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    Where progress has been made, it’s not a sin - and it’s certainly not inaccurate - to say we’ve come a long way, baby. Not mission accomplished. Just a long way.
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  • @miriamgarcia-escritora5716
    @miriamgarcia-escritora5716 2 года назад +653

    A couple years ago, when I just move to this country (I'm from Mexico) I was in a situation when another hispanic guy tried to disrespect me on the street and all the others guys inmediatelly stopped him and made him apologize. In my country it is so common to be harasser everywhere since you are a little girl that I felt so... weird, nobody ever stood for me. So I told my husband, he is american, and he told me "well, why that guy behaved like a counstruction worker from the 70s". It was the first time I realized this society has progressed a lot.
    I really don't get that people that cries saying everything is worst when obviously is not, trust me, I saw how things were when I studied american history for my citizenship exam. And definitely it has progressed a lot if we compare with my country or other countries. But I won't get there. My point that probably nobody is going to read is, dear american people, it may not be perfect but you have achieved a lot, there is a reason why so many people want to come to this country. Give your self more credit, because you deserve it and you are on the right path. Keep with the good work.

    • @johngoing5898
      @johngoing5898 2 года назад +18

      God bless ya!🇺🇸✝️🇺🇸✡🇺🇸

    • @spz598
      @spz598 2 года назад +36

      👍👍👍💞🗽
      My friend came from Communist Albania...FLED Albania via the German Embassy in Tirana with thousands in 1990. He told me about Enver Hoxha and his growing up...hes 57 now....Everyone was suspicious of everyone...the 'police' would question you if you weren't a member of Communist party..if you weren't involved outright in support of the party, which he was not you were followed...arrested sometimes(he was arrested and beaten twice...and told to watch neighbors...AND report family...against The Party....someone he knew escaped and he was beaten half to death to get information...he had none....) He stayed in Germany about year and half then to America...after total 7 years he got his citizenship and still says it was the best day in his life.
      Like you..he had to study American History(oh, the 1st question he was asked when he applied is "Are you or any member of your family a member of the Communist party....we talked about that recently and wondered if that is still a question when coming to America, or also if it's only if you're coming from a country with history of communism.....we wonder often because He sees things happening here in US very similar to communism..Especially "cancel culture" in society amongst citizens and they way people are so eager to gang up on and mob someone in dissent to the Left ideology...esp social media users who post personal private info of those they want taken down and so many people share that post. And also the News Media here that so often is propagated to the left and outwardly vilifies dissent...the division anger and the hunt....just like Albania when he grew up).
      He knows alot of history and learned about america, like you, for his citizenship...he probably knows more than most americans!
      I was glad to come across your post and to hear the proof that things have changed here immensely over the decades and that living here is so much better than many many countries where citizens do not have the freedoms and rights built into the law of this land.
      I personally think also some of our politicians seriously just need therapy for their own set of personal traumas...they seem to be taking their hurt and angry emotions out on an entire country.
      Glad you are here in America!
      Hope you and your husband and families are well and good! 💫🗽🙏

    • @kathrynratenski-harrison4635
      @kathrynratenski-harrison4635 2 года назад +13

      Thank U so much about sharing your love & respect for our wonderful country- America!
      When other Americans have never experienced other countries or styles of government, they have no concept of how we have progressed - things that were not right & just have always been improved & written into law to protect everyone from dictatorship & tyranny. That why I live america..
      Our judai/ Christian roots have always corrected mistakes.
      This is in compared to governments who for power, money, & status, has enslaved people forever, without conscience.
      Look at Castro, Chavex, Hammas, Mao, Venezuela, the Taliban, Islam terrorist, socialism, Soviet & Chinese Communist of today's world..
      Our Americans have gotten so use to freedom that they have no idea how the rest of the World lives .
      PLEASE all of those foreign IMMIGRANTS WHO HAVE LEGALLY BECOME AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, Don't be afraid to talk to Americans that disrespect america. -especially our young people- tell them what it was like in tryanny. & tell them about the honorable qualities of America.
      We are starting to lose our freedom.

    • @ian1352
      @ian1352 2 года назад +3

      @@spz598 I grew up in a country controlled by ultra-conservative capitalists and it was in many ways similar. Being seen to be opposed to the government could get you into trouble, even killed. Everything was censored. The government’s propaganda was taught in schools.
      I have a Swiss friend who gets followed and harassed by the police when he is in Switzerland, because he fits a profile they have for a drug user. And of persecution of such people is still rampant in the US. There were even organisations like DARE that tried to get children to snitch on their parents.

    • @ian1352
      @ian1352 2 года назад +1

      @@kathrynratenski-harrison4635 China’s certainly not communist. If they ever were they have not been for decades. The Soviet Union wasn’t either. Even Lenin abandoned the core tenets of communism.
      Also Judaism and Christianity have almost nothing in common. Christian interpretation of the books and stories are fundamentally and incompatibly different.

  • @dondre3000
    @dondre3000 2 года назад +447

    For those of us tired of this country's growing obsession with victimization...thank you!

    • @jps080576
      @jps080576 Год назад

      Conservative Christians are the biggest victims, someone might say happy holidays.

    • @AKiren47
      @AKiren47 Год назад +8

      It's gone beyond what can only be described as a trend to kids. It's incredibly sad what the left has done to our country. My best advice is take care of your kids because the government has no problem stepping, in even your not aware of it.

    • @jps080576
      @jps080576 Год назад

      @@AKiren47 you keep voting for mass murderers easy access to firearms so all the children being indoctrinated in Christian schools can be victims. Go storm the capital and try to murder democratic governors, and over throw our liberal democratic republic for something more conservative like fascism and autocracy all while yelling 'look what the libs are doing'. Conservatism really is evil theocratic fascist garbage.

    • @kyledenson1287
      @kyledenson1287 Год назад

      @@AKiren47 best way to do it, is don’t do anything public. Like education, stay away from public schools!

    • @fatoomitani1879
      @fatoomitani1879 Год назад

      ​@@AKiren47 0 and9

  • @nelsensalling8676
    @nelsensalling8676 Год назад +33

    This is the reason I watch this show. He's got a great attitude that reflects a large portion of adults out there. Keep up the great work Bill!

  • @forbetter3778
    @forbetter3778 2 года назад +62

    Kudos to the script writers. Kudos to Bill! I hope that this will become a classical piece in history.

  • @buckmoore4864
    @buckmoore4864 3 года назад +1472

    I’m a conservative but I love watching this show. We might have a different outlook on political issues but I love the common sense and being able to disagree with your own side. Both sides should stand up for what’s right and wrong and not give a pass just because they have a D or an R beside their name. Keep up the good work sir!

    • @L3M0N4NDCH3RRYZZ
      @L3M0N4NDCH3RRYZZ 3 года назад +94

      I'm a centrist that leans right on a lot of issues, but I have always enjoyed Maher. When he makes a point I can at least see his position even if I disagree with it. When it comes to "progressives" and the woke mob, I cannot see their position on anything, they just look and sound batshit insane.

    • @h2didenkov
      @h2didenkov 3 года назад +40

      That's because 20 years ago Bill would've been a Republican. And that's why you guys like him. He is no Democrat, and nowhere near being a progressive.

    • @Pedalbored
      @Pedalbored 3 года назад +28

      Same. We need to start holding Republicans to the fires too. Shapiro was defending the Blackrock home buying. It shouldn’t be legal to begin with. They’re homes in residential zones! Corporations should not be allowed to purchase homes.

    • @blackmustang2006
      @blackmustang2006 3 года назад +68

      @@h2didenkov 20 years ago Bill was far left and inline with the progressive dems.. you should probably watch clips from his show the was taken off the air because it was too liberal.. I mean what you just said is completely stupid and untrue. All of his comedy special were anti Christian and republican.

    • @paleh0rse
      @paleh0rse 3 года назад +25

      @@h2didenkov - and thank God for that! Progressivism is cancer.

  • @JohnJJSchmidt
    @JohnJJSchmidt 2 года назад +1712

    Stop making sense, Bill. They're gonna turn on ya.

    • @therealgaragegirls
      @therealgaragegirls 2 года назад +72

      The Leftists already have.

    • @aytheonashhelm3450
      @aytheonashhelm3450 2 года назад +5

      @@therealgaragegirls yes I have

    • @cameron9359
      @cameron9359 2 года назад +55

      We need these classical left icons to stand up and say these things so that these brainwashed modern leftists can realize they are being filled with BS for political reasons to divide this country into intelligent people who search for knowledge on there own and a mob of people who believe and do anything there told even when it flies in the face of reality..

