“Never heard of him” is not an actual opinion.
Of course you don’t have to listen to him making his case, but why reply at all then?
I should have said as a media figure. Bannon and Uygur both have weekday opinion shows.
I’m at least a little curious to learn a bit more about him. So, I ask you, for the third time: other than “listen to him for an hour,” do you have anything else?
I agree with this. But I take issue with your previous comment that there’s “nothing wrong” with the Constitution requiring the president to be a natural-born citizen.
Besides Schwarzenegger on the (R) side, another name that comes to mind who could have been a good president is Jennifer Granholm (D), former governor of Michigan who might still be in office but for term limits. Yet the Constitution says they’re not qualified to be president because they were originally born in another country. So instead America gets a traitorous criminal who gives state secrets to Russians while president, steals classified documents when leaving office, and stages a seditious coup to try to stay in power.
I’d say there’s lots wrong with a rule that says you have to be a natural born citizen to be president but it’s perfectly fine to to be president when facing four criminal indictments, including indictments that involve national security and the integrity of democracy itself. The rule was written over 200 years ago in the belief that a foreign-born individual might possibly harbor loyalties to his former country; today it’s a ridiculous anachronism.
Anyway, that’s tangential to the thread topic, so I’ll stop there. I do agree that the Supreme Court has no power to vacate a clearly stated constitutional provision.
Anyway…since the OP doesn’t seem to care to actually say anything, I spent five minutes on Uygur’s Wikipedia page. What I learned:
- A big part of his stance seems to be that politics are polluted by big-money donors (I don’t disagree)
- He has a history of making inappropriate comments about women, which (a) don’t seem to be in dispute, and (b) are pretty much an automatic disqualifier for me.
The interview outlines why he’s doing this better than I could. It’s fresh and germane to what I wanted to discuss. Sorry, can’t spoon feed you anything better.
“Listen to him for an hour” is honestly not a reasonable thing to expect, and “something a little more succinct” is not a request to “spoon-feed me.”
Those things I already knew.
The union-busting and retaliatory firing of an organizer was new.
Really, I mean, “I will not sit through an hour-plus of video for the sake of debating you” is one of the most often repeated statements at the SDMB, and with good reason.
Oh, he’s not loved by everyone on the left. He even started a support group called Progressive Something-or-others to promote local candidacies, then got bounced from it when he said or did I-forget-what.
But unlike say Rachel Maddow, he does know how to get to the point. I used to be a lot more of a follower, before some of the embarrassing stuff came out. He can distill an argument and put it across better than almost anyone. So, not always the ideal messenger but often worth hearing out.
I’ve heard of him, but only barely.
It’s hard to get past how he named his podcast after a group that participated in genocide. It’s like naming your show The Hitler Youth. And from the Wikipedia page, this isn’t just some inadvertent slipup–he wrote papers as a student denying the Armenian genocide.
If this is why he’s running, then he’s a hypocritical blowhard. If he thinks the Dems need to support a broader bench behind Biden, then the absolute dumbest thing to do is to take the air out of the room by announcing a dead-in-the-water, constitutionally-ineligible presidential run. The best thing to do to support a broad bench would be to, and this may come as a shocking surprise, openly support a broad bench of eligible candidates.
Yes he did. Years ago. And has repudiated them, and a lot of other things he said over the years. Oops.
But as an English-language idiom, “young Turks” is not associated now with any actual historical group, if it ever was. It’s more taken to mean “sharp young iconoclasts” - Rod Stewart even did a song with that title. Should Cenk have called his show that? Well he is from Turkey, but, probably not.
If Cenk wants to run for office, he should run for congress or mayor or some other local or state office. If he wants Biden to have a real challenger (and this is a bad thing IMO), he should encourage a top Democrat like Gretchen Whitmer, or Cory Booker, etc. That he’s bypassing these in order to run himself tells me this is a vanity project from someone with delusions about their own importance.
If this is referring to his inappropriate statements about women:
- He’s done it repeatedly, over the course of the past 20 years – he may have apologized for it, but it’s clearly a pattern of behavior.
- He’s made such comments as recently as 2016 or 2017.
From Wikipedia:
He actually ran twice for a Congressional seat in California in 2020 (the first being a special election, the second being for the general election); he finished with under 10% of the Democratic primary vote both times.
Oh he does. It’s one of the things his WolfPac superpac was designed to do. Don’t know how successful it has been at raising money; not exactly a household name after several years.
I think he fancies himself doing events, meeting people and trying to get his message out that way. Will anyone attend? Who knows. His run for Congress got little traction. But this is how he wants to do it.
I’m just speaking for myself, but I’ve never heard anyone use “young Turks” as an idiom in real life (outside of the show, I guess). I get that it has been used in that way, but to me it 100% means the group that participated in the Armenian genocide. Maybe a generational thing, related to how long it took for recognition to take place?
Thanks. Then he should either keep trying at that level or below, or take the lesson that he’s not a particularly skilled political candidate.
If that’s your experience, it doesn’t comport with the generally accepted modern meaning. From the Oxford Dictionary (and similar entries in others):
Young Turk
noun
plural noun: Young Turks
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a young person eager for radical change to the established order.
“the Young Turks of the Faculty demolished the idea of the self” -
historical
a member of a revolutionary party in the Ottoman Empire who carried out the revolution of 1908 and deposed the sultan Abdul Hamid II.