...Wow...a right winger complaining that Kamala got mad about being interrupted? Let me take you back to the right wingers of 2 weeks ago "YeAH WeLl Joe sTaRTED iT!"
@@danielalexander4042 God, I've read absurd things on here--but this really goes "above and beyond". There have been people with nuclear triggers 100 times more dangerous than her! And has anyone besides Harry Truman pulled the trigger?
Fine I’ll concede: Maher was ahead of the curve in his warnings that Trump wouldn’t want to leave office. The fact that we have to consider that possibility at all is horrifying enough
I do hope someone is preparing for securing the ballot boxes from militia and intimidation on polling day. Also in the days after, I fear what those committed Trump devotees will do if he loses. I am not seeing a peaceful transition in this situation although a lot could happen in the next few weeks.
@@LazarusSlade - that's the problem. Despite everything Trump has said and done to damage this country, his cultists haven't learned a damned thing because they're either unwilling or incapable of absorbing and processing new information.
@@tomogden2432 I doubt there are many Trump supporters who are aware that they are allowed to chose whom they vote for. They think they got born as republicans and always will stay republicans. Thats like with their gender for the rest of their life. To them checking any other box than "republican" at the elections would be like checking the wrong gender an the census - that's fraud. If you look at Trump rallies, thats not about politics to them. They are like 11 years old girlies celebrating and praising their boy-group. The only political aspect is, that Trump uses those partys to deliver them their opinion so they can blindly adapt it. But dont worry, salvage is on its way, Nancy is sending prayers.
This is the reason the GOP wanted him. Anyone else would have said "I don't want to win this way" but Trump actually WANTS to win this way. It is in line with his character... "Only suckers and losers play by the rules." He was brought up to value cheating, lying, and corruption. The GOP finally has someone who personifies everything they secretly value.
You know we can jsut, yuh know, shoot Trump in the head, right? Or be civil and march into the White House. It's really not taht hard. 2 million marched for women's rights, how many do you think would take over the government without firing a shot for all rights?
@@l.tc.5032 you mad because Bill Maher called it to the T? “Voters are very concerned, we need to prove there was no fraud” They are concerned because you lied to them, it has been proven there was no fraud. The rest of us just wondering how stupid trumps voters really are.
this is...sobering. _sobering in a sad, very sad way._ my condolences from germany. ty americans for taking hitler out. i hope we can pay you back by taking trump out.
Did you know that if someone dies completely from something different from covid-19 e.g a car accident, as long as the person was tested positive for covid-19, it would be marked as a covid-19 death? Here is the video - ruclips.net/video/Mf4fFhUsCbc/видео.html
@@4midable4ce American policy has an impact on Canada as well. Our current prime minister is a puppet of the Democrats. If Biden wins he locks down the country and imposes all kinds of draconian laws which Canada will follow as well.
Sarah S. Seriously ???! Were you _born_ willfully ignorant and blind to reality, or is that just the collateral damage that results from transforming into a ChumpTard ?!
I'm sure he has, but can you really name something specifically? He's done a lot of questionable things, like using charity money to buy his own self portrait, planting his children in the White House, doing business while in Office, and the list goes on, but those are things that Maher meant, they're improper, but not actually illegal. (unless written down as such, which they should) And most of the actual illegal stuff has been done by his team of cult goons, he has learned to keep a safe distance, until covid.
Sadly, for the 47% who voted for this thug last time and will likely do it again, it is not self-evident. They see a completely different scenario-and it's even more frightening than Bill makes it sound.
@@shipmodelguy YUP Bill makes it sound so awful,but fortunately it just ain't so and Bill is telling dangerous lies which will help fuel real fires when Trump wins.
@@FergusWalsh-dz7mq I'm not quite sure which lies you are referring to. As far as I can tell, his description of the electoral process was accurate. And if we've learned one thing from a Trump presidency, it is that all the things we took for granted as not having to be explicitly explained or codified by law DO need to be in our constitution. There is a criminal in OUR White House and ironically, it is our constitution that has kept him out of jail-at least until January 21, 2021. It is a dream I have.
More like when will democrats learn? When they have the presidency, senate, house - put voting on Saturdays. Make it easy to vote. Put judges in when you are there.
@IAN WILSON Agree with your first sentence. I have spent most of this year trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Since January. Not a single issue this year makes any sense, unless you start tying it to conspiracy theories.
As Don Corleone said in, "The Godfather," "I don’t trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them." Vito Corleone must have met, "President Benito Trumpolini."
Did you know that if someone dies completely from something different from covid-19 e.g a car accident, as long as the person was tested positive for covid-19, it would be marked as a covid-19 death? Here is the video - ruclips.net/video/Mf4fFhUsCbc/видео.html
Same in France. Nothing compares to trump. He's really gone of the rails, for good. In Europe he would either be behind bars by now, or/and in a mental institution. The guy just isn't right in the head.
The vast majority of Americans love Trump....including the military and the police...and the media, actors, and lazy people hate him. Seems like he has those who matter on his side. Wait till after this election and you will see just how right I am.
@@michaelminugh5357 Did you know that if someone dies completely from something different from covid-19 e.g a car accident, as long as the person was tested positive for covid-19, it would be marked as a covid-19 death? Here is the video - ruclips.net/video/Mf4fFhUsCbc/видео.html
Seriously. Sometimes it was bad before but since he's returned to studio this time it's been constant. I don't know if it was the extra time off, the election, or who winds up in the audience because of restrictions but they're getting really awkward.
“Don’t forget that he’s still out there trying to steal an election!” “This guy finds loopholes like bird sh*t finds my windshield!” “So get ready for Trump to “Gus” the election!” That looks about like what he’s going to do!
It's not just loopholes. We HAVE stuff written down that could be used but he is the head of the agency responsible for enforcing the laws and his AG is on his side.
I wish him a long recovery and a crushing defeat. I hope that prison protects him from his creditors. May he live long and not prosper. This was the closest I could get to well-wishing.
