Bill Maher to young leftists: “Your ideas are stupid!”
When fact, reason, and logic are attacked as “oppressive concepts”. (r/The_Donald/)
One common tactic, by the left, is to misinterpret disagreement with “not getting it”. Bill Maher addressed this phenomena with the younger leftists dismissing the elderly as “not getting it”. What is it that the elderly were “not” getting? That what the young leftists think is a great idea, like communism, is a disaster waiting to happen.
From the Daily Wire:
“You know the reason why advertisers in this country love the 18 to 34 demographic?” Maher said. “Because it’s the most gullible. Yeah. A third of people under 35 say they’re in favor of abolishing the police — not defunding, but doing away with a police force altogether, which is less of a policy position and more of a leg tattoo. Thirty-six percent of millennials think it might be a good idea to try communism, but much of the world did try it.”
“I know, millennials think that doesn’t count because they weren’t alive when it happened. But it did happen. And there are people around who remember it. Pining for communism?” he continued. “It’s like pining for Betamax or Myspace. So when you say you’re old, you don’t get it. Get what? Abolish the police and the Border Patrol and capitalism and cancel Lincoln? No, I get it. The problem isn’t that I don’t get what you’re saying or that I’m old. The problem is that your ideas are stupid.”
The Daily Wire has the rest of the article here.
Category: Society
Getting rid of the police is necessary to trigger the great reset. The children need to be careful what they wish for.
To be replaced by a national police force… ask the Germans how that worked.
I detest Bill Maher, but he sure got it right this time. The world would be a better place if more people got obnoxious to BLM, etc. like that.
The problem with a lot of things, and let’s start with BLM, is that there’s no room for nuance or complexity – it’s not about principles, it’s about slogans. I have zero problems with understanding there are issues -complex issues!- regarding policing in Black communities. And there sure does seem to be a disproportionate amount of unarmed black men shot by police, and surely we can all get on board with police not shooting unarmed people.
But the problem happens when you get into shit that’s definitely not the same, except at the superficial level – like, the police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, who was about to carve up another woman. If you feel this is just another example of a white cop using excessive force on a black person, and equate it to clear examples of that, you’re not being honest with what happened. It falls under the mantra of “Black lives matter!”, but a white cop shooting to protect another black woman from an enraged attacker with a deadly weapon is not racist, nor excessive.
I personally don’t think it requires being obnoxious, it just requires people being honest and talking. Some people you’ll make zero progress with, but that’s life. Others, more reasonable ones -and call me an optimist, I think they’re the majority out there- will agree. Don’t be a ‘Maxine Waters’-type, be a decent person and a member of your community, that’s all. That minimizes the crazies on both sides, and is better for all of us.
Personally, I’d add the modern Republican party to the list of things that are also more about slogans than principles, but hey, maybe the post-Trump era will bring about some change there, too.
LC I agree with you. Especially about the current crop of Republicans. Few are principled and most seem to be going along to get along.
I don’t care for Bill Maher. But I completely agree with his assessment. I think the generation he spoke of as he said, did not live through the times when Communism was alive in many countries.
Therefore they think they if they just had their shot at Communism or Socialism, they’d do a better job and make it work.
Not understanding that it NEVER worked and for too many reasons to list. A good and thorough study of world history, politics, and civics could help them.
But I fear it would only add to their argument. Then saying, “See, Stalin did that wrong, Mao blew it there, and if we just avoid those mistakes, we’ll have Utopia”.
It is hard to dialog with and help people who are so ill-informed and willfully blind.
“Especially about the current crop of Republicans. Few are principled and most seem to be going along to get along.” Just which Republicans are those you’re talking about, Sparks? You mean the ones that control the legislatures in red states who are working their butts off to pass legislation as quickly as possible to protect their citizens from what the Democrats in DC have planned for them? Do you mean that large majority of the Republicans in both houses of Congress who are doing their best to stand firm against the Dems, even with the legislative deck stacked against them? I think you have your modifiers reversed. It should be “MOST are principled but a FEW seem to be going along to get along.” Yeah, we have some RINO’s that we need to get rid of, but that’s the job of the states that keep electing them. Condemning all of our Republican politicians for the sins of a few isn’t in any way shape or form helpful to maintaining party cohesion. And that’s precisely where the Dems have long kicked our asses–party solidarity–no matter how personally or politically repugnant an issue or colleague may be. Democrats practice undying loyalty to the party like the Hatfield’s and McCoy’s practiced family loyalty, and we’re not about to defeat them with a rationalizing, “Well, they all do it,” mentality. There are news stories all over the net about state Republican efforts to defeat the weak-asses, both House and Senate, who sided with the Dems on the Trump impeachment. Hardly a day passes that some state doesn’t strengthen its 2d Amendment protections against federal incursions, or strengthen its voter laws, or protect its children from insane federal gender rules. I don’t know what you’re basing your judgment on, but I see plenty of strong Republican actions taking place in this country. AND, the weaker Republicans in Congress are aware of what’s happening in their respective states which will hopefully provide additional spine for those with the unfortunate tendency to go wobbly on key votes. The argument that one party is just as bad as… Read more »
“Just which Republicans are those you’re talking about, Sparks?”
Probably the same ones I talk about. The ones who keep telling me they need my money and support to help them cut spending, “build the dang wall”, etc. then seem to forget all that once they get the power to do it. All those Bushes, for example–remember “Read my lips…”?
