Bill Maher Speaks

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The “Real Time” host even slammed Democrats with a recent poll:

“Forty-one percent” of Dems believe unvaccinated people have “over 50%” risk of hospitalization when it’s actually “0.89%,” adding that it’s “0.01%” for vaccinated people.”

Oops, loons. Then again, facts are irrelevant to the left.

The late-September Gallup poll Maher referenced showed the majority of Americans are pretty much clueless about COVID risks, be they vaccinated or unvaccinated, as reported by PJ Media:

The poll, involving 3,158 adult Americans, tells us that 41% of Democrats believe the unvaccinated have a 50% chance of being hospitalized because of COVID. Independents believe the correct number is 26%, while Republicans came in at 22%. The correct answer: Fewer than 1% of unvaccinated people infected with COVID will have to go to the hospital.
The hospitalization rate for both vaccinated and unvaccinated COVID patients is under 1%. The hospitalization rate for vaccinated COVID patients is 0.01%, or 1 out of every 10,914 patients, while the hospitalization rate for unvaccinated COVID patients is 0.89%, or 1 out of 112 patients.

Maher then zeroed in on one of his guests, Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) since “it’s the Democrats” who keep enforcing COVID restrictions. “I travel in every state now, back on the road, and the red states are a joy and the blue states are a pain in the a–. For no reason,” Maher said.

Coons dutifully defended his fellow Democrat in the White House, as transcribed by Fox News. (Emphasis, mine.)

“One of the critical things that’s being discussed right now by President Biden, one of the things we have to recommit ourselves to, is supporting vaccination around the rest of the world.
There’s still a lot of countries that are very, very minimally vaccinated because if a variant develops out in the world that is able to defeat the vaccine, we are all the way back to the beginning.
So in the United States, in most of the western world, we’re ready to be done with this, but we’re not done until the world is safe and we’re not safe as a world until the world’s vaccinated.”

Bill Maher Nukes COVID Pandemic Pushers With Truth Bomb

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Did someone tell the Sen that the US has given out 500 million vaccine doses to the world for free. Its up to those countries to use them.

 

[SamSpade]

You know, from time to time, Maher is spot on. I'm totally certain I'd never want to talk to the guy - I don't think he can get through ten seconds without sneering or mocking SOMETHING. Such people can be entertaining, but rather unpleasant. But he's often right, and frequently lampoons some of the more ridiculous issues of the left.

Just read a few minutes ago, an article on Daily Wire of his comments about Chappelle and Netflix.

“Comedian Hannah Gadsby characterized Dave Chappelle’s controversial Netflix special as hate speech dog-whistling,” Maher said. “Well, dog whistle refers to when someone puts things in code because they’re afraid to come out and say what they really think. That’s what you get from Dave Chappelle? That he’s afraid to say what he really thinks? And it’s not hate speech just because you disagree with it. Nor is it phobic. Phobic comes from the Greek word for something one fears irrationally, like spiders or germs, but now is used as a suffix for anything you just don’t like.”

Actually I think I like EVERY word he says in the whole segment.

At the end he brings up this -

And then there’s shaming. That definition has been rewritten to mean anything that suggests I’m not 100% perfect. I’m not fat shaming when I call bull**** on the idea that a person can be healthy at any size. We’re so through the looking glass on this that Weight Watchers changed their name to “WW.” The weight loss people can’t mention weight loss. Adele was shamed for losing weight, like she was a traitor to what, unhealthiness? When I have reported the statistic that 78% of the people who died or were hospitalized with COVID were overweight, that’s not fat shaming, that’s fatsplaining. It’s what the CDC should be doing. And this is the essence of why word inflation is a problem. You can try to change reality by changing the words, but you can’t. It just stops you from dealing with it. One of the bad guys in “1984” says, ”The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought.” Yes, it’s Orwellian. And you know what they say, Orwell never ends well.

Link - https://www.dailywire.com/news/mahe...ey-cant-deal-with-reality-repeat-kindergarten

 

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‘Disingenuous’: Bill Maher Slams Leftist Prof Sneering Parents ‘Spooked By Critical Race Theory’


“I find that a disingenuous argument because I don’t think that is what people are objecting to,” Maher responded. “They are not objecting to black history being taught. There are other things going on in the schools.”