Did you know that if someone dies completely from something different from covid-19 e.g a car accident, as long as the person was tested positive for covid-19, it would be marked as a covid-19 death? Here is the video - ruclips.net/video/Mf4fFhUsCbc/видео.html
@Wally Kazam Nothing you say about Biden is true. They are right wing lies made out of desperation. Trump is the poster boy of corruption with his nepotism, emollument violations, tax fraud, and tampering with the election process. Trump is hopped up on drugs after recklessly catching and spreading covid. Biden is the stronger of the two. Trump has been a national embarrassment for 4 years. I could go on all day, but I'm guessing you are impermeable to facts.
@Wally Kazam I hate to tell you this but Hillary was cleared 4 years ago, except in the deranged delusional mind of Trump & his "followers"! Go find another scapegoat for your fantasies! Bless your Heart🙄❗
Winston Churchill allegedly once said (and I quote from memory- that's where allegedly comes in) "The good thing thing about the Americans is that you can always rely on them to do the right thing- once they have tried everything else." Could you guys hurry up a bit?
"people are saying," "some people say," "it's out there," "I'm not going to get into that now," " I will answer your question, but I want to address how we killed the world's most dangerous terrorist . . ."
Did you know that if someone dies completely from something different from covid-19 e.g a car accident, as long as the person was tested positive for covid-19, it would be marked as a covid-19 death? Here is the video - ruclips.net/video/Mf4fFhUsCbc/видео.html
Trump keeps complaining about how we won't know the outcome on election night. Well, if the national popular vote winner won, we _would_ know the outcome on election night.
qiexia Except for the states that don’t start counting mail-in ballots UNTIL Election Night. That’s the “Red Mirage” scenario that David Pakman and others have been warning us about.
Hush Money WOW, seriously, dude ??! Ronald Reagan won 49 of 50 states in 1984, _including_ NY and CA (all but Mondale’s home state of MN). Granted, Cali was Ronnie’s adopted home state, but that changes neither the statement nor the outcome. It’s _amazing_ how you RePukeLicans are either too f’ing dumb to _know_ your own electoral history - or you simply choose to IGNORE it when it doesn’t fit your Corpo-Fascist agenda. I voted for Mondale, and I loathed Reagan’s sham economic policy, but you know what ? I still respected the Electoral and popular votes - i.e., the will of the People. Maybe going forward, try fielding a GOP candidate for POTUS who _isn’t_ a corrupt, lying, racist, Traitorous, mass-murdering Moron, and s/he might actually win both the Electoral and popular vote - whether it be by a landslide, or just a small margin.
@Stacy Paul- Bachhuber Your President is not great. Your government is not great. Your media is awful. Your leading political figures are awful. Your president and government has not been a threat to my (and many other's) immediate safety. The BS sprouting out of California has. The world does not fear a Trump victory. The world fears a lawless, valueless and morally bankrupt superpower that will give the likes of Harris and Pelosi access to nuclear weapons.
@@thesturminator2991 Argh. Honestly, I would love for Trump to lose the election and when he has to leave the White House, to be met by a crowd equipped with rotten tomatoes and foul eggs...
If that was true he would have send troops into every democrat city where there was riots to put a stop to it. He wants to but the law is the Democrat governors have to ask for his help. That’s the law. That’s why he is not going in. He’s following the law. You can tell he want to go in, he’s said as much. But he can’t because it’s the law. So if what you say is true, that he thinks his word is the law, in this case you’re mistaken. Can you give an example of him disregarding the law?
Sheila G - the doofus doesn’t work, he is ranting and whining, watching Fox tv, and tweeting at all hours of the day. He has no idea what being president is about. He thinks it means he can steal as much as he wants and he is above the law.
@@hdtvwatcher It was fixed at 8 for a whole year. We'll fix it at 11 for a whole year, then we'll promise to stop with a promise as good as McConnell's.
@@RmcBlueSky I know, there are two: "North America", "South America" She* (edit: she not he) was referring to the country named "America", as in "The United States of America" lol
After Bush I thought there's no way power can be abused this much. I'm not so worried about Trump, I'm worried about the sick precedent this sets going forward.
@@whytheface777 Considering that Trump and his cult have dumped all the previous conventions on the way things were done what have you've go nothing to complain about.
@@urbanimage what has he done? Name it....russian collusion? One big nothing burger....quid pro quo, one big witch hunt....all the Democrats have done for the people the last 4 years is waste their hard earned taxes on fake cases and useless investigations. Don't have any plans to help serve the people of the united states, only care about black people every 4 years when it's election time (how convenient), don't care about their safety as democratic cities are burned to the ground under the guise of "social justice". Only plan Biden has is face masks and increase taxes. People are tired of all the crap Democrats have done over the years. No wonder they voted for trump because he might be rough around the edges but he has accomplished more in 47 MONTHS than Biden has in 47 YEARS. That's why people are fed up..,.trump is exactly what America deserves after having politicians slowly destroy the country with their nice words and virtue signaling. American politics created trump..... congratulations
@@whytheface777 I was referring to Trump's contempt for long-established norms in the appointment of judges to the US Supreme Court. Your rant has nothing to do with the point I was making.
Glad you did this segment, Bill! In fact this "Gus' thinking is the way ALL narcissists operate. It's true whether one is a malignant narcissist or a covert one. True whether the narcissist is male or female. These are exactly the kind of completely amoral, empathy-impaired (or non-existent) maneuverings they all do to obtain their armor-plating from facing any repercussions or taking any responsibility whatsoever for the consequences of their actions. It's how they so easily gaslight victims, how they tie up courts with moronic frivolous lawsuits, and generally terrorize their coworkers, spouses, (and frequently children). Very Gus-like maneuvers all-around. Amoral Trump simply follows the amoral slidings of the amoral narcissistic set that surrounds him. And they all echo each others' sleazy maneuvers in their echo chamber and congratulate each other on their "wins" ( 'cause winning means everything) so all the departure from the self-evident norms and logic you talk about, Bill, seems 'normalized' to them. Standard M.O., and I tried to tell people back in the summer of 2016: it's not only that DJT's politics is on the other side, it's that he's bat-shit crazy.
