College education , in my opinion has nothing to do with it. I am not college educated. I understand the difference between facts and unproven or even disproven conspiracy. Trying to avoid being condescending, however I believe it comes down to rational thinking. Also being able to be critical in your examination of your views, beliefs and actions. Having true empathy and reflection. Problem solving, and skepticism. Basically intelligence.
I thought America was too smart to put a weak feeble incompetent gaffe machine who was incapable of campaigning due to his mental decline in the WH. Now we see the end result. How did Americans get it so wrong??!
Mr. Maher may not remember this, but I remember that back in the early 90's he said basically that political correctness would be our downfall. He was right.
I actually believe in Climate Change. In other words, it's ok to have Climate Deniers try to kill ALL us because ONLY Politically Correct people agree with me?
Our downfall will be the Republican Party’s plans for the next republican president. Bill is out of his mind. The answer to political correctness isn’t fascist dictatorship but that is the truth about what is already planned out.
No. Colleges have always been highly political places and have had massive influence on the political makeup (and sometimes religious makeup) of a country, If you think otherwise you're terribly ignorant of history.
@@big_slurp4603as a former Republican I’m over the constant culture wars . Trump had his chance and I voted for him in 2016. His main issue was building the wall which I do support and his didn’t even come close to constructing any of it. I know for you and other Trump cultists the main reason people will vote for him is going to be revenge and the ultimate trolling but it’s counter productive . I need more from a president than just “sticking it to democrats” . This needs to end once and for all
@@big_slurp4603 yes but you are equally selective (and ignorant) in seeing how such politicization presently has become far more intolerant, polarized and ideologized.
All of Canada relates to your mom. Because we all said the same thing, pretty much ever since I was born. In school, we were taught a lot about WORLD History and WORLD Geography. And, then, our teachers would usually follow it up with a comparison to how the US system teaches the same thing, which is JUST American History and JUST American Geography. Is it no wonder that the average American can barely point out any Country, on the map, that isn't a major Country (ie Russia, America, South America, China). Most Americans, as much as they say they support Ukraine, couldn't point it out on a map. Just ask any random stranger... I challenge any American to do this simple experiment, and realize how centralized the American mind set is. I always joked that Americans think they are at the center of the Universe...
@@DefextOfficial maybe thats the case in some parts of the US but we were taught world history in school where I'm from. Unfortunately, a lot of my country does teach history their own way. For example, in the south they teach the civil war very differently than how it actually happened. They also don't acknowledge MLK day, they name it after racist confederate military officials. Not kidding.
@@DefextOfficial super ironic post considering Canada’s Pm is a racist predator…and Canada would have have been taken over decades ago if it wasn’t for the US being it’s neighbor
The far right supports free speech, even for those who don't have the IQ to put together cancel culture and communism.. we just tend to hurt your feelings with facts. The left is fucking all Americans even though their intent is a good intent, the methods are fucking whacked
@@karenpowell6063trump 2024, the young generation will speak again. We want to be able to buy houses, and have careers, and live in a prosperous America. People like you who are so one sided and unopen to saving our traditional American values. People like you want more government intervention, less rights, and a more expensive world with less jobs to live in. Why are you the way you are???
@@karenpowell6063everyone is tired of the Democratic Party irresponsibility spending their hard earned money…. Trump will win…. The young people of America are waking up and it’s scaring tf out of the liberal elite.
I agree. Nobody wants to walk on egg shells and have their past thrown back at them years later. We need to be able to have conversations instead of cancelling people.
Well, when the "pro-democracy" side took Russian advice and kicked up cancel culture and censorship we didn't really leave the side questioning democracies' freedoms much of a choice. They've concluded that there really isn't any different between democracy and autocracy thanks to everyone who advocated for cancel culture and censorship.
@@tacktful The left embraced absolute Gnosticism whereby they genuinely believe anyone who doesn't believe as they do is simply an idiot. This leads them to being incapable of compromise, empathy, and understanding. Since the dems have become an unassailable wall of cancel culture and censorship the vantage point of the republican has changed to seeing nothing but autocracy and wondering why shouldn't they be the ones in charge of this autocracy they see. SO, they have no sight of democracy, believe we live in an autocracy anyway meaning that fascist methods are justified in their eyes.
@@Ryanowning You need to broaden your horizons. This “cancel culture” that people like you keep swearing about is the reaction to the behavior by the people you keep oppressing. Oh, but I’m not racist, I don’t oppress!” Says all the people that allow the worst racists to continue. Where you been, chum? Open your mind and really try to look through someone else’s eyes. Look at the way the worst on the Right treat others. They talk about embracing freedom, as long as you do what they say, believe what they say to believe and act almost like they act… of course you can’t oppress others like they can oppress you. Yeah, some freedom. You need to stop listening to the extreme Right propaganda.
@FUSTER CLUCK: yer digging yer own grave. Stop before you aren't able to climb out. Trump isn't a savior, he loves only himself, you're just a pawn in his game.
@Joe Costa: "Indeed I tremble for my country when reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!" -Thomas Jefferson
The Republicans don't want to govern and legislate, because they want to rule and dictate. They don't want the USA to be a constitutional republic anymore, because they want it to be theirs.
Telling people what they want to hear, want to believe is always going to be far more popular than telling people what they need to hear, need to understand. And sadly for most politicians politics is about being popular not honest.
This is because the voters do not want to hear what they need to hear, need to understand. In the end the voter is the final responsible for what government or lunatic you get in the white house.
Honesty; a universal truth, has never been an attribute of that a politician choosing to operate from but instead mastered the art of the "Lie" deceiving many.! Omitting the truth is a classic maneuver many of those have adopted defining ones character with intent ro evade the Truth.....bares the question of how we got Here in the first place???
thanks for voting for the Illegals, I had to call the cops and medics because someone was overdosing on Fentanyl in my california front apartment complex
Did Trump win last time? I don't know. But I do know, voting is very corrupt, he might have won. Even worse: Even if Trump won, about half the country voted Democrat, voted for Senile Grandpa.
And me as well. And frankly, it doesn't really matter. Humans will begin to die of en masse in another 1and 1/2 decades or so. We keep forgetting about the climate problem that's about to make our political problems look juvenile.
@@pupsiuspupuliukas2394 Bill used to be funny because theere was really nothing going on; now he makes jokes that really make one wonder how long the US will stay together and civil
It's going to take two more election cycles('24 and '26) to separate the sheep's from the goats. By then we'll either see just how crazy we've been the last few years, or we'll slide into chaos.
I grew up in the 50s and even at a young age I could see how bad it was, the prejudice was every where, the harsh treatment of kids and minorities the fear of the other.Young women having to go on "vacation" if they got pregnant what would our neighbors think? What would the church think? I remember going to see my grandma in Alabama and seeing the whites only signs . I was playing at a community pool and benched because I was running so I just left and was walking home and woman at the pool chased me down in her car and said "we don't like your kind here" and I am white The problem today is the same people are still here and want to dismantle all the progress made in the last 70 years and if allowed to win it will be another 70 years until we get back to this place We must vote This wh
They are not gonna get better. It’s the great unraveling, the retreat to the root. There’s a destructive paranoia in the American DNA and it’s coming home to roost. Without a common enemy like the USSR, there’s no rallying point to bring everyone together. It’s over
We need to demand all white racist nazi republicans be arrested for treason and election denial, white nazis are everywhere and they are slowing showing themselves, its up to us to eliminate them, we as democrats must defend this nation from whites who don't tow the party line and whites who don't vote democrat
Agreed, we've seen the goals of the democrats coming into fruition over the last two years that they've had power. Destroying America, breaking the economy, sowing division, racism, collapsing supply chains, inflation, world War 3 and corrupting children. Maybe that's why they're going to lose the midterms.
Unless we adopt William Kingdon Clifford's definition of evil: "It is is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone to believe anything on insufficient evidence." Evil always begins by denying facts. You don't have to wait for evil to manifest its consequences before you recognize evil. Just look for denial of facts and evidence and science, and the belief in pretend deities.
"If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness." Carl Sagan
Agreed, we need to return to teaching "Civics". I didn't think much when it disappeared from our school curriculums but it needs to come back. Kids need to learn about Government and elections so they know how they work. They will be less likely to believe the lies. Each school should have field trips that include local and state government meetings. A presentation by County and State Election Officers at every high school to demonstrate the effort placed to make elections honest. In Plato's Republic, police and teachers are the highest paid professions. They also require the most education and the greatest demands in honesty. Get the politicians out of our schools and police forces. Teachers know how to teach our kids, most of them have Master's degrees and are trained in child development. We force them to teach to "the test". We are hurting our kids profoundly. Around 20 years ago China had 700,000 students in schools all over the world. We had about 70,000 and Mexico about 65,000. Who's playing the "Long" game here? China pays for the education of its kids, has raised 300 million chinese out of poverty. They will be the number one superpower. They will also have to liberalize. Having a significant educated citizenry leads to democracy. Democracy and Socialism are very compatible. Look at Europe. We bought onto the "Globalism" because corporate america said we could send al the low paying manufacturing jobs out of the country and we would retain the higher paying service jobs. Academics was onboard and the liberals (normally Protectionist) reluctantly consented. In truth Globalism would have worked except corporate america saw an opportunity to make even greater profits. The manufacturing and high tech plants moved to asia, the intellectual property was given to the Chinese, it was not stolen. This normally would be a clever move, since technology changes so quickly. But the corporations left our kids out. They made a college education unaffordable and simply imported technical people from asia and india. Corporate America got the best of both worlds, all they had to do is buy out politicians. China is not cheating, they are simply beating us at our own game. This is our game!
"The day I am afraid to sit down with people I do not know because five years from now, someone will say five of those people were communist and therefore I am a communist, that will be a sad day" - Eleanor roosevelt
Yeah, because war is ugly and when people actually start to get exposed to it they change their minds about supporting it. So, the politicians lie. It's wrong.
"It's going to be very interesting" doesn't come close to describing what it's going to be. It's probably going to get violent and then we'll see how much Americans care about each other and plain decency and humanity.
Well yea it is a massive understatement. Looking at it from outside the US you can see the trajectory the US is on. It won't be pretty. It is not question if there will be violence but when it starts. The US democracy is dying as it is not reformable and after the mid terms there will be a ton of people in positions of power who don't believe in it anyway. The US will become a mix between a quasi autocracy and a kleptocracy with religious undertones. The violence will come when the majority realizes that. If a surprise happens and there isn't a GOP takeover in the mid terms then the violence probably will start even sooner as now the far right will start the violence even sooner.
There's no "probably" about it! If Trump runs and loses the 2024 election, you can guarantee there will be violence. Republicans don't have decency or humanity. All they want is to install Trump as dictator, no matter what the consequences.
