The Chris Cuomo Project - Chris Cuomo answers YouTube comments about not being critical enough of Trump, student loans & more

Episode Date: May 2, 2024

Chris Cuomo tackles a fresh set of YouTube comments and listener calls, including remarks that he’s not being critical enough of Donald Trump, the practicalities of student loan repayments, solutions to gun violence, the emotional toll of the Iraq war on veterans, and more. Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday: https://linktr.ee/cuomoproject Join Chris Ad-Free On Substack: http://thechriscuomoproject.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You like to ask questions, don't you? Good! Because from time to time I like to answer them. I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to The Chris Cuomo Project where you give me feedback, I interpret what's going on around us for your use, and sometimes you want to ask more, so let's get after it. Support for the Chris Cuomo Project comes from AG1. Man, oh man, if you are a listener, you know how I feel about Athletic Greens, okay? AG1 has been a go-to for me for years. Why? It's easier.

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Sorry Chris, you can't sit in the middle on this one. Mehdi is spot on. Chris, you need to wake up. Mehdi is absolutely correct and I will be watching Zateo. Chris, I just spent the last 10 minutes reading your viewers' comments and by far your audience agreed with Mehdi Hassan. Hopefully this gives you food for thought because you can't sit on the fence where Trump is concerned.

I've never sat on a fence in my life, figuratively. I have no ambivalence about Trump. I invited Mehdi on because I encourage people to hear what he has to say. I wish him every good fortune at Zateo. That's why I had him on. It was not a debate. I think the problem for Meh, and many on the intellectual left, is that they come off very condescending and arrogant

and out of touch with the people that they're trying to persuade. And I think he's a great boost to people on the left and to anti-Trumpers. And I think that's fine. I just don't think it's helpful in getting us to a better place. The left has been winning arguments

and losing leverage in our government and in our elected politics for a while now. And I'm very pragmatic, meaning if it's not working for me, I rethink it, and you guys aren't doing that. You are on the verge of losing to Trump when he should be weaker than ever. And he should be as easy to beat as me in a hundred yard race against an Olympian.

You see what I'm saying? This guy should be a layup and you have your hands full. What does that tell you? If it's so obvious and everybody's on the same page with Mehdi, then why are you deadlocked in the race against him at best at this point? It's because they're all racist. It's because they're all stupid. Really? How's that working out for you?

Condescending, disrespecting people who disagree with you. I don't sit on any fucking fence. I've gone at Trump directly harder than Mehdi Hasan or anyone on the left ever has because he doesn't talk to them because they're obviously enemies of his. Now, the irony is I don't like him personally because of what he did to my family, okay? I don't like what he did. I wouldn't really extend it to I don't like him. That's not sitting on the fence either.

It's I don't invest that kind of energy in things like to have an opinion, to have a feeling about him. I just don't like what he did because it stressed out my family and it was unnecessary. I have gone at him with righteous purpose as much or more than anyone, okay? I just don't do it gratuitously. And I'm not gonna demonize the guy

as somebody who's going to take over and destroy our democracy. I don't believe that. I've told you many times, I think he has disqualified himself for voters as a choice for president, but that's your choice to make, not yours. You're an obvious lefty and anti-Trump, and that's fine too, but I hope you can beat him. And I love how you guys rationalize that Biden is your best choice, which I think is fucking pathetic. So how's that for sitting on the fence? This is from the same episode Suzanne Ray executive career coach asks, what has happened to you? You aren't helping women's rights or any other marginalized groups by acting like you're above

the fray. I used to believe in your opinions, but you have done this for your own greed. I'm out. I don't even know what the fuck you're talking about. I really don't. You guys have become so conditioned to need constant, constant confirmation of your perceptions. You have become so addicted to groupthink and to animus towards the other side that you can't be open on anything. And you take open to mean support of the other side. Don't you at least wanna understand what you oppose and those you oppose, at least so that you can have

more advantage in dealing with them and arguing against them? So I'm anti-women because I won't tell people Trump is the devil. Really? That's how it works. So I say what I say about defining and interpreting the issue of reproductive rights.

I tell the right that they have fucked up by what they did with Roe v. Wade and now they may have to pay for it. I say that I think it's an important issue that people should vote on. And that I believe in a woman's right of personal agency over her own body. And I'm not in favor of helping women.

If you think that I'm more helpful to you, if I called Donald Trump a piece of shit who should go to jail for a hundred years every five minutes, then you don't understand where we are, what's moving the needle and where we need to be, okay? I guarantee you, you don't care more about the welfare of America than I do. I guarantee you that you have not put more on the line

and put yourself in more jeopardy than I have personally because of how each of us cares about this situation I guarantee you that so you can have whatever opinion you want about me, and I don't give a fuck if you follow me or not I'm not in the business for fans if I were I would pick a side Kind of along those lines at beach craft 48 replied to the last episode of YouTube comments What's your take on why legacy media doesn't really cover the UAP topic? I don't like this legacy media thing. You know this idea that independent media is the only real media. So many of them are running agendas and just finding ways to get clickbait with sensational headlines that are every bit as obnoxious as

anything in the legacy media. I don't know why you see having a big organization with lots of rows of professionalism and checks and quality control and accountability as a bad thing. Look, I'm not against independent media. Doing my deal with Patrick Bette David that I did with Valuetainment is obviously an obvious promotion of independent media. I believe in what he's doing there and why he's doing it.

