someone telling you that Tulsi Gabbard is a real leftist,
you know, you're talking to a troll or one of the dumbest people alive, Okay.
But to be fair to them, and that's why I read it.
Maybe they don't know it, but now you know it now, you know it for sure.
So if there was any of you out there that were genuine left at all,
if there's a single leftist still listening to jimmy Dore and
tucker Carlson etcetera, just understand.
No, they're feeding you a bag of lies and they're tricking you
into supporting the worst corporatist hawk right wingers.
You could possibly imagine, go check out Baltics record,
check out to see if Tulsi has endorsed them.
You can look at it for yourself, she's supporting right wing monsters,
pretending that AOC is a neo con.
So if you fall for that trick after this, I can't help you pass that,
go get counseling.