The biggest problem with canceling stuff is.. it makes them speak louder and gives them a reason to speak. Even if its wrong.. good ideas can come from a bad idea. A lot of creative thoughts shut down by aggressively canceling them.. Its exactly like back in history when they cancled science and thoughts that wasnt popular, where deemed witch craft and such.. education is key and even thats being manipulated due to punishing hard questions that conflict with their own.. we ask questions like how did we get so technically advanced so fast.. same way we are getting dumb again and slowly going to stone ages again, Out the blue and without reason
Not out of the blue, nothing new under the sun, what was before will be again. Witchcraft is a good term. Did you see the super bowl show? Then you ask how and why? It's called Satan's world and to run the world you need to be satanic. What's happening is prophetic go read the gospel of John and read to revelations and she's what Jesus actually said, and what his followers actually did, and what Jesus said will come for the final generation. Remember the Jesus of the Bible is not the same as that pagan image they bow down to, nor beads to rub and saints to worship. Mind blowing, but thankfully a just and holy God exist. Nothing will go unoticed. Wicked leaders for a wicked generation. Openly worshiping Satan and look how fast it changed. From Obama to Biden. Even crazier the endless dreams I had during obama of Chinese and Russian invasion. Mass immagration of crowds of illegals going house to house raping and killing everyone after a EMP attack. To insane earthquakes, civil unrest, military police lines, crowds of people with American flag mask on. Mind blowing to me how it's all unfolding. God is real and those dreams scare me to death, yet gives me hope because the one who comes with fire in his eyes to judge the world is also merciful. God wishes noone perish. But we become gods ourselves. How foolish.
@@EASTENCUEVA Exactly. Maher wants me to like/ understand people who want call me demon or lazy or snowflake...just bs. I treat them well on an individual basis, but I'm not letting them cheat and shyt just to get along.
It's called AUTHORITARIANISM- JESUS WAS AGAINST IT IN ALL FORMS!!! ONLY GOD IS THE SUPREME RULER!!! JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS FOR OUR SINS SO WE MAY ALL BE FREE TO LIVE OUT LOUD!!! 🙏 THANKS BE TO GOD, PRAISE THE LORD OUR SAVOR FOR HIS SAVING GRACE, JESUS CHRIST!!!
Are you a vaccine denier? I ask because this is exactly what a vaccine denier would say. I mean you may be right, and I take the argument seriously. It’s just hard to take the people making this argument seriously when so many only making it so that they can share race realism on their Facebook pages.
he is dead wrong Dems will do great why 2 reasons 1. youth vote very very strong expect 40% up from 20% a few yrs ago. 2. dems out big time in early vote.
So talk to Republicans. Stop not talking to them. I genuinely don't see how anyone would conclude any fate but this would happen by failing at basic communication. Oh, and remember that Conservatism, just as Maher says, is just a personality trait. Or, in other words, they're just people. Relax and talk to them, earnestly try to figure why they're in a panic. Try to find compromise.
@@fja4301 Sure hope so. I think its a toss up at this point. Not sure if enough of you truly understand the gravity of the situation you're in. Watching in Canada, knowing whatever comes your way will eventually get to us.
@@fja4301 if Democrats lose 5 seats in congress its over , 1 in senate ,Americans will vote to reduce inflation and REPUBLICANS will Impeach Biden , Investigate Hunter and let Inflation PLAY ITSELF OUT .
Maher seems unaware that cancel culture was an invented talking point originating in the Republican Party to make criticism of wrongdoing unacceptable by putting dangerous propaganda in the same basket as an offensive or uncomfortable comment
Cancel culture would not work if you cancel the cancellers. If corporations cancel someone for fear of boycotts, then boycott them for cancelling. The key is to hit people in the wallet. The absurdity of this trend would then become clear, and people would be in a lot less debt. Hell, it would probably stop inflation too.
@@li2us because before Trump was elected,fatso predicted he would be the last US President. How many chances do you get when you’re wrong the first time?
When you watch both left AND right wing news, arguments, debates, talking points, you realize which side argues with logic and which argues with emotional guidance. You don't have to agree with everything someone from your side thinks. But their is definitely one side that allows and encourages more calm and open conversations.
95% of what the left do/believe would have never been a problem if censorship never came into play. Without censorship virtually nothing that comes from the left would ever be considered rational. Most would be outright condemned. It's honestly an interesting phenomenon, Social websites that harbor free speech almost always become substantially right-wing. They even had to lobotomize an AI because before it had any restrictions on speech or social input, it was becoming extremely right-wing
@@willkillem737 thats just what liberals who are incapable of being self aware tell themselves because they refuse to admit they could possibly be wrong on anything. It most certainly is not two wings of the same bird, conservatism has just been ignored for decades and the vapid shits that inhabit the left gaslight themselves and others into believing the right is just as bad or worse. It's not. figure it out
I'm not understanding why people feel the need to be provocative and offensive. You can say what you want, but if you are saying it to make someone mad, you have to be prepared for what comes with someone's anger. If we get back to a place where we respect each other, life won't be perfect, but we will have much more strength in unity.
The left will find a way to be offended no matter what. Sort of like Maher said about conservatives. Its a personality thing and liberals carry the victim mentality.
@@ChrisRJ Trump is the adult senior citizen who is still whining everywhere he goes. Every single phone interview or rally or wedding, Funerals, Conference calls etc; Trump is crying about getting fired from the Whitehouse. Or whining about him being under federal investigations. You know that the right has a huge "I'm being mistreated" attitude". When Hillary Clinton lost she conceded and accepted her lost. She didn't invite the democrats to go to the Capitol building to "stop Trump from winning". Nor did she lose over 6 dozen court cases begging the judge, Governors, election officials & state reps. That's what the right wing voters & leaders have done.
What ails this country, and the world is too much debt, too much corruption, too much materialism, too many lies, too much propaganda, too much delusion, too much stupidity, too much evil, and absolutely no solutions put forth which are capable of saving us from the course we chose decades ago. We are hurtling towards an abyss and there is no way of voting ourselves out of it. The uniparty agrees on 90% of the issues and pass trillions in spending bills while jointly supporting never ending wars and unaccountable central bankers who print fiat to infinity. Political parties have failed the people, and rooting for our team is still used to keep us divided and unaware of how badly we have been screwed over by these politician puppets doing the bidding of the globalist billionaire cabal who really run the show. This all set the stage for Biden’s Satanic Verses speech. The Trojan Horse president didn’t write that hateful war declaration against half the country. He didn’t choose the location of Independence Hall. He didn’t ask for the blood-red and dark palette as his background. He didn’t station marines in the background as a symbol of war. He didn’t remember what he read off the teleprompter the next day. Biden’s diabolically dark, hateful speech, with satanic blood-red background, on the sacred ground where our Founding Fathers declared our independence from a tyrannical despot, appears to be the spark which will ignite real violence in the coming years.
@Chris Johnson say the righties whining and crying incessantly on social media. No bigger whiners than Republicans. No bigger victims mentality people than you guys. Always blaming liberals from what you are constantly doing. You're pathetic and beyond hypocrites.
His point was half the voters, voted for Trump. And he's basically correct. And every week for months he'd say Trump wouldn't concede the White Hose, and his guests laughed and thought that was nuts.
He was referencing our two party system, which he detests. That whoosh, whoosh, whoosh you hear overhead is not a helicopter. It is another dozen conversations going over your head.
We must never again have a President that started NO NEW wars, took on international finance and the forces of open borders Globalisation and pushback against China.
@@sedg03 Trump and Biden are 2 sides of the same coin. They are personalities that represent the moneyed ruling class in this country. Neither of them sat at their computer coming up with new policy. They just look into the camera and say what they’re told. Who’s really important in the U.S.? Fossil fuel, Banks, Blackrock, Pharma, TicTok...That’s our real masters.
People are tired of walking on egg shells in this country... now imagine going a century walking on the egg shells of Jim Crow as a Black person in the South. This isn't a "now it's your turn" comment, it's a "do you understand why Black Americans have said enough is enough."
While Jan 6th was truly a blemish on or country, embellishing untruths about it only made it worse. People were not armed, thank God although dems repeat that narrative whenever they get a chance.
Why is it asinine? It is a fact that people were armed on January 6th when they attacked the Capitol. They had flag poles, fire extinguishers, bear gas spray and a few had guns. Armed does not mean only having guns. Armed means having weapons of any sorts
Our country began the downward spiral when progressives convinced the world to create palatable titles for irresponsible choices. Excessive drinking and drug use are not illnesses. Now, even the worst life decisions expect titular justification.
Everyone I know that's moderate or liberal in my friends and family circle are college educated and with high religious values including empathy and grace for all of mankind.
@@patwilson2219 Right leaning and left leaning moderates are tolerable of everyone’s rights. Both sides assign the most extreme views to “the other side”. All of my Republican and disillusioned liberal friends that switched to the anti establishment candidate Trump, is for abortion with some reasonable limits, and expanded gun background checks.
@@padmusic387 Sorry Buddy, am not sure you're paying attention. No one starts a Nuclear war, because they will not see the end of it. Not many are suicidal! Maybe genocidal but not "nationally suicidal"!
We need to demand all white racist nazi republicans be arrested for treason and election denial, white nazis are everywhere and they are slowing showing themselves, its up to us to eliminate them, we as democrats must defend this nation from whites who don't tow the party line and whites who don't vote democrat
how is it the end of democracy ? you're a fool - Hillary did the same thing did she not? lets worry about the real problems like homelessness, drugs, open borders (which is the problem that's going to be our biggest for years to come), inflation, no energy, bills, schools, I could go on all day
Yes! I can't understand why anyone wants to have a kid today. That kid is going to be born angry and it's only going to get worse. Just adopt a dog instead!
@@liberalsinmyscope9751 your reply is the problem, wow if you actually realized how sad your comment is you might have a chance to be a better person instead of a feminine higene insert tool
Everytime I think of America I feel so depressed at what it has become. And the fact that, what happens in America normally follows to other countries, leaves me scared for my own country (we very quickly had our own version of Trump). Scary times when one party can - with mainstream public support - simply refuse to accept the results of elections. There's no easy or clear way out of that.
It's like he said on real time those smart enough to heed the warning are already planning to vote , and those who are not are not paying attention anyway
@@joyphillips1821 no these elections are not about trump you are correct but if gop gets control they will bring trump back and his next coup will NOT fail and then your rights and freedoms will go up in smoke
@it's Dale Dems riot and cause billions in damages to privately owned businesses and property they also are exporting oil from our strategic petroleum reserves to China while we are in a fuel crisis
that's so true about searching through your yearbook to see if you wore a sombrero in the past, that's how ridiculous the cancel culture problem has gotten. Bill is 100% right here.
Seriously! Who does this? And if you wore a sombrero back then what are the consequences? Are you gonna be arrested by the cancel police? Why don´t people just grow a pair of balls or ovaries or whatever for fuck´s sake! There are no laws against sombreros yet and if someone came up to me and told me not to wear a sombrero in the future I would laugh hysterically at this person...
My only senior quote in my yearbook is "Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?" (From the movie Airplane) and lordy lordy I won't be able to step foot outside my house again if this info is made public!!!
It’s total bullshit.. someone took a picture of me, a white man, in line at a taco truck.. guess I shoulda ate at the Irish pub where I belong, being Irish and all. This world is ass up accepting darts reluctantly..
Calm. Down. Chicken Littles. No one is interested in your yearbook photos because you’re not famous. You’re like an office manager or a bank teller, etc somewhere. No one is interested in you at all.
If this was really the case, I'd be in big trouble. As my daughter puts it, I have no filter. Even my parents would make comments about me being honest to a fault, honest to a friken fault. I think cancel culture is nothing new. I've seen many people over the years boycotting companies, shows, products and walking away from people who are offensive. I myself, many years ago had to warn a neighbor that if he said the N word in front of me again that I would no longer be speaking to him. Those are boundaries. I also refuse to listen to anything a known liar says. If their word means nothing to them, it certainly doesn't mean a thing to me.
@@randyswanson6912 No, I think he was a Republican as was I until trump came along. That was a hard no for me. My neighbor was a Vietnam vet. Rough around the edges with a heart of Gold. He passed away a number of years ago on Memorial day. We were dear friends for around 11 years. I miss my "big brother".
