Cenk and Iadarola host TYT. Although Darren Wilson avoided indictment, more and more Conservatives are calling for others to be arrested and charged for nearly everything else. Video of Missouri Lt Gov Peter Kinder calling for Brown’s stepfather to be charged with inciting a riot. Video of the stepfather screaming “burn this bitch down” after the Grand Jury decision came in. The St. Louis police have announced an investigation into Louis Head about inciting a riot. Video of the Ferguson police chief telling Sean Hannity that they are looking into it. Cenk points out how quickly the authorities spring into action to arrest and prosecute Black residents. Video of Hannity grilling the police chief on charging everyone, from Michael Brown’s friend, to witnesses, to the stepfather. Cenk rants about the circumstances of the altercation that ended in Michael Brown’s killing, calling the Republican Party the Pussy Party. The White House has helped torpedo Harry Reid’s tax deal he was working on with Republicans. The reason was so that they could reconvene on tax reform next year when Republicans have control of both the House and Senate. The potential new plan would be even worse for the Middle Class, by cutting corporate taxes. Some French jihadis that scampered off to Syria to join ISIS have written letters to their loved ones about how they want to come home because they’ve only been handing out food and clothes, and cleaning up. French lawmakers have voted to recognize Palestine as an independent State, but it is not official yet since its a nonbinding vote. The father of the Cleveland police officer spoke out about how he believes his cop son had no choice but to kill Tamir Rice. Video of the cops immediate firing upon the kid. John reminds us about a study that showed people see Black children as more culpable and on average 4.5 years older than they are and more responsible for their actions. Cenk laments the occupying force that the police force has become.
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Great job John
Fox News: “If its white you don’t indict, if its collored you pull the Trigger.”
Cenk is 100% right, and we have the science to back it up now. Conservatives are scared. They are bathed in terror. They are born with a larger amygdala, and it makes them hate anything different or strange, because it might be dangerous. They want strong daddy figure leaders who tell them what’s right and what’s wrong, not to question their authority, and keeps them safe. The science also shows that they have a very developed sense of disgust. Disgust permeates their being, and so if anything is not approved by daddy figure, or familiar, it resonates with them in a powerful feeling of disgust.
They are a threat to our future, a threat to having a real civilization. We need to stop killing everything, and stop fearing everyone who is different, and they can’t. We need to be open to new ideas and not be rigidly hierarchical, obeying the leader. We need to see the world as an “us” and not a “them”. We have global issues that need to be solved globally. They don’t want to be part of it. I don’t know, maybe we give them an island and they can play old west while we fix the world. Then if they can play nice, we’ll let them back in.
How did I miss this post? You have been on fire lately.
So much of who we are, what we believe, and how we behave comes down to our particular brain chemistry and composition. I believe it has much more influence on our lives than how we are raised. Helping people understand this and understand why we react to things the way we do is vitally important. There needs to be an “Educate Conservatives About Neuroscience and Their Brains” campaign, stat.
These are some of the best posts I’ve ever read, kudos bros. This isn’t just human nature, it’s nature, we evolved from lesser animals and just like animals we have leaders herding packs of submissive drones,
If the Cleveland cops would have thought that the boy was a threat, the wouldnt have driven just in front of him. Thats taking an enormous amount of risk cause you could get shot before even leaving the car if the suspect actually had bad intent. Hence they had to know that he wasnt a threat before the encounter.
They say they believe, they do what the book says, they wan’t to create a state based on Islam, but still Cenk says they don’t REALLY believe.
So what CAN they do to prove they believe?
God damn I love when Cenk gets angry. Always a great watch.
It would be nice if Cenk and John had at least some memory of what ACTUALLY happened on the way to passing the Affordable Care Act. In the first two years of his presidency, thanks to the illness and death of Senator Kennedy, the months-long battle to get Al Franken seated in the chamber, and the election of Scott Brown as Kennedy’s replacement in the Senate, Obama had a filibuster-proof majority for a whopping 60 days (!) during his first two years as president. And those “Democratic” senators included the likes of Joe Lieberman, who didn’t even vote for Obama, so you can just imagine how much he wanted to vote for a public option. Yet, somehow, Cenk persists in perpetuating the myth that if Obama had simply fought harder for it, the public option would now be a part of the ACA. Actually, with all those Blue Dog Dems doing everything they could to water down health care reform, it’s a miracle we got what we did.
Incidentally, this is the argument the filibuster-crazed Republicans like to trot out whenever they attack Dems for not passing, say, immigration reform in the first two years of Obama’s presidency. It’s sad seeing people like Cenk and John buying into the same revisionist BS.
Hey Obamabot,
He didn’t even fight for it. He took it off the table first thing with no fight. Maybe you should stop making excuses for this Republican who pretends to a Democrat, and remember that Obama always “negotiates” like that. He wants the Republican things. He doesn’t want any of the things he ran on in 2008, and we have none of them.
He got more money from several industries, including the healthcare industry and the banks, and so the public option was dead before it began and banks never had to worry about anything that would send them to jail, not one of them. He so didn’t want the public option that when Dennis Kucinich held out his vote as a protest for going forward without even trying to get the public option, Obama personally came down to his office and threatened that they would pour money into defeating him at the next election. Kucinich backed down, and they got him kicked out anyway by backing his primary challenger.
One of the reasons our Democrats are so right-wing and corporate these days is because of people like you who will support them no matter what they do or don’t do, and then parade their talking point excuses around the internet for them. They don’t even have to pretend to represent liberal progressive views if those people are so cowed and powerless that they don’t ever make any demands in petrified fear of what the Republicans might do, and then the corporate democrats do things that Republicans could never do, because people are so bought in to this ridiculous my team / your team bullshit that if a President Mitt Romney suggested cuts to social security, he would face screaming outrage from the spineless liberals, Obama does it, and they say “well, maybe we don’t need so much social security.”
You dumb sad little sheep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcG3oEPdku4
Old TYT video, I keep this one around for this very reason.
Yeah I gotta agree with Cenk here, I hate armchair assholes who seem to forget the fact that Michael Brown and Darren Wilson were of the same height 6 foot 4 inches. And yet Darren Wilson is the pussy afraid of an unarmed black youth. Great job Mr. Wilson your a coward and a murderer.
Cenk’s anger… awesome.
By the way, just like overall violent crimes in the country, police deaths have been steadily decreasing every year- making a knee-jerk reaction to perceived danger even less justified.
Looked that up after a family member argued with me that a cop’s job has never been more dangerous.
“Let’s change the name of the Republican Party to… What you’re not all Republicans? FUCK YOU! You’re Republicans and you know it!”
Oh God that was so good… Work that into a t-shirt somehow and I’ll buy ten of them…
missed the big guy
Why don’t you guys put the dates on the front splash screen of the video?
Cenk’s Game of Thrones references work the best when John is on. John knows what’s up. Any other time it’s lame.