Let us get out and VOTE for BIDEN/HARRIS in GREAT NUMBERS so there is NO QUESTION as to who is the clear WINNER! We have a chance to save our DEMOCRACY! Let's DO IT!
@@GayTier1Operator I'm an elderly person who's on lockdown, so i guess i am just a lonely voice in the wilderness. You suggest, i shut up and take everything Trump does with gratitude and adulation?
willow881000 what the hell are you talking about? i’m saying you have to do MORE than vote (ie take arms) if you truly want to defend democracy. maybe you should put your readers on so you can read more closely
The NHS is merely ok, but everyone has access so it is automatically better. Having the world's best doctors doesn't do anything if you can't afford to go
I won’t lie, I knew the House handles tied or disputed elections, but I always thought that it worked like a normal vote. Whoever got the majority of votes out of the 435 reps won. I didn’t realize the one vote, one state thing until I actually looked it up. That is incredibly disturbing for multiple reasons.
Also lets not forget the Supreme Court ruling enforcing the states to award the electors by whoever wins the state's popular vote thus eliminating the faithless electors. Now I know it also states that it is up to the states to make an elector to stay with the winner of the popular vote in each state but it does help calm this type of event from happening.
If any of the states electors go against the popular vote then the USA will be finished as a credible reliable nation ..... under God or otherwise.... that’s what’s at stake here ....
Electoral College official 1: “Well, the results are in, Biden got 70% of the vote and trump got 30%. It’s a Biden win.” EC Official 2: “Well, this is a Republican led state...” EC Official 1: “I almost forgot!!! Of course it’s a win for trump.”
@@4kix89 Jesus H. Christ, whataboutism... Again ? 1-They didn't, matter of fact, can't do it because most of those key swing states, as mentioned by Bill have repub legislatures, so that's factually impossible. Even if they could, that's like saying : "I stabbed my wife but why should I be punished while my neighbor planned to do it first." Better not try that defense in court. It still doesn't make it OK.
The electoral system must be reformed. A referendum is in order to eliminate the delegates and allow the people's (popular) vote to be cast directly. Democracy is the people's will and it's not achieved through intermediaries.
Over 60% of our taxes go to social programs. Source cbo.gov please don’t mix that we spend more on military than any other country with that’s what we spend most of our money.
Absolutely. The dominant cultural value mistakenly teaches them that they all are, and should be Independent - especially from each other....Everyone and everything is, of course, in Reality, interdependent.
I liked it when Bill did his "New Rules", while working remotely. It's annoying having the audience interrupt him, to clap, after every other sentence. When he was doing the show remote, that cadence was spot on.
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response: "A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: * Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. * You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God... what... have... I... created? If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
"* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are." As an American, I'm perplexed by this statement. I always thought the British were nicer than us or at least we were on near equal levels. XD "After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss." Ya'll are seeing that abyss too? Oh thank God... I thought i was losing my mind. As a side note, I'm so sorry my countrymen and women have failed the world in our choice of leadership. It's truly depressing stuff...
I love you, Mr. Maher. You make me laugh harder than anyone.....even a smidge more than Stephen Colbert, who is excellent. Loved the NBC, ABC, THC joke. Spot on. And Senator Harris not looking at Pence's fly. As the Brits say, Brilliant!!! Living in a small Catalan town during the pandemic, I've become a youtubing news junkie and your show helps me survive this election with humor and very engaging political analysis. Thank you for staying on during the pandemic. We really really need you. You were also spot on, years ago, worried about Trump's exit strategy, or lack, thereof. I love politics....it's like a human chess game. And for a while, now, Trump's antics have seemed more and more obvious, easier to figure out. Or even predict. So, I want to share with you, two 'obvious' thoughts that have come to mind recently......if anyone were to ask them. 1. If the President is in such debt, couldn't he be already paying some of it off? How much would a reporter be worth to the Saudi's? US troops to Putin? And that's just for starters...(has he been reducing his debt all along??) 2. If the Corona Covid 19 virus is such a killer - random but often lethal - and it's very contagious, has anyone considered the 'criminality' of blatently spreading it? Like the President does. Now deciding to mass-infect us, even if we don't know it. I remember hearing about people being charged with assault when they spit on others, while claiming they had AIDS. and here's an extra thought/question... 3. Watching the Barrett interview in the Senate, anyone ever ask why she always always always answered in legalese BS? Except once, to Senator Graham, where she gave a sweet:YES; to one of his questions. I wonder what all her kids thought, listening to all the discussions against her or in fear of what she'll do. And, hats off to our new hero, Senator. (how ironic) WhiteHouse!!!!!
Bill please give that applause sign a rest. Bill thinks that Gus is going to catch on like Karen. I think not. Bill had a couple of weeks off with huge news while he was gone. I think it’s time to hire some new writers.
This is way scarier than it has the right to be.
im 100% sure there will be blood on election night
...Wow...a right winger complaining that Kamala got mad about being interrupted? Let me take you back to the right wingers of 2 weeks ago "YeAH WeLl Joe sTaRTED iT!"
@@objectivemillennial2117 Or in the weeks thereafter!
@@danielalexander4042 God, I've read absurd things on here--but this really goes "above and beyond".
There have been people with nuclear triggers 100 times more dangerous than her!
And has anyone besides Harry Truman pulled the trigger?
@@danielalexander4042 What, are you douchebags wanting to kidnap her too?
Really bites when we are forced to legislate common sense, common decency and civility
It's amazing how one flawed individual can bring evil intentions of others into the light.
^^bot alert. Don’t engage it
@@nathanwhute856 ?? are you referring to me? or the other commenter?
But this should be obvious!!!! This problem is not uncommon throughout history it's actually frequent.
Tells you everything you need to know about President Slimeball. There is nothing he won't stoop to in order to get his own way.