    • @therealgaragegirls
      @therealgaragegirls 2 года назад +29

      @@cameron9359 Too far to the Left or Right--and people become simply insane. We need to meet in the Middle. See Jeep commercial. 😉

    • @incog99skd11
      @incog99skd11 2 года назад +21

      Next they will be calling him a white supremacist, wait, hater looser, wait, islamophobe, wait, racist, wait, homophobe, wait, orange man lover, wait, ....

  • @ilovebutterstuff
    @ilovebutterstuff Год назад +13

    100% spot on Bill. When you're right, you're right, can't even argue.

  • @rsmith4339
    @rsmith4339 Год назад +3

    " Being outwardly cruel to people who are different " very much still , is as prevalent as ever . it's just the criteria that has changed . Now it's anyone who doesn't thoughtlessly regurgitate your orthodoxy that's a target.

  • @codylaxton3287
    @codylaxton3287 2 года назад +1761

    Welcome to the fringe center. Where those who acknowledge reality and have a historical perspective find themselves politically homeless.

    • @loicjeannin6233
      @loicjeannin6233 2 года назад +55

      You have also have to be ok with nuances

    • @fivestring65ify
      @fivestring65ify 2 года назад +23

      I am there with you

    • @allosaurusfragilis7782
      @allosaurusfragilis7782 2 года назад +66

      Yes its where I find myself...and its not an attractive place to campaign for. Its not really represented at all. I find im left wing about some things, like health care (I'm in uk) and right wing about others...law and order, maybe.
      But we seem to have to choose from only one or the other when we vote....and those choices are becoming more extreme.

    • @PresidentValentine
      @PresidentValentine 2 года назад +6

      Same

    • @Brynden-Rivers
      @Brynden-Rivers 2 года назад +5

      Well said cody...

  • @SaintPatrick1970
    @SaintPatrick1970 3 года назад +282

    Bill is really an independent. He raises the BS flag on both sides of the fence and at least tries to navigate life with a moral compass. And that’s why I like him.

    • @clovemartin
      @clovemartin 3 года назад +25

      Well, not really. He just thinks like majority of the democratic party used to think in 2010. Now the party really makes no sense with the things they are saying.

    • @luciferthedoberman8991
      @luciferthedoberman8991 3 года назад +3

      @@clovemartin Agreed!

    • @nathanpartridge3565
      @nathanpartridge3565 3 года назад

      2 outta 3 times...

    • @MothGirl007
      @MothGirl007 3 года назад +2

      He has stated in more than one interview that he is a Libertarian - he has never been a Liberal.

    • @onomatopoeia162003
      @onomatopoeia162003 3 года назад

      @@MothGirl007 I would be one. Since I call my self a mixture of Humphrey/Wellstone. (left of center)
      Yes born and raised here in MN. :)
      Gonna tie the record in '24. When it was 1860-1908.

  • @nelsoluc000
    @nelsoluc000 2 года назад +3

    So Im a straight white Christian millennial. I'm very libertarian in my beliefs but on certain issues I lean more to the right. I'm normally not the type of person to watch Bill Maher. But man this man is spot on. If I can vibe so much with someone who holds many beliefs that oppose mine I truly believe that what he is saying is true. That we are well on our way to an equal and just society. We're not there yet but we're well on our way. Thank you Mr Maher. I may not agree with you on everything but I damn well agree with you on this and in a strange way it's very inspiring.

  • @tanushbhatt1419
    @tanushbhatt1419 2 года назад +19

    I love this channel. It operates in the perfect eye of the storm of left and right. Not a preachy leftist show nor a hateful far right show. Just straight facts

  • @mannyvillalobos3053
    @mannyvillalobos3053 2 года назад +659

    I’m a conservative. I find myself listening to Bill more and more…he is making sense to me.

    • @amandagirlygirl12
      @amandagirlygirl12 2 года назад +15

      That's cos he IS more conservative, like the old white man he is. NOT that he's right. He becomes more wrong like you are.

    • @F1REPROOFED
      @F1REPROOFED 2 года назад +66

      @@amandagirlygirl12 did you watch the video? He’s calling out idiots like you. People who can’t comprehend that this is tearing this country apart more than fixing it. Just because someone is white doesn’t mean they’re racist. In fact I’m pretty sure that’s the definition of racism, you know judging people based on their skin color.. or am I wrong?

    • @prezzle208
      @prezzle208 2 года назад +51

      @@amandagirlygirl12 what he's wrong that we should all be kind to each other. That's funny how you call him wrong when everyone just wants inclusion and that's what he's pushing here.

    • @jrzygurl
      @jrzygurl 2 года назад +52

      Im a liberal and i agree,,,, so why do we all hate each other again??🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @elqyanoesquia6877
      @elqyanoesquia6877 2 года назад +10

      @@jrzygurl more people like you (I’m a conservative)

  • @marred2277
    @marred2277 3 года назад +574

    "Here's the thing kids: There actually was a world before you got here." I think that's the greatest thing I've ever heard Bill say. Too bad the ones that need to hear it probably aren't watching.

    • @runninonmt66
      @runninonmt66 3 года назад +4

      Bill tells it like it is no bull___t

    • @markscottames9277
      @markscottames9277 2 года назад +4

      You mean all these luxuries weren't here already? Like running water, electricity? Huh!

    • @skywalker6648
      @skywalker6648 2 года назад +1

      @@markscottames9277 and cars....🤣

    • @Vanirvis
      @Vanirvis 2 года назад +5

      Or if they are they aren’t smart enough to get it

    • @billsimms2511
      @billsimms2511 2 года назад +4

      Maher is spot on with that comment

  • @daleamon2547
    @daleamon2547 Год назад +8

    Yep. I'm a lifelong libertarian and most of my friends were once liberals. Most of them are still my friends but afraid of what I might say in public. Bill is someone I could argue with over a pitcher in the local, knowing we'd both enjoy it and leave thinking it was an evening well spent.

    • @KristinA-xv4yk
      @KristinA-xv4yk 2 месяца назад

      Why are your friends afraid of what you might say in public? You one of those “if the child consents…” lolberts or something?

  • @countdebleauchamp
    @countdebleauchamp 2 года назад +20

    I can't believe I missed this riff. One of Bill's best ever.

  • @geezerman58
    @geezerman58 2 года назад +173

    I’m a Conservative, but I’ve come to appreciate (and enjoy) Bill Maher’s common sense. Well done!

    • @v-22
      @v-22 2 года назад +1

      That's because you are a conservative and so is he.

    • @patrick9445
      @patrick9445 2 года назад +8

      @@v-22 He is a liberal. He supports medicare for all, progressive tax rates, animal rights, etc.... he isn't a Conservative....but you are a 🤡

    • @Jeyshara
      @Jeyshara 2 года назад +9

      Aye - he's left. But too far left or too far right is always bad.

    • @killerrabbit4448
      @killerrabbit4448 2 года назад +3

      @@patrick9445 I feel like extremists are stretching ideologies on both left and right so much that you’ll have “normal” conservatives and liberals in the middle with more in common.

    • @b469b
      @b469b 2 года назад

      @@Jeyshara nailed it

  • @rjwasser8312
    @rjwasser8312 3 года назад +812

    I don’t agree with Maher on a lot of things, but every once in a while he knocks it out of the park. I dealt with REAL systemic bigotry as a soldier living under DADT-we’re far better as a country than we were even two decades ago. A sense of gratitude isn’t unwarranted.

    • @IEUNITED1906
      @IEUNITED1906 3 года назад +6

      What you mean by REAL?

    • @raizinboyz
      @raizinboyz 3 года назад +26

      I grew up in Boston and went to public schools there. I saw real racism and bigotry. I remember when I as a girl wasn’t allowed to play with “boy toys” In Kindergarten. The world is SO different today!!! It drives me crazy how everything is supposedly racist now!!!!

    • @truthfactors4553
      @truthfactors4553 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/iF1TJR3Loog/видео.html

    • @penboyasgod6103
      @penboyasgod6103 3 года назад +7

      I did as well --- including in a HOT war zone. I survived using a previously unknown tactic --- throwing their double-speak back into their faces.

