I’m a conservative and I’ve always respected him holding his “side” accountable. I wish more on both sides would say “time out, we sound insanely out of touch and are alienating virtually everyone right now”. You don’t have to agree with someone to appreciate that.
I am really so tired of that part of our time. We need more people like Bill that can be a little bit unbiased here and there and actually disagree with "his tribe" every now and then. Nowadays it just feels like difference of opinion is not even allowed to exist anymore.
Bill Maher is one of the few remaining reminders of why I _started out_ as a leftist. I might even go back if there were more, like him. Now, I'm not on the right either, but I do mock both, as appropriate. Unfortunately, the left is often the louder one and is thus more often deemed appropriate by me to mock. But hey, I'll proudly wave the flag of problematic (common insult word used by the left) degenerate (common insult word used by the right).
@@DarkAdonisVyers Yep like I said I’m a conservative Christian but I don’t take the knee jerk reaction to an issue based on what Fox News or the daily wire report. I disagree with the right on some issues and take a moderate stance on others. Some I’m very conservative or right leaning. Either way I embrace discussions, not labels, hate or vilification because you disagree with me. I was more left leaning in my teens but in my early 30s now I’ve shifted. Either way, We’ve got to learn to talk to each other or we will become irreparably divided.
He HAS NOT "always" held his side accountable! He just used Obama as a symbol of a Uniter ffs. Don't you remember the "stupid cops" and his Son Trayvon?
@@rollotherevolutionaryreneg395 blk ppl are supposed to be ok with that tho. We aren’t supposed to feel like singing a song written by a person who didn’t consider us human as divisive….
The problem is that we live in a polarized country where any government, no matter how centrist or reasonable or producing of positive results is going to be attacked by one side or the other depending on if there is a "D" or an "R" administration or Congressional majority in power. So are you disagreeing with Bill's video? I'm not sure what your point is except to get clicks.
As a life long conservative, I’d have never guessed that Bill Maher would be the lone voice of reason in a crazy f#%&$ed up world. Well said, Bill! 👍👏🏻
That's because he's not a "lifelong" anything. Ideology binds us to the notion that one side is always right, and that's obviously not true. We take the decision to bind ourselves to a group because the group offers both strength of numbers and affirmation of SOME beliefs. But people stop questioning that affiliation as 'SOME" in even in cases where it might conflict with their positions, because we feel, neurologically, a need for that safety in numbers, to lower our anxiety over the unknown as a consequence of difficult decisions. We want to stay in the tribe, so we stop questioning the tribe and start presuming its ideological opponents are always wrong. Anyone who self-identifies as a "Liberal" or a "Conservative" is immediately signaling that they've made up their mind base on binary opposite notions, when almost every issue has positions of nuance. If you weren't a "lifelong" anything, he wouldn't surprise you at all.
I guess you didn’t listen to everything thing he said? Get rid of the national anthem we have and pick another? Don’t even have a National Anthem? All he said is if we have a national anthem we have only one.
Bill is a moderate. I'm an independent I like our differences But there comes the Progressives who just want to F-up everything!! And are the true enemy of our country! Just my 0.02.
One of your best segments ever. I went to school in West Oakland. My schools were 85-90 % black (Im Mexican) There was so much consciousness and pride about MLKs teachings. About everyone being equal. About getting along. Never were we taught to be resentful. I’m 35 now and cannot believe what is going on now. I just can’t.
Went to an more or less an all white school moved to London lived there for 7 years had friends from all over the world, it was great to hear different views different perspectives it was truly great...this reversal of this by the "Woke" brigade is nonsense of the highest order, the absolute highest order
here's the thing, though: the Left discovered MLK's *real* teachings. That whites were irredeemable. That blacks deserved democratic-socialism paid for by whites. That the space programme was bad.
I went to schools k-3 mostly white 4-6 1/3 each White Black and Mexican and 7-12 about 45% each Mexican and White and 10% native and we all got along. We inter-married. We are life long friends. My group of friends tease me alot because I'm the only white at the table. I tease them back that I lived on the hill and they didn't. No one gets butthurt over it.
@@dander7829 lived with ,grew up,and loved a multi cultural group of friends. Where are we now? It seems we can't even talk about the beauty of our differences and find out our similarities.
Yep, I went to high school and college in late 90s and all races mixed and got along pretty well. I didn’t see any of the divisiveness that is out there today . I’m not sure what the cause is . The media and universities are 2 main culprits
This whole thread is condescending. You’re not a “black grandma in the nyc pjs” lol wtf. Stop pretending to be someone you’re not to prove a point. It’s pathetic.
Leave it to the woke left to bring _Plessy v. Ferguson_ back in vogue. On account of their astonishing lack of self-awareness they don't realize that they've gone so far to the left on the dial they're slamming into the far right. I wanna know why people are allowing their civil liberties to be taken away by snot-nosed university freshmen who are so fragile they melt at the slightest "offense" -- most of which is _performative_ delicacy. At least 60% of the electorate resides between the two bookends of far right and far left; if they wanted to they could stand up a third party that would outnumber the extremists by almost 2:1. Why aren't we? It's clear that no one in government is speaking for _us,_ only the rabid base of their respective parties; unless we assert ourselves as a voting bloc, that is only going to continue and get worse.