This is how he is going to get away with pardoning himself.
"The constitution does not say he can't." - SCOTUS
Fine I’ll concede: Maher was ahead of the curve in his warnings that Trump wouldn’t want to leave office. The fact that we have to consider that possibility at all is horrifying enough
Murphy’s law to the fracking extreme
@fentanyl Floyd your username name suggests that you should be not be taken serious by anyone.
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I do hope someone is preparing for securing the ballot boxes from militia and intimidation on polling day. Also in the days after, I fear what those committed Trump devotees will do if he loses. I am not seeing a peaceful transition in this situation although a lot could happen in the next few weeks.
Barr is already in conference with Pennsylvania and Florida.
If only Bill Maher's scenarios are laughing matter. They are not. Americans do learn the hard way.
Seriously. It's been really hard to laugh, because this shit is so sad.
Well, as long there's some learning.
@@LazarusSlade - that's the problem. Despite everything Trump has said and done to damage this country, his cultists haven't learned a damned thing because they're either unwilling or incapable of absorbing and processing new information.
@@tomogden2432 I doubt there are many Trump supporters who are aware that they are allowed to chose whom they vote for. They think they got born as republicans and always will stay republicans. Thats like with their gender for the rest of their life. To them checking any other box than "republican" at the elections would be like checking the wrong gender an the census - that's fraud.
If you look at Trump rallies, thats not about politics to them. They are like 11 years old girlies celebrating and praising their boy-group.
The only political aspect is, that Trump uses those partys to deliver them their opinion so they can blindly adapt it.
But dont worry, salvage is on its way, Nancy is sending prayers.
They dont learn
This is the reason the GOP wanted him. Anyone else would have said "I don't want to win this way" but Trump actually WANTS to win this way. It is in line with his character... "Only suckers and losers play by the rules." He was brought up to value cheating, lying, and corruption. The GOP finally has someone who personifies everything they secretly value.
Holy shit.. just when you think things can't get worse..
I guarantee you Republican Governors are going to do this with the help of Barr and The Supreme Court
When we see how many federal judges they appointed and state houses they have taken control of, it makes this an obvious option to them.
Anyones guarantee here is worthless.
Not my Republican Governor, thankfully. Trump hates Charlie Baker, who is an excellent Governor by the way.
Nate Sutton like 2000 all over again
You know we can jsut, yuh know, shoot Trump in the head, right? Or be civil and march into the White House. It's really not taht hard. 2 million marched for women's rights, how many do you think would take over the government without firing a shot for all rights?
I’m here from the future. It wasn’t Florida, it was Pennsylvania.
Eh whatever.
And Georgia
@@l.tc.5032 you mad because Bill Maher called it to the T?
“Voters are very concerned, we need to prove there was no fraud”
They are concerned because you lied to them, it has been proven there was no fraud.
The rest of us just wondering how stupid trumps voters really are.
Its not funny anymore. Its scary af.
danial tahir yeah, you all laughed yourself scared. Didn’t see it coming did ya, might as well keep on laughing, the jokes on you.
this is...sobering. _sobering in a sad, very sad way._
my condolences from germany.
ty americans for taking hitler out. i hope we can pay you back by taking trump out.
@@Dichtsau - If we don't manage it ourselves, please do-
In facts Bill's face is particularly sad....
Did you know that if someone dies completely from something different from covid-19 e.g a car accident, as long as the person was tested positive for covid-19, it would be marked as a covid-19 death?
Here is the video - ruclips.net/video/Mf4fFhUsCbc/видео.html
One of Bill’s better and more insightful “new rules”
I've never been so nervous about an election in my life, and I'm not even American.
thats ok neither is bill maher, MAGA 4EVA!
@@jeffh2991 Get lost.
I'm Canadian and am praying hard for a Trump victory
@@Vince0M1 What is your stake in the outcome?
@@4midable4ce American policy has an impact on Canada as well. Our current prime minister is a puppet of the Democrats. If Biden wins he locks down the country and imposes all kinds of draconian laws which Canada will follow as well.
But wait: There are plenty of things written down IN LAW that he violates.
Like using the White House for a party political rally?
And everyone lets him get away with it, don't they?
Such as?
Sarah S. Seriously ???! Were you _born_ willfully ignorant and blind to reality, or is that just the collateral damage that results from transforming into a ChumpTard ?!
I'm sure he has, but can you really name something specifically?
He's done a lot of questionable things, like using charity money to buy his own self portrait, planting his children in the White House, doing business while in Office, and the list goes on, but those are things that Maher meant, they're improper, but not actually illegal. (unless written down as such, which they should)
And most of the actual illegal stuff has been done by his team of cult goons, he has learned to keep a safe distance, until covid.
Everything Bill says in this clip is self-evident.
See above Ant man and replace Dan with Bill
Sadly, for the 47% who voted for this thug last time and will likely do it again, it is not self-evident. They see a completely different scenario-and it's even more frightening than Bill makes it sound.
@@shipmodelguy YUP Bill makes it sound so awful,but fortunately it just ain't so and Bill is telling dangerous lies which will help fuel real fires when Trump wins.
I hold his lies to be self evidently stoner fantasy .
@@FergusWalsh-dz7mq I'm not quite sure which lies you are referring to. As far as I can tell, his description of the electoral process was accurate. And if we've learned one thing from a Trump presidency, it is that all the things we took for granted as not having to be explicitly explained or codified by law DO need to be in our constitution. There is a criminal in OUR White House and ironically, it is our constitution that has kept him out of jail-at least until January 21, 2021. It is a dream I have.
"People are saying, an alligator ate a box of ballots in Tallahassee" 🤣😅😂🤣😅
Canadian here, I hold this truth to be self-evident, "You guys are screwed."
Hahahahah you rock dude!
Every republican president has given a recession but this takes the cake 🎂
When will Americans learn ?
@@CyanCooper only about 35-45 percent though
Learn??