    • @respectbigman3133
      @respectbigman3133 3 года назад +8

      Oh you have no idea what others are going through. So thank God you feel much better. Others still face deep racism and bigotry. The problem Why monumental changes will never make is, because when some feel comfortable they forgot the issues that are still there. If we show up to the polls and vote in politicians who share our values and not be fool. Look at what's going on now. They are voting in GOP politicians to restrict voters right in the minority communities and these people vote like minded people with one voice. Dems win the popular vote and cannot make changes as they cannot win enough seats in local, states and federal gov. The minority party has the most power. Think about that when u are agreeing that your life is better. Most of us are one pull over from getting rough up, shot or kill. Don't make your misguided comfort fool u. we need to show up for all elections,. School board, local, state and Federal. That's how we actually will make a big difference and not settle for, oh things are better than before . Better Than before WHAT?

  • @laylac72
    @laylac72 Год назад +3

    hello, bill maher👋🏽
    your conversations/dialogue have been an absolute necessity/constant in my life since the very 1st time i saw you on tv in the early 90’s! thank you for continually keeping it real !
    i have much love & respect for you -
    layla carrabotta ✌🏽❤️
    (south carolina)

  • @lesleyschultz6846
    @lesleyschultz6846 Год назад +5

    Speaking as a person who was born in the 60's, we have made HUGE amounts of progress, just mind-blowing amounts, in many areas! If someone had told me in the 80's that gay marriage would not only be the law of the land but that people would generally support it, I would not have believed them. The wide-spread acceptance of mixed race couples and their children is also a miracle. We still have a long way to go but we have come very far from where we were when I was a kid.

    • @KristinA-xv4yk
      @KristinA-xv4yk 2 месяца назад

      Interesting surname for someone who referred to mixing as a “miracle” 🤨

  • @godfreycarmichael
    @godfreycarmichael 2 года назад +217

    This is far too reasonable for today's cultural environment.

  • @hollyjay3628
    @hollyjay3628 2 года назад +337

    As someone who would have been considered far left…I’m in recovery. I prefer to just live in the reality and take each political point as it comes. Critical thinking is necessary for happiness and sanity. Trust me. I don’t identify with liberal or conservative. Because neither side has all the answers.

    • @toughgirl6837
      @toughgirl6837 2 года назад +5

      Only God does.

    • @jackduff7194
      @jackduff7194 2 года назад +7

      Well said

    • @neonsashimidream1075
      @neonsashimidream1075 2 года назад +5

      I don't think either side has any of the answers really. The only people I've heard who seem to have anything close to "the answers" are non-partisan experts who aren't afraid to speak openly about what they know and have enough character to be intellectually honest without concern for power or social points. The 2 parties in the USA are just mass manipulation machines that have been escalating rhetoric for so long that nobody remembers what hyperbole even means anymore. Now we have the nonsensical "culture wars" in full swing and it's all based on parodies, exaggerations and lies. It's really as if the country has been split between two cults and the vast majority of people are brainwashed. In reality, most people are too scared to think for themselves or speak their mind because of ostracization from friends and family, losing their job or becoming a total social pariah. It's a very bad situation and a terrifying prospect to imagine where it might lead.

    • @marvymarier8988
      @marvymarier8988 2 года назад +4

      @@toughgirl6837 sometimes I'm not even sure that he knows

    • @grrgholts2543
      @grrgholts2543 2 года назад

      Well said

  • @agamasraf9247
    @agamasraf9247 Год назад +1

    Dear Bill, you are the voice of sanity and logic, my friend! This gen z girl loves you so much♥

  • @dansurman4425
    @dansurman4425 Год назад +8

    I can't get enough of Bill and I tune in to his podcasts every so often.... to remind me that we live in a infinite world

  • @jso6790
    @jso6790 3 года назад +1112

    Wow. Well done, Bill, and your writing staff. The importance of celebrating victories is that those victories are proof that change is possible from that proof we can draw hope to keep going forward.

    • @htown148
      @htown148 3 года назад +8

      @@nilnil7325 there Russian bots lol

    • @mariemihaltan1207
      @mariemihaltan1207 3 года назад

      @Yongo Bazuk zx

    • @JMacSD
      @JMacSD 3 года назад +12

      @Yongo Bazuk is this a post from a Russian bot or some random Nazi image nonsense phrase generator?

    • @KevinWidesouls
      @KevinWidesouls 3 года назад +12

      Which is why Pride is fantastic. Among the many things it accomplishes, it celebrates the general victory and progress. More of our progress in other areas should be celebrated in a similar fashion. A national weed month? Sign me up. In essence, we should go about our daily lives, continue to fight the serious battles that truly matter, and have plenty of celebrations mixed in too. No need to hyperfixate on the small issues.

    • @JonInCanada1
      @JonInCanada1 3 года назад +8

      @Yongo Bazuk Ok, interesting, especially given your origin IP: 84.240.38.231 PENKI.LT Vilnius Lithuania. BOT!

  • @christinesong4243
    @christinesong4243 3 года назад +116

    I came to this country as a teenager 30 years ago, and I could see the progress has been made. Well said, Bill

    • @alaric_
      @alaric_ 3 года назад +4

      People get accustomed to things that are everyday. It's literally like the "frog in pot of boiling water". Generally only outsiders see the actual change during longer periods.

    • @christinesong4243
      @christinesong4243 3 года назад +1

      @@alaric_ that’s true

    • @AthenaGate
      @AthenaGate 3 года назад +3

      The first time I ever witnessed or experienced racism was when it started happening to me. People just see me as an oppressor. I had someone come into my house and try and tell me that I was subhuman. Crazy world we live in.

    • @JoeKoenen
      @JoeKoenen 3 года назад +1

      Bullshit. Name 3 ways we have progressed since 1991.

    • @AthenaGate
      @AthenaGate 3 года назад +7

      @@JoeKoenen legalization of gay marriage, lowest unemployment for people of color in history, legalization of cannabis in multiple states. I mean I am sure you can come up with a long list of how bad everything is, but in reality, most Americans live really well.

  • @stevewaterhouse3025
    @stevewaterhouse3025 Месяц назад +1

    jeezus Joe, I couldn't possibly sit !in front of an idiot box for 2 hours

  • @KlausSgroi
    @KlausSgroi Год назад +2

    I've been saying this for years, but Bill said it better than me. To think that some feminists consider the 21st century worse to women than any other period in history is mind-blowing. How ignorant must a person be to say something like that??

  • @Sea_ss
    @Sea_ss 3 года назад +337

    I’ve gained so much respect for Mahar the past year as one of the few liberals willing to call out the increasing insanity on our side. I’m also liberal like Mahar and I’m constantly having to remind my side that America is unironically one of the least racist places on earth. It’s not a joke or exaggeration to say that, it’s objectively true. And we’ve come a long way as a nation.

    • @reedmoon3630
      @reedmoon3630 3 года назад +16

      I once mentioned on Twitter that America was the most racially diverse place on Earth. And I was met with numerous people denying that. But it's true, when talking about race, not ethnicity, America is the most diverse place on Earth. Australia. Canada, France and UK will start to face the same kind of challenges we are facing once their white population hits 60% like ours is. They are all around 80% so their white population isn't feeling threatened like ours.

    • @dimsoneill
      @dimsoneill 3 года назад +13

      The world needs more common sense centrists like you and me mate!👍

    • @JK-gu3tl
      @JK-gu3tl 3 года назад +5

      You're not a liberal if you think gov't is the solution.

    • @mikitz
      @mikitz 3 года назад +13

      I live in one of the most racist places in the Eastern Europe (it's a tough competition) and the US seems like a dream come true for most of immigrants. We have our reasons and people in the US have theirs, but it's ridiculous to claim there's all that wide spread racism there.

    • @SNESpool
      @SNESpool 3 года назад +18

      @@JK-gu3tl And you're not very smart if you think government isn't going to at least play some sort of role in enacting the 'solution'. Blindly hating everything about government [rather than attempting to improve the things you don't like about it] is not an admirable stance, or a useful one.

  • @Jedidiah_McCain
    @Jedidiah_McCain 3 года назад +692

    “Being gloomier doesn’t make you a better person.”
    IMO, that’s another classic thing Bill Maher said.

    • @jayfree850
      @jayfree850 3 года назад +8

      It's another tone deaf statement from a man who has been in serious decline for years. This show is a farce now and if you watch it with glee then you're part of the problem.

    • @DonCannone
      @DonCannone 3 года назад +33

      @@jayfree850 Living in reality is supposed to be a good thing, not part of the problem. Try to start thinking critically and for yourself.

    • @jayfree850
      @jayfree850 3 года назад +6

      @@DonCannone How in any way is that a legitimate retort to this post?

    • @richardgrier8968
      @richardgrier8968 3 года назад +4

      @@jayfree850 yep. Irony is lost on him.