“Like what?” Dyson sneered.

“Like separating children by race and describing them as either oppressed or oppressor. I mean, there are children coming home who feel traumatized by this. That‘s what parents are objecting to,” Maher answered.

In January 2017, after black comedian Steve Harvey and football great Jim Brown met with former President Donald Trump, activist Marc Lamont Hill said, “It was a bunch of mediocre Negroes being dragged in front of TV as a photo op for Donald Trump’s exploitative campaign against black people.” Asked about Hill’s comments by Martha MacCallum of Fox News, Dyson began by claiming that whites had not been taught to think about race properly, intoning that in his new book what he wanted to do was to “invite white Americans into a conversation about race to think about how it’s constructed, about how white innocence, about white fragility, about white vulnerability are all thrown in there together, and how sometimes white people get resentful, understandably, being asked to talk about a subject they have no skills to talk about because they’ve not been practiced in it.”

 

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The Schadenfreude is Delicious

 

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Bill Maher pushes back on Fauci: 'Don't sit there in your white coat and tell me "just do what we say"'



Bill Maher is pushing back against blindly following the advice of Anthony Fauci and other doctors amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying, “Don’t sit there in your white coat and tell me 'just do what we say.' ”

“That’s not a criticism of them like they’re being corrupt, although there certainly is plenty of corruption in the medical establishment,” the “Real Time” host said in an interview with Deadline published Friday, when asked if he believes Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease doctor, or the medical establishment “really know what they are doing.”

“But I’ve always maintained that the big overarching theme should be that people look back and say, 'Oh, look how far we’ve come medically.' Yes, that’s true. We’re not putting wooden teeth in our mouth like in the George Washington era, and of course we have antibiotics and lots of vaccines and lots of other things that have been miraculous. But in general, we still don’t understand too much about how the human body works,” Maher said.
The medical community, the controversial HBO host said, has been wrong “a lot” throughout history.

 

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‘A Lot Of What They Do Has Nothing To Do With Science’


During the same show, Maher also slammed the political Left for its handling of the pandemic while states like Florida have managed to stay open and have better overall outcomes than states like New York.

“I asked for the COVID deaths by state, this is per 100,000 people,” Maher said. “The worst is Mississippi. My home state [of] New Jersey, four, fourth worst. New York, sixth worst. West Virginia and Massachusetts are 10 and 11, right together. Could there be two states who are more unalike than West Virginia and Massachusetts? And the poster boy for keeping s*** open was Florida, they’re down at 17. So, New York and New Jersey did worse than Florida.”

“We did worse because we’re a densely populated hub of international travel,” Torres claimed.

“Florida is home to all the old people in America,” Maher fired back, later adding: “What this is saying … Florida, like, stayed open. I mean, I was just in Florida. I’ve been there a few times since this started. The atmosphere is just different, I’m not moving to Florida, I’m not promoting Florida. I’m just saying AOC just went to Florida and had a good time without a mask on.”

 

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Bill Maher Hits Another Home Run Against the 'Medical Industrial Complex'​

"The upshot of bad information was that in the late 1980s, low risk Americans were swamping testing facilities and diverting our attention and energy away from the truly at risk. New York in 2020 learned the hard way how much better precision would have been in protecting the nursing homes. Contrary to popular lore, COVID is not Russian roulette. Of course any virus, any thing, can kill anyone at anytime," Maher continued. "But we know who COVID kills. Seventy-five percent of COVID deaths are people 65 and older, 98-99 percent are unvaccinated, 78 percent who have died or hospitalized or overweight. If you're obese and unvaccinated or 85 and still crowd surfing at music festivals, yes, this will likely go badly for you. But at some point that has to stop being my responsibility. Doesn't it make more sense to focus on helping the vulnerable stay safe and let the rest of us go back to living normal lives."

Meanwhile, Democratic politicians are finally coming to their senses in some parts of the country.

 

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Maher: If you're obese and unvaccinated or 85 and still crowd surfing at music festivals, yes, this will likely go badly for you. But at some point that has to stop being my responsibility.