1:22 that‘s literally not true. I tried to talk with Trump supporters about racism and those social issues. Trust me, they know the history and the facts, but most of them don‘t care, because it does not affect them on a personal level 😂
Love the way the guy interviewing Maher sums up the "other side" as "uneducated. Nice, no way the "educated" could think that way. THAT is a guy who doesn't get the depth of the problem--at all.
They are absolutely either UNAWARE or simply NOT CONCERNED that they are snobbish elitists who turn their Leftist noses up at “those people on the other side”.
@@lizzieb6311 It's hardly snobbish when people CHOOSE to be blind and CHOOSE NOT to educate THEMSELVES. You don't need a Harvard degree to actually read!!
@@eb1042 To be clear… the mindset of The Left is that they are superior… in spite of the freaking MESS they have made of The USA they still believe their ideology is far and above superior to any who DARE to have opposing points of view. They’re disgusting and snide and they do nothing to conceal those traits.
I've believed the "personality trait" theory for a long time, but the problem is when that personality trait leads them to thinking its OK to just get rid of democracy you're pretty much forced to treat them as enemies.
I always remember my philosophy teacher, explaining that in democracy, there's always boundaries to what is tolerated. If everything is tolerated, then there's no legal protection of rights and it's not democracy. In modern democracy, legal branch is supposed to be separated. In Usa, it's not the case, and since a few years it's very clear how it can be abused...
Those are not contrary, they operate on different levels. One is about civility, and one is about thought control Cancellation is about punishing and/or suppressing the expression of the wrong opinions, not about uncivil behavior. In Bill's example, saying that white lives matter too could get somebody canceled, no matter how civil and politely or even kindly that politically unacceptable opinion was stated. Thus the need to walk on eggshells in regard to the opinions and views people express (and to keep up with what's punishable today) Rudeness and vicious interpersonal behavior are not a "cancelable" offenses in themselves. In fact, those doing the cancelling (like trying to get somebody fired for an opinion shared on facebook) can be quite vicious and rude and self-righteous. People do not need to walk on eggshells regarding being polite; nastiness is perhaps even becoming more common. OK: nastiness so long as it doesn't involve wrongthink Bad: wrongthink, no matter how polite and thoughtful So there is no conflict between cultural trends towards viciousness and towards cancellation, they even can and do often go hand in hand.
@@zephsmith3499 "White Lives matter" is a dog whistle statement that diminishes the struggles of others. "White Power" in it's simplest form is not a terrible phrase. But it embodies the ideas of terrible people. Not every terrorist group is (honest) enough to just say "Death to America". Even though most of these groups want the same things.
@@zephsmith3499 The problem is that “white lives matter” has been said and used in bad faith so many times that it’s hard for people to take it as a serious statement and not be offended. It’s on its way to becoming the “white power” of the 2020s
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Look at what is happening in the U.K. and Europe. The far right is gaining momentum. In Italy someone from Mussolini's family tree just gained power. They voted for a Mussolini!! So, you need to look inward as well. Look at yourselves in the mirror. The U.S. is not the only democracy in trouble.
as you Europeans literally are giving your continent away. if you're canadian or australian, i'm laughing at you b/c Canada wouldn't be Canada without the United States, and Australia is one of our closest allies.
I've stepped away from friends who had never shown that level of rabidity in other areas of their life (that I know of) & our friendship. It was a double take, a WTF? Patti & Paula, I miss you. Did I ever really know you?
If you weren't such a fair weather friend? Maybe you'd hold them even closer to you. Maybe that flaw is in your thinking, not their's;) If it came down to you dismissing them as not valuable? Or as disposable because their conclusions differed from yours? Moght that not lead one to see that the fla lies in you? "It's me, it's i..." try that on.
@@ja9890 you lose your best friends - on pupose? Geesh. My.mommn fad were polar opposites politically and they simpky respected that the other was... opposite. And there was peace.... Try it on.
The detail Maher is missing here is that a hand has always been out to Trxmp voters. The hatred from that side has been so stirred up and turbocharged by rhetoric that they don't even know it's there. We can talk all we want about unity but I've never heard the right ever once appeal to that idea without taking shots at whoever they want to leave behind.
Yes! Thank you! It's all about the rhetoric. Since the post-WWII era, the GOP has used rhetoric to appeal to whatever their base was at the time. The McCarthy era was bad, but it's nowhere near as dire as what we see today. All political ads have become attack ads, regardless of the party involved. It's all stimulus/response with no consideration for the residual effects.
I'm going to disagree. I can forgive anyone who voted for Trump once. If there's anyone who is still supporting this garbage with all the cards on the table, everything shown since 2016 and Jan 6? We're talking about lost causes of people here. They might as well be a different species.
The Left is so misguided. Everyone knows that if they are disagreed with - you are a racist or bigot or a Nazi - but they have a short memory and tendency to pretend it never happened. Such hypocrites!
So you don't think that people shouldn't have the right to feel anger towards the party promoting sexuality and gender dysmorphia upon highly influential minds in elementary school?
"It's just a personality trait". Absolutely. The very thing that lead to our success as a species is the very thing that'll destroy us - neural diversity.
If we actually lived in a country of laws we would not have to worry about trump showing up on inauguration day in 24 he should be in jail way before then !
THEY HAD PLENTY ON HIM FOR AT LEAST A YEAR. NOT TO MENTION HE'S ADMITTED TO TAKE TOP SECRET FILES & IS STILL ABLE TO WALK FREE. IF ALL INVOLVED HAD BENN HELD ACCOUNTABLE, WE WOULDN'T BE IN THIS MESS.
and if this were a fair and unbiased country, hillary, bill, obama, fauci, biden, schumer, pelosi would be in there already. but until you realize that trump is not the problem. biden is. have you paid attention to the cost of things lately. that is all biden not trump. do you know that our country is about to run out of diesel fuel, this country and its supply chain live on diesel fuel. that is all biden. but you will not believe that because the biased news will never tell you about it.
Ive been watching Bill since his show in the 90s. He has said repeatedly over the years, all the way up to now, that he is a Democrat. Not a libertarian, not an independent, a Democrat. In the 90s he was considered a far left Democrat. Today, he is considered a center-left Democrat, because our political landscape has changed while he has remained the same.
@@michaelcorazzini6869 Nonsense. The DOJ is totally independent from the January 6th committee and has been (half-heartedly) investigating the insurrection for months.
Exactly...Just history repeating itself and those who aren't paying attention because they are too busy on IG and FB will suffer the most. Tuesday will be the end of this country as we knew it. I always put my faith in the Lord when it comes to my protection and wellbeing.
@@MH-vw9ni Stop praying and start doing. People have been praying to stop mass shootings for over 20 years and nothing happened. Take action and stop relying on something else!
For many years I have heard people criticize me because I have German ancestry. The comparisons of Fascism and Nazism are thrown out liberally at me. All this even though I live in Canada. The troubling aspect of it has always been well how could your people (meaning Germans) allow that to happen? I mentioned in 2016 that it could be easier than one would envision. If 45 was elected, America would be on that downward slide and should never ask the question ever again. As much as it pains me, I agree with Bill Maher. It is terrifying to think of what is going to happen over the next 3 to 5 years in the United States. I fear democracy there will be gone. Most troubling is that half of the population will stand up cheering waving the Stars and Stripes as it happens. The reality is there are more uneducated and uninformed people in the USA than any of us ever could have imagined. The experiment of self governing democracy will die. Individuals that will come out of the woodwork and comment negatively on this, I thank you in advance for proving my point. None of you are worthy of an individual response from me. Instead I dismiss you for the fools that you are for doing mental gymnastics in a bid to accept lies. But I leave you with one thought. What did 45 actually do for you. I'll help you out with the answer. Nothing
The other problems you have is the dirty money in you political system. At least impose a maximum donation and make the party reveals their financial contributors.
rich coming from someone who isnt even american....the better question is what is biden doing for us, not you, but americans and honestly he is fucking things up much much worse than trump ever did.
GOD Works in Mysterious Ways. Overthrow of our Gov't was set up after 9.11 to be a long slow federal op w its own illegal army and w drug technology from illegal Gitmo. Army- Dept of Homeland Security. Because wash dc is sinking already- w climate change? Its going to sink... New Govt home was supposed to be salt lake city w mormons as new world power and religion. Funny? The lake started evaporating, leaving behibd chemicals in salt form, which blew on the wind into the air, poisoning it so badly the mormons were forced to move and regroup. Now they've devised a new beehive theory they, as a religious Might, take over the surrounding states - like say...ohh.. Colorado. And thus relocation of govt? Is now to Colorado. Brush creek ranch in Saratoga Wyoming is still the hot suburb for congress n politicos after they accomlish the coup and overthrow our country. Like arredondo n uvalde? Bribe after tge fact. Thats why cheney2 is spittin mad st trump, and her personal vendetta against him through her commitee ;) *WMD = 50 million *Ranch in Saratoga = 500 billion (rents now start at 10K/nite) *POWER accrued in providing safe harbor to Congress, w protection from D of Homeland Sec, after congress betrays America w treason = PRICELESS. 1. #DEZNAT 2. Mormon constitutional sheriffs. Read up on them, its a cult that Ginny n Clarence found it profitable to work with ;)
Yes, we must never again have a President that didn't start new wars, take on international finance and the forces of open borders Globalisation and pushback against China.
I agree. I would, however, like to see community college become available as an option for all young Americans. The additional two years of "book learning" can make a difference for those who might not have read some of the ideas written centuries ago. Since we seem to be letting civics classes slip to the wayside in K-12, having a basic American Government course and now a course on Critical Thinking Skills in a Freshman college course might help us become better citizens, especially if they are taught without a political bias.
"You can hate Trump. You just can't hate all the people who voted for him." My closest family members voted for Trump. A very close and trusted friend of mine believes everything Alex Jones says. Yet on a personal level I find my fiend and family members more trustworthy and honest than many people whose political view are closer to my own.
@@tomford1080 People still laugh at Alex Jones, but what you said is 100% true and the United States is trying to silence Alex Jones and cancel him, and people think he has a billion dollars.
Valid point but I have an extremely hard time ignoring a friend or relative's betrayl of the values we grew up with. At 69, I believe that my peers have been around long enough to recognize right from wrong and a pos when they see and hear one. Sadly the reality is very different.
Again - *YOU are the one insulting... and mocking.. and disrespecting... You know? Mmm theres this recent new thing. i think it was called # something. You might try it on for sizing? Taylor swift? "It's me, it's i...".... ;)
Just make sure that all ballot counts are done out in open forums for the masses to watch with a dem rep and a GOP rep verifying each batch of ballots check out before going through a first and second ballot counting machine.
thanks for voting for the Illegals, I had to call the cops and medics because someone was overdosing on Fentanyl in my california front apartment complex
The main stream Media has a lot to do with the problems this country faces. Why is it that they never report on what Biden and his cohorts are doing to destroy our Democracy/Republic/Constitution.
There's the either/or dichotomy that is so dangerous. It's not "either twitter or fox". The world is far more nuanced that a simple binary yes/no, either/or
Depends on which part of Fox News. Tucker Carlson? Absolutely. The rest of it? Not so much. Fox News at least covers the war in Ukraine on the side of the Ukrainians.
I take offense to the “rural, uneducated” label. I have a Masters Degree & I live in the country. My entire area, both rural & urban, share very strong views that we need to a strong change from what’s happened the last 4 years.