    • @richsackett3423
      @richsackett3423 3 года назад +1

      Should have said looking into a mirror.

  • @theshellest
    @theshellest 2 года назад +9

    I've often thought younger generations/young adults that are screaming about how terrible America is need to take a walk down the museum in DC- *The Price of Freedom: Americans at War* . It's very humbling. Makes you appreciate how many soldiers died to keep us free. Gives you a good reminder how lucky we are to not have lived during such a time.
    We are not oppressed because there isn't a gender-neutral section at Wal-Mart.

    • @lhaviland8602
      @lhaviland8602 Год назад

      >How many soldiers died to keep us free.
      Very very few compared to most other countries.

    • @KristinA-xv4yk
      @KristinA-xv4yk 2 месяца назад

      I’d rather be speaking German

  • @jasoncutshaw8401
    @jasoncutshaw8401 2 года назад +2

    Bill Maher FOR PRESIDENT!!🇺🇸

  • @Craxin01
    @Craxin01 3 года назад +277

    Man, someone needs to say this on every street corner in this country.

    • @Kornknealious
      @Kornknealious 3 года назад +2

      Trump and his super have been saying this for the past 10 years..where have you been

    • @zanith56
      @zanith56 3 года назад

      And they need to say it over and over for days to come.

    • @zanith56
      @zanith56 3 года назад +1

      @@Kornknealious I would not go giving him the credit but eh.

    • @Kornknealious
      @Kornknealious 3 года назад

      @@zanith56 and you are the problem

    • @Craxin01
      @Craxin01 3 года назад +6

      @@Kornknealious Planet Earth, not planet La La Land. Remember, Trump and his followers incited an insurrection by claiming he won an election he soundly lost. His credibility is shot.

  • @greghunter6951
    @greghunter6951 3 года назад +30

    59 years old and I see most people phobias come from people who have never even met or talked to the people they hate. Travel and talk to all people. You will be amazed how much you learn.

    • @Kornknealious
      @Kornknealious 3 года назад +1

      Greg, I am 57 and used to be a screaming hate filled liberal. I used to think every single conservative was against progress. One day about 20 years ago I started to actively listen to my conservative neighbors...##WalkAway

    • @onomatopoeia162003
      @onomatopoeia162003 3 года назад

      @@hexasides6411 yup. Which is sad. people are tribal. Hence, just like our foreign policy and the like.

    • @hectorheck1353
      @hectorheck1353 3 года назад

      @@Kornknealious Welcome.

  • @AyeCarumba221
    @AyeCarumba221 2 года назад +7

    Bill; as a lib, yes we need you to straighten out our brains from time to time. Thank you. It is easy to forget this progress. I accept your criticism whole heartedly, , and in the spirit which it is given, and I hope that other libs and millennials can too.

    • @willherrington3741
      @willherrington3741 Год назад

      it's easy to forget progress for people who are dumb. We've elected a black president 2 terms in a row for christ's sake

  • @Kempeth
    @Kempeth 2 года назад +9

    Indeed. Acknowledging progress is just as important as calling out a lack thereof. There's a reason self help groups have multi step plans instead of just asking "have you done it already?" We need our victories no matter if they’re big or small. The occasional pat on the back is what keeps us going.

    • @bunk95
      @bunk95 4 месяца назад

      Progress from fiction?

  • @JonnyTainment
    @JonnyTainment 3 года назад +2199

    "You think you've got it tough? Go read history books."
    -Bill Maher

    • @blackout07blue
      @blackout07blue 3 года назад +37

      Somehow he is the victim.

    • @nopeteys2424
      @nopeteys2424 3 года назад +73

      Yeah Bill has it “super tough”, he’s been rich for 30 years yet all he does is criticize the younger generations for advocating for change

    • @rp5707
      @rp5707 3 года назад +183

      @@nopeteys2424 - That is not what he said. Go back and listen. His complaint is that not recognizing the gains that have happened simply means you haven't bothered to educate yourself.

    • @godfreycadogan7614
      @godfreycadogan7614 3 года назад +27

      Wow that’s what you got from that 🤣

    • @mt-zf6xp
      @mt-zf6xp 3 года назад +26

      I thought "progressophobia" was going to mean something like "fear of progressive policies" and I said to myself "Well how about that? Bill's becoming self-aware." Nope.

  • @walterglenn8277
    @walterglenn8277 3 года назад +262

    Bill, Amen brother. That's the best speech I've heard in years. To make a better world we have to live and work together, giving each other the benefit of the doubt, and looking past each others faults and shortcomings instead of looking for ways to be offended by everything.

    • @terriej123
      @terriej123 3 года назад +3

      Way to give others the benefit of the doubt. By not believing when they say that they feel hurt.

    • @Margarinetaylorgrease
      @Margarinetaylorgrease 3 года назад +2

      He makes the same speech almost every week.

    • @anonymouspost8407
      @anonymouspost8407 3 года назад +6

      @@terriej123
      The world owes us no understanding. We may be hurt, but other people owe us nothing: no sympathy, no empathy, no understanding, and finaly....they owe us no help.
      Become a better individual. No person can stop someone else from bettering themselves.

    • @matthewsisti4382
      @matthewsisti4382 3 года назад

      One of the only speeches I’ve ever heard from him that was positive. He always seemed unlikeable and overrated himself. Seemed like a regular guy that didn’t realize he was not special in any way. He spent all his time spreading division and anger. I like when people flip the script though and start trying to put good vibes in the world.

    • @JJ-nu8qi
      @JJ-nu8qi 3 года назад +7

      @@terriej123 Feelings is the acachilles heel of the progressives. Nobody cares how you feel because you can't hit a moving target.

  • @bobsmith-ov3kn
    @bobsmith-ov3kn 2 года назад +2

    I'm a white guy who has dated all different colored girls before, mostly asians, but when less than 10% of couples are mixed and something like HALF of all the portrayals you see on TV are mixed, you know there's something messed up going on

  • @bens3884
    @bens3884 Год назад +1

    "I'm gonna tell ya" - I love it! I replayed that so many times, laughing uncontrollably!

  • @MatthewSmith-vc8go
    @MatthewSmith-vc8go 2 года назад +237

    I can't believe he's dropping this much honesty, and they haven't "cancelled" him yet. Good for you Bill!

    • @47shadows76
      @47shadows76 2 года назад +1

      Give it sometime, he's hedging his bets because The Left has his number. He needs a new base (The Center) before he's canceled

    • @bigslim4237
      @bigslim4237 2 года назад +3

      He noticed how good Fox ratings are and decided he had an opportunity to bring back some old viewers he'd lost over time.

    • @mrhyde2250
      @mrhyde2250 2 года назад +7

      They are trying.

    • @pouncepounce7417
      @pouncepounce7417 2 года назад +1

      He razzed pretty hard on people who have lawyers on speed dial, I think he is covered to Fort Knox standards.

    • @-Subtle-
      @-Subtle- 2 года назад +1

      Not "they!" the ambiguous threat of the right wing that no one can describe nor catch doing all the nefarious deeds that "they" do.

  • @lexprontera8325
    @lexprontera8325 3 года назад +49

    Semantics aside, he makes an excellent point. Good news need to be acknowledged, to show that improvement is within reach and effort pays off.

  • @bobkaiser8782
    @bobkaiser8782 2 года назад +2

    Nice shout out to Pinker.

  • @DJMichaelAngelo
    @DJMichaelAngelo 8 месяцев назад +1

    Very very well put! Bill Maher and his writing team are geniuses.

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 3 года назад +176

    Progress is a path, not a check point.

    • @jared30
      @jared30 3 года назад +5

      where does that path end?

    • @billclancy4436
      @billclancy4436 3 года назад +4

      Remember the Native Americans; one persons progress is anothers demise.

    • @timmmahhhh
      @timmmahhhh 3 года назад +2

      @@jared30 it's a path taken by humans, so it doesn't. And sometimes we end up on reverse as in Bill Clancy's example.

    • @thedylangirl
      @thedylangirl 3 года назад +1

      @@billclancy4436 remember? We’re still here 😉

    • @jared30
      @jared30 3 года назад +6

      @@timmmahhhh progress is sometimes a tool used by powerful people to sell governemnt bondage.

  • @pugs2oh5
    @pugs2oh5 3 года назад +188

    I don't always agree with you, but when you're right, you're right

    • @baraa2305
      @baraa2305 3 года назад +2

      @Silence Do Good
      Isn't that what by definition agreement and disagreement are all about?
      One can only agree with a statement when he believes it is true, otherwise is impossible.

