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I AGREE WITH BILL MAHER!
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I AGREE WITH BILL MAHER!


Mar 24, 2021, 5:12 PM

A lot of truth

"Real Time" Liberal host Bill Maher closed his show Friday night by sounding the alarm on China's growing dominance over the United States.

"You're not going to win the battle for the 21st century if you are a silly people. And Americans are a silly people," Maher began the monologue, alluding to a "Lawrence of Arabia" quote.

Do you know who doesn't care that there's a stereotype of a Chinese man in a Dr. Seuss book? China," he said. "All 1.4 billion of them couldn't give a crouching tiger flying f--- because they're not a silly people. If anything, they are as serious as a prison fight."

Maher acknowledged that China does "bad stuff" from the concentration camps of Uyghur Muslims to its treatment of Hong Kong.

But he stressed, "There's got to be something between an authoritarian government that tells everyone what to do and a representative government that can't do anything at all."

"In two generations, China has built 500 entire cities from scratch, moved the majority of their huge population from poverty to the middle class, and mostly cornered the market in 5G and pharmaceuticals. Oh, and they bought Africa," Maher said, pointing to China's global Silk Road infrastructure initiative.

He continued: "In China alone, they have 40,000 kilometers of high-speed rail. America has none. ... We've been having Infrastructure Week every week since 2009 but we never do anything. Half the country is having a never-ending woke competition deciding whether Mr. Potato Head has a d--- and the other half believes we have to stop the lizard people because they're eating babies. We are a silly people.

"Nothing ever moves in this impacted colon of a country. We see a problem and we ignore it, lie about it, fight about it, endlessly litigate it, sunset clause it, kick it down the road, and then write a bill where a half-assed solution doesn't kick in for 10 years," Maher explained. "China sees a problem and they fix it. They build a ###. We debate what to rename it."

The HBO star cited how it took "ten years" for a bus line in San Francisco to pass its environmental review and how it took "16 years" to build the Big Dig tunnel in Boston, comparing that to a 57-story skyscraper that China built in "19 days" and Beijing's Sanyuan Bridge, which was demolished and rebuilt in "43 hours."

"We binge-watch, they binge-build. When COVID hit Wuhan, the city built a quarantine center with 4,000 rooms in 10 days and they barely had to use it because they quickly arrested the rest of the disease," Maher said. "They were back to throwing raves in swimming pools while we were stuck at home surfing the dark web for black market Charmin. We're not losing to China, we lost. The returns just haven't all come in yet. They've made robots that check a kid's temperature and got their ##### back in school. Most of our kids are still pretending to take Zoom classes while they watch TikTok and their brain cells fully commit ritual suicide."

Maher then blasted Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, accusing him of degrading school standards by eliminating merit and substituting a lottery system for admittance to schools for advanced learners.

"Do you think China's doing that, letting political correctness get in the way of nurturing their best and brightest?" Maher continued. "Do you think Chinese colleges are offering courses in 'The Philosophy of Star Trek, 'The Sociology of Seinfeld,' and 'Surviving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse'? Those are real and so is China. And they are eating our lunch. And believe me, in an hour, they'll be hungry again."

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I don't care where you lie on the political spectrum,


Mar 24, 2021, 5:32 PM

if you don't agree with that you are sleep walking through life.

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MauldinT, where are you???


The US Women Soccer demanding equal pay is Silliness also!


Mar 24, 2021, 7:06 PM

I would agree with Megan Rapinoe if she could make the men’s team.
This is not the same as a Woman and a Man, both accountants working at the same company, doing the same job....

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Re: I AGREE WITH BILL MAHER!


Mar 24, 2021, 6:53 PM

I agree with 99.99% of his stuff, but just so you know, he would think you're a complete ###### bag. Like most of America.

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BGS dude!


Mar 24, 2021, 7:03 PM

Serious infection!

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Nobody tell him how China accomplished all that.


Mar 24, 2021, 7:24 PM

Or who knows, maybe he just loves big authoritarian government.

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yeah alot of that makes sense


Mar 24, 2021, 8:17 PM

but China <> Merica

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Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile,
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!!


Hear Hear!***


Mar 24, 2021, 8:24 PM



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Re: I AGREE WITH BILL MAHER!


Mar 24, 2021, 9:14 PM

I have to agree too. He hit the nail on the head. We are a silly people.
We'd rather fight than fix.

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Re: I AGREE WITH BILL MAHER!


Mar 25, 2021, 7:28 AM

How do we fix it? Serious question. We are so polarized right now. Each “half” simply has certain ideologies that will not be compromised. I certainly have beliefs I will not compromise as do most people who have any clue what they believe and stand for. I don’t know if there is a middle or if there should be when the right and left are so far apart.

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He's still a liberal POS ... he just knows that Trump is


Mar 24, 2021, 9:30 PM

gone, and he needs to keep his liberal goon squad fired up over something.

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Re: He's still a liberal POS ... he just knows that Trump is


Mar 25, 2021, 12:58 AM

You make him sound like Tucker Carlson

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I don't totally disagree, but it sounds rather simplistic


Mar 25, 2021, 7:47 AM

I wonder if one reason China can build a skyscraper in 57 days is because if the workers don't put in the work, they could get put to death or something. I mean, there are probably layers to that that aren't necessarily positive. When I worked with some Chinese folks a few years back, they were talking about doing a good job so that they'd be *allowed to* go see their families more frequently.

Also, my observation...the people making a big deal out of Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head are the ones that don't like the change. It seems very important to them for some reason. I have yet to hear from anyone upset about Dr. Seuss's books, but I have read many many people, saying how upset they are about whoever doesn't like Dr. Seuss. *shrugs*

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The Empire State Building went from vacant lot to occupied


Mar 25, 2021, 8:59 AM

in less than a year. It was about logistics and engineering pre-gaming. The steel beams they used were still warm to the touch when they arrived on site from Pittsburgh.

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Here's the video in case you don't want the Fox News version


Mar 25, 2021, 8:01 AM

You can watch his monologues for free every week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DH4v6FnbvM

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Re: I AGREE WITH BILL MAHER!


Mar 25, 2021, 9:39 AM

I watch Bill just about every week and agree with him more than not. Excluding the religion stuff.

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Re: I AGREE WITH BILL MAHER!


Mar 25, 2021, 9:52 AM

he seems to be pandering more to the right since HBO got bought out by Time Warner(assumption on my part). Regardless, glad more people are watching his show.

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And all that done by a communist country


Mar 25, 2021, 10:41 PM

Running a socialist market economy with a focus on economic progress.

Pretty amazing that so many Pubs are cheering this thread. Let’s see:
- major companies have significant government ownership or oversight
- China invested in helping poorest citizens knowing that it would improve country overall
- guns are strictly controlled
- one political party has control (and they support a socialist republic)

Both political parties need to get their head out of their ##### and start focusing on the country growth, instead of arguing how to split and divide the pie.

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