Young Turks did a video where they called me ugly because I talked about attraction
privilege.
I think I don't know how you call it, beauty privilege or whatever.
>> [LAUGH]. I love that so
much because Tim Pool is someone who's unmarried and childless at his big age.
I really wouldn't be bragging about attraction privilege because it's clearly
not favored you, my friend.
But this morning, Emma Vigeland debated Tim Pool on his show.
Apparently it's called the culture war, I didn't even know he came up with names for
his shows, I thought it was all Tim cast.
Anyway, towards the end of the debate, Tim Pool got really sad and
salty about us over here at TYT calling him ugly.
But watch as he proceeds to call all left wingers ugly.
>> And I was talking about how conservatives are more likely to be
attractive because it's easier to go through life as an attractive person.
Thus, you're given benefits that you associate to your abilities instead of
society, resulting in a conservative worldview, and those who
are less attractive have it harder, resulting in a collectivist worldview.
And instead of just, like, telling me I was wrong, they just called me ugly.
>> Well, you have statistics to back up your?
>> Yes.
>> But who.
>> It's true.
>> Who decides who's ugly and who's unattractive?
>> They did studies where they would show images of people to men and women and
ask them to rate them on a scale of one to ten, then create a curve of attraction.
And those people that they showed pictures of, they had interviewed them on their
political leanings and found a correlation between attraction and political leaning.
I'm sorry, beauty, perceived beauty and political leanings.
But this is, like, not even controversial among the left, this is privilege.
>> Hey, if we're on the right side of things and we're uglier,
I'm totally fine with that.
>> So we think we found the super crusty study that Tim Pool is referencing
in that clip.
So, let's get into some of the claims being made in that study, from Yahoo life.
According to a study published in the Journal of Public Economics,
attractive looking politicians have an advantage when it comes to winning votes.
And researchers have also concluded that conservative party members from Europe,
Australia, and the United States tend to be more beautiful than liberal candidates.
A team of researchers from Sweden, Prague, and
Germany theorized that Republicans are better looking than Democrats and
that voters who lean right value beauty more in a low information setting.
This is based on the observation that beautiful people earn more and that people
with higher expected lifetime income are relatively more opposed to redistribution,
the authors of the study asserted.
The study to me, though, seems to be very biased.
So let's take a look at the methodology for it.
Investigators asked participants to rate photos of politicians based in Finland,
Australia, and the United States based solely on their looks.
Their assessments were based on the following question, what is your
evaluation of the physical appearance or attractiveness of this person compared to
the average among people living in your country of residence?
The volunteers, as the team expected,
rated more right wingers as being more handsome or beautiful.
Aside from the author's economic explanation,
they offered this psychological theory that, good looking people are more likely
to perceive the world as a just place since they are treated better than others,
achieve higher status, and are happier.
And a frequent reason for
people to sympathize with the left is a perception of the world is unfair.
Along the same lines, the researchers added that greater self reported
attractiveness is negatively related to a preference for egalitarianism,
typically associated with the left.
The study also went so far as to make a claim about right wing voters.
It said, as for U.S.
elections, the authors suggest that Republican voters are more likely to care
about a candidate's appearance based on limited information about the candidates.
However, during high information political races,
the playing field tends to even out.
Now, Cenk, I've seen some of the right wing politicians, and
we're gonna go through [LAUGH] a bunch of them together.
But before we do that, first of all, Tim, in your position,
you have the same beanie on, you've been wearing it for a decade now.
You're really not well situated to talk about how your slide is more attractive.
>> Yeah, so that's the trick I wanna get to here, because he makes
it sound like and this is a classic Tim Pool misdirection, right?
He's like, no, I think the people on the left, because they're so
ugly, they care about others and they wanna work together collectively.
I'm just being really nice to the left.
I mean, they're, like, hideously ugly.
But, I've got a study, it's great that they wanna work together,
I mean, as hideously unattractive as they are.
And then when we say, hey, Tim, I'm not sure you're a looker either, and he's
like, I can't believe they said that about me when I was thinking about all of them.
And I say it's a classic Tim Pool trick, because he's like and
he apparently said it with Emma in that interview a couple of times, too.
He's like, no, I'm on the left.
Dude, that trick is like, decades old.
>> Right?
>> After Dave Rubin, you're still like, that was so long ago,
let alone that it's been done dozens of times.
You still go to that, well, of like, I'm a left winger, but
I think Nick Fuentes has an interesting point about Nazis.