    • @baraa2305
      @baraa2305 3 года назад

      @Silence Do Good
      But you put the quote you derived from the original comment in a way that implies it's bigotry or something to only agree with people you share their opinion,I mean....just look at your quote again and see what someone can understand from it.

    • @rtbwolf
      @rtbwolf 2 года назад

      @Silence Do Good This is what I came here to say lol

    • @jacobibriy.8695
      @jacobibriy.8695 2 года назад

      AND THIS IS NOT ONE OF HIS RIGHT MOMENTS SORRY.

    • @countdebleauchamp
      @countdebleauchamp 2 года назад

      "And you're right."
      - Chinatown

  • @butramsey
    @butramsey 2 года назад +18

    Actually Bill, that was the first time I've seen one of Biden's stories to be cohesive enough in a televised speech that I could derive a point. So thanks for sharing.

  • @jvincent6548
    @jvincent6548 2 года назад +1

    We're a white middle-class liberal family in UK. We raised our kids to be liberals too. My daughter who is in her final year at university in London came home at term-end with her new boyfriend. "It's serious, I think", I said to my wife before they arrived.
    Oh my god was my silent reaction when they got out of the car. She had brought home a white boy!
    Whispered conversations out of earshot, furtive looks, though we tried to make the young man feel as welcome as we could, I could sense his discomfiture. After he had left to go back to his parents the rows and the recriminations began.
    "What on earth do you think you're doing", I asked her.
    "Why couldn't you bring home a good black boy", said my wife tearfully.
    "Oh the shame", I exclaimed, holding my head in my hands whilst wringing them, "Think how this will look. What will the neighbours think, I implored my daughter"
    "You're just so square and old-fashioned", retorted our daughter.
    "What will they say, at the 'New Socialists' club", I entreated.
    "Where did we go wrong!", I shouted as my daughter ran out of the room.
    My wife was now sobbing hysterically, her mascara creating a black, miniature Nile Delta on each of her cheeks and, strangely, symmetrical, too.

  • @czechpirc3212
    @czechpirc3212 2 года назад +1036

    One of Bills best pieces in a long long time, well done

  • @bobbyhill7948
    @bobbyhill7948 2 года назад +544

    Notice when he addresses legitimate problems in society the crowd barely claps

    • @geralddecaire6164
      @geralddecaire6164 2 года назад +13

      Legitimate problems? Sure, they're legitimate in regards to racial discrimination, but that's not what Progressives are complaining about. They're complaining about fracking as opposed to saving the planet. They're complaining about 70,000 dying annually from want of healthcare. They're complaining about gowing inequality when full time workers on minimum wage can't even afford an apartment in any of the 50 states or a $500 emergency. They're complaining about the private prison system that locks up non violent offenders for profit. All this misdirection and strawmanning from Bill is cute stuff for the Whole Foods brunch crowd who already have their healthcare, but it's a disaster for those who don't.

    • @strafer8764
      @strafer8764 2 года назад +12

      @@geralddecaire6164 sounds like picking a side is picking a bunch of generalizations. I don’t get the appeal.

    • @geralddecaire6164
      @geralddecaire6164 2 года назад

      @@strafer8764 Single payer healthcare is a generalization?

    • @strafer8764
      @strafer8764 2 года назад +13

      @@geralddecaire6164 that’s what you took from that? One detail.

    • @geralddecaire6164
      @geralddecaire6164 2 года назад +3

      @@strafer8764 You're an idiot and a troll. There's a liturgy of policies supported by the left that the centrist democrats only give lip service to like climate change and then Biden turns around and enables fracking and oil drilling far more than even Trump did. I could go on and on but since you're the one who pretends to be informed, you figure it out. And healthcare for all is no small detail when 70,000 people die annually for want of it and 530,000 go bankrupt. Of course, I'm guessing you've got yours while having brunch at Whole Foods and that's why it's a small thing to you and Bill Maher. Take a look in the mirror and learn to accept your new identity as an undercover Republican. How does it feel?

  • @TheFiddle101
    @TheFiddle101 2 года назад +2

    I watch this clip again and again. So much wisdom.

  • @glenncalzada1707
    @glenncalzada1707 2 года назад +2

    Thank you Bill for speaking out.

  • @hightide9513
    @hightide9513 3 года назад +364

    In the words of my professor, “Ask your Grandmother how bad you have it...”

    • @adamhendler9643
      @adamhendler9643 3 года назад +4

      With such a mentality we all would now be like the Amish inbreds.

    • @xordus
      @xordus 3 года назад +19

      @@adamhendler9643 dumbest comment Ive read today. thx

    • @2126Eliza
      @2126Eliza 3 года назад +1

      Same professor: “my family abused your grandmother “

    • @hightide9513
      @hightide9513 3 года назад +10

      @Gerald DeCaire Why yes, I do. Do you know what else didn’t exists in that era? Employee provided health care, minimum wage, and a host of other regulation that makes labor more expensive. Materials were cheaper for many of the same reasons. Property values are quite literally tied to inflation. That’s the cost of progress. That’s the cost of increasing the standard of living. Cheap labor and materials are a thing of the past. They died with minimum wage crusades and mandatory benefits. They died with Government oversight and regulatory compliance costs. Grandmas house was built with labor that would be illegal today, with materials that helped poison the rivers and deforest the west. You have no room to complain now.

    • @dustinalexander1829
      @dustinalexander1829 3 года назад +1

      @Gerald DeCaire yeah, government oversight costs. It's necessary. Seat belts, backup cameras, fire codes, and environmental codes, all increase cost. People are bitching about being poor on iPhones while eating $8 combo meals.

  • @ZeroOskul
    @ZeroOskul 3 года назад +203

    In the 1950s, my Jewish grandmother was disowned by her family because she married my Jamaican grandfather and they were attacked and threatened and had to leave the country because it was too dangerous to be a biracial couple in New York City.
    They lived West Side story with none of the song and dance.

    • @brandonbakhtiar7451
      @brandonbakhtiar7451 3 года назад +4

      Socially we have. But revolutions are over economic inequalities and in a system that forces most to figure out how to sell labor while the productivity of technology is funneled to the Bezos class, there is plenty to be gloomy about. I see DARPA robots/drones replacing soldiers to oppose the coming protests against living conditions & the rich hiring private security.

    • @busylivingnotdying
      @busylivingnotdying 3 года назад +2

      @@brandonbakhtiar7451 Sure, you are right! (and a little bit wrong) .. :)
      There is a crisis in the west (industrialized countries) as jobs flee. And if we are not careful, it becomes a "race to the bottom"
      Technically things are better now. Even if you are poor, the conveniences you enjoy weren't even dreamed of in the past! But POWER and DIGNITY is consentrating on the top (all over the world) and that signals DANGER!
      So, a mixed bag ;)

    • @busylivingnotdying
      @busylivingnotdying 3 года назад +5

      @@brandonbakhtiar7451 I think some of Bill's point was: let's have some PERSPECTIVE! If we are mean and angry at EVERYONE ALL THE TIME because, you know: INJUSTICES! (even against those who "feebly" try and help), it all just turn into sour grapes.
      Part of progress it to "stop at the top" and enjoy the view before you hasten on ;)

    • @justins5225
      @justins5225 3 года назад +1

      @@brandonbakhtiar7451 spot on. Biggest economic disparity since the great depression.

    • @danporath536
      @danporath536 3 года назад +6

      @@justins5225 Identity politics and culture wars is what the one percent inflict upon the broad working class to keep them from uniting against them.

  • @laurameszaros9547
    @laurameszaros9547 2 года назад +1

    I'm from UK, only just come across Bill Maher. Brilliant stuff, love it. Sensible centrism, such as is becoming increasingly difficult to find.

    • @-dash
      @-dash 2 года назад

      That’s what the Center and the Right are ultimately there for: to moderate the Left and to make their conception of progress more sensible. Only then is their progress accepted, and a new status quo is established.
      All are slaves to the Left; we are their instruments during peacetime. During wartime, the Center and the Right protect the hearth and home while the Left cowers.

  • @aquamarine0023
    @aquamarine0023 2 года назад +10

    Bravo to Bill Maher for having the intelligence to think for himself and the balls to speak out about it!!!!

  • @adenhawk4029
    @adenhawk4029 3 года назад +431

    “The world doesn’t owe you anything. It was here first.” -Mark Twain
    I think bill is funniest when ripping on my generation 😂😂

    • @adenhawk4029
      @adenhawk4029 3 года назад +10

      Zoomer*

    • @ERRORhxc13
      @ERRORhxc13 3 года назад +15

      Half of millennials are ok. The other half are the stupid idiots Bill is referring to. Gen z is screwed up beyond belief.

