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Apr 18, 2022

Fox News host Jesse Watters told a story on air about how he once secured a date with one of his interns by giving her a flat tire so she was forced to get a ride from him. Not only is this insanely creepy and predatory, Watters played it off like it was a perfectly normal thing to do.

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The Young Turks: April 18, 2022

Hosts: Cenk UygurAna Kasparian

Democratic Deleware Senator Chris Coons sent a dangerous warning to Vladimir Putin and Russia saying that Putin will only stop the invasion of Ukraine when “we [the U.S.] stop him”. The Biden administration has repeatedly said that they will not be sending troops to Ukraine or get directly involved in any other way in the war despite the media and some lawmakers like Coons pushing for a more direct approach to ending the conflict.

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Republican Senate candidate JD Vance, who has been endorsed by Trump, had some old texts leaked from 2016 where he compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. Georgia lawmaker Josh McLaurin leaked the texts to highlight how Vance is taking advantage of the party’s platform and talking points for his own political ambitions.

8 minutes

Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks was caught on tape saying that chairmanships to Congress’s most important committees cost around $1 million per position and are paid for by political special interest groups. Not only are these special interest groups bankrolling congressional committee appointments, but they’re doing so under a quid pro quo agreement with the member they’re propping up to support legislation favorable to the group.

Money in Politics

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Notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has just declared bankruptcy on behalf of his website InfoWars as Jones faces multiple defamation lawsuits filed by families of the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012. Jones has repeatedly claimed that the event was a hoax put on by crisis actors hired by gun control groups in order to create public pressure to reform gun laws.

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France’s presidential elections are heating up as tens of thousands of protestors took part in a march across the country in protest of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. While the protestors aren’t fans of incumbent Emmanuel Macron, they understand that a vote for him is necessary to keep the far-right party out of power.

10 minutes

The Biden administration did itself no favors by bringing out the Easter Bunny at the start of a recent White House press conference with Jen Psaki. Not only did Psaki crack a horribly cheesy one-liner, but the Bidens also took a pretty creepy photo with the Easter Bunny. This has got to stop.

6 minutes

Florida’s Department of Education has rejected over 50 math textbooks for next year's curriculum as they reportedly contained references to critical race theory, Common Core education, and Social Emotional Learning. Out of the 132 books reviewed by the DOE, only one publisher’s full set of K-5 math textbooks were approved for use in the state so far.

11 minutes

Tucker Carlson released the trailer for his newest original documentary titled “The End of Men” and critics had a field day making fun of the incredibly homoerotic imagery in the video. Maybe even more surprising, Tucker is touting testicle tanning as a solution to society’s lack of masculinity, despite its obvious dangers and health complications.

11 minutes

Fox News host Jesse Watters told a story on air about how he once secured a date with one of his interns by giving her a flat tire so she was forced to get a ride from him. Not only is this insanely creepy and predatory, Watters played it off like it was a perfectly normal thing to do.

7 minutes

Writer for The Atlantic Johnathan Haidt wrote an article about how social media has turned into a device that incentivizes self-marketing, leading to extremist voices coming to the forefront, dominating online discourses and prioritizing viral high-engagement posts to chronological posting.

20 minutes

Two Arizona diversity advocates falsely accused a Black DJ named Kim Koko Hunter of wearing blackface during a charity event at a local elementary school. The two Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion advocates, Stuart Rhoden and Jill Lassen, mistook the DJ for wearing blackface as well as donning a racist outfit since he was dressed in a Disco-style outfit for the event.

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New page: Fox News host Jesse Watters told a story on air about how he once secured a date with one of his interns by giving her a flat tire so she was forced to get a ride from him. Not only is this insanely creepy and predatory, Watters played it off like it was a perfectly normal thing to do. - TYT.com