Of course covid had nothing to do
More like when will democrats learn? When they have the presidency, senate, house - put voting on Saturdays. Make it easy to vote. Put judges in when you are there.
@IAN WILSON Agree with your first sentence. I have spent most of this year trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Since January. Not a single issue this year makes any sense, unless you start tying it to conspiracy theories.
As Don Corleone said in, "The Godfather,"
"I don’t trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them."
Vito Corleone must have met, "President Benito Trumpolini."
I don't know if quoting a corrupt murderer is setting the example you want.
Don Trump Jr can say “My father made him an offer he couldn’t refuse “
Get back at trump! Buy a Trumpoline and jump up and down on his face
“You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.”
- Jon Stewart
May it be so again!
The vast majority of us are willing to tolerate bad over-auto tuned pop "music"
My son says America is a nation of children.
@Citizens, What is in your Heads? Zombie Sheep Your contribution is unintelligible
@Citizens, What is in your Heads? Zombie Sheep if personal abuse is all that you have, then you have nothing at all.
_"I feel like I've been tied up by a German dominatrix who doesn't understand my safe word..."_ 💋👍😂😂😂
Made my day...greetings from Germany ... still struggling with the pictures he evoked...
A lot of the Free World feel that way about watching the way trump is sending the USA down the golden toilet.
I had a flashback from the movie EuroTrip. That could help with the mental pictures...
*pow* Böser Junge, ich werde dich abkratzen lassen! *slap* Gefällt dir das?
Did you know that if someone dies completely from something different from covid-19 e.g a car accident, as long as the person was tested positive for covid-19, it would be marked as a covid-19 death?
Here is the video - ruclips.net/video/Mf4fFhUsCbc/видео.html
Terrifying! We moan a lot about our politicians here in the UK and Germany but ...gosh I am glad to live here.
Luck you.
Are you Sure? You're a Royal Subject However, Better than This Swamp Monster We''re dealing with Here.
Same in France. Nothing compares to trump.
He's really gone of the rails, for good.
In Europe he would either be behind bars by now, or/and in a mental institution.
The guy just isn't right in the head.
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The vast majority of Americans love Trump....including the military and the police...and the media, actors, and lazy people hate him. Seems like he has those who matter on his side. Wait till after this election and you will see just how right I am.
"We don't have presidential direct elections in America" Truth is, everybody in the world knows that, except a lot of Americans actually
Nah, a lot of Europeans are shocked when they find out more about how the US elections work, and they were already horrified enough by Bush v Gore!
That is by design. The USA is not a Democracy though ever leftist declares we are. By design we are NOT a democracy. Thank God.
@@TRUTHandLIGHT4809 yet we will be one way or another. its only a matter of time before the EC is swept away!
Sadly 🇨🇦
@@michaelminugh5357 Did you know that if someone dies completely from something different from covid-19 e.g a car accident, as long as the person was tested positive for covid-19, it would be marked as a covid-19 death?
Here is the video - ruclips.net/video/Mf4fFhUsCbc/видео.html
This studio audience needs to take it easy with the applauding.
Yeah, that was awkward
Seriously. Sometimes it was bad before but since he's returned to studio this time it's been constant. I don't know if it was the extra time off, the election, or who winds up in the audience because of restrictions but they're getting really awkward.
@@ScootyPuffSr7 It almost makes new rules unwatchable
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
Joseph Stalin
Hear, hear
So disgusting
Stalin? Really?
Mister006 does it matter? Really?
Now. Moscow Mitch
“Don’t forget that he’s still out there trying to steal an election!”
“This guy finds loopholes like bird sh*t finds my windshield!”
“So get ready for Trump to “Gus” the election!”
That looks about like what he’s going to do!
It's not just loopholes. We HAVE stuff written down that could be used but he is the head of the agency responsible for enforcing the laws and his AG is on his side.
MICHAEL COHEN WARNED US .Remember?
@neil u worse Russian troll attempt ever. Putin wants his money back POS
@neil u seriously, your 🤡 does that all by himself
@neil u drink your koolaid. 🥤
I wish him a long recovery and a crushing defeat. I hope that prison protects him from his creditors. May he live long and not prosper. This was the closest I could get to well-wishing.
....and may he be forced to pick up endless bars of soap in the prison showers for the rest of his miserable life.....
bill's foresight is incredible!
Ironic that America's most popular Atheist has become America's finest Prophet.
Popular atheist? Among who? Worn out old progressive thinkers? They were kicked out of Portugal by the Virgin Mary in 1917.
@@hdtvwatcher Just stop. You're totally clueless.
Or maybe its NOT ironic at all!
@@hdtvwatcher I'm pretty sure all of those people are dead now...
@@bryanmachin2152 Not if you believe in reincarnation and that time is fluid when you are only a soul.
I'm actually glad to wish Donnie good health...
So he can stand trial.
Or maybe sit trial. It would still be nice for it to suck a bit.
WHY⁉️
Keeping 45 barely alive, in physical pain, and on a ventilator on a permanent basis would be perfect
Adam Schiff: "HE WILL DO WHATEVER HE WANTS TO."
Did you know that if someone dies completely from something different from covid-19 e.g a car accident, as long as the person was tested positive for covid-19, it would be marked as a covid-19 death?
Here is the video - ruclips.net/video/Mf4fFhUsCbc/видео.html
@@somedude9038 /I take it you're there when one signs those Death Certificate?
@@somedude9038 /Thank you for your findings Doctor "G" Medical Examiner...HAHAHAHA!
@@somedude9038 / Thanks for your expertise input Dr. "G" Medical Examiner...
This stopped being funny a year ago...Trump and the Republicans are a national emergency disaster waiting to happen in four weeks 🙄
Waiting? Where have you been. They happened, man.
@Wally Kazam Nothing you say about Biden is true. They are right wing lies made out of desperation. Trump is the poster boy of corruption with his nepotism, emollument violations, tax fraud, and tampering with the election process. Trump is hopped up on drugs after recklessly catching and spreading covid. Biden is the stronger of the two. Trump has been a national embarrassment for 4 years. I could go on all day, but I'm guessing you are impermeable to facts.
