Anti-Maduro Birthers Now A Thing In Venezuela

“After months of devastating shortages, deadly protests and mounting chaos, many a Venezuelan has wished President Nicolas Maduro never existed.

The computer system handling Sunday's controversial elections to his powerful new constitution re-writing body appears to feel the same way.

When Maduro scanned his ID card as he cast his ballot -- the first Venezuelan to do so -- the screen spit out the words, "This person does not exist or the ID was canceled."

The message, displayed on the screen of a poll worker's cell phone, was captured by TV cameras and soon went viral online.

The ID card in question is the "fatherland card" introduced by Maduro's socialist government to buy subsidized food and access other social programs.

As Maduro delivered a speech at the polling station, he paused to theatrically whip out his card.

"Let's check my fatherland card so it will be permanently registered that I came to vote, and so my fatherland card will be engraved with it for life: that I voted the historic day of the constituent assembly," he said.

He then presented his card's bar code to be read with a scanner.

"Did it read it?" he asked the young poll worker.”

Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian

Cast: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian

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Young Turk (n), 1. Young progressive or insurgent member of an institution, movement, or political party. 2. A young person who rebels against authority or societal expectations.(American Heritage Dictionary)

[NG-hrkv]

TBH I kinda felt really bad seeing Ben embarrass cenk like that at politicon

[superfinevids]

Venezuela is not just fighting amongst themselves. Whatever monetary entity that funds the right in Europe and the US I guarantee is involved in Venezuela as well as others.

[danielcesar]

No he is not from my country venezuela made him now they have to deal with him

[scarithers]

Funny, years ago you would defend Chavez or Maduro when they first came to power, but now that it has fallen apart, you distance yourselves from them....HA!

You get the information wrong... there are lots of venezuelan in the USA that can explain to you what happened...

[shaboopie]

But remember JFK appointed his brother AG.

[rickelmonoggin]

I've not seen the debate. I've only read the report that Shapiro ended up indulging in name calling.

[stedefender]

love tyt! ads at the start and end of videos now!? bit irritating

[jammoexii]

Venezuela has "birthers" because the "opposition" there is dominated by the same kind of fascists and racists as the Trump movement is in America. The biggest difference is the Trump movement is a lot more peaceful.

[aliyanwarraich]

Hey Cenk how are you doing from your injuries Ben Shapiro inflicted on you yesterday in the debate?

[Blackjax]

Still burning from Shapiro's roasting, hey Chunk?

[TOMXCVT]

Venezuela is what happens if bernie sanders would of been president of america...

[NikoBased]

One day, in the near future, we're all going to look back and ask ourselves how TYT lasted as long as it did. We'll laugh and tell jokes about how America contemplated socialism for almost an entire generation because people had forgotten what made America the greatest nation conceived by the mind of man.

[robertoarmandoramirez]

You got it all wrong. It wasn't the citizens records they were checking, it was the "carnet de la patria" database which is the system the government created in order to have the people registered to access public "benefits" -like if being Venezuelan wasn't enough, right?- So the story here is not Maduro's nationality but the fact that he has the people starving and he doesn't even has a carnet de la patria because he doesn't need to. I love what you guys are doing right now and I have being following you for a while from my home in Venezuela, but you need to double check your facts in this case