Personal Responsibility.

 

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Bill Maher Hits Another Home Run Against the 'Medical Industrial Complex'​

"The upshot of bad information was that in the late 1980s, low risk Americans were swamping testing facilities and diverting our attention and energy away from the truly at risk. New York in 2020 learned the hard way how much better precision would have been in protecting the nursing homes. Contrary to popular lore, COVID is not Russian roulette. Of course any virus, any thing, can kill anyone at anytime," Maher continued. "But we know who COVID kills. Seventy-five percent of COVID deaths are people 65 and older, 98-99 percent are unvaccinated, 78 percent who have died or hospitalized or overweight. If you're obese and unvaccinated or 85 and still crowd surfing at music festivals, yes, this will likely go badly for you. But at some point that has to stop being my responsibility. Doesn't it make more sense to focus on helping the vulnerable stay safe and let the rest of us go back to living normal lives."

Meanwhile, Democratic politicians are finally coming to their senses in some parts of the country.

It's not that conservatives haven't been saying exactly this from the beginning - protect the vulnerable and let the rest go on - the danger simply doesn't exist.

If you're a hemophiliac, you don't demand the REST OF THE WORLD encase itself in bubble wrap just so you can walk about unharmed.

Stop thinking you can stop the spread as your only line of defense - treat the infected and protect the vulnerable.

 

[Kyle]

It's not that conservatives haven't been saying exactly this from the beginning - protect the vulnerable and let the rest go on - the danger simply doesn't exist.

If you're a hemophiliac, you don't demand the REST OF THE WORLD encase itself in bubble wrap just so you can walk about unharmed.

Stop thinking you can stop the spread as your only line of defense - treat the infected and protect the vulnerable.

Leftists are all terrified of personal responsibility and risk.

 

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Personal Responsibility.

If I'm still able to go crowd surfing at music festivals when I'm 85, I think I will have earned the right to die irresponsibly

 

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It's not that conservatives haven't been saying exactly this from the beginning - protect the vulnerable and let the rest go on - the danger simply doesn't exist.

If you're a hemophiliac, you don't demand the REST OF THE WORLD encase itself in bubble wrap just so you can walk about unharmed.

Stop thinking you can stop the spread as your only line of defense - treat the infected and protect the vulnerable.

Both flights we took to Vegas over NY's the flight crew announced no snacks were being served and if someone brought aboard anything with peanuts to please not open them.
Ive wondered if someone is so allergic how do they go anywhere much less on a airliner for 3+ hours.
Muchless inconveniencing of a 100+ people.

 

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- treat the infected and protect the vulnerable.

NNNooo ........ we must lock down, mask everyone

WE NEED TO APPEAR TO BE DOING SOMETHING

 

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I've wondered if someone is so allergic how do they go anywhere much less on a airliner for 3+ hours.

By demanding everyone else suffer

 

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Bill Maher Talks About ‘The View’ And CNN’s Jeff Zucker, Calls For Questioning Covid-19 Authority​

He pointed out Goldberg’s show is called THE View, emphasis on “The.” That’s the problem in America,” he said. “There is one true opinion, and everyone else can go sit in the corner.”

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Wrapping up his show, Maher took a cynical look at the mixed message on the pandemic being delivered by some in government and health officials. That’s even as certain leaders appear maskless at public events, and rules abound about wearing masks in restaurants while walking to your table, but not while eating or drinking, all of which defy common sense.

While some other countries are scaling back and relaxing pandemic protocols, certain areas of the US refuse to budge. “We are afraid to identify threats by likelihood,” Maher said. “When people ask me why are you so skeptical of what medical professionals tell us? I’ve seen this before,” he said, citing the HIV panic in 1987, wherein some predicted a wave of hetrosexual transmission that never materialized.

Maher called for an end to fear campaigns, pointing out that the likely targets for Covid-19 health problems – the elderly, the obese, the unvaccinated – were not his responsibility at this point.

“Doesn’t it make more sense to let the rest of us go back to living normal lives?” he asked. “There will always be another variant.”