If they steal the election nobody go to work shut the country down.
@Christine Mills WORST PRESIDENT WANT TO BE DICTATOR EVER!!!!
@Wally Kazam I hate to tell you this but Hillary was cleared 4 years ago, except in the deranged delusional mind of Trump & his "followers"! Go find another scapegoat for your fantasies!
Bless your Heart🙄❗
Making me have anxiety attack, thinking about the electoral college system.
Yeah, especially when you're a student at a liberal university and don't know of the electoral college or American History, for that matter.
Get used to it, it's been around for a long time
@@hdtvwatcher Or a maggot who thinks Trump is their messiah. Don't bother, you're too stupid to understand.
@@jameswayne2422 Insulting the people you need to win never works.
@@jameswayne2422 Not a messiah, just an instrument of God's peace......and His jokes.
Winston Churchill allegedly once said (and I quote from memory- that's where allegedly comes in) "The good thing thing about the Americans is that you can always rely on them to do the right thing- once they have tried everything else."
Could you guys hurry up a bit?
"people are saying," "some people say," "it's out there," "I'm not going to get into that now," " I will answer your question, but I want to address how we killed the world's most dangerous terrorist . . ."
Don’t forget “nobody knew” which really means, every source sound minded educated adult knew, and he just learned about it
Did you know that if someone dies completely from something different from covid-19 e.g a car accident, as long as the person was tested positive for covid-19, it would be marked as a covid-19 death?
Here is the video - ruclips.net/video/Mf4fFhUsCbc/видео.html
"People are saying" = I just pulled this outta my ass.
so basically Maher has a time machine & knows what's gonna happen in the future....
STEP by STEP accurate
cool
But Trump did try to rig the election, only he was thankfully much, much crapper at it than Maher assumed.
well here's a great reason the electoral college needs to go.
So we can have California and New York pick our President ....They got there act Together ask Bill about his Solar Panels
Trump keeps complaining about how we won't know the outcome on election night. Well, if the national popular vote winner won, we _would_ know the outcome on election night.
qiexia Except for the states that don’t start counting mail-in ballots UNTIL Election Night. That’s the “Red Mirage” scenario that David Pakman and others have been warning us about.
@@hushmoney2058 they are the states paying majority of federal taxes not like red states who get most of welfare money
Hush Money WOW, seriously, dude ??! Ronald Reagan won 49 of 50 states in 1984, _including_ NY and CA (all but Mondale’s home state of MN). Granted, Cali was Ronnie’s adopted home state, but that changes neither the statement nor the outcome.
It’s _amazing_ how you RePukeLicans are either too f’ing dumb to _know_ your own electoral history - or you simply choose to IGNORE it when it doesn’t fit your Corpo-Fascist agenda.
I voted for Mondale, and I loathed Reagan’s sham economic policy, but you know what ? I still respected the Electoral and popular votes - i.e., the will of the People.
Maybe going forward, try fielding a GOP candidate for POTUS who _isn’t_ a corrupt, lying, racist, Traitorous, mass-murdering Moron, and s/he might actually win both the Electoral and popular vote - whether it be by a landslide, or just a small margin.
No one was really laughing when Bill told about electors.
Obama Had o Problem with the electors ....
we really need to GET RID OF ELECTORS and HAVE EVERY VOTE COUNT!!!
What a *mess!* America should never again preach democracy, or anything else, to other countries!
What about the orange head of India
Such a weak shot
@Stacy Paul- Bachhuber Your President is not great. Your government is not great. Your media is awful. Your leading political figures are awful.
Your president and government has not been a threat to my (and many other's) immediate safety. The BS sprouting out of California has.
The world does not fear a Trump victory. The world fears a lawless, valueless and morally bankrupt superpower that will give the likes of Harris and Pelosi access to nuclear weapons.
The USA democracy is ranked #25 (aka *Flawed* Democracy). 'Nuff said.
Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
Also can’t preach honesty, morality, ethics, integrity, humanity, etc. etc.
Optimist. Trump doesn't even care if something is written down. To him, his word is the law.
And that's not dictatorish - no, not at all...
Good...Trump for Emperor 2020!!!
@@thesturminator2991 Argh. Honestly, I would love for Trump to lose the election and when he has to leave the White House, to be met by a crowd equipped with rotten tomatoes and foul eggs...
@Christine Mills Thank you for the sarcasm. :-)
If that was true he would have send troops into every democrat city where there was riots to put a stop to it. He wants to but the law is the Democrat governors have to ask for his help. That’s the law. That’s why he is not going in. He’s following the law. You can tell he want to go in, he’s said as much. But he can’t because it’s the law. So if what you say is true, that he thinks his word is the law, in this case you’re mistaken. Can you give an example of him disregarding the law?
I don’t like when Bill gives Trump Ideas LOL
Trump ignores the written rules. Never mind the self evident ones.
How much did it cost to taxpayers for 278 visits to golf course which Trump took since his inauguration ?
141 millions!
Kim Vinly Rose tinted glasses on when Obama was on the golf course?
@@ade531001gmail do you have numbers?
What would you do for a break from work? Play with yourself?
Saoirse Cushing Handicap: 13 | Rounds played: 333 | Per year Average: 42
Sheila G - the doofus doesn’t work, he is ranting and whining, watching Fox tv, and tweeting at all hours of the day. He has no idea what being president is about. He thinks it means he can steal as much as he wants and he is above the law.
Love you Bill
Unfortunately, this "Gus" will also be happy to move the goal posts as well.
Do you mean like Biden wants to pack the Supreme Court with more justices to over the fixed limit of nine?
^^bot. Don’t engage it
@@nathanwhute856 Unless you're a beautiful woman!
@@hdtvwatcher It was fixed at 8 for a whole year. We'll fix it at 11 for a whole year, then we'll promise to stop with a promise as good as McConnell's.
