On Friday’s “Real Time”, Bill Maher ended the show with a version of “New Rules” that laid out politicians, especially Republicans, who hate everything about America and half the people in it. We do. He also dinged some people on the left for views he thinks are too negative about the country.
“Because honestly, I don’t know why the people who are fighting so hard for this country still want it,” he said.
“Republican: I’ll start with you, because I really want to know, what Doing What do you like about America? This is not a democracy,” Maihar continued. “You stand with a president who tried to stage a coup. And a dozen Republican candidates for Senate and governor in the middle of this year say they won’t fully commit to accepting the results.
“Elections count only when we win them? Is this America for you now? It shows more disrespect for the flag than any football player,” Maher said. He then noted Senator Mike Lee of Utah, one of several Republicans who have said that “we are not a democracy.” “No, not the way you want things to run.”
“This year at least 27 states have introduced or enacted laws restricting voting. If you say you love America, shouldn’t you also love the idea of everyone getting to vote? Don’t you love the peaceful transfer of power?” Maher added.
“Republicans remind me of trophy hunters who say they love wildlife. Yeah, then why do you kill it? Republicans used to be the rule of law people, and lionized the officials who maintained it But when rioters stormed America’s stronghold and election symbol on January 6, most Republicans sided with them. And not the police, of whom more than a hundred were injured. F- Police, this is now the Republican Party Is there a clear call?” Maher presented.
“When did the GOP become the NWA,” joked Maher.
“And then there’s the FBI. Steve Bannon says they’re the Gestapo. Marjorie Taylor Green says they should be discredited. Congressman Paul Goser says, ‘We should destroy the FBI.’ What? The FBI is no longer America,” Maher discoursed.
Maher then took a detour to the FBI to pay little attention: “FBI agents are so square that they scream ‘front’ when they ejaculate. They think it’s cool to match a windbreaker. In their flag pin There are flag pins.”
“And Senna,” said Maher, returning to the point. “They used to be of the same category. Super Patriot mob base. But Trump began his first campaign by doing something that had been unimaginable until then: He mocked and mocked a Republican war hero, a war hero who was shot, imprisoned and tortured. ,
“And it wasn’t a very far bridge for Republicans. They blushed and went across. Like he did when Trump called the joint chiefs ‘losers’. And our soldiers who died in World War I are ‘losers,'” Maher reminded the audience.
“Ted Cruz calls today’s soldiers pansy, and Republican Senate nominee Blake Masters says our generals are a ‘left-wing corporate burden.’ Is that the patriotic view of our military officers?” Maher asked. “Maybe that’s why Trump said he wanted them to act like the Nazi generals we fought in World War II. Yes, we won that, by the way. ,
“So,” Maher said to bring the point to a point, “I ask again. If you don’t like democracy, voting, the FBI, the military, and the police, what do you like about America? Oh, I know, the Constitution. That’s right, Grand Old—what is that? What Congresswoman Lauren Boebert says? I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk that’s not in the Constitution, she says.
“But it’s in the Constitution,” Maher correctly pointed out, “and it’s one of those pillars of this country, if you don’t believe it, I’m surprised you’re working so hard for this place.” Why are you doing it at all.”
Maher explained that this stuff is “so weird about the time we’re living in. For all the talk about ‘fighting for America’s soul,’ no one likes it that much. Too many liberals do it. give the impression that to them America is just a big ooh. Red, White and Eve. A country that started bad and will always be bad. Founded on an incredible history of sucking. And unable to change.”
“But,” he replied, “we have changed. A lot.” Maher again describes how Missouri Congresswoman Kourik Bush tweeted “This land is stolen land and black people are still not free” on July 4, 2021.
“Not that I give as a Fourth of July, I’ve never been a rah-rah guy. But I’m a perspective guy. And that’s what a lot of lefties have lost: perspective.” Maher showed in a recent poll that 72% of young black people are far more optimistic than America. He also joked that “we might change the name of Captain America to Captain Stollen Land.”
Maher then suggested that those who participate in what is known as land acknowledgment, where he notes the people who lived in a given place before European colonization would have to “either give it back, or shut the f-up.” He also took issue with a statement criticizing capitalism by Jamal Bowman Ballman, which he said is “a synonym for America. If you don’t like it, I don’t know how you can say you’re from this country.” love.”
“You know who loves this country? You know how not to constantly complain about what happened 200 years ago, and to see America through those s—t—colored glasses Not obsessive, and what privileged and irreverent a-hole stink are we all giving away? Immigrants,” Maher protested as he neared the end of the bit.
“Ask any of them why they came here, and they’ll tell you the same thing: Ron DeSantis put me on a plane,” Maher quipped. “But they will also point out that America, whatever it is about now, is still the last, best hope, and those who are asking for our votes to take it should remember that.