    • @rogerfench2976
      @rogerfench2976 3 года назад +9

      @@ERRORhxc13 You got it right for sure. People blame Trump for the mass hysteria which overtook our country. Donald Trump is like a pretty standard pro-American politician, in terms of policy. Don't believe me? Commala ALREADY said that illegals need to get out, and that we need to build the wall. Nobody realizes that it was NOT the orange man, but the multiple generations of zoomers which fomented the hysteria. Zoomers, one graduating year after the other, each less capable of entering the workforce than the prior, the most pouty and over-pampered generation to walk upon the Earth. And I mean LITERALLY. There has not been a more fictionally aggrieved generation as these recent generations of zoomers. And they keep trying to blame the President for this. As if they would have participated in society otherwise. No they would not. Trump is the scapegoat for the fall of America. As if he could control all these maniacs. People want me to believe that he was a bumbling idiot, adn simultaneously the most diabolical and effectively devastating enemy the world has ever seen. Nah homie, it's you tho. Go get a job for 13 dollars and shut up. Trump tried to bring BACK our industry, and yall called him a nazi for it.

    • @timk1890
      @timk1890 3 года назад +3

      Your generation needs ripping. Your generation are idiots.

    • @ERRORhxc13
      @ERRORhxc13 3 года назад +5

      @@timk1890 it's a sad state of affairs that in terms of education, millennials and gen z are far more educated than the previous generations, yet are far more stupid despite it. Values as fluid as water and forgetting, or rather, canceling our history. Won't be much longer before these fools elect an American version of Stalin or Mao Zedong. I wonder if they'll feel so enlightened when the blood of millions of Americans starts flowing.

  • @michaelhalliday4440
    @michaelhalliday4440 3 года назад +676

    I don't often agree with Bill but he makes a good point. Progress indeed.

    • @seansweeney8911
      @seansweeney8911 3 года назад +6

      Bill’s an idiot though. Cancelled at Berkeley and still a Democrat

    • @co-bruh1423
      @co-bruh1423 3 года назад +39

      @@seansweeney8911 *yawn* sh*t opinions are rather tiring

    • @hillaryclintondidnothingwrong
      @hillaryclintondidnothingwrong 3 года назад +16

      @@jmsmikey What are you talking about? Trump's out of office.

    • @neven3000
      @neven3000 3 года назад

      In that case you are more dumb and he is!!!

    • @jmsmikey
      @jmsmikey 3 года назад +7

      @@hillaryclintondidnothingwrong Yes Hillary & when Trump was in we had a secure border & $2 gasoline & a president that could make to the end of a sentence without fainting.

  • @TheUnvarnishedTruth-
    @TheUnvarnishedTruth- 2 года назад +2

    *AS USUAL... AND AGAIN... WELL DONE AND RIGHT ON BILL!*

  • @jsreynolds
    @jsreynolds 10 месяцев назад +1

    All solid points made. Now we need a similar segment to convince (for instance) suburban evangelical whites that they aren’t being oppressed when someone wishes them “happy holidays” or airs a commercial that mixes blacks with whites.
    If Maher keeps his conservative fans afterwards, THAT will be real progress too.

  • @spb7883
    @spb7883 3 года назад +240

    Part of the problem is that for most people - especially young people - progress or regress only occurs in a bubble, and that bubble is their computer screen.

    • @nibiruliberaldemon2125
      @nibiruliberaldemon2125 3 года назад +6

      VERY TRUE.

    • @charlesrovira5707
      @charlesrovira5707 3 года назад +12

      What bubble? Everybody uses LCD displays.

    • @randolphpinkle4482
      @randolphpinkle4482 3 года назад +4

      @@charlesrovira5707 A psychological 'bubble' Charles, but joke understood and acknowledged.

    • @ricardo950535
      @ricardo950535 3 года назад +3

      Yes! Instant gratification as well, reading news and about the world through a carefully detailed filter.

    • @A_Derpy_NINJA
      @A_Derpy_NINJA 3 года назад +10

      Most of the problem is old people, stuck in their ways. Looking to people like bill to tell them how and what to think.

  • @cell1540rol
    @cell1540rol 3 года назад +1547

    “We’ve come a long way. Not mission accomplished, but a long way”

    • @blackout07blue
      @blackout07blue 3 года назад +8

      Somebody give Bill a pacifier.

    • @objectivemillennial2117
      @objectivemillennial2117 3 года назад +17

      @Perma Banned in my opinion it would take few centuries to a millennial before we give up the tribe desire we carried for millions of years once humans give up that lizard brain that make us irrational and emotionally unstable we might then move to a new world where there will be no more crime no more war no more willful destruction of our habitation and our fellow people we might live in a single country that could care about all of humanity

    • @JohnDavis-ez9jl
      @JohnDavis-ez9jl 3 года назад +5

      @@objectivemillennial2117 lol

    • @danporath536
      @danporath536 3 года назад +31

      @@objectivemillennial2117 History doesn’t repeat itself…human nature does. Progress is incremental, but Nature is, and always will be the strongest force in the world. We can work with it or against it, but it always bats last at 1000%. It hasn’t lost...ever.
      It is made up of chemistry, biology and physics, and rewards only adaptation strategies that act according to those same things. If your adaptation strategy is grounded instead in ideology, or election-year politics, and on…Mother Nature will mercilessly expose that as a failed strategy.

    • @swiftcars5618
      @swiftcars5618 3 года назад +10

      @@danporath536 excellent

  • @ninarogers6234
    @ninarogers6234 Год назад +1

    Bill is totally correct in all he says about our society today as opposed to the past . And that is precisely why I miss the good old days so much !!!

  • @donaldfredericksen1853
    @donaldfredericksen1853 4 месяца назад

    Bill is quite a smart guy and his points well,they are on point. I love the way he doesn't choose sides and everything is fair game. Bravo Bill and keep up the good work.

  • @hecticnarcoleptic7829
    @hecticnarcoleptic7829 2 года назад +126

    Bill is showing up to the party at 4 AM yelling "Happy New Year!" like the ball just dropped. Welcome to the party dude, we've been saying this stuff for a while, but yeah, you right.

    • @Nillon24
      @Nillon24 2 года назад +18

      Over the last few months, it's like Bill has slowly been waking up from a years long "Trump Is The Devil" coma.....looking around and going "What the f**k is going on here?!?" Good to have him back! (I had just about given up on him)

    • @mezo72271
      @mezo72271 2 года назад +2

      @@Nillon24 I think that their mission is accomplished, they are succesfully brainwashed enough people to vote blue and realizing now that having a TDS pulls down your ratings so they have to come up with some common sense. He still put up a picture from the capitol.

    • @skeletonshorror5184
      @skeletonshorror5184 2 года назад +4

      Agreed, some of us have been warning the Left for decades! 💀🔥

    • @hecticnarcoleptic7829
      @hecticnarcoleptic7829 2 года назад +1

      @@EJY318 I disagree. I think he may have had some nifty counter-progressive statements in the past but he was caught napping on this.

    • @claucemicro1080
      @claucemicro1080 2 года назад +1

      @@EJY318 Yes, that's why he is criticized by the "real left".

  • @markkitchell4386
    @markkitchell4386 2 года назад +31

    This clip needs to be seen by everyone. Thank you Bill for your clear thinking!

  • @santiagofarell3405
    @santiagofarell3405 2 года назад +1

    Bravo sir, standing up for real equality and progress

  • @jeffalonzo4035
    @jeffalonzo4035 2 года назад +1

    Well said! Some more awesome wisdom dressed up for a laugh from Mr. Maher.

  • @ec-jy9sz
    @ec-jy9sz 3 года назад +242

    This may be one of the most insightful commentaries expressed this year.

    • @MinhVu-fl4nn
      @MinhVu-fl4nn 3 года назад +8

      It's really not though. All of what he said is mainly a distraction used by the liberal elites that he is also apart of. Typical working class "progressives" care more their wage, health care, childcare, and other economic conditions far more than mixed race couples on TV and the various social justice crap. Working class progressives agree with the cultural left but also know that at the moment, the economic inequalities far outweigh which race the next Superman will be. Bill spent like 10 seconds mentioning the environment and homeless and the rest about how we're not as racist/sexist as the past.

    • @BishopWalters12
      @BishopWalters12 3 года назад +5

      Hit and Miss, Bill is taking on the Woke losers with kid gloves here and Somehow saying a show like Friends shouldn't exist today with a straight white cast is beyond stupid.

