TYT Hour 1 June 12, 2017

In The Young Turks Hour 1 - On Demand by Gigi Manukyan32 Comments

John, Michael Shure, & Mark Thompson. Senate GOP not releasing healthcare draft. Top Putin critics arrested. Trump’s infrastructure plan. Gingrich on special counsel for Muller. Trump’s lawyer’s bad advice.

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  1. Honestly I love Thompson and Shure but lay off the russian fearmongering. Most of the earth is under dictatorship. Are you gonna do chinese opposition secment? Is Russia the only problem on earth? Greetings from Finland

  2. Boy you have no idea who Navalny is?

    The guy makes George Wallace a pillar of Racial Harmony which is why he is still alive. Putin uses him to scare the 20-30% of non-Slavic Russians into his arms.

    1. Right. He’s also a good argument for why “anti-corruption” activism/agenda/politics should never be left to the likes of rightwing populists, ethnic-nationalists, or the far-right. Let’s not allow them to lead that charge for god’s sake.

  3. One of Trump’s proposals, removing the federal prohibition on states levying tolls on Interstate highways, would actually be a good thing. What Iadarola just said about poor road users possibly having to pay more of their incomes in tolls, has already been the experience of every public transit user in the US, coast to coast! Moreover, overwhelmingly, road users tend to be wealthier than public transit users, and road users pay a smaller share of the total cost of their mode of travel than public transit riders. Allowing the states to toll Interstate highways would help both of those problems; it is long overdue!

    1. I have no problem with tolling so long as the money goes to the states and is used solely for upgrading and maintaining the highway system. However, from my reading, Trump plans to open the highway to private companies. Not just to build it, which would be subcontracting, but to own and maintain it. That means that the money would go to the company, not to the state, and while some of it would go to the upkeep of the highways, or so we hope, a lot of it will go to the executives as bonuses. We in Canada, specifically Ontario, have seen this with the selling of several of our expressways. Trust me, this will not help you. The prices will be too high because these companies will engage in price gouging.

      1. I believe as well that it should be the state DOTs owning the highways and directly collecting the tolls, but I also want to see more tolling.

    2. Tolls as a form of taxation is terrible regressive. The massive amounts of money Wal-Mart makes using roads to transport goods as opposed to the amount people earn to get to work or go have some fun is completely one sided.

      Say no to tolls. They are not the right way to pay for needed infrastructure.

  4. A few years ago, Harrisburg PA hired an inexperienced company to build an incinerator / power plant. The losses from that project were so frightful that the city treasurer recommended bankruptcy. Bondholders, though, refused to write off the losses and have glommed on to the revenue from the city’s major assets: parking garages serving state workers.

  6. Indiana has been building Interstate I-69 and its years and years behind schedule and people are dying because the roads being converted have been very dangerous. The contractor is about ready to turn the contract back over to the state because the company is going bankrupt and has never built a road before. This is a run down of whats going on right now. The state came up with a scheme to keep from taking out a loan in its own name to pay for the highway, basically. It’s like if you wanted to buy a car but didn’t want to overextend your credit by getting a car loan, so you got a buddy to buy the car and signed a contract with him for “transportation supply” and agreed to pay him a monthly fee that covers his loan payments plus maintenance on the car and a little bit of profit for him. Your friend, meanwhile, is just some broke-ass nobody who’s using that very same contract as the proof of income he needs to get the car loan in the first place. He’s never supplied transportation once in his life. All of this just to keep the debt out of your name. That’s what this is really all about. The state sold bonds on behalf of I69 Development Partners so they could use the money to build the highway. But the state, lead by wise and experienced men of civic duty with no other motives, chose a bankrupt company, who have never built a driveway much less a highway in the U.S., to do this deal with and we’ve been bailing them out to keep construction going pretty much since day one. In other words, your friend with the car is broke, so you’ve been paying extra on the deal so the bank doesn’t take the car you’ve been paying for. So, what the state proposes to do is buy the bonds back on the private market to gain control of the deal when the company inevitably defaults, like if you bought the loan from the bank and then repossessed the car from your friend yourself when he misses the next payment instead of continuing to bail him out.

  7. Hmmm… Cops in Russia being allowed to do anything they want to the protestors?
    Wow! That seems so crazy! Not at all like here in the US.
    It would be really frightening if the US had a militarized police force, hired mercenaries, people being arrested w/out charges, or the FBI colluding with Corporations or Big Banks, or if our MSM was like Pravda.