As the old saying goes, “fool me once, shame on you–fool me twice, shame on me”. I have taken on more than my share of shame. Never again.
actually, these issues are NOT complex or nuanced.
BLM, antifactist, KKk, etc are all groups that thrive on zero sum infantile thinking. All race based groups are collectivist groups and in the modern world, that means some variation of socialism.
Racial socialism is just as leftist as class socialism. The key is the socialization of blame for all sins and failures.
Nothing done by the king group is to be criticized, but rather socialized as normality.
That is not complex or nuanced. At all.
It is an idiotic assertion with no merit and can absolutely be dismissed without comment or respect.
Now, what is complex are the systems our nation has attempted to make work in response to the BS perpetrated by the insane. As those systems are built upon former failed systems, upon even more failed systems, we complicate the simple and there is no possible outcome but failure.
Which is why being mad at cops because group A wants to celebrate violent behavior and be protected from it can not, will not, and does not work.
The answer is not to reason with the unreasonable. The answer is the same as it is with a 5 year old that refuses to stop running into the street. Tough love.
Cops are violent because we want them to remediate the idiot desires of the fringe for us. The only tool at their disposal at the point of impact is violence.
Until WE stop voting for the shitheads who create the stupid laws, pander to the infantile, and attempt to have things both ways, we will have to have violent policing to deal with a violent culture.
It is what it is.
“Cops are violent because we want them to remediate the idiot desires of the fringe for us. The only tool at their disposal at the point of impact is violence.”
Don’t be silly, there are lots of tools in the toolbox. However, we live in a culture that glorifies violence through every media source available. Therefore it is the violence that gets all the attention. The combat that takes place is about .00001% of the time an officer spends on the streets.
This is exactly why Jordan Petersen grabbed such a huge following from the younger demographic. The younger folks are starving for objective truth and a way to contribute to society. They are beginning to realize social media has been lying to them their whole lives.
“And there sure does seem to be a disproportionate amount of unarmed black men shot by police”
It might “seem” that way to you but the numbers do not bear that out. And the so called “unarmed”? Give me the numbers then give me the who, what, where, when, and how of these shootings. Let’s take the Mike Brown case, he of the infamous “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” fame and the catalyst for the BLM movement. He was an “unarmed” black man who was shot and killed by the Police. But facts are stubborn things. Despite the medias complete and utter complicity in furthering the fraudulent claims of the gentle giant who was meekly surrendering to the cop for supposedly jaywalking when in actuality he was being apprehended for an earlier strong arm robbery where he beat an elderly Asian proprietor of a local store. Mike Brown actually charged and assaulted the Police Officer, was pummeling him and attempted to take his weapon before he was killed. Obama’s wing man, Eric Holder, the AGUSA, sent an Army of DOJ investigators and lawyers to Ferguson to see if this was a hate crime/civil rights violation and came up with nothing. But too late for Officer Darren Wilson. Not only was he forced to kill a young man but his life was ruined, his reputation forever stained and not a single asshole in the media ever apologized or ran a retraction of their phony stories. You had CNN hosts Sally Kohn, Margaret Hoover and Mel Robbins actually do the “Hands up Don’t shoot” on TV. The media and the BLM types have a vested interest in keeping this particular talking point in the news, to sow division. The police fatally shot 13 unarmed black men in 2019. Numbers for 2020/21 aren’t available.
Broken clock.
There’s a Communist Utopia waiting for them in China. Or a Socialist Utopia waiting for them in Venezuela. Give them a one way ticket to either and see how long they act the way they do.
“Ideals are peaceful history is violent”
Proof positive of the struggle mankind has made in order to live the way we do today…..
I still like “Fury”, I don’t care what any of you say !!!
Nyeah !!!!!!
I’ve work with many individuals who once lived in the Communist Block countries such as Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Everyone of them despised communism and were very happy to live in this country.
The individual who lived in Czechoslovakia was there when the Soviets invaded the capitol thus ending the “Prague Spring”.
The yutes of America should talk to these folks to find out what the far left really has in store for them.
They are so incredibly willfully ignorant of the truths of life that they won’t know what is really happening until it’s breaking down their door, and mark my words, that is the end process to any left wing libturd desires.
Until that happens, they don’t give a shit….
As posted on TAH earlier:
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Spent yesterday afternoon in San Diego with our adopted nieces, went to their grandparents’ place for dinner. I don’t normally care for pho, but that big bowl of homemade pho was delicious! I felt rather awkward asking my niece how to say thank you in Vietnamese (according to her, it’s “gum mun,” by the way), but those folks treated us and our kids like their own blood, language barrier and all.
And in this Vietnamese household was quite a bit of pro-Trump material. Much like my in-laws, these folks came here to escape the communist nightmare that engulfed their homeland. They are now Americans who bleed red, white, and blue. They recognize the song-&-dance bullshit from the left, they’ve heard it all before, just in a different language. They’ve also seen the end result. I don’t know if they were Boat People or Frequent Wind evacuees, but they’ve been there, done that, and don’t care to do it again.
Damn, what got into Bill Maher’s Weaties? He’s making sense!
Just goes to show that even a smug, pompous, sanctimonious liberal windbag can periodically be right. Actually, much as I thoroughly dislike this jerk, I’ll have to admit that he has surprised me more than once with an accurate statement. Enough times that I really have to wonder about how much he screws up on the other areas.