The Young Turks, February 3, 2016

The Young Turks: February 03, 2016

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Cenk and Iadarola hosting today. Rand Paul has suspended his presidential campaign. Cenk remembers when he predicted who would eventually be the GOP candidate when TYT did The Freak Sixteen. Video of Cenk’s horrible prediction calling it for Rand Paul. Cenk spins his miscue to give himself some credit for the reasoning behind his pick of Rand Paul. Jeb Bush spoke to a group of supporters in NH and when he hit an “inspirational” point of this speech, there was no response, prompting Bush to ask the crowd to clap. Donald Trump has changed his muted tone on the Iowa results and went on a Tweetstorm going after Cruz for his dishonest tactics against Ben Carson. He’s calling for either a recount or a disqualification. Donald Trump admitted to Morning Joe that he is a rookie to the election game, and that he didn’t even know what a ground game is. Bernie Sanders’ attention being focused on Goldman Sachs and Wall St has Lloyd Blankfein listening. Video of Blankfein painting the move to call them out dangerous by Sanders. Videos of Lloyd and the CNBC panel calling Sanders a Socialist and listing reasons why this is a disaster for America and the young people that support him. A recent poll asked people their thoughts on a political revolution that would redistribute money from the wealthy to the rest of the country that has received limited opportunities. Most people overwhelmingly supported the idea, even along Republican lines.  

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Ana joins Cenk for SCS. The SoCal Gas company is being punished for the Porter Ranch leak with a monetary slap on the wrist. In addition, the company is still billing the customers affected, and the prices have even gone up. A vast majority of teenagers that take out loans for college don’t know the details behind the loans they apply for. Researchers looked into the health impacts of smoking weed everyday for 5 years, and it showed a very slight loss in short term memory. Elon Musk took away a pre ordered Tesla after a blogger criticized test driving the car. Single women in social media are responding to the “motherhood challenge” from mom’s posting pictures of their kids. The Army and the Marine corps are pursuing qualified women to register for the draft.

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