The guy speaking in the video has been driving what would become what is happening now. He believes in being rude and saying what he wants and mocking people. That mindset leads to racism because he inspires people to be rude and say what they want and to mock people. So rudely telling Who'ity to get out and leave their multicultural space alone is following Bill's behavior. Not Bill's ideology, but Bill's behavior. Behavior Inspires Behavior, people already have their favorite ideologies. Anyone wishing to get the message out about their ideology will find Bill's Behavior inspiring. For the uneducated who say that Behavior does not inspire Behavior, how did WWI or WWII Happen? It started with one man's Behavior towards other people, laws and rules he did not like. Bill did not like the established law and order, so he (and other comedians) fomented rebellion. They did not like the schools teaching religion. They did not like the traditional family structure. They did not like constraining scruples. Well constraining scruples were what was holding back what you see rampant in the USA. Now people have no scruples so you have anarchy. NO! You can not have a little of each, that is anti-nature. One side will always be content and the other side will never have enough. Bill likes to act like a bear and now he does not like bears ravaging the bee hives. Well soon enough the bees will get riled up and the bears will be sent running. FYI the bees are the Right Wing Conservatives.
Yup. Being angry at an uplifting song that portrays what our country stands for while holding on to a song written by a racist slave owner sounds just like MS in 1948!
@@jausti2 Its the only anthem we have. It isnt just a song of freedom for americans, its a song of freedom for our allies, and a song of reckoning for our enemies. What is it going to take for people to put aside their PETTY differences and remember that the world doesnt revolve around progressive leftist feelings. F. Scott Key did put that racist verse in the Anthem originally, but the Leaders in power at the time would NOT allow that verse in, even during that time. That story should tell you that, yea there WERE white supremacist ways of thought in our highest institutions, but there were people who fight against those ways of thinking. Grow up, be a man, take some personal responsibility for yourself and stop playing the victim, it makes you weak. These bs examples of racism used in the media today are an insult to the men and women who faced and continue face real racism. If you cry wolf too many times, no one is going to help you when the real wolf comes
@@aikidoka00dude blk ppl have embraced that song and actually performed some of the most entertaining renditions of it. I think the song should be played because of what it means to certain ppl. I’m just pointing out the irony in ppl claiming the song about uplifting and fighting towards freedom written by a true civil rights hero is divisive. And I would like for ppl to think about the fact that blk ppl live, laugh and enjoy events right alongside of you all while knowing the racist history behind it. James Weldon Johnson and that song represent America at its best and was an anthem for those who fought to finally make this country live up to its stated value. We aren’t trying to replace the anthem. We never have. It’s just a shame that the beauty of that mans work and what it symbolizes is getting lost in this paranoia.
@@aikidoka00 and lol at you telling me to grow up? You really don’t realize that ppl that use the rhetoric you use aren’t really looked upon as the authority on anything among ppl like myself? Lol
@@jausti2 There are alot of good songs that inspire and are uplifting that are way better than the N. Anthem. The song itself isnt in question, its the playing it along side the N. Anthem that is the problem. That song, no matter how goofy it may sound by todays standards, is the Song of America. There are plenty of other patriotic songs, and if you wana add this one to the list, so be it cool. But you cant play it alongside or replace the N.Anthem. Again the world doesnt revolve around you, or even a small percentage of american population. Point taken about black ppl livin, lovin and enjoying life with white ppl in the sense that that is what America is all about. And as far as the racist history behind it, unfortunately that does still effect black ppl today, but you know why? Because leftist wont let racism die. Do you really think racism will beat racism? No, racism breeds more racism, its that simple. What is racism? Treating someone different based on the color of their skin. You dont get to have a special anthem lol. Everyone who came to this country originally got hosed. Native Americans *you know the real original sin of America) killed other Native Americans for the land, europeans came and killed them, africans sold slaves to Europeans, chinese came and got hosed, the catholics came and got hosed, the irish came and got hosed, hispanics come here and get hosed (you know the current sin of America) Spoiler alert if you aint got money, you are probably gona get hosed. And thats never been more true today than it was at the beginning. Lol there has never been a better time or place to be black in the history of humanity! It doesnt matter what race you are in America. Its all about who has money and who doesnt. The race problem is kept alive by leftist who use it to retain power, its that simple. But as far as white supremacy in our institutions? Thats a laugh. PoC are in every avenue of power at every level of our society. Cops have body cams now. The mainstream media is so desperate to report something racial, that they'll stoop so low as to call a cop shooting a black girl with a knife about to stab another black girl holding a dog racist lol. Is that it? Is that what racism looks like now? Nah man thats like a girl lying about being raped. Not only is detrimental to the accused, its a slap in the face to people who have really been raped. Thats why I use the cry wolf analogy. You keep calling everything racist, when the blowback comes there's a chance black ppl could experience actual racism again, and then no one will believe you. Basic tentants that you seem to ignore..you cant judge a book by its cover, judge a person by their character and not the color of their skin, Dont cry wolf, the golden rule. These are wise tenants you should try checking them out. Wisdom > Intelligence, everytime
Speaking as a Black American: We aren’t the only racial/ethnic group here who’s been through some ish. We don’t deserve to have everyone sing “our anthem” anymore than the next racial/ethnic group. ✌🏽👍
@@Cryptum404 Asians went through 1. Sundown towns 2.The Chinese Exclusion Act which basically banned Asian immigration until 1965 3. Bondage slavery through debt where they had to work in the West until their debts were paid. 4. Being racially profiled and put in camps in World War 2. Also, if you think American slavery was bad, and you really want that Oppression Olympics, then I have news for you. A lot of the rest of the planet has gone through much much much worse and they have citizens in the US .So No
Yeah, as with Afro-Americans learning that the sellers of those slaves, their supposed ancestry, were mostly `black´ people & Orientals. Evil white folks were not 25% of the slavers ever, as we were too lazy, too craven, and our little penises failed to secure the loyalty of any women.