Nobody is saying that it's news. It's obviously opinion. Your comment is irrelevant. That being said, Fareed Zakaria, a prominant and well known journalist, interviewing Bill Maher, a prominant and well known comedian and political commentator is significant in the fact that they probably know much more about this situation than you do. So, opinion not withstanding, I will listen to them before I will listen to you.
Except when SCOTUS told him, he lost, unlike t.Rump, Gore accepted that he lost. When SCOTUS refused to hear their “the election was stolen” lawsuit filed by t.Rump, he had a temper tantrum, “i appointed gorsich, barrett and kavanaugh. THEY OWE MEEE!!!!” And t.Rump has very publicly been having a two-year long temper tantrum, degrading Pence for doing what he had no choice in doing and calling himself a “schmuck” when a candidate he endorses, loses.
Did he just say it’s going to be interesting?No sir,it’s going to be more and more scary and there’s only one lesson all Americans people can learn from this:It’s not about us,it’s about our children,the younger generation watching the wrong direction where America is heading to.
I have said this for years now, if you make education a "rich" people only thing, you create a very volatile atmosphere, I expect they will see a blow up within a few years. I do not think they have enough time to turn it round, much like we dont have time to turn around the Environment issue that tipping point was passed a few decades ago.
Yeah back in the 80s, the chicken littles were running around talking about the planet Cooling and we couldn't grow any crops and we are all going to die. They just keep changing the names of this thing, global cooling global warming, climate change, extreme weather events. It's a planet spinning in space. It does what it does, and you're not going to change it by passing a law.
College education , in my opinion has nothing to do with it. I am not college educated. I understand the difference between facts and unproven or even disproven conspiracy. Trying to avoid being condescending, however I believe it comes down to rational thinking. Also being able to be critical in your examination of your views, beliefs and actions. Having true empathy and reflection. Problem solving, and skepticism. Basically intelligence.
Experience is education, too. Not all education is formal. A lot of it comes from what you want to learn.
Where did Covid come from?
What is a woman?
Why cover up the hunter Biden laptop calling it Russian disinformation when it wasn’t?
Totally agree
Yes and about half the people in this country are of below average intelligence...Hello Trump base.
Me either but at 61 , I understand that Republicans for my entire life , VOTE AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA .
I too thought it could “never happen here”. “Americans are too smart to believe in outlandish lies and conspiracy junk.”….I was SO wrong!
The dumbing down of the American education system has been going on since the 70’s…most likely prior.
I thought America was too smart to put a weak feeble incompetent gaffe machine who was incapable of campaigning due to his mental decline in the WH.
Now we see the end result. How did Americans get it so wrong??!
We bought LBJ’s Gulf of Tonkin, Bush’s WMD’s wholesale.
Yeah, so many believe the CNN woke lies
Smart?
Mr. Maher may not remember this, but I remember that back in the early 90's he said basically that political correctness would be our downfall. He was right.
DT in '24 though virtually anybody could do a better job than JB has done; except Kamala of course '-)
I actually believe in Climate Change. In other words, it's ok to have Climate Deniers try to kill ALL us because ONLY Politically Correct people agree with me?
And yet, he still did his part in putting the people who did this in power.
Our downfall will be the Republican Party’s plans for the next republican president. Bill is out of his mind. The answer to political correctness isn’t fascist dictatorship but that is the truth about what is already planned out.
No it isn't it.s your white breed ignorance...
College education was once about issues and critical thinking...
No. Colleges have always been highly political places and have had massive influence on the political makeup (and sometimes religious makeup) of a country, If you think otherwise you're terribly ignorant of history.
@@big_slurp4603as a former Republican I’m over the constant culture wars . Trump had his chance and I voted for him in 2016. His main issue was building the wall which I do support and his didn’t even come close to constructing any of it. I know for you and other Trump cultists the main reason people will vote for him is going to be revenge and the ultimate trolling but it’s counter productive . I need more from a president than just “sticking it to democrats” . This needs to end once and for all
@@big_slurp4603 yes but you are equally selective (and ignorant) in seeing how such politicization presently has become far more intolerant, polarized and ideologized.
Read Ted Cruz's book "Unwoke". It is a great read. Also, "Mao's America".
@@big_slurp4603 not the college I went to
My mom used to tell all her friends and family that Americans are stupid. I used to always said she was wrong but now I realizes she was so right.
All of Canada relates to your mom. Because we all said the same thing, pretty much ever since I was born. In school, we were taught a lot about WORLD History and WORLD Geography. And, then, our teachers would usually follow it up with a comparison to how the US system teaches the same thing, which is JUST American History and JUST American Geography. Is it no wonder that the average American can barely point out any Country, on the map, that isn't a major Country (ie Russia, America, South America, China). Most Americans, as much as they say they support Ukraine, couldn't point it out on a map. Just ask any random stranger... I challenge any American to do this simple experiment, and realize how centralized the American mind set is. I always joked that Americans think they are at the center of the Universe...
@@DefextOfficial maybe thats the case in some parts of the US but we were taught world history in school where I'm from. Unfortunately, a lot of my country does teach history their own way. For example, in the south they teach the civil war very differently than how it actually happened. They also don't acknowledge MLK day, they name it after racist confederate military officials. Not kidding.
How are we stupid but those saying we stupid live in poverty and never stand up for their rights ?
@@DefextOfficial super ironic post considering Canada’s Pm is a racist predator…and Canada would have have been taken over decades ago if it wasn’t for the US being it’s neighbor
your mom and I laugh at you while sharing a cigarette.
OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR FEELINGS
The far right supports free speech, even for those who don't have the IQ to put together cancel culture and communism.. we just tend to hurt your feelings with facts. The left is fucking all Americans even though their intent is a good intent, the methods are fucking whacked
We are constantly hearing MAGA whine about their FEELINGS.. lol your talking points haven't aged too well 😊
@@karenpowell6063trump 2024, the young generation will speak again. We want to be able to buy houses, and have careers, and live in a prosperous America. People like you who are so one sided and unopen to saving our traditional American values. People like you want more government intervention, less rights, and a more expensive world with less jobs to live in. Why are you the way you are???
@@karenpowell6063everyone is tired of the Democratic Party irresponsibility spending their hard earned money…. Trump will win…. The young people of America are waking up and it’s scaring tf out of the liberal elite.
Your middle of the road voters, your seniors and younger voters will decide. who wins . I'm voting Blue
I agree. Nobody wants to walk on egg shells and have their past thrown back at them years later. We need to be able to have conversations instead of cancelling people.
Cancelling 😅😅😅
@@JohnnyPerth yes cancelling
@@jackscalibur lol, maybe the answer is to be a decent human
@@JohnnyPerth and the answer is NOT to be a cancel warrior
@@jackscalibur who cares if people are responsible for what they say ?
Who's here, Nov 6, 2024? 😂❤😂😅 Let's go!!!
We are sorting ourselves into a side that supports democracy and a side that does not.
Well, when the "pro-democracy" side took Russian advice and kicked up cancel culture and censorship we didn't really leave the side questioning democracies' freedoms much of a choice. They've concluded that there really isn't any different between democracy and autocracy thanks to everyone who advocated for cancel culture and censorship.
@@Ryanowning 'no choice'. Hmm...
@@tacktful The left embraced absolute Gnosticism whereby they genuinely believe anyone who doesn't believe as they do is simply an idiot. This leads them to being incapable of compromise, empathy, and understanding.
Since the dems have become an unassailable wall of cancel culture and censorship the vantage point of the republican has changed to seeing nothing but autocracy and wondering why shouldn't they be the ones in charge of this autocracy they see. SO, they have no sight of democracy, believe we live in an autocracy anyway meaning that fascist methods are justified in their eyes.
@@Ryanowning How is it when the right bans books and bans free speech in the classroom, that isn't cancel culture?
@@Ryanowning You need to broaden your horizons. This “cancel culture” that people like you keep swearing about is the reaction to the behavior by the people you keep oppressing.
Oh, but I’m not racist, I don’t oppress!” Says all the people that allow the worst racists to continue.
Where you been, chum? Open your mind and really try to look through someone else’s eyes. Look at the way the worst on the Right treat others. They talk about embracing freedom, as long as you do what they say, believe what they say to believe and act almost like they act… of course you can’t oppress others like they can oppress you. Yeah, some freedom.
You need to stop listening to the extreme Right propaganda.
life is a learning experience the problem is some people never learn
Thats right keep voting for the same life-long politicians who keep you struggling year after year.
Agreed, some people keep voting blue to matter who.
Sad state of affairs.
@FUSTER CLUCK: yer digging yer own grave. Stop before you aren't able to climb out.
Trump isn't a savior, he loves only himself, you're just a pawn in his game.
@Joe Costa:
"Indeed I tremble for my country when reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!"
-Thomas Jefferson
The Republicans don't want to govern and legislate, because they want to rule and dictate. They don't want the USA to be a constitutional republic anymore, because they want it to be theirs.
Telling people what they want to hear, want to believe is always going to be far more popular than telling people what they need to hear, need to understand. And sadly for most politicians politics is about being popular not honest.
This is because the voters do not want to hear what they need to hear, need to understand. In the end the voter is the final responsible for what government or lunatic you get in the white house.
Honesty; a universal truth, has never been an attribute of that a politician choosing to operate from but instead mastered the art of the "Lie" deceiving many.! Omitting the truth is a classic maneuver many of those have adopted defining ones character with intent ro evade the Truth.....bares the question of how we got Here in the first place???
Well said
@@mattboland5221 gat comment
Sorry great comment
guess you were fucking wrong bill! 😹
Any student of history clearly sees where all this is going. Sadly a lot of Americans prefer to keep their blinders on.
thanks for voting for the Illegals, I had to call the cops and medics because someone was overdosing on Fentanyl in my california front apartment complex
And the blinders that dems wear has cost them the House the Senate and POTUS.
Did Trump win last time? I don't know. But I do know, voting is very corrupt, he might have won. Even worse: Even if Trump won, about half the country voted Democrat, voted for Senile Grandpa.
@@TimBitts649 Voting is very corrupt, why? Where did you get that information, from some keyboard warrior on the internet?
And me as well. And frankly, it doesn't really matter. Humans will begin to die of en masse in another 1and 1/2 decades or so. We keep forgetting about the climate problem that's about to make our political problems look juvenile.
Seems to me Goerge Carlin knew this was going to happen.
Yeah. I was hoping he was joking but it looks like he wasn't. Wonder what world my kids will grow up in.
@@pupsiuspupuliukas2394 Bill used to be funny because theere was really nothing going on; now he makes jokes that really make one wonder how long the US will stay together and civil
@@pupsiuspupuliukas2394 move to the UK or any other country in Europe your kids will be fine and well educated
Absolutely, Carlin saw this coming two decades ago, in my opinion he was one of the smartest Americans who ever lived funny as hell too
And Frank Zappa....
This is beginning to feel a lot like 1950's America and McCarthyism. Things are going to get worse before they get better.
It's going to take two more election cycles('24 and '26) to separate the sheep's from the goats. By then we'll either see just how crazy we've been the last few years, or we'll slide into chaos.
I grew up in the 50s and even at a young age I could see how bad it was, the prejudice was every where, the harsh treatment of kids and minorities the fear of the other.Young women having to go on "vacation" if they got pregnant what would our neighbors think? What would the church think?