    That would be REALLY scary … oh, wait.
    Oops.

    1. > It would be really frightening if the US had a militarized police force, hired mercenaries, people being arrested w/out charges, or the FBI colluding with Corporations or Big Banks, or if our MSM was like Pravda.

      Yeah. Just imagine that.

      What’s the difference between a Russia-hired mercenary and an US-hired mercenary? The former are mostly working inside Russia. The latter are mostly working abroad.

      1. …and I do mean that in the sense of: Russia may have its own share of mercenaries (and that’s bad enough, by itself) but at least they’re not being used to intervene and interfere in three dozen countries around the globe.

  8. Uhmm….?! didnt Cenk have an interview with Alex jones on the TYT show just a few years ago?
    Bait clicking?

  9. Wait … Sen. Orin Hatch is being fed lines from his intern, or assistant, or whatever???????
    He doesn’t even know what the fuck to SAY???

    Um… isn’t this crossing over into Strom Thurman/Robert Byrd so old they don’t know wtf is going on????
    Wow.

  10. Hmmm… Russian police silencing protests with violence and arrests? Then the following commentary on how the Russian government is trying to reduce the publics ability to be involved in the political process…. Sounds a lot like the good ol’ USA, standing rock being just one example. This is not in defense of Russia, but our governments are not so different.

  11. So while TYT had a hard-on for Saudi arms deals they completely missed the Blackstone infrastructure deal which was concluded on the same trip!
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-20/blackstone-plans-to-invest-100-billion-in-infrastructure-deals
    Instead of going after arms deals on obsolete weapon systems, already covered by everyone else, the audience could have benefitted from some investigative reporting about privatizing infrastructure. Blackstone is raising money from foreign governments to invest in these projects, so the next toll someone pays on a shiny new highway could end up going (partially) overseas.

    1. They’ve covered this in a previous ep. I don’t believe it was the main focus of the story, but they have talked about it. I’ll do my best to get the link!

  12. Fortunately, on my commute, i cross a toll bridge on the side that doesn’t charge and take a completely different freeway home. I abuse this bridge and have never paid a dime. its just a damn bridge,not fancy or anything. This is the Antioch bridge in CA

  13. wait, I thought yall said something about having access to the people’s summit footage with a lng speech from Bernie Sanders, but I can’t find it anywhere

    1. TYT’s YouTube vid is unwatchable. The video is fracked, but more importantly, the audio is sometimes impossible to follow. I gave up. But, a poster there offered this:

      Uphill Media has it … Bernie’s speech starts about 1:08
      https://youtu.be/6MknMeS5bGQ

      Enjoy!

      1. I was appalled by the terrible quality of the Bernie Speech video uploaded at TYT Politics. Shot on a cell phone, based on the thumb that keeps dropping into frame and blocking the visuals. The audio drop-outs are inexcusable, making the video un-watchable (the TYT Politics version… I have not yet looked at the new link someone posted here).

        Terrible PR for a company that is attempting to make a name for itself as professional news.

        1. Check out the Uphill Media vid … even has the Q&A with Bernie & Jill after.
          Definitely worth the view.

          What should have been the cherry on the People’s Summit Sundae.
          But, they screwed it up royally. Very weird.

          1. Thank you for the link — what a great speech! I highly recommend it to every one to watch. Yes, Bernie hits all the usual points (for which we love him) but he also has lots of new material, and it is very inspiring. Bernie IS the future of the Democratic Party — if it is to have a future at all.

            No speaker at the CA Democratic Party state convention in May got a bigger crowd reaction than RoseAnn DeMoro, the head of CNA who introduced Bernie at the Summit. Whereas establishment Dems like Nancy Pelosi got only a very tepid reception (and some boo’s) from the All-Democrat crowd in California, RoseAnn raised the roof off the convention center — and the biggest cheer she got was when she delivered a warning shot over the bow of the DNC ship — she said don’t think for a moment that we will not leave, unless this ship changes course. HUGE cheers that went on and on and on. Draft Bernie, in deed…!

            My advice to TYT Politics is to take down that horrid-glitchy video of Bernie’s speech from their page. It is a total embarrassment to the network, to have such terrible quality video posted.

  17. The quality is impressive on this ep. I wonder if there was a camera/compression change. Good work, TYT tech crew.

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