    • @HeavyChevy
      @HeavyChevy 3 года назад

      @@MinhVu-fl4nn 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

    • @jasonrogers2831
      @jasonrogers2831 3 года назад +7

      @@BishopWalters12 He's not saying it shouldn't exist. That's his whole point is that we are so worried about 'progress' that a show with 6 white straight characters wouldn't be allowed to be on TV. His point is not that it shouldn't be.

    • @82Jaster
      @82Jaster 3 года назад +3

      @@jasonrogers2831 It's also not even true. The main cast of The Goldberg's are all white. Same goes for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. People mainly take shots at Friends because of how comical and absurd it was for a show to take place in New York and they seemingly never ran across any minorities until later seasons.

  • @c.michellesparks2925
    @c.michellesparks2925 3 года назад +74

    I am 53 years old and had to play half court basketball, curtsy and was made to walk around with a book on my head. We have made MASSIVE progress but it's harder to see when you are young.

    • @cliftt
      @cliftt 3 года назад +3

      Teenagers want everything now. Makes sense. 10 years is half (50%) a lifetime if one is 20. For u and me 10 years is only 20%. 🤔

    • @TheFeldhamster
      @TheFeldhamster 3 года назад +6

      @@cliftt teenagers *always* wanted everything now. I know I did. Exactly for the reason you point out. And it's the whole point of being a teenager / in your 20s. Because once you hit 40+, most people are too tired or busy to push for change. We'd grow complacent as a society if it wasn't for every new generation saying "it's not good enough".
      We should teach them more about how far we've come, though, because progress is more motivating. Imagine you were 20 now. You might have heard a bit about Dubya as a president from your parents, then grown up with Obama, then seen the US regress under Trump. *Of course* it will feel like everything is going to shit. You would not feel like it was a temporary setback that is common in history. It's usually 2 steps forward, 1 step back. As long as the overall trend is more steps forward than back, we make progress. But if you're born during forward and now see the step back and don't look at the overall history, it will make you feel like we're going backwards.

    • @nortonyatzee7254
      @nortonyatzee7254 3 года назад

      I've got you by a few years & that stuff was gone in my area, minus the half court bb. I don't even know if grammar schools even had girls bb in my area then.

    • @terriej123
      @terriej123 3 года назад +3

      And what do you think made that progress happen? Historically it’s been young people, by pointing out the things that still need fixing.

    • @cliftt
      @cliftt 3 года назад

      @@TheFeldhamster Facts. U are preaching to the choir. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~Aristotle
      I sit in my easy chair saying "Go get 'em". I've noticed that the more comfortable I become financially, the more fiscally conservative I become. 😏

  • @kantraxoikol6914
    @kantraxoikol6914 2 года назад

    thank you Bill, this was some SERIOUS subjects, you handled excellent

  • @hectoraponte2402
    @hectoraponte2402 2 года назад

    Well said. Hope they will listen and learn.

  • @roiblack8587
    @roiblack8587 3 года назад +233

    "Not mission accomplished, but a long way."
    Yes, exactly that.

    • @roiblack8587
      @roiblack8587 3 года назад +5

      @cheekmeat 66 A world where minorities don´t have to fear a traffic stop by the police or a job interview or application for a loan or college... simply a world, where everyone is treated fairly and with respect.
      But foremost a world where no lunatics don´t rush into a gathering (club, concert, congregation or conference) gun blazing and killing everyone who is moving.

    • @roiblack8587
      @roiblack8587 3 года назад +1

      @Cory Burns Maybe. But i think, we will agree, that it is worth trying to end this for good.

    • @jc626
      @jc626 3 года назад +1

      Most of the people commenting here have no idea what "mission accomplished" and "you've come a long way, baby" refer to.

    • @TheSands83
      @TheSands83 3 года назад +1

      @@roiblack8587 minorities have a way easier time getting into college than a white person lady... u r delusional... it’s just a fact

    • @TheSands83
      @TheSands83 3 года назад

      @@roiblack8587 a loan ? Ever heard of sub prime mortgages? U need to educate yourself a lot!!!!

  • @shawnbradford2243
    @shawnbradford2243 2 года назад +279

    The world is going to hell in a hand bag when Bill is the voice of reason!

    • @jldude84
      @jldude84 2 года назад +12

      No shit. 12 years ago HE was the Trevor Noah of social justice.

    • @terryadams2652
      @terryadams2652 2 года назад +1

      shawn ,, you mean, just b/c you say so?

    • @mihaimoldo
      @mihaimoldo 2 года назад

      No it's not.

    • @qesitah_mandala7125
      @qesitah_mandala7125 2 года назад

      Laissez-Faire is moderate and democracy is radical..

    • @biggy3rd
      @biggy3rd 2 года назад

      @Dicky Jones BS! He has always been th8s way. Go watch some "Politically Incorrect"

  • @nofearonlylove21
    @nofearonlylove21 Год назад

    Only the sane can listen to someone like Bill Maher and find common sense in what hes saying. Your perspective is desperately needed right now.

  • @agustinurena4516
    @agustinurena4516 Год назад

    Mr. Maher: you are always such a deep, analytical and wise observer. My full respect. 👏

  • @singersamwriter
    @singersamwriter 3 года назад +64

    Just think, if the mainstream media broadcast even half of the truth Maher said here, the future might look brighter! Great segment, Bill.

    • @stevenrivers8386
      @stevenrivers8386 3 года назад +4

      Yup. But they could care less because positivity doesn’t sell.

    • @A_Derpy_NINJA
      @A_Derpy_NINJA 3 года назад +2

      They’re too busy trying to convince people trump was a Russian asset!

    • @co-bruh1423
      @co-bruh1423 3 года назад +2

      @@stevenrivers8386 If it bleeds, it leads

    • @stevenrivers8386
      @stevenrivers8386 3 года назад

      @@A_Derpy_NINJA I know. Still. Lol the guy has been out of office for near half a year. 🤦🏼‍♂️

    • @A_Derpy_NINJA
      @A_Derpy_NINJA 3 года назад +1

      @@stevenrivers8386 they’ve all taking a massive hit in ratings. They had everyone hyped trump was going to prison and when he didn’t and just casually left office, everyone said f that. Now they want to revive trump anyway they can for the ratings 😂

  • @positiveliving.
    @positiveliving. 3 года назад +53

    I'm a dyed in the wool Conservative with a capital C but I think this is one of Bill's best ever New Rules observation. Well done - can we all move forward together now?

    • @MrGgabber
      @MrGgabber 3 года назад +6

      Nope, division is more profitable

    • @lildaddykk7155
      @lildaddykk7155 3 года назад +4

      Thank you for your acknowledgement. Now can you convince your fellow TrumpiQans that an insurrection against American democracy is bad. And in turn, have them verbalize it on Fox or OAN?

    • @MrGgabber
      @MrGgabber 3 года назад +2

      @@lildaddykk7155 I guess we could tell the couple dozen people in QAnon. Can you tell the thousands of BLM rioters that their insurrection and murder and burning neighborhoods also only helps the division?

    • @user-gm4kv2my4u
      @user-gm4kv2my4u 3 года назад

      @@lildaddykk7155 Oh piss off back to your "modern" dorm that would ironically look very normal in the 40s.

    • @2126Eliza
      @2126Eliza 3 года назад

      Move forward? You mean while you stay exactly the same?

  • @Xeno_Channel
    @Xeno_Channel 2 года назад

    Holy shit that was the best thing I have EVER watched. We need more people like you bill!

  • @LB-px9td
    @LB-px9td 2 года назад +3

    Missed you Bill. As always you tell it like it is. Need you to wake up some people.

  • @eseguerito2629
    @eseguerito2629 3 года назад +385

    “Nothing breeds success, like success does.” This applies to learning new skills as well as societal advancement. Seeing ground being gained is the most motivational force out there.

    • @terriej123
      @terriej123 3 года назад +5

      Lol you’d be surprised how often that is not the case. Ever heard of a backlash? It’s always 1 step forward, 3 steps back.

    • @JD-ku3xt
      @JD-ku3xt 3 года назад +10

      Women are seeing ground being lost right now.

    • @brandonbakhtiar7451
      @brandonbakhtiar7451 3 года назад +6

      Socially we have. But revolutions are over economic inequalities and in a system that forces most to figure out how to sell labor while the productivity of technology is funneled to the Bezos class, there is plenty to be gloomy about. I see DARPA robots/drones replacing soldiers to oppose the coming protests against living conditions & the rich hiring private security.