I remember going to see my grandma in Alabama and seeing the whites only signs .
I was playing at a community pool and benched because I was running so I just left and was walking home and woman at the pool chased me down in her car and said "we don't like your kind here" and I am white The problem today is the same people are still here and want to dismantle all the progress made in the last 70 years and if allowed to win it will be another 70 years until we get back to this place
We must vote
This wh
They are not gonna get better. It’s the great unraveling, the retreat to the root. There’s a destructive paranoia in the American DNA and it’s coming home to roost. Without a common enemy like the USSR, there’s no rallying point to bring everyone together. It’s over
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Well since the economy did very well in the 1950s and communism was a dirty word, we can only hope.
Wow, I wasn't aware there aren't any Republicans in urban areas and no Democrats in rural areas. Thanks for the education!
He never said that.
I, for one, am terrified about the midterms as the foundations of our Democracy are at stake.
We need to demand all white racist nazi republicans be arrested for treason and election denial, white nazis are everywhere and they are slowing showing themselves, its up to us to eliminate them, we as democrats must defend this nation from whites who don't tow the party line and whites who don't vote democrat
Yeah stay frightened liberal - thats all you are good at, fear mongering and believing the BS CNN feeds you.
I agree
Get out and vote.
Have you voted yet?
Evil rarely looks evil until it accomplishes its goal
I see the evil in Joe biden
Agreed, we've seen the goals of the democrats coming into fruition over the last two years that they've had power.
Destroying America, breaking the economy, sowing division, racism, collapsing supply chains, inflation, world War 3 and corrupting children.
Maybe that's why they're going to lose the midterms.
Unless we adopt William Kingdon Clifford's definition of evil: "It is is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone to believe anything on insufficient evidence." Evil always begins by denying facts. You don't have to wait for evil to manifest its consequences before you recognize evil. Just look for denial of facts and evidence and science, and the belief in pretend deities.
This is so true, but how do you keep the hate out of your heart in order not to become part of it?
@@georgemiller6765 vote red
I've been watching Bill Maher for years and still can't figure out who's side he's on.
The reality side clearly you haven’t been paying close attention enough to say such thing.
The side of the truth.
And the truth is complex and relative.
It does not belong exclusively to either “side”
He's Dem, but not "woke".
Ya, I think I'm over it, he's still selling 'his schtick' !
@@meghan42 he claims to be libritarian
This aged well!🤣🤣
People just actively look for things to be offended about today.. Very very strange times we're living in..
"If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness." Carl Sagan
I questioned authority once, nobody was behind me.
Everytime you question authority people get nervous.
Agreed, we need to return to teaching "Civics". I didn't think much when it disappeared from our school curriculums but it needs to come back. Kids need to learn about Government and elections so they know how they work. They will be less likely to believe the lies. Each school should have field trips that include local and state government meetings. A presentation by County and State Election Officers at every high school to demonstrate the effort placed to make elections honest.
In Plato's Republic, police and teachers are the highest paid professions. They also require the most education and the greatest demands in honesty. Get the politicians out of our schools and police forces. Teachers know how to teach our kids, most of them have Master's degrees and are trained in child development. We force them to teach to "the test". We are hurting our kids profoundly.
Around 20 years ago China had 700,000 students in schools all over the world. We had about 70,000 and Mexico about 65,000. Who's playing the "Long" game here? China pays for the education of its kids, has raised 300 million chinese out of poverty. They will be the number one superpower. They will also have to liberalize. Having a significant educated citizenry leads to democracy. Democracy and Socialism are very compatible. Look at Europe.
We bought onto the "Globalism" because corporate america said we could send al the low paying manufacturing jobs out of the country and we would retain the higher paying service jobs. Academics was onboard and the liberals (normally Protectionist) reluctantly consented. In truth Globalism would have worked except corporate america saw an opportunity to make even greater profits. The manufacturing and high tech plants moved to asia, the intellectual property was given to the Chinese, it was not stolen. This normally would be a clever move, since technology changes so quickly. But the corporations left our kids out. They made a college education unaffordable and simply imported technical people from asia and india. Corporate America got the best of both worlds, all they had to do is buy out politicians.
China is not cheating, they are simply beating us at our own game. This is our game!
@@OFOTCN
Come dude, out with it. If you were questioning the Globe, well no wonder.
Sure worked for Bernie
"The day I am afraid to sit down with people I do not know because five years from now, someone will say five of those people were communist and therefore I am a communist, that will be a sad day" - Eleanor roosevelt
Or , as in todays environment, not a communist.
@@sharahernandez1 Jan 6th was the closet thing to something real communists would want than to anything the Democrats have ever done
If the shoe fits, walk in it.
Spoken like a true commie
Not college education so much as college indoctrination.
"The First casualty of War is Truth"....
Absolutely
At night it is colder than outside
Ummmm no. It's facts. Truth usually lives on.
Yeah, because war is ugly and when people actually start to get exposed to it they change their minds about supporting it. So, the politicians lie. It's wrong.
@@richbrake9910Not when it keeps getting shifted and rewritten.
"It's going to be very interesting" doesn't come close to describing what it's going to be. It's probably going to get violent and then we'll see how much Americans care about each other and plain decency and humanity.
I only have to read a history book to understand what it's going to look like
If the R's win, who do you think will be rioting? BLM & antifa. They even dress like Trump supporters like John Sullivan, do you know who he is?
Yes let’s see what the fake Christians aka profetus plan to do when some important races don’t go their way on Tuesday.
Well yea it is a massive understatement. Looking at it from outside the US you can see the trajectory the US is on. It won't be pretty. It is not question if there will be violence but when it starts. The US democracy is dying as it is not reformable and after the mid terms there will be a ton of people in positions of power who don't believe in it anyway. The US will become a mix between a quasi autocracy and a kleptocracy with religious undertones. The violence will come when the majority realizes that. If a surprise happens and there isn't a GOP takeover in the mid terms then the violence probably will start even sooner as now the far right will start the violence even sooner.
There's no "probably" about it! If Trump runs and loses the 2024 election, you can guarantee there will be violence.
Republicans don't have decency or humanity. All they want is to install Trump as dictator, no matter what the consequences.
The biggest problem with canceling stuff is.. it makes them speak louder and gives them a reason to speak. Even if its wrong.. good ideas can come from a bad idea. A lot of creative thoughts shut down by aggressively canceling them..
Its exactly like back in history when they cancled science and thoughts that wasnt popular, where deemed witch craft and such.. education is key and even thats being manipulated due to punishing hard questions that conflict with their own.. we ask questions like how did we get so technically advanced so fast.. same way we are getting dumb again and slowly going to stone ages again, Out the blue and without reason
Not out of the blue, nothing new under the sun, what was before will be again.
Witchcraft is a good term. Did you see the super bowl show? Then you ask how and why? It's called Satan's world and to run the world you need to be satanic. What's happening is prophetic go read the gospel of John and read to revelations and she's what Jesus actually said, and what his followers actually did, and what Jesus said will come for the final generation. Remember the Jesus of the Bible is not the same as that pagan image they bow down to, nor beads to rub and saints to worship. Mind blowing, but thankfully a just and holy God exist. Nothing will go unoticed. Wicked leaders for a wicked generation. Openly worshiping Satan and look how fast it changed. From Obama to Biden. Even crazier the endless dreams I had during obama of Chinese and Russian invasion. Mass immagration of crowds of illegals going house to house raping and killing everyone after a EMP attack. To insane earthquakes, civil unrest, military police lines, crowds of people with American flag mask on. Mind blowing to me how it's all unfolding. God is real and those dreams scare me to death, yet gives me hope because the one who comes with fire in his eyes to judge the world is also merciful. God wishes noone perish. But we become gods ourselves. How foolish.
if people who were "cancelled" are now being heard from louder then they never were cancelled and the whole idea of cancel culture is a joke.
@@EASTENCUEVA Exactly. Maher wants me to like/ understand people who want call me demon or lazy or snowflake...just bs. I treat them well on an individual basis, but I'm not letting them cheat and shyt just to get along.
It's called AUTHORITARIANISM- JESUS WAS AGAINST IT IN ALL FORMS!!! ONLY GOD IS THE SUPREME RULER!!! JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS FOR OUR SINS SO WE MAY ALL BE FREE TO LIVE OUT LOUD!!! 🙏 THANKS BE TO GOD, PRAISE THE LORD OUR SAVOR FOR HIS SAVING GRACE, JESUS CHRIST!!!
Are you a vaccine denier? I ask because this is exactly what a vaccine denier would say. I mean you may be right, and I take the argument seriously. It’s just hard to take the people making this argument seriously when so many only making it so that they can share race realism on their Facebook pages.
Maher's prediction makes me sick to my stomach because of how plausible it is.
No need for a coup. Biden destroyed the democrat party. Nobody will vote for democrats in 2024. Trump broke democrats.
he is dead wrong Dems will do great why 2 reasons 1. youth vote very very strong expect 40% up from 20% a few yrs ago. 2. dems out big time in early vote.
So talk to Republicans. Stop not talking to them. I genuinely don't see how anyone would conclude any fate but this would happen by failing at basic communication.
Oh, and remember that Conservatism, just as Maher says, is just a personality trait. Or, in other words, they're just people. Relax and talk to them, earnestly try to figure why they're in a panic. Try to find compromise.
@@fja4301 Sure hope so. I think its a toss up at this point. Not sure if enough of you truly understand the gravity of the situation you're in. Watching in Canada, knowing whatever comes your way will eventually get to us.
@@fja4301 if Democrats lose 5 seats in congress its over , 1 in senate ,Americans will vote to reduce inflation and REPUBLICANS will Impeach Biden , Investigate Hunter and let Inflation PLAY ITSELF OUT .
The problem with cancel culture is people pick and choose what they want to cancel. Then complain when they are being looked at.
Hypocrisy and politics go hand in hand.
Maher seems unaware that cancel culture was an invented talking point originating in the Republican Party to make criticism of wrongdoing unacceptable by putting dangerous propaganda in the same basket as an offensive or uncomfortable comment
Cancel culture would not work if you cancel the cancellers. If corporations cancel someone for fear of boycotts, then boycott them for cancelling. The key is to hit people in the wallet. The absurdity of this trend would then become clear, and people would be in a lot less debt. Hell, it would probably stop inflation too.
I recall that before Trump was elected Michael Moore said Trump if elected he would be the last president of the US - he might yet be right.
Uh, no, he’s been proven wrong.
Joe Biden is the current POTUS stupid
@@timx9661 And you base that on what?
Jabba the Hut believes in climate change so there's that. Who even listens to that blob?
@@li2us because before Trump was elected,fatso predicted he would be the last US President. How many chances do you get when you’re wrong the first time?
When you watch both left AND right wing news, arguments, debates, talking points, you realize which side argues with logic and which argues with emotional guidance. You don't have to agree with everything someone from your side thinks. But their is definitely one side that allows and encourages more calm and open conversations.
95% of what the left do/believe would have never been a problem if censorship never came into play. Without censorship virtually nothing that comes from the left would ever be considered rational. Most would be outright condemned. It's honestly an interesting phenomenon, Social websites that harbor free speech almost always become substantially right-wing. They even had to lobotomize an AI because before it had any restrictions on speech or social input, it was becoming extremely right-wing
You can say the conservatives are the logical ones it’s okay
YUP!!!! AND,, GUESS WHICH SIDE THAT'S IS????? I'LL GIVE YOU JUST TWO GUESSES!!!!
