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@cenkuygur
Nov 29 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I've been trying to figure out why I'm more optimistic now than I was before the election, even though I was so against the guy who won. I know now. MAGA is not my mortal enemy (and neither is the extreme left). My mortal enemy is the establishment. And they have been defeated!
It's not just that the establishment candidate lost, it's that their media is mortally wounded. The source of their strength was not insipid politicians like Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden. The source of their strength was their propaganda machine - the mainstream media.
Now, online media is strong enough that their oppressive monopoly on the American mind has been broken. Now, we're in the jungle. They hate that! I love it! This uncontrolled marketplace of ideas is where I'm home. I'd rather be in the populist woods than an establishment prison.

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Dec 25, 2023
I have many simple Christmas wishes that our politicians won't give us. Like paid family leave. 84% of Americans want it. It gives moms, or the primary caregiver of a newborn child, 12 weeks off to take care of their baby. But apparently, this is too much to wish for in America.
Or a cease fire in Gaza that over two-thirds of Americans want. Could you please not kill any more innocent civilians where Jesus was born, at least on Christmas? Or ever. Stop funding endless wars!
Or higher wages, so that our salaries can keep up with inflation. Higher minimum wage pushes up everyone's wages, that's why it passes as a ballot measure in even the deepest red states. But apparently too much to ask for from our national politicians.
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Jul 7, 2021
When toxic people attack you online, you're put in a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. They make up horrible accusations and outrageous lies about you. If you don't respond, people start to believe it's true because you didn't say anything. If you do respond ...
...they then say you're part of the drama and then pull you deeper in with new toxic, absurd allegations. That's exactly what the alt-left, like @jimmy_dore & @ggreenwald, did here. After a series of absurd charges, they then said the victim of sexual harrasment is the one ...
...everyone should attack. They then said she was a blackmailer (over the top absurd as I showed in my last video). Then the alt-right started saying the same things. We want no part of this toxic sludge and never did. We do a news show everyday filled with actual news, they ...
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Jan 18, 2021
On #MartinLutherKingDay don't be lulled into a false sense of complacency by quotes about love that every moderate trots out about #MLK today. He was a radical progressive who believed in fundamental change and the "fierce urgency of now." So, read his real quotes here:
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease...
...of segregation. For years now I have heard the word “Wait!” It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.” We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.”
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Feb 27, 2020
When we started @justicedems there was only one litmus test for candidates - No Corporate PAC Money. That's now been so successful that others are taking credit for it & many establishment Democrats are signing on, including my opponent in #CA25 race! There is one big problem 1/5
Now establishment politicians have found a loophole, which is to launder the corporate money through other political PACs. In fact, my opponent @ChristyforCA25 is the master of this. She claims to take no corporate money but in reality has Koch Brothers money funneled to her! 2/5
Some examples. @ChristyforCA25 takes money from SHP PAC. They take money from PG&E, UnitedHealth, BlueCross BlueShield and Sempra Energy. Sempra Energy is the parent company of the Aliso Canyon facility that caused the worst gas leak in American history-- in this district! 3/5
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Aug 17, 2019
The anti-Muslim bigot @billmaher thinks the BDS movement is wrong and "virtue signaling." Shocker! He thinks the permanent occupation of Palestine is totally fine because what does he give a shit about those people? They're Muslims!! You know, the irredeemable ones.
Bill, why don't you get more of your right-wing buddies and fellow bigots like @SamHarrisOrg to come on and talk about how Muslims are so different? Their religion is hopeless and it makes them who they are - and that's why we have to have them caged up like animals and occupied.
Then why don't you go cry about how people bother you & your speaking circuit fees on college campuses by being so politically correct. And then go cuddle up to @AnnCoulter because it's fun to help her spread hate against other people because hey, it isn't you! What do you care?
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