Posted on 09/15/2022 1:33:42 PM PDT by lowbridge
Cenk Uygur, founder and host of the progressive outlet "The Young Turks," condemned far-left rhetoric against police in a Tuesday tweet.
"Will people who came up with 'Defund the Police' slogan admit they were wrong? It was wildly counterproductive framing," he said in the post. "You don't speak for the left. And neither do people pushing the counterproductive 'Abolish Prisons.' Polls show that almost no one on the left agrees with you."
Uygur warned further that people who use that variety of rhetoric do not speak for the American left as a whole.
"You can't claim to speak for the left, if polls indicate that actual human beings who are on the left don't like your ideas," he claimed. "And if they like your ideas, but you bungled it by making your ideas sound worse through the names and the framing, then that's on you. Do better."
In the summer of 2020, however, when riots raged across the country, his rhetoric was very different.
"I'm done. I'm now supporting #DefundThePolice 100%. I already largely agreed with the substance of the argument & now I'm down for the framing, too," he tweeted on June 25, 2020. "There is no reform or transformation that can fix this. We have to start over and completely rebuild policing in this country."
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Panic is setting in.
Let the backtracking on their loudmouth hubris begin in a desperate attempt to court the middle for November.
You and your fellow Democrats own it, Cenk.
Oh yeah? Huh.
It was productive before, but now it’s not productive.
What changed?
Embrace the suck, Cenk.
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BLM and “de-fund police” was a devious and organized Obama/Holder/DOJ political ploy from the start
the goal was to push through particular Obama-DOJ plans to neuter local police, and bring them under and local politicians under more Fed.gov control.
Notice how these leftist operators NEVER included FEDERAL police in their de-fund propaganda?
Federal police, particularly FBI - should be “de-funded.”
In other words, now he thinks his side is in charge of the police.
Street chaos when Trump in office = Good
Street chaos when Biden in office = Bad
Cenk is the jerk who gave us the Squad.
It’s only counterproductive until the midterms.
You are not supposed to tell the truth before an election. Now is the time for Communists to pretend they are Repubs.
“Brace for impact!” Cenk Uygur 11/8/2016
LOL!
“In other words, now he thinks his side is in charge of the police.”
Exactly!
Chunk Igor has always been an idiot.
Well, that's the problem, Chunky Boy - yes, they do, and so did you when you supported it. If it was wrong - and it was - the proper response is to apologize, not pretend it never happened.
Cenk is the jerk who gave us the Squad.
Don’t forget that other sniveling gimp Kyle Kulinski, he was a co founder of the “Justice” democrats.
It’s OK to do it, just don’t talk about it.
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