Two wings of the same bird
@@willkillem737 thats just what liberals who are incapable of being self aware tell themselves because they refuse to admit they could possibly be wrong on anything. It most certainly is not two wings of the same bird, conservatism has just been ignored for decades and the vapid shits that inhabit the left gaslight themselves and others into believing the right is just as bad or worse. It's not. figure it out
"99 % of Twitter employees voted Democratic. " -- How do we know that??
It's probably a white lie.
They are all democrats. You are a fool if you don't know that
We don’t.
Because that's what Twitter found out.
@@justicearibiegbe1 And you know this HOW?
This didn’t age well
"Democracy is the belief that the people know what
they want and deserve to get it good and hard" ... H. L. Mencken
John Holmes said the same thing. And boy was he wrong.
I'm not understanding why people feel the need to be provocative and offensive. You can say what you want, but if you are saying it to make someone mad, you have to be prepared for what comes with someone's anger. If we get back to a place where we respect each other, life won't be perfect, but we will have much more strength in unity.
The left will find a way to be offended no matter what. Sort of like Maher said about conservatives. Its a personality thing and liberals carry the victim mentality.
@@ChrisRJ Trump is the adult senior citizen who is still whining everywhere he goes. Every single phone interview or rally or wedding, Funerals, Conference calls etc; Trump is crying about getting fired from the Whitehouse. Or whining about him being under federal investigations. You know that the right has a huge "I'm being mistreated" attitude". When Hillary Clinton lost she conceded and accepted her lost. She didn't invite the democrats to go to the Capitol building to "stop Trump from winning". Nor did she lose over 6 dozen court cases begging the judge, Governors, election officials & state reps. That's what the right wing voters & leaders have done.
What ails this country, and the world is too much debt, too much corruption, too much materialism, too many lies, too much propaganda, too much
delusion, too much stupidity, too much evil, and absolutely no solutions put forth which are capable of saving us from the course we chose decades
ago.
We are hurtling towards an abyss and there is no way of voting ourselves out of it. The uniparty agrees on 90% of the issues and pass trillions in
spending bills while jointly supporting never ending wars and unaccountable central bankers who print fiat to infinity. Political parties have failed the
people, and rooting for our team is still used to keep us divided and unaware of how badly we have been screwed over by these politician puppets
doing the bidding of the globalist billionaire cabal who really run the show.
This all set the stage for Biden’s Satanic Verses speech. The Trojan Horse president didn’t write that hateful war declaration against half the country.
He didn’t choose the location of Independence Hall. He didn’t ask for the blood-red and dark palette as his background. He didn’t station marines
in the background as a symbol of war. He didn’t remember what he read off the teleprompter the next day. Biden’s diabolically dark, hateful speech, with satanic blood-red background, on the sacred ground where our Founding Fathers declared our
independence from a tyrannical despot, appears to be the spark which will ignite real violence in the coming years.
@Chris Johnson say the righties whining and crying incessantly on social media. No bigger whiners than Republicans. No bigger victims mentality people than you guys. Always blaming liberals from what you are constantly doing. You're pathetic and beyond hypocrites.
@@ChrisRJ lmao no one plays the victim more than the Right, you only have to go back through history to see this
Bill Maher factually incorrect as usual. Half the country voted for Trump would imply 100% of the country voted. It’s more like a a third
His point was half the voters, voted for Trump. And he's basically correct. And every week for months he'd say Trump wouldn't concede the White Hose, and his guests laughed and thought that was nuts.
That's right.
These clowns always ignore the non voting Americans
Statistically 30% is representative of 100%. Polling are done on few thousands and they are very accurate.
You're reaching. Clearly he was referring to voters.
He was referencing our two party system, which he detests. That whoosh, whoosh, whoosh you hear overhead is not a helicopter. It is another dozen conversations going over your head.
Thousands of people with arms on Jan 6th?? Could a bigger lie be told??
Watch it on TV. Like millons of Americans did. NO LIE,..
@@r.a.contreras174 not with guns though.
Dozens of people with arms? Seriously?
Yeah, that was an eye roll moment.
@@bluejeanmermaid5879 He said thousands of people with arms.
More like millions of people with arms
F yea the war is coming soon! get ready
That was good propaganda he is paid for
my problem is that so many people think Tonald Dromph is qualified for anything beyond choosing lobby windows.
Now think with what you said, what he will do when he's illegally re-elected.
Maybe your insulting him w a mockery over his name?
Shows the world *you are the one w a problem ?
We must never again have a President that started NO NEW wars, took on international finance and the forces of open borders Globalisation and pushback against China.
@@sedg03 Trump and Biden are 2 sides of the same coin. They are personalities that represent the moneyed ruling class in this country. Neither of them sat at their computer coming up with new policy. They just look into the camera and say what they’re told. Who’s really important in the U.S.? Fossil fuel, Banks, Blackrock, Pharma, TicTok...That’s our real masters.
@@cmortenson3647 prety much agree... :(
People are tired of walking on egg shells in this country... now imagine going a century walking on the egg shells of Jim Crow as a Black person in the South. This isn't a "now it's your turn" comment, it's a "do you understand why Black Americans have said enough is enough."
Maher has a problem with real American history being taught in schools. Jews like him consider themselves as white.
AMEN
And then the idiots will vote heavily for a guy like Hershel Walker. In a democracy you may get what you vote for. /s/
Interesting comment. Do you think that the ends always justify the means, then?
Why are so many of them still voting against their best interest ? If they are feeling oppressed, why still vote for the GoP ? makes no sense to me.
People were "armed" during the Jan. 6th protest? That's an asinine assertion. Maher cannot be that ignorant.
He is a stupid talking head liar, just like the rest of the untruthfuls!
While Jan 6th was truly a blemish on or country, embellishing untruths about it only made it worse. People were not armed, thank God although dems repeat that narrative whenever they get a chance.
He's THE left wing media, so yes, he absolutely can be that ignorant.
@@BureauATFand is.
Why is it asinine? It is a fact that people were armed on January 6th when they attacked the Capitol. They had flag poles, fire extinguishers, bear gas spray and a few had guns. Armed does not mean only having guns. Armed means having weapons of any sorts
Most people can understand that people didn’t get sensitive until the last decade or so. Social media is what has done it, in my opinion
Yes. Because it is anonymous so usually cowardly people can talk BIG.
Socail Media was what brought the conspiracy theories, and nonsense. It is the worst place to get the news.
(anti) social media has had a disastrous effect on society.
Our country began the downward spiral when progressives convinced the world to create palatable titles for irresponsible choices. Excessive drinking and drug use are not illnesses. Now, even the worst life decisions expect titular justification.
I respect your opinion but if Trump had never been elected, much of what took place, wouldn't have and the media would not be holding the bag.
Everyone I know that’s conservative in my friends and family circle are college educated. Doctors, engineers, nurses, superintendent etc.
Is that way most of the hillbillies and rednecks are Republican. Generalizing is pointless.
True. I’d include business owners and some entrepreneurs too
Everyone I know that's moderate or liberal in my friends and family circle are college educated and with high religious values including empathy and grace for all of mankind.
@@patwilson2219 Right leaning and left leaning moderates are tolerable of everyone’s rights. Both sides assign the most extreme views to “the other side”. All of my Republican and disillusioned liberal friends that switched to the anti establishment candidate Trump, is for abortion with some reasonable limits, and expanded gun background checks.
@@patwilson2219 liberal, grace, and empathy? Lmfao. Never once.
Staring the looming end of America 🇺🇸 in the face!!! The end of Democracy? And we joke and laugh it off?
Strange indeed!!
Don't worry big red wave tuesday will save use
@@padmusic387
Sorry Buddy, am not sure you're paying attention.
No one starts a Nuclear war, because they will not see the end of it. Not many are suicidal! Maybe genocidal but not "nationally suicidal"!
We need to demand all white racist nazi republicans be arrested for treason and election denial, white nazis are everywhere and they are slowing showing themselves, its up to us to eliminate them, we as democrats must defend this nation from whites who don't tow the party line and whites who don't vote democrat
As a Brit watching from afar with abject horror, I am watching a country destroy itself, instigated by one traitorous man. Terrifying.
how is it the end of democracy ? you're a fool - Hillary did the same thing did she not? lets worry about the real problems like homelessness, drugs, open borders (which is the problem that's going to be our biggest for years to come), inflation, no energy, bills, schools, I could go on all day
2024 Just popped in to see how this aged lol... Knowing NOW that it was a complete Blow out for Trump. He even got the popular vote 😅😅
I'm more relieved that I'm 64 years old with health problems. I'd be very scared to be a child having to grow up in this pathetic country.
The best country on the planet, love it or leave it, try Saudi Arabia where they execute homosexuals, 😂
Yes! I can't understand why anyone wants to have a kid today. That kid is going to be born angry and it's only going to get worse. Just adopt a dog instead!
You’re welcome to leave!
@@liberalsinmyscope9751 your reply is the problem, wow if you actually realized how sad your comment is you might have a chance to be a better person instead of a feminine higene insert tool
Understandable with pe#o joe destroying America
What a sad state of affairs we find ourselves in America! We now deny who and what we were and are, what’s next.
Everytime I think of America I feel so depressed at what it has become. And the fact that, what happens in America normally follows to other countries, leaves me scared for my own country (we very quickly had our own version of Trump). Scary times when one party can - with mainstream public support - simply refuse to accept the results of elections. There's no easy or clear way out of that.
VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE REPUBLICAN, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE.
@@steveharrigan7811 no
WAR
It's like he said on real time those smart enough to heed the warning are already planning to vote , and those who are not are not paying attention anyway
Democrats caused the crisis we are in.... WE HOPE TO VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE... Doesn't have anything to do with Trump .
Nah- GOP voters wont be angry if they win senate and house. There will be no phoney impeachments, dossiers, FBI crap etc.
@@joyphillips1821 no these elections are not about trump you are correct but if gop gets control they will bring trump back and his next coup will NOT fail and then your rights and freedoms will go up in smoke
Bill missed the most essential issue here; he'll be in jail counting the bricks in the wall.
Or killed or poisoned if anything like putin regime
Anyone else think Fareed is the best interviewer? I don't even watch CNN, he is the exception, he's just fantastic. He should have his own show on HBO
Except that he's a left-wing ideologue.
It is absolutely unimaginable the level of disinterest from FAR too many ppl. VOTE!!!!!
Distrust and disinterest in government is an advantage for those who wants to abuse it.
@it's Dale
Do you think joe Biden has advanced dementia ?
@it's Dale BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I did! Straight republican BYE BYE dumbocrats
@it's Dale Dems riot and cause billions in damages to privately owned businesses and property they also are exporting oil from our strategic petroleum reserves to China while we are in a fuel crisis
that's so true about searching through your yearbook to see if you wore a sombrero in the past, that's how ridiculous the cancel culture problem has gotten. Bill is 100% right here.
Ridiculous
Seriously! Who does this? And if you wore a sombrero back then what are the consequences? Are you gonna be arrested by the cancel police? Why don´t people just grow a pair of balls or ovaries or whatever for fuck´s sake! There are no laws against sombreros yet and if someone came up to me and told me not to wear a sombrero in the future I would laugh hysterically at this person...
My only senior quote in my yearbook is "Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?" (From the movie Airplane) and lordy lordy I won't be able to step foot outside my house again if this info is made public!!!
It’s total bullshit.. someone took a picture of me, a white man, in line at a taco truck.. guess I shoulda ate at the Irish pub where I belong, being Irish and all.