That's why I wanted to be a part of it. That's why I'm on be a part of it. That's why I'm on his app, Manect, so I can do stuff like this with people and engage more personally and more directly than even this. So I believe in it. I just think that to paint them all

with the same brush of legacy media as if that's a bad thing, why don't they cover it? They don't cover it because people think it's bullshit, that there's no such thing as little green men, there's no such thing as flying saucers, there's no such thing as life on other planets. That's why they don't cover it, okay? Now, I dismiss that because I believe in transparency,

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and they're not telling me and that's wrong. And we see it with UAPs, but I believe that they're just a lens, a metaphor, an example, that issue of a transparency problem that we see throughout our government. That's why I cover it. Support for the Chris Cuomo project comes from AG1.

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Check it out. Hey, Chris. This is Stephen from Austin, Texas. And since I've been listening to you after your situation at CNN, I've noticed you're a clear thinker. And so I wanted to know your take on the Iraq war. I'm a combat veteran and I want to know what you think about what caused it. How dirty was it?

What got us over there and how much bullshit was at the bottom of the situation? It makes me emotional just asking the question. But because I feel like your answer is going to be the right one and I trust you, I just want to know what you think on that. And I haven't heard you cover that topic. So I apologize if this isn't related to any recent information. Since you've started your podcast, I've enjoyed it, Chris. So either way, I'd like to know podcast, I've enjoyed it, Chris. So either way, I'd like to know the answer to that.

Thanks, Chris. First of all, you know what you are? You're better than me and you are a real American and thank you for your service. And I get your frustration and I hate that you have to deal with this tortured notion that you put so deal with this tortured notion that you put so much on the line in the wrong place for the wrong reason.

Now, I don't think that that's fair to you and your commitment because the baseline measure is, were you acting in good faith? Were you doing what you were asked to do and doing it the best you could? And it seems like the answer is overwhelmingly yes. So there's the end of that analysis. You are not in any way painted by the overlay of politics

and choices that went into where you were asked to serve and supposedly why, okay? Now, do I believe that post 9-11, we did the right thing in the right way? No, I think what we did was easy. I don't believe the whole petrodollars kind of conspiracy theory that's out there about what this was really about.

I think this was about vengeance. And I think this was about going after a known bad guy in a way that was easy with assured success. And I think that was about going after a known bad guy in a way that was easy with assured success. And I think that it was easy to know that the people who hit us on 9-11 were neither organized nor populated from Iraq or by Iraq. And I think they knew that. And I think the yellow cake thing was bullshit.

And I think they knew that. And I think it's submarine to guy who could have been president of the United States and general Colin Powell. So I think that they could have easily known that Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda was not a Saddam Hussein creation, nor were they under his control in any real way.

And just as bizarre to me was after all those years of killing so many people and losing so much blood and treasure of our own, real Americans, real patriots, they then doubled down and went into Afghanistan, where they knew they call that place the graveyard of empires for a reason. So that's my take. And it's also part of the legacy of that. It's why Congress is so quick to let a president do whatever the hell they want whenever it comes to military powers, because they feel they got burned by that vote on the war and they don't want to own it anymore. They benefit from the upside of any good outcomes of military action and they don't own any of the onus or responsibility for bad choices. So they've allowed presidents to have power they weren't supposed to have, not under the Constitution and not under the War Powers Act of 1973.

So I thank you for your service. All that matters in the analysis that matters most, which is how do you feel about it? But how I feel about your involvement is that you did it for the best of reasons and that represents the best of us as far as I'm concerned. So your conscience should be clean. Hi, Chris. This is Angela calling you from Rochester, New York. I was wondering what your thoughts are in regard to student loan repayment or student

loan forgiveness. We're all struggling these days with the cost of things going up. And unfortunately my husband and I had to take parent plus loans. And when they went back into effect, the repayment plan on my loan was $976 a month and with a middle class family, that is a struggle when you're still paying a mortgage. And so I didn't know what your thoughts were in regards to that.

Thanks again, and I really enjoyed listening to you and subscribing to Substacks. Keep up the great job, Chris. Have a great day. Here are my thoughts. You've done a great job, Chris. Have a great day. Here are my thoughts. We have to rethink the college game,

and it is a game. They're charging too much. It's going up way more than the rate of inflation. There are too many schools with too big an endowment, and it's upside down. It's working well for them and not well enough for the people who are going there, like you. And you are in a jam.

And that is true. Debt forgiveness, it's hard to justify it as an expenditure and balance the equities. Why? Because you got a lot of people who didn't have anybody pay off their debt, which is now are now being asked through the forgiveness, which is going to rob revenue, which is going to change the tax structure, right? You're basically asking people who didn't get that kind of help to help you. And that's going to be a tough sell.