@@hdtvwatcher well changing the rules is something we democrats picked up from Mitch McConnell.
Take sides only with the country named America. Damn right.
There is no country with the name America only a continent.
@@RmcBlueSky I know, there are two: "North America", "South America"
She* (edit: she not he) was referring to the country named "America", as in "The United States of America" lol
Hassan Beydoun
Marie Sia above is a she.
@@JC_inc Ah thank you forgot the "S" 😅 whoops
love you, Bill. Never give up, never surrender.
Good one Bill!
There's no such thing as an "off" election year. Those "off year" state legislators may appoint the next president.
Thanks Bill now I have sufficient material for nightmares and daytime anxiety for the duration
Get rid of the Electoral College!!! They have messed with your elections long enough!
@Epstein Passengers Vote Democrat Most red states are in far worse shape than most blue states financially speaking.
That's just too depressing for me to absorb before bedtime. It's going to be a long, sleepless night...again.
Keep on speaking man! Keep in Speaking...👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
"GUS Alert"
I have to remember that one.
I know a few around here.
The terrifying fact that even if Trump looses, country still has to deal with the 40% of people supporting him....
"This guy finds loopholes like bird shit finds my windshield."😆
After Bush I thought there's no way power can be abused this much. I'm not so worried about Trump, I'm worried about the sick precedent this sets going forward.
Unfortunately, this scenario sounds all too plausible.
It's not plausible, it's inevitable.
All of a sudden now that the Democrats lose their power they want to change the rules. Children.....
@@whytheface777 Considering that Trump and his cult have dumped all the previous conventions on the way things were done what have you've go nothing to complain about.
@@urbanimage what has he done? Name it....russian collusion? One big nothing burger....quid pro quo, one big witch hunt....all the Democrats have done for the people the last 4 years is waste their hard earned taxes on fake cases and useless investigations. Don't have any plans to help serve the people of the united states, only care about black people every 4 years when it's election time (how convenient), don't care about their safety as democratic cities are burned to the ground under the guise of "social justice".
Only plan Biden has is face masks and increase taxes. People are tired of all the crap Democrats have done over the years. No wonder they voted for trump because he might be rough around the edges but he has accomplished more in 47 MONTHS than Biden has in 47 YEARS. That's why people are fed up..,.trump is exactly what America deserves after having politicians slowly destroy the country with their nice words and virtue signaling. American politics created trump..... congratulations
@@whytheface777 I was referring to Trump's contempt for long-established norms in the appointment of judges to the US Supreme Court. Your rant has nothing to do with the point I was making.
VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!
vote blue like the country depends on it, it does....
Glad you did this segment, Bill! In fact this "Gus' thinking is the way ALL narcissists operate. It's true whether one is a malignant narcissist or a covert one. True whether the narcissist is male or female. These are exactly the kind of completely amoral, empathy-impaired (or non-existent) maneuverings they all do to obtain their armor-plating from facing any repercussions or taking any responsibility whatsoever for the consequences of their actions. It's how they so easily gaslight victims, how they tie up courts with moronic frivolous lawsuits, and generally terrorize their coworkers, spouses, (and frequently children). Very Gus-like maneuvers all-around. Amoral Trump simply follows the amoral slidings of the amoral narcissistic set that surrounds him. And they all echo each others' sleazy maneuvers in their echo chamber and congratulate each other on their "wins" ( 'cause winning means everything) so all the departure from the self-evident norms and logic you talk about, Bill, seems 'normalized' to them. Standard M.O., and I tried to tell people back in the summer of 2016: it's not only that DJT's politics is on the other side, it's that he's bat-shit crazy.
Thanks Bill .......
You just scared the living shit out of me
"we're a democracy... sort of" - That's America for you
Let us get out and VOTE for BIDEN/HARRIS in GREAT NUMBERS so there is NO
QUESTION as to who is the clear WINNER! We have a chance to save our
DEMOCRACY! Let's DO IT!
willow881000 this fees like a MAGA comment lol. also if you really think democracy is on the line you better do more than vote to save it
@@GayTier1Operator I'm an elderly person who's on lockdown, so i guess i am just a lonely voice in the wilderness. You suggest, i shut up and take everything Trump does with gratitude and adulation?
You think creepy joe and snaky kamala actually care about democracy? Dig deeper. Dont vote 2020
willow881000 what the hell are you talking about? i’m saying you have to do MORE than vote (ie take arms) if you truly want to defend democracy. maybe you should put your readers on so you can read more closely
Thank you for your advice, m s, but take arms? HONESTLY???!!!!
YES VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!!
Is it true that UK healthcare system is better than USA?
Where does USA ranks for healthcare system ?
YES!
Yes it is true.
The NHS is merely ok, but everyone has access so it is automatically better. Having the world's best doctors doesn't do anything if you can't afford to go
You Guy Pay Way More Taxes that's why we got the hell out of there ...
I won’t lie, I knew the House handles tied or disputed elections, but I always thought that it worked like a normal vote. Whoever got the majority of votes out of the 435 reps won. I didn’t realize the one vote, one state thing until I actually looked it up. That is incredibly disturbing for multiple reasons.
"Tied up by a german dominatrix who doesn't understand my safeword", that just made my day Bill!
I fear for your country. We can see democracy slipping away and all because of one turd. 🇨🇦
I thought he was talking about Gus from Breaking Bad.
Clean the chicken fryers right! 😁
I thought he was talking about Gus from Cinderella.
I'd rather live under Gus Fring's rule.
@@LividImp sadly Walter the noob ruined it all. "i Am tHe dAnGeR"
One of the best new rules ever. Blessings to you.
As a native Floridian. I'd to apologize to America in advance. Bill is joking..but he's not joking. We hold Gus's favorite stooges in power here 😥😥
It is written down. It's in every state's Constitution as to how electors are appointed. The party that wins the state, appoints the electors.
Also lets not forget the Supreme Court ruling enforcing the states to award the electors by whoever wins the state's popular vote thus eliminating the faithless electors. Now I know it also states that it is up to the states to make an elector to stay with the winner of the popular vote in each state but it does help calm this type of event from happening.