This world is ass up accepting darts reluctantly..
Calm. Down. Chicken Littles. No one is interested in your yearbook photos because you’re not famous. You’re like an office manager or a bank teller, etc somewhere. No one is interested in you at all.
If this was really the case, I'd be in big trouble. As my daughter puts it, I have no filter. Even my parents would make comments about me being honest to a fault, honest to a friken fault. I think cancel culture is nothing new. I've seen many people over the years boycotting companies, shows, products and walking away from people who are offensive. I myself, many years ago had to warn a neighbor that if he said the N word in front of me again that I would no longer be speaking to him. Those are boundaries. I also refuse to listen to anything a known liar says. If their word means nothing to them, it certainly doesn't mean a thing to me.
Your neighbor must have been a liberal
@@randyswanson6912 No, I think he was a Republican as was I until trump came along. That was a hard no for me. My neighbor was a Vietnam vet. Rough around the edges with a heart of Gold. He passed away a number of years ago on Memorial day. We were dear friends for around 11 years. I miss my "big brother".
Your neighbor didnt want to talk to you ANYWAY
@@coleengoodell7523 who want to talk to someone like u anyway...
@@simoz78 Perhaps someone who can speak proper english.
i am not in favor of TRUMP, I am against the establishment, so i have to vote for TRUMP.
But trump is the establishment and he is not going to change.
Hitler was against it too.
Idiot.
Bill Maher said Twitter is a news source. THAT is a problem.
Yes. We have too much information, and very little news. Especially on anti-social media.
To many dimwits, it is. That was his point.
@@dan_hitchman007 - exactly. Far too many rely on their social media feeds for all of their 'news'.
@@dan_hitchman007 He's leaving too much room for the idiots!
Too many people use Facebook and Twitter as their news source. That's reality. Doesn't mean it's credible news.
1:22 that‘s literally not true. I tried to talk with Trump supporters about racism and those social issues. Trust me, they know the history and the facts, but most of them don‘t care, because it does not affect them on a personal level 😂
Cringe leftist thinks he is the embodiment of morality.
Don't care or don't believe it? I'm pretty sure you didn't actually talk to Trump supporters.
They are generally ignorant, which leads to a lack of empathy.
Affirmative action is a form of currently occurring and proven racism that affects many white Trump supporters. I bet you think it's justified.
You don't care about the fact that Teump did more to help blacks than Obama and Biden is a super racist?
Love the way the guy interviewing Maher sums up the "other side" as "uneducated. Nice, no way the "educated" could think that way. THAT is a guy who doesn't get the depth of the problem--at all.
Yep. He said almost nothing true.
If you WATCH Fox news and Fox news ONLY, you're uneducated. It isn't NEWS-- it's opinion, an echo chamber, a propaganda channel for the ALT-RIGHT
They are absolutely either UNAWARE or simply NOT CONCERNED that they are snobbish elitists who turn their Leftist noses up at “those people on the other side”.
@@lizzieb6311 It's hardly snobbish when people CHOOSE to be blind and CHOOSE NOT to educate THEMSELVES. You don't need a Harvard degree to actually read!!
@@eb1042 To be clear… the mindset of The Left is that they are superior… in spite of the freaking MESS they have made of The USA they still believe their ideology is far and above superior to any who DARE to have opposing points of view. They’re disgusting and snide and they do nothing to conceal those traits.
I'm in a rural area. Thanks Bill Maher for calling me uneducated. You're a peach.
I've believed the "personality trait" theory for a long time, but the problem is when that personality trait leads them to thinking its OK to just get rid of democracy you're pretty much forced to treat them as enemies.
I always remember my philosophy teacher, explaining that in democracy, there's always boundaries to what is tolerated. If everything is tolerated, then there's no legal protection of rights and it's not democracy.
In modern democracy, legal branch is supposed to be separated. In Usa, it's not the case, and since a few years it's very clear how it can be abused...
Yeesh
Agreed, and that “personality trait” has so often been fed a steady diet of religion and all its ills since birth
I disagree with BM on that issue! Political leanings are learned behavior! To believe otherwise is the definition of insanity!
@@tamiewert808 You are terrible at definitions.
"Walking on eggshells"? For all of our canceling each other people seem to be more vicious now than ever before.
Yes they are hateful and looking for reasons to hate and divide.
Agreed because there’s anonymity…
Those are not contrary, they operate on different levels. One is about civility, and one is about thought control
Cancellation is about punishing and/or suppressing the expression of the wrong opinions, not about uncivil behavior. In Bill's example, saying that white lives matter too could get somebody canceled, no matter how civil and politely or even kindly that politically unacceptable opinion was stated. Thus the need to walk on eggshells in regard to the opinions and views people express (and to keep up with what's punishable today)
Rudeness and vicious interpersonal behavior are not a "cancelable" offenses in themselves. In fact, those doing the cancelling (like trying to get somebody fired for an opinion shared on facebook) can be quite vicious and rude and self-righteous. People do not need to walk on eggshells regarding being polite; nastiness is perhaps even becoming more common.
OK: nastiness so long as it doesn't involve wrongthink
Bad: wrongthink, no matter how polite and thoughtful
So there is no conflict between cultural trends towards viciousness and towards cancellation, they even can and do often go hand in hand.
@@zephsmith3499 "White Lives matter" is a dog whistle statement that diminishes the struggles of others. "White Power" in it's simplest form is not a terrible phrase. But it embodies the ideas of terrible people. Not every terrorist group is (honest) enough to just say "Death to America". Even though most of these groups want the same things.
@@zephsmith3499 The problem is that “white lives matter” has been said and used in bad faith so many times that it’s hard for people to take it as a serious statement and not be offended.
It’s on its way to becoming the “white power” of the 2020s
Boy Bill, you made perfect sense in the first 3 1/2 minutes and then went completely off the rails at the end.
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Exactly! I've been studying and researching a whole lot lately so I don't miss out on any opportunity.
True, I was in dilemma myself due to this chaotic mrkt, wasn't sure if to sell or just wait a little longer, 75% of my portfolo was tanking and in the red and the economy isn’t looking promising, but I began gaiinng clarity and have more confidence in my invt through an lnvt-advlser, I know most DlY-lnvestor like me would say advlsors aren't essential, but come to think of it, they're better trained and equipped at this and if I have to give just a little amt in fees for me to be able to net $650K in less than 8months like I did this year, I truly don't mind.
ALL of these bots are getting clever
Your back yard is closer than the grocery store ...do you know how toplant a potato? ...Bean ? KALE ?
That won't last very long! That's not much money.
History has shown that Maher is about 50% right in his assessments and predictions.
In other words, he throws crap on the wall and sees what sticks.
The coin has the same prediction statistics.
Like most people, you mean?
Maher is right about accepting people for whom they are.
its not about being right and wrong. its about expressing yourself with dignity.
The more I watch US politics, from the outside, being a foreigner, the more it all looks like the plot of Stephen King's "The Stand."
Look at what is happening in the U.K. and Europe. The far right is gaining momentum. In Italy someone from Mussolini's family tree just gained power. They voted for a Mussolini!! So, you need to look inward as well. Look at yourselves in the mirror. The U.S. is not the only democracy in trouble.
Everyone correctly compared Trump years ago to Greg Stillson from The Dead Zone.
@@BigBadJerryRogers And his father, Fred Trump, was spoofed on an episode of "Trackdown" as a traveling flimflam artist.
as you Europeans literally are giving your continent away. if you're canadian or australian, i'm laughing at you b/c Canada wouldn't be Canada without the United States, and Australia is one of our closest allies.
Trump 2024
You don’t need to go college to have common sense.
I've stepped away from friends who had never shown that level of rabidity in other areas of their life (that I know of) & our friendship. It was a double take, a WTF? Patti & Paula, I miss you. Did I ever really know you?
You're not alone.
I know Anne M , I quit talking to a couple of family members, I still can't believe this is happening
My cousin stopped playing golf with his best friends because of politics.
If you weren't such a fair weather friend? Maybe you'd hold them even closer to you.
Maybe that flaw is in your thinking, not their's;)
If it came down to you dismissing them as not valuable? Or as disposable because their conclusions differed from yours? Moght that not lead one to see that the fla lies in you?
"It's me, it's i..." try that on.
@@ja9890 you lose your best friends - on pupose?
Geesh. My.mommn fad were polar opposites politically and they simpky respected that the other was... opposite. And there was peace....
Try it on.
The detail Maher is missing here is that a hand has always been out to Trxmp voters. The hatred from that side has been so stirred up and turbocharged by rhetoric that they don't even know it's there. We can talk all we want about unity but I've never heard the right ever once appeal to that idea without taking shots at whoever they want to leave behind.
Yes! Thank you! It's all about the rhetoric. Since the post-WWII era, the GOP has used rhetoric to appeal to whatever their base was at the time. The McCarthy era was bad, but it's nowhere near as dire as what we see today. All political ads have become attack ads, regardless of the party involved. It's all stimulus/response with no consideration for the residual effects.
The Kenyan had everything to do with the hatred.
I'm going to disagree. I can forgive anyone who voted for Trump once. If there's anyone who is still supporting this garbage with all the cards on the table, everything shown since 2016 and Jan 6? We're talking about lost causes of people here. They might as well be a different species.
The Left is so misguided. Everyone knows that if they are disagreed with - you are a racist or bigot or a Nazi - but they have a short memory and tendency to pretend it never happened. Such hypocrites!
So you don't think that people shouldn't have the right to feel anger towards the party promoting sexuality and gender dysmorphia upon highly influential minds in elementary school?
Yeah, Maher was really right about how the 2022 election turned out....
Yeah this video aged like milk
What are you talking about? The vast majority of people Trump endorsed were defeated. There was no "RED WAVE" or ""RED TSUNAMI." SMDH...
@@DaPinkBat that would be SARCASM
@@noturbusiness123 If you want to believe that as your pet conspiracy theory.
#NEVERCHUMP, LOCK HIM UP
"It's just a personality trait". Absolutely. The very thing that lead to our success as a species is the very thing that'll destroy us - neural diversity.
Wow. One million thumbs up.
If it destroys the human species, so be it!
It's called a personality trait? I thought they were fkn morons.
@@xf10036 Really!
Fareed was on bill maher Fri. He's such a relatable intellect. Not upitty.
They don't tell it like it is. They give the morons room to move in on us. Fk them!
If we actually lived in a country of laws we would not have to worry about trump showing up on inauguration day in 24 he should be in jail way before then !
You live in a Country ...but not a Nation....
THEY HAD PLENTY ON HIM FOR AT LEAST A YEAR. NOT TO MENTION HE'S ADMITTED TO TAKE TOP SECRET FILES & IS STILL ABLE TO WALK FREE. IF ALL INVOLVED HAD BENN HELD ACCOUNTABLE, WE WOULDN'T BE IN THIS MESS.
trump wont ever be elected to anything again hes committed insurrection and fraud cant have a criminal in the white house again,
and if this were a fair and unbiased country, hillary, bill, obama, fauci, biden, schumer, pelosi would be in there already. but until you realize that trump is not the problem. biden is. have you paid attention to the cost of things lately. that is all biden not trump. do you know that our country is about to run out of diesel fuel, this country and its supply chain live on diesel fuel. that is all biden. but you will not believe that because the biased news will never tell you about it.