And I think we've seen that so far in the kind of wide rejection of Biden's plans. Now, that said, that doesn't mean that we should walk away from the problem. Again, I think that we should talk about what college is worth, what is available in alternative paths to employment like skilled labor and starting businesses and how that's encouraged. Most of the open jobs do not fall in the bachelors of art kind of category. And we are neglecting that reality. We're blaming it on other things. We're loading up people with debt and the system isn't working.

Now this is a common concern, but it doesn't get a lot of attention. Why? Because the parties don't perceive advantage over the other side in it. So they leave it alone and ignore it in favor of prosecuting each other and arguing over culture wars. Hey, Crips, here's a solution for this gun problem in the United States.

All this gun violence shit going on. Everybody's up in arms because you're gonna take their second amendment right to carry a gun, but they ought to just outlaw any gun that shoots multiple bullets. No chambers, no clips. Every shot you got to reload manually one shot at a time. That way your second amendment people, they can't cry anymore. Make all these guns that shoot rapid fire illegal.

Thank you. I hear it, I get it. It'll never happen. Horses out of the barn. Almost every weapon, I mean, of course, look, I have a 12 gauge shotgun. That is my home protection. That is my skeet shooting.

I just got an over under that Mario's gonna use. He's much better shot than I am. He doesn't understand that the only thing I've trained for is to put a hole in the center mass of somebody who's trying to hurt my family. You know, he's much more specific with his shooting. But the availability of semi-automatic, you know, pull and repeat firing is in so many different weapons that you're just, the horse is out of the barn, it's not gonna happen. And I think you have to deal with the practicalities. I really do believe that the answer, you know,

large capacity magazines and stuff like that, sure, I get it, but the reason that these whack jobs that do school shootings use the AR is a little bit copycat syndrome. And there's such a wide range of things that fall into that. People think AR stands for assault rifle and that's why they use that, but it actually stands for armolite style rifle.

And it's a very wide range of products that have the same basic features. And we really have to focus on who's getting the weapons more than the kinds of weapons. Like you can't have machine guns. That was along the lines of your own thinking. That's why they made machine guns illegal. And should that be extended more?

Yeah, it could be, but I don't think it will be. I think you got to focus on who gets them. Yellow and red flag laws, keeping weapons out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them. Now here's the problem. I am outlining a solution that deals with about a fraction of a percent of overall gun crime.

Gun crime, number one is suicide, okay? Then number like two, three and four are about people who are getting guns illegally off the streets and using them against one another, criminal on criminal. Then you get to how people store their weapons, which is a problem. And then eventually you wind up getting to mental health considerations and stuff like that. But we just make more of that because they're more dramatic and they're the large scale shootings.

We care about them more, even though there's such a small percentage of the overall problem. Uh, yeah, I think I dialed the wrong number, but I was trying to reach CNN and I guess I hit the Chris Cuomo one. What I, since you've asked, what I think about what you say now compared to what you used to say, I think that you and your team are a joke. News Nation is the place that newscasters, the good ones, go to die. So, bye Chris. Never going to listen to you again. Peace out. The wrong number. You would think, you know, they just, oh, wrong number, nevermind. It's like, no, she had like a message for you.

Here's what I don't understand. Her name is Barbie, by the way. Barbie, great, that's perfect. Here's what I don't understand. Why would you take the time to send a message that you have to know does not mean a damn thing to me. Why waste the time? And I'll answer my own question

because I don't think you understand your own motivations. There's so many people who are so desperate to be heard. And you have this mistake that your frustration is best expressed as outrage about something and that somehow that makes you legit, that you're part of the grievance campaign that's happening in society and obviously you're a lefty. Obviously anybody who doesn't agree with you, you see as a problem and I have to tell you it makes you the problem.

I'm fine with you thinking that that's what News Nation is. You just gotta ask yourself, why does the audience keep growing in a time of contraction in the overall market? Why is News Nation growing? That must piss you off, hey Barbie. Have you ever called the wrong number before and like then just continue the conversation?

Like you're trying to call like your family. But it's like, hey, I'm trying to get a hold of my mom. Have you ever called the wrong number before and then just continue the conversation? You're trying to call your family, but it's like, hey, I'm trying to get a hold of my mom. Oh, Starbucks? Hey, your coffee sucks. It's such a funny tea story. Oh, you think she intentionally called you? 100%.

Oh, so she was lying off the top. You're accusing her of lying. Yes. Yes, I am. Well, Barbie, I don't know. This is a... Let's get after it, Barbie, I don't know, this is a... Let's get after it, Barbie. You have a comment? Well, how about I regard you in your opinion right now.

I am Chris Cuomo. Thank you very much for being with us here at the Chris Cuomo Project, where we are going through your comments. Thank you very much for coming with the questions. Appreciate it. Thank you for subscribing, following, checking me out on the Substack, checking me out at Manect, checking me out at News Nation every week, day, night at 8 and 11 P Eastern.

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