    • @robsurfingtherabbithole1301
      @robsurfingtherabbithole1301 3 года назад +11

      @@terriej123 Always? Really? That's stupid because if it was always one step forward and two steps back we wouldn't be better today than we were 50 years ago. And if you think that's true then you're exactly who bill is talking to

    • @jayfree850
      @jayfree850 3 года назад +4

      What if you're not concerned with success and simply want a modest life without having to struggle Evey day of your life? Do I have to succeed to be allowed to live, even though I wasn't around to approve of the decision to bring me into this horrible world?

  • @Martincito714
    @Martincito714 3 года назад +53

    His crowd clapping like seals… Dude, he’s talking about you.

    • @romaczech75
      @romaczech75 3 года назад +3

      They're actually all his staff on the show. The public is still not allowed into the studio until next week. They probably feel they don't have a choice.

    • @alf9708
      @alf9708 3 года назад +8

      You're misinformed about Liberals, especially Liberals that watch Maher. He's been saying the same stuff for years and years. He's not actually talking about his audience because his audience agrees with him.

    • @Acujeremy
      @Acujeremy 3 года назад

      They will actually clap on command no matter what he says. It's amazing. He can say how horrible Biden is and they will cheer, he can say how amazing he is, and they will cheer.

    • @Acujeremy
      @Acujeremy 3 года назад

      @THEODORE NICKLAS Progressives are just extreme Democrats.

    • @skywalker6648
      @skywalker6648 2 года назад

      @@Acujeremy Lately, it seems that way.

  • @capstan3613
    @capstan3613 Год назад

    Thank you so much!

  • @bradmarshall9062
    @bradmarshall9062 2 года назад

    Love your clarity and humour.

  • @gwats19577
    @gwats19577 3 года назад +109

    Every once in a while, Bill hits it out of the park... nice job, Brother......

    • @blackout07blue
      @blackout07blue 3 года назад +2

      Strawman Arguments 101

    • @sullen2420
      @sullen2420 3 года назад +2

      Nope. He completely neglected to mention the complete nosedive we have taken economically. His generation let the New Deal rot, and embraced free market extremism. Even Dems did, especially Clinton and Obama. Why are millennials and gen z miserasble? Maybe it's because we make LESS minimum wage than Boomers did. Back then the min wage was around $23 in today's money. Rents, OUT OF CONTROL. But economics, Dems won't even touch. It's disgusting actually.

    • @gwats19577
      @gwats19577 3 года назад +6

      @@sullen2420 Another fool who thinks thinks the job of economic recovery is solely the responsibility of those in charge...NO, we ALL play a large part in our own personal prosperity... Got married in 91, have owned TWO homes, suffered through a lot of rough times in this Country, and got smarter about money along the way... blaming your leaders for 100% of your bad decisions and misery is the easy way out... Get out there, get your hands dirty, get involved... Times are a lot better than when I was a skinny Black kid in the 1960s..we've made progress, but the job isn't done yet, and Trump set us back about a decade.....

    • @ozzie3963
      @ozzie3963 3 года назад +3

      @@sullen2420 ...falling apart at every seam and all they can ask is “what did the republicans do”

    • @sullen2420
      @sullen2420 3 года назад +1

      @@gwats19577 Only a fool would have your mentality than government ISN'T responsible for setting economic policy. Do you even KNOW what the new deal did for this country? Do you know it's been dismantled? Did you know what YOU earned is WAY less in today's dollars? Are you interested in solving our problems AT ALL? Maybe just register as a Republican, you'd be way more at home in that party.

  • @theJimmer66
    @theJimmer66 2 года назад +285

    I'm starting to like Bill, now that's progress.

    • @therealkat1342
      @therealkat1342 2 года назад +2

      progREEEEESSS!!!

    • @jimbofranz412
      @jimbofranz412 2 года назад +1

      Fo rill tho

    • @skeletonshorror5184
      @skeletonshorror5184 2 года назад +6

      Same, because even he can’t stand the bed the Left has made. 💀🔥

    • @benc.3128
      @benc.3128 2 года назад +6

      His audience is annoying though. They laugh when he says anything, but then he starts talking about things that actually matter and they get uncomfortable

    • @swordarmstudios6052
      @swordarmstudios6052 2 года назад +1

      Bill has always been an honest critic.
      And as a result, he actually has some influence on the right. Maher is all in on progressive policy. But he doesn't brush over the bits that he thinks doesn't work.

  • @veritas2222
    @veritas2222 2 года назад

    Brilliant. Illuminated. Thank you, Bill 🌹

  • @oliverspen
    @oliverspen Год назад +1

    So true. I was born in the UK in the 70s (and grew up in the 80s)
    I remember when Eastenders, ( uk soap ) first introduced an openly gay man as a character and it made national news . It was also deemed highly controversial. Fast forward to today, RuPaul’s Drag race is prime time tv on a Saturday night. We have definitely taken some huge steps forward

  • @ropl3083
    @ropl3083 2 года назад +98

    Bill Maher - the older he gets the wiser. He's come a long way. Not mission accomplished, but still. Proud of him!!!

  • @Mandrake591
    @Mandrake591 3 года назад +91

    This is one of Bill's best speeches.

    • @jeromerondeau2824
      @jeromerondeau2824 3 года назад +2

      I agree!

    • @blackout07blue
      @blackout07blue 3 года назад +2

      Strawman 101

    • @johnnino2755
      @johnnino2755 3 года назад

      👍👍👍

    • @Stephen2153
      @Stephen2153 3 года назад

      Agreed.

    • @Stephen2153
      @Stephen2153 3 года назад +1

      @@blackout07blue you are clinically delayed. How about you drink your juicebox and eat your cookie and leave the conversation for actual adults.

  • @annnaylor5961
    @annnaylor5961 2 года назад

    Thank you Bill Maher for opening people's eyes.. We are all equal before God xxxx

  • @ImBABYJANEHUDSON
    @ImBABYJANEHUDSON 2 года назад +1

    He is killing it these days. Such a return to form.

  • @peepinyowindow4517
    @peepinyowindow4517 2 года назад +39

    Perfect delivery and good writers. This show is well well done. Between the outlooks and open discussion to the quick liners that don’t make it too jokey and still makes a positive talk on these subjects. Love it.

  • @fivestring65ify
    @fivestring65ify 2 года назад +12

    Once again, Maher hits the nail on the head. Well done Bill.

  • @teaves8251
    @teaves8251 2 года назад

    Bill you have been chosen to spread the light in the darkness! Keep up the insightful work of seeing from the middle road. 👏

  • @starkeyshelbyj
    @starkeyshelbyj Год назад

    Thank you

  • @-C.S.R
    @-C.S.R 3 года назад +34

    Thank you! We need more talk like this!

    • @blackout07blue
      @blackout07blue 3 года назад +4

      Strawman Arguments for the simple minds! Feels good like Fox News does to republicans!

  • @MrAntiOrdinary
    @MrAntiOrdinary 3 года назад +126

    Perspective is like corrective lenses for a generation that is incessantly near sighted. Thank for the prescription, Bill.

    • @jayfree850
      @jayfree850 3 года назад +1

      You idiots just don't get it. Yes, it is better than it was, and yes a majority of us, dare I say supermajority, are in agreement on that fact. You are detracting from our argument by deflecting with this right wing strategy BS. The argument in "wokeness" now isn't whether or not the world is better than it was...it's about how the world is still a giant pile of crap and we need to fix it before the world decides we don't deserve to live anymore.

    • @RatherCrunchyMuffin
      @RatherCrunchyMuffin 3 года назад +7

      @@jayfree850 this isn't a right-wing perspective, drop that binary; as if any critique equates to conservatism. This video is pointing out the absurdity of claiming social injustices are worse now than they have ever been. Thats it.. Maher even goes to pains to state that recognizing progress doesn't mean mission accomplished, and yes action still needs to be taken.. You can be simultaneously progressive and recognize progress -- thats the whole point being made here.

    • @jayfree850
      @jayfree850 3 года назад +3

      @@RatherCrunchyMuffin Apparently you've missed my point.

    • @bonniedudley2953
      @bonniedudley2953 3 года назад +4

      @@jayfree850 The way you view the world says more about you than about the world?

    • @truthfactors4553
      @truthfactors4553 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/iF1TJR3Loog/видео.html

  • @asafuthomas6339
    @asafuthomas6339 2 года назад

    Never knew you were so good on point. Realistic my friend

  • @randywebb7052
    @randywebb7052 Год назад

    Bravo, Bill. Well-said! "Before you" lol