If any of the states electors go against the popular vote then the USA will be finished as a credible reliable nation ..... under God or otherwise.... that’s what’s at stake here ....
You as usual have a very valid point..
We,he is going to have another look at him running his campaign this Saturday at the White House . Worst Prez , ever ..
Electoral College official 1: “Well, the results are in, Biden got 70% of the vote and trump got 30%. It’s a Biden win.”
EC Official 2: “Well, this is a Republican led state...”
EC Official 1: “I almost forgot!!! Of course it’s a win for trump.”
Happy to see Bill back in studio!!!
Bill, why do you keep giving him ideas!
People were cheering and laughing but I sure wasn't because this sure looks and feels like the end of this democratic republic to me.
you know that democrats talked about doing this first, right?
@@4kix89 Jesus H. Christ, whataboutism... Again ?
1-They didn't, matter of fact, can't do it because most of those key swing states, as mentioned by Bill have repub legislatures, so that's factually impossible.
Even if they could, that's like saying : "I stabbed my wife but why should I be punished while my neighbor planned to do it first." Better not try that defense in court. It still doesn't make it OK.
I still watch Gus. Still have my original VHS copy sitting awkwardly on my DVD shelf.
Saw it coming a mile away... let the hunger gamed begin, sponsored by Gina
Matvei I ...And Putin/Russia !!
Don’t worry, the decent and reasonable republicans would never go along with that. I crack myself up.
1 of your best in too long a time! 🙏! Spread it far and wide!
FYI Bill: most people know "Gus" as Airbud.
"There's nothing in the rule book that says a dog can't play basketball"
I am officially sick of the audience clapping after every sentence
@@podshoh22 I'm a huge Maher fan and I've stopped watching most of Real Time because of this issue.
You got it right again Bill.
Excessive agreement applause is becoming a scourge. It's where Real Time and a Trump rally intersect.
The electoral system must be reformed. A referendum is in order to eliminate the delegates and allow the people's (popular) vote to be cast directly. Democracy is the people's will and it's not achieved through intermediaries.
We are not a democracy we are a republic
@@ScotchTapeMafia Then why we criticize other republics simply because they are supposedly non democratic?
Bill can really belt it out. When he's good he's great !
If it's President Gus Johnson, we'll have the best four years ever.
Do Americans use their taxes for wars and bailouts, instead of helping each other ?
Over 60% of our taxes go to social programs. Source cbo.gov please don’t mix that we spend more on military than any other country with that’s what we spend most of our money.
I know, Bush and Obama were guilty of that, using our taxes for endless wars and bailing out the big banks. Thank God for the populist Trump!
@Anthony Egidio yep, the budget is obtainable and what goes back to the people is a small fraction.
Yes.
Absolutely. The dominant cultural value mistakenly teaches them that they all are, and should be Independent - especially from each other....Everyone and everything is, of course, in Reality, interdependent.
I remember GUS.
I saw it as a kid.
I have been trying to forget it for years.
Gee thanks for reminding me Bill.
LOL
Unpopular opinion: This whole electoral college thing smells a lot like oligarchy. I there a democratic process to get rid of it?
I really wish the people in the "audience" would stop clapping at every little thing. It's distracting and just makes me want to watch something else.
oh
I liked it when Bill did his "New Rules", while working remotely.
It's annoying having the audience interrupt him, to clap, after every other sentence.
When he was doing the show remote, that cadence was spot on.
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:
"A few things spring to mind.
Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.
I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God... what... have... I... created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
"* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are."
As an American, I'm perplexed by this statement. I always thought the British were nicer than us or at least we were on near equal levels. XD
"After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss."
Ya'll are seeing that abyss too? Oh thank God... I thought i was losing my mind.
As a side note, I'm so sorry my countrymen and women have failed the world in our choice of leadership. It's truly depressing stuff...
Nightmare scenario is this theocratic abyss of ignorance the White Christian right is taking US to.
Bill: cough - don’t - cough -.... I think he might got the COVID
Yeah I’m worried
I love you, Mr. Maher. You make me laugh harder than anyone.....even a smidge more than Stephen Colbert, who is excellent.
Loved the NBC, ABC, THC joke. Spot on. And Senator Harris not looking at Pence's fly. As the Brits say, Brilliant!!!
Living in a small Catalan town during the pandemic, I've become a youtubing news junkie and your show helps me survive this election with humor and very engaging political analysis. Thank you for staying on during the pandemic. We really really need you. You were also spot on, years ago, worried about Trump's exit strategy, or lack, thereof. I love politics....it's like a human chess game. And for a while, now, Trump's antics have seemed more and more obvious, easier to figure out. Or even predict.
So, I want to share with you, two 'obvious' thoughts that have come to mind recently......if anyone were to ask them.
1. If the President is in such debt, couldn't he be already paying some of it off? How much would a reporter be worth to the Saudi's? US troops to Putin? And that's just for starters...(has he been reducing his debt all along??)
2. If the Corona Covid 19 virus is such a killer - random but often lethal - and it's very contagious, has anyone considered the 'criminality' of blatently spreading it? Like the President does. Now deciding to mass-infect us, even if we don't know it. I remember hearing about people being charged with assault when they spit on others, while claiming they had AIDS.
and here's an extra thought/question...
3. Watching the Barrett interview in the Senate, anyone ever ask why she always always always answered in legalese BS? Except once, to Senator Graham, where she gave a sweet:YES; to one of his questions. I wonder what all her kids thought, listening to all the discussions against her or in fear of what she'll do. And, hats off to our new hero, Senator. (how ironic) WhiteHouse!!!!!
Bill please give that applause sign a rest.
Bill thinks that Gus is going to catch on like Karen. I think not.
Bill had a couple of weeks off with huge news while he was gone. I think it’s time to hire some new writers.
Seriously, the clapping is annoying!
As annoying as tRump's base at his ego stroking rallies?