>> [LAUGH]. >> I think,
maybe the black people are inferior to us, but I'm on the left.
I'm on the left, and I'm here to tell you that it turns out my demographic is
awesome and super hot and really smart and not at all violent, and
everyone else is violent and dumb and ugly.
But me, hey, I'm moderate, I'm left, I want him right wing.
No, not at all, come on men.
It's so transparent.
>> I'm on the left, but Donald Trump is gonna win in a 50 State landslide,
[LAUGH].
>> Yeah, come on.
Okay, then you're an idiot.
You're like the dumbest guy on the planet.
50 State landslide and you're on the left, so
you know your community and you're like, you know what?
I think progressives in Hawaii, I think they switched over to Trump, I did.
I think Rhode Island is going Trump because I'm in the leftist community and
I know, but according to his theory, the left is less attractive and he's on
the left, so I guess, he shouldn't catch feelings over being called ugly at all.
I'm just using Tim Pool logic.
Look, guys, in terms of the study, do attractive people have an advantage?
Yeah, of course.
Could they feel more entitled?
Yeah, I could see that, right?
But I think the critical part of the study is,
greater self reported attractiveness is negatively related to preference for
egalitarianism, typically associated with the left.
I think that this whole study is massively questionable, but
that part of it begins to explain it.
They're like they ask people and they're like, yeah, I think I'm super hot and
that's why I don't need anybody and now I'm a right winger.
[LAUGH].
Yeah, that sounds like Tim Pool, except he was like, I'm a right winger, but
that's inconvenient.
That'll make it seem like I'm just agreeing with my own side.
I know, I've got a brilliant new idea.
I will pretend to be on the left and then agree with everything on the right.
Next thing you know,
he's gonna come up with a study about how right wingers are smarter.
[LAUGH] Okay.
Yeah, Tim, try to come up with that one, see how that goes.
>> Right, so how about we conduct our own study and
let's use our own images of right wing politicians to figure out if they're
actually more attractive than left wing politicians.
>> Yeah, this is gonna be a good study, let's see.
Everybody's doing objective study, so let's do one.
>> Right, and let's start with the Blogfish himself, senator Ted Cruz.
I mean, this is a man, [LAUGH].
>> What a looker.
>> No.
>> What a looker.
Let's see.
>> No one could ever accuse him of being attractive.
>> No one's ever accused him of that, Ray, I think you're right, but if you ask them,
probably self assessment super hot, yep.
And that's why I'm headed to Cancun right now get some, okay?
>> [LAUGH] Next we've got Steve Bannon.
>> Yeah, these right wingers, they're lookers.
We stand corrected.
>> [LAUGH].
>> And that's actually a relatively good picture of Steve Bannon.
>> Honestly, that is the nicest picture of him.
That's the most flattering image of his face that I've ever seen,
usually he looks like he's cosplaying somebody's.
So, good for him in this image.
>> [LAUGH] I haven't heard that one before.
But look, fairest show in America.
You see that, we found the best picture Steve Bannon doesn't help, but still.
Who's next?
>> All right, next up, I believe this is Eric Trump's son.
>> Dude.
>> God, [LAUGH].
>> Brutal, I mean, he's like, is it beavis or butthead?
I think he's beavers.
>> Butthead.
>> You think he's butthead?
>> Butthead.
>> It could be.
>> [LAUGH]. >> But by the way,
fairest show in America.
On the other hand, Ivanka's hot, I just asked Trump.
>> [LAUGH] Okay, next one up, God, he's such a looker, Mitch McConnell.
>> The Turtle.
>> Hard to look at, it's literally the combo between the eyes and
the teeth and the neck flap, it's just all gross [LAUGH].
>> No, he's so unattractive that we go in our show when he comes out.
>> [LAUGH].
>> Okay, hey, listen, guys, we didn't want this.
We didn't wanna start this, but Tim Pool wants to compare who's hotter, okay?
We'll be your huckleberry.
>> I'll say also, Tim Pool was pretty much positioning himself to lose that
conversation when he's sitting next to Emma Vigeland,
an objectively attractive woman, saying, well,
right wingers like myself are much hotter than left wingers like you.
It's like, she's a gorgeous woman, and you are very bald, and
you wear the same beanie for your entire life.
Potentially, you came out the womb with it on like,
you're setting yourself up for failure, too [LAUGH].
>> Yeah, the hundred percent, I mean, come on, dude, a little self awareness,
I hadn't thought of that point, Ray that's a great point.