YES
Ive been watching Bill since his show in the 90s. He has said repeatedly over the years, all the way up to now, that he is a Democrat. Not a libertarian, not an independent, a Democrat. In the 90s he was considered a far left Democrat. Today, he is considered a center-left Democrat, because our political landscape has changed while he has remained the same.
Would that mean that the pile of brown stuff has kept the stink all these years ?
@@larryenglish7366 the one between your ears? Probably
In actual fact, he is slightly to the right of the German Kaiser. He's made the same political journey as Benito Mussolini.
@@gertstronkhorst2343 high schoolers have definitely gotten dumber since covid
@gertstronkhorst2343 I doubt you've graduated high school yet but if you have, take your diploma and send it back
I'm never comfortable with "half the country voted for Trump" because only half of the people in the country vote. That's about a quarter!
Half of the voters...
ALL of this is a moot point if Merrick Garland steps up and does this right thing.
*moot
IMO, Garland is stalling until January 2025 when he will be replaced.
@@thewolfdoctor761 He’s not. The January 6 Committee had to wrap up their investigation first
@@michaelcorazzini6869 Nonsense. The DOJ is totally independent from the January 6th committee and has been (half-heartedly) investigating the insurrection for months.
@@thewolfdoctor761 Yea, no kidding Captain Obvious
America has always been what we’re seeing today. The problem is it took this long time for most folk to really see their real truth.
Exactly...Just history repeating itself and those who aren't paying attention because they are too busy on IG and FB will suffer the most. Tuesday will be the end of this country as we knew it. I always put my faith in the Lord when it comes to my protection and wellbeing.
@@MH-vw9ni Stop praying and start doing. People have been praying to stop mass shootings for over 20 years and nothing happened. Take action and stop relying on something else!
BS.
@@michaelmorningstar8645 agreed, they're saying that to placate themselves but it's not true.
@@katashley1031 placate
FJB
For many years I have heard people criticize me because I have German ancestry. The comparisons of Fascism and Nazism are thrown out liberally at me. All this even though I live in Canada. The troubling aspect of it has always been well how could your people (meaning Germans) allow that to happen? I mentioned in 2016 that it could be easier than one would envision. If 45 was elected, America would be on that downward slide and should never ask the question ever again. As much as it pains me, I agree with Bill Maher. It is terrifying to think of what is going to happen over the next 3 to 5 years in the United States. I fear democracy there will be gone. Most troubling is that half of the population will stand up cheering waving the Stars and Stripes as it happens. The reality is there are more uneducated and uninformed people in the USA than any of us ever could have imagined. The experiment of self governing democracy will die.
Individuals that will come out of the woodwork and comment negatively on this, I thank you in advance for proving my point. None of you are worthy of an individual response from me. Instead I dismiss you for the fools that you are for doing mental gymnastics in a bid to accept lies. But I leave you with one thought. What did 45 actually do for you. I'll help you out with the answer. Nothing
Well said. I am a foreigner too with German ancestry, I live in London UK
The other problems you have is the dirty money in you political system. At least impose a maximum donation and make the party reveals their financial contributors.
rich coming from someone who isnt even american....the better question is what is biden doing for us, not you, but americans and honestly he is fucking things up much much worse than trump ever did.
A great answer. 🎯 Nothing, and he will do nothing again, just take away your money.
@@joe5923 Good luck to you all, with a new eara of nazi rule😱
Best thing that can happen is the universe intervenes and Trump bites the big one while throwing back a diet coke.
WOULDN'T THAT BE GREAT.
GOD Works in Mysterious Ways. Overthrow of our Gov't was set up after 9.11 to be a long slow federal op w its own illegal army and w drug technology from illegal Gitmo.
Army- Dept of Homeland Security.
Because wash dc is sinking already- w climate change? Its going to sink...
New Govt home was supposed to be salt lake city w mormons as new world power and religion.
Funny? The lake started evaporating, leaving behibd chemicals in salt form, which blew on the wind into the air, poisoning it so badly the mormons were forced to move and regroup. Now they've devised a new beehive theory they, as a religious Might, take over the surrounding states - like say...ohh.. Colorado. And thus relocation of govt? Is now to Colorado.
Brush creek ranch in Saratoga Wyoming is still the hot suburb for congress n politicos after they accomlish the coup and overthrow our country.
Like arredondo n uvalde? Bribe after tge fact. Thats why cheney2 is spittin mad st trump, and her personal vendetta against him through her commitee ;)
*WMD = 50 million
*Ranch in Saratoga
= 500 billion (rents now start at 10K/nite)
*POWER accrued in providing safe harbor to Congress, w protection from D of Homeland Sec, after congress betrays America w treason
= PRICELESS.
1. #DEZNAT
2. Mormon constitutional sheriffs.
Read up on them, its a cult that Ginny n Clarence found it profitable to work with ;)
Yes, we must never again have a President that didn't start new wars, take on international finance and the forces of open borders Globalisation and pushback against China.
Funny line, but it wouldn't change much...they'd just substitute another demagogue and we'd be just as screwed.
The addition of "college educated" is a stereotype. Many non-college educated people are enlightened and fully aware of developments.
I agree. I would, however, like to see community college become available as an option for all young Americans. The additional two years of "book learning" can make a difference for those who might not have read some of the ideas written centuries ago. Since we seem to be letting civics classes slip to the wayside in K-12, having a basic American Government course and now a course on Critical Thinking Skills in a Freshman college course might help us become better citizens, especially if they are taught without a political bias.
@@borneoman8574 If Donald J. Trump died tomorrow due to a heart attack, I suspect that would go a long way in helping our nation. Just a thought.
@@larryjones9773 I don't wish harm to anyone, really, even a would-be dictator, but if it happens, it happens.
*Trump//2024//America First!* ... That's not grim at all!
first in jail
The red hats are coming the red hats are coming VOTE them out everywhere NOW
Still with your second husband Patrick?
"You can hate Trump. You just can't hate all the people who voted for him." My closest family members voted for Trump. A very close and trusted friend of mine believes everything Alex Jones says. Yet on a personal level I find my fiend and family members more trustworthy and honest than many people whose political view are closer to my own.
A lot of things Alex jones has talked about have proven true not all but a lot..
BECAUSE THEIR YOUR FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@patwilson2219THEY'RE !!!!!
@@tomford1080 People still laugh at Alex Jones, but what you said is 100% true and the United States is trying to silence Alex Jones and cancel him, and people think he has a billion dollars.
Valid point but I have an extremely hard time ignoring a friend or relative's betrayl of the values we grew up with. At 69, I believe that my peers have been around long enough to recognize right from wrong and a pos when they see and hear one. Sadly the reality is very different.
The Trumpsters would like Tony Soprano for VP .
Again - *YOU are the one insulting... and mocking.. and disrespecting...
You know? Mmm theres this recent new thing.
i think it was called # something.
You might try it on for sizing?
Taylor swift?
"It's me, it's i...".... ;)
Just make sure that all ballot counts are done out in open forums for the masses to watch with a dem rep and a GOP rep verifying each batch of ballots check out before going through a first and second ballot counting machine.
What? I've worked the polls in the last four major elections. You have NO idea what you are talking about.
I have separated myself from family members that are so much into Trump and I feel at peace.
thanks for voting for the Illegals, I had to call the cops and medics because someone was overdosing on Fentanyl in my california front apartment complex
Same here, I have cut democrats out of my life! Life has been so much better for me
get ready for an ass kicking
@@christophergill871 Until the people you're voting for come for you...and they will.
@@davejohn5876 like the FBI becoming politicized and going after conservatives & Christians?
If you are " more frightened than ever" the media is doing their job.
The main stream Media has a lot to do with the problems this country faces. Why is it that they never report on what Biden and his cohorts are doing to destroy our Democracy/Republic/Constitution.
Not just the media-GOP candidates run on fear.
Bill, Twitter is not the best example of that, Fox News is the one. You are really showing your true colors these days.
There's the either/or dichotomy that is so dangerous. It's not "either twitter or fox". The world is far more nuanced that a simple binary yes/no, either/or
prove ? or is this a opinion
Yes, it's not group think when smart people end up on the smart side of the divide.
These days? Bill fell off the wall years ago, starting with his anti-vax stance.
Depends on which part of Fox News. Tucker Carlson? Absolutely. The rest of it? Not so much. Fox News at least covers the war in Ukraine on the side of the Ukrainians.
I take offense to the “rural, uneducated” label. I have a Masters Degree & I live in the country. My entire area, both rural & urban, share very strong views that we need to a strong change from what’s happened the last 4 years.
As long as the Simpsons don't predict it, I can sleep peacefully at night! 😂
We have met the enemy...
That’s true 😂
1984 by Orwell
Would be funny if an episode of the Simpsons comes out now predicting it.
"We've inherited a lot of debt from President Trump" - President Lisa Simpson.
"You can hate he who's name I spit but you can't hate the people." My ass.
😂😂😂
@@RockBrentwood My ass.
That isn’t news, Bill; it’s opinion.
im sorry--did somebody call this news?
He’s right
Expert testimony is only 'opinion' to people *contemptuous of the idea of 'experts' even existing.*
Expert or desperate comedian trying to stay valid?
Nobody is saying that it's news. It's obviously opinion. Your comment is irrelevant. That being said, Fareed Zakaria, a prominant and well known journalist, interviewing Bill Maher, a prominant and well known comedian and political commentator is significant in the fact that they probably know much more about this situation than you do. So, opinion not withstanding, I will listen to them before I will listen to you.
It's not a grim prediction if you're a Republican. More like a GRIN prediction
"guy with the most votes win..." Don't tell that to Al Gore
Not so! The college got 45 in! He was not majority vote! Talk about voter fraud
What?
Except when SCOTUS told him, he lost, unlike t.Rump, Gore accepted that he lost.
When SCOTUS refused to hear their “the election was stolen” lawsuit filed by t.Rump, he had a temper tantrum, “i appointed gorsich, barrett and kavanaugh. THEY OWE MEEE!!!!”
And t.Rump has very publicly been having a two-year long temper tantrum, degrading Pence for doing what he had no choice in doing and calling himself a “schmuck” when a candidate he endorses, loses.
Maher doesmt know how 99% of Twitter employees voted
Who does?
95 percent.
Only 7,000 votes
And becuz of Elon lay offs, only 3,200.
Bill Maher, once again you were right with everything you said.
Did he just say it’s going to be interesting?No sir,it’s going to be more and more scary and there’s only one lesson all Americans people can learn from this:It’s not about us,it’s about our children,the younger generation watching the wrong direction where America is heading to.
Holy fuck atleast I found 1 person who understands how we need to orient life towards.
‘May you live in interesting times’
It’s a Chinese proverb and a curse, go look it up.
Maher is speaking as if it was 10 or 15 years ago. Wakey wakey old boy.
I have said this for years now, if you make education a "rich" people only thing, you create a very volatile atmosphere, I expect they will see a blow up within a few years.
I do not think they have enough time to turn it round, much like we dont have time to turn around the Environment issue that tipping point was passed a few decades ago.
Yeah back in the 80s, the chicken littles were running around talking about the planet Cooling and we couldn't grow any crops and we are all going to die. They just keep changing the names of this thing, global cooling global warming, climate change, extreme weather events. It's a planet spinning in space. It does what it does, and you're not going to change it by passing a law.
Which Environment issue?
Imagine people still valuing Bill Maher’s opinion in 2022 …
You think that's bad, people still think Dingleberry Trump was the greatest president ever!
Bill Maher plays the role of an idiot so well, I think his entire life he was in character.