 

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Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy To Bill Maher: Trucker Protests In Canada ‘An Uprising Of Everyday Citizens’​

Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy told HBO host Bill Maher on Friday that the trucker protests in Canada were not a Left or Right issue, and that it was about everyday citizens rising up against overreaching governments.

“Look, I think it is about something more; if you think this is about vaccine mandates, or about white supremacy, you’re missing the point. And this isn’t a Left or Right issue,” Ramaswamy, a founder of multi-billion dollar companies, said. “This is about an uprising of everyday citizens in democracies around the world. It’s not just Canada, it’s not the United States, it’s western Europe, too, rising against the biggest threat to actual democracy, which I think is the rise of this managerial class in democracies around the world that are crushing the will of everyday people through bureaucracies.”

“And it’s the same people, by the way, Bill, who staff corporate boards of directors, who end up as associate deans of universities, who then end up being appointed as diplomats abroad,” he continued. “These are the unelected class of leaders that ultimately, I think, are using their bureaucratic power to supplant the will of everyday, not only Americans, but Canadians and western Europeans, too. And that’s why we’re seeing a fusion of both the Left and the Right here saying that actually, we want our voices heard. We want to be able to speak without fear of putting food on the dinner table. And you know what? The beautiful thing about a democracy is that so far, thank God, this has been a peaceful set of protests. I hope it says stays that way. That’s part of the messiness of democracy. That’s part of what makes it beautiful.”

 

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'Who gets to decide' what's 'misinformation'​

"I think I get concerned with who gets to decide what … In the Iraq War, I was on the side of what you would think on the mainstream is misinformation. I was promoting what they would call misinformation," Stewart said. "But it turned out to be right years later and the establishment media was wrong. And not only were they wrong, in some respects, you could make the case that they enabled a war that killed hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people and never paid a price for it and never had accountability. And just having an ombudsman print a retraction to me isn't accountability."

 

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They're 'not wrong' to be 'p---ed off' at elites​

"What's happening this week, it looks like, is people are understanding this is about something more than just the vaccine mandate," Maher said. "It's becoming a big thing. It's happening all over the world now. They're thinking it might happen here in Washington on Super Bowl Sunday."

"Woke, Inc." author Vivek Ramaswamy agreed, telling Maher it's about the "uprising of everyday citizens" against "the rise of this managerial class in democracies around the world."

"These are the unelected class leaders that ultimately, I think, are using the bureaucratic power to supplant the will of everyday – not only Americans but Canadians and Western Europeans too – and that's why we're seeing a fusion of both the left and the right here saying that, ‘Actually we want our voices heard. We want to be able to speak without fear of putting food on the dinner table,’" Ramaswamy said.

 

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Bill Maher Says Trudeau Sounds Like Hitler, and He's Right​

Trudeau, according to Maher, “said — this is a couple of weeks ago, he was — or maybe this is September, but he was talking about people who were not vaccinated. He said, ‘They don’t believe in science, they’re often misogynistic, often racist.’ No, they’re not. He said, ‘But they take up space and with that, we have to make a choice in terms of a leader of a country: do we tolerate these people?’”

Maher’s quote was accurate. Trudeau’s full statement was: “They don’t believe in science/progress and are very often misogynistic and racist. It’s a very small group of people, but that doesn’t shy away from the fact that they take up some space. This leads us, as a leader and as a country, to make a choice: Do we tolerate these people?”

“’Tolerate these people?’” Maher asked. “Now you do sound like Hitler.” Maher continued, “And recently, he talked about them ‘holding unacceptable views.’”

Maher was right. Proposing the idea that some people simply “take up some space” and opening the question of whether or not they should be “tolerated” is a hallmark of totalitarian regimes, of which Hitler’s was foremost. The specter of such language coming from the prime minister of Canada is nothing short of chilling.

It is, however, no surprise. Trudeau has a long record of affinity for authoritarian governments. In 2013, before he was prime minister, he was asked what country he admired most. Trudeau answered, “You know, there’s a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say ‘we need to go green fastest … we need to start investing in solar.’ I mean, there is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must dream about, of having a dictatorship that he can do everything he wanted, that I find quite interesting.”