He's telling Emma, like, your size unattractive, dude,
bounds of reason, bounds of reason.
And look, guys, I'm self aware, am I a looker, you still lose the pounds, okay?
And by the way, before, when I didn't weigh as much,
and I happened to think I looked better back then, and
then I gained weight, and is that how it works?
And then once you do, they all become Democrats?
>> [LAUGH].
>> I don't think I've seen that study.
I don't think I have, okay?
And I'll just speak for myself, and I would be self aware that if I was, for
example, interviewing Ivanka, I wouldn't be like, your side's super ugly, man.
Me, on the other hand, I'm super hot.
[LAUGH].
And don't insult me, I'll catch feelings.
>> [LAUGH] But as long as we're speaking of super hot, why don't we show
this picture of Rudy Giuliani literally melting because of how hot he is?
>> No, [LAUGH] man, I underestimated the right wing.
They are more unattractive than I imagined.
[LAUGH] Honestly, it didn't take much time to think of okay,
who are some ugly right wing politicians?
Most of them, including the man himself, Donald Trump.
Here we have his hair flying away, [LAUGH].
>> Look, the only guy who could get rivals me for being more overweight, come on.
You see that giant tire iron ace carrying around?
Yeah, glass house, I'm aware of it, right?
But then they're like, yeah, he's such a stud.
What?
[LAUGH] Okay, all right.
>> [LAUGH] I love when conservatives edit the flags to be like Donald Trump with
a six pack holding a machine gun.
Those are my favorite things I've ever seen in the wild.
My family is from Northern Wisconsin, so whenever I go up to visit them,
there's a lot of lakes in Wisconsin.
So people have boats that have giant Trump flags off the end, all of them,
Trump with a six pack.
They are really sexually attracted to the man.
And it's guys boats, it's not women's boats.
It's the guys who honest to God I'm sorry, they wanna Donald Trump,
They want to real fast.
[LAUGH].
>> Yeah, I wouldn't suggest it, but he'll be your huckleberry.
He'll definitely screw you, he'll take your votes, he'll take your money,
he'll take it all.
But, hey, if that's your thing, we're libs,
okay, we are open to all lifestyles, okay?
So, have at it hoes, and for the record, to be clear, no,
I don't think the right wing is less attractive.
I think we're all human beings, and we range in that spectrum, and
it's absurd to have this conversation.
We're just doing it cuz he started it, [LAUGH].
>> Right, to say when it comes to politicians,
who are right wing politicians,
people who have been groomed to be good in front of the camera, they're not.
On the left wing, I think you're more likely to have people who genuinely
are passionate about politics, they believe what they're saying.
On the right wing, you're more likely to have people who grew up in rich families
and have achieved nothing but aspire to have all the power in the world.
And I think that they're more likely to be people who are pushed forward into
the into politics, because the Republican Party thinks they look good on camera
versus how they actually are presenting the policies they support,
which I think is more likely to be seen on the left wing.
>> Yeah, I'll actually do a needless caveat on that.
I actually think it's corporate politicians that are in that.
>> Yeah. >> Category,
whether they're Republicans or Democrats, because who cares?
They're just widgets, right?
So, progressives and maybe even extreme right have real opinions.
They're real people, so they'll be all across the spectrum, right.
But if you just need a widget to run a corporate Democrat or
a corporate Republican, you prefer a more attractive widget.
That's why, when in 2016, on the Democratic side,
when they were running for president, I don't know if you even remember this guy,
but there was a guy that the mainstream media thought would be the real
challenger to Hillary Clinton, not Bernie Sanders.
And they assumed that because they looked at Bernie Sanders and they were like, no,
he's not telegenic, so there's no way he can win.
The media assumed, and they assumed the guy who was going to give a challenge to
Hillary Clinton was Martin O'Malley,
because he was a very attractive former Democratic governor, and
he was a total corporate robot, and no one had any interest in him on the left.
On the right, though, it might play better, because they might be like,
we only care about superficial things, I'm attracted to that guy.
Shoot, if they're attracted to Donald Trump, man,
those corporate politicians are gonna look delicious to you.
>> Honestly, I'll just say, as someone who knows what Roberto Valley looks like,
I come forth with the idea that he's a very attractive man.
But maybe to the voting base they were trying to appeal to,
Martin O'Malley is a little sexy.
Not, [LAUGH].
>> Fair show in America.