But he shouldn't though! He is actually saying reasonable things that shouldn't even be an issue! I am not American, but it stands to reason to me that a nation should and can only one anthem, as a symbol of unity. The fact that Americans are now even DISCUSSING this is deeply worrying! Because, Bill was right about Yugoslavia, I am from the Balkans, I know! That country went down the shithole so fast you can't even believe it, and of course it was due to deep differences and inequalities, but a HUGE part of it was due to people stop believing in the "country" even on the simpliest things (like an anthem) to the point that they started identifing themselves not as "Yugoslavs" anymore but as "Serbian, "Croats" or whatever. That was a death sentence for the country and something from which the region has yet to recover fully even after all these decades, which led to horror stories that people can't even believe and yet it happened. I don't see the US going that way, but I am worried because it is showing clear signs of going EXACTLY that way... and is not as if I could have predicted the horror show of Yugoslavia either, so...
@@Skerdy I love the divide I want to see the USA change into something like the Balkan states. Tired of the woke and race garbage time to split. The future is China. It’s predicted the USA will be divided into racial states. Or two countries. I definitely don’t believe in America it’s nowhere close to what it was before. Now their trying to replace Caucasians. That’s a war and a massive one at that you don’t simply replace the majority it’s far easier said then done. You can’t do it without a hot war or industrial genocide
I always thought that the point of anthems is that everyone puts their differences aside and for a couple of minutes, are reminded through mutual demonstration that they are all part of one civilisation. It can humanise the "other" by showing that we do have things in common. People who can't stop snarling at each other long enough to sing a song together (out of key) for two minutes are unlikely to maintain a successful, unified civilisation.
YES....and I'm a Black person who grew up singing "Lift every voice and sing" at specific functions (in the 70's). I like the song. I still sing it. I always will. Honestly, though I never really thought of it as a Black National Anthem. Just a song--an important song--with compelling lyrics about the Black experience. (BTW The last line of the song is a commitment to America......so it's ironic it's being used to be divisive....just sayin'...) So I say, ONE ANTHEM because we are/should be/ want to be ONE PEOPLE. PS-- It tickles me that the song is in the Hymnal at my almost all white and very conservative church.
I think Colin Kaepernick and the taking a knee thing killed that. The media made it clear what side they are on. We are not really a nation anymore. Bill Maher is funny, but he is living in an America that no longer exists.
@@jefferyschroeder5245 Dude, we fought the American Civil War to free the slaves. That was over a hundred and fifty years ago. You were never a slave; I was never a slave owner. As a matter of fact, at least one of my ancestors fought in the Union army during that war. Yeah, you're welcome. Lots of our ancestors suffered injustice in this country and in every country. So what? You need to move on and get over it. Frankly, for at least the last sixty years you enjoyed more rights in this country than I have. So, salute this country's anthem, or you are perfectly free to leave this country at any time. The funny thing is there are millions of black people from other countries that would do anything to come here. Hey, maybe you could trade places with one of them?
AT LAST! Bill Maher, THIS is your role. And dare I say, your duty. As a life-long liberal, as most of us are (along with you), it needs a GENUINE liberal like you to lead this charge against the Woke.
the woke are Wall Street's (and their masters') response to the Occupy movement, the only real people's movement in the anglo world in the last 30 years. Their stealing of the tea party was just a rehersal. I remember the exact moment i realised what was going on : Colbert had 2 "occupy" guests on. They were the 2 most obvious glowies i have ever seen (as someone from a former commie country, we all have a special spidy sense for smelling out glowies). They were just as stereotipical as the people that were suppose to represent the tea party. And they were spouting out the exact talking points that every media was mocking them for.
@@Crimethoughtfull Glowies are government shills posing as members of other groups they’re either collecting intelligence on or controlling the public perception of through acting
I'm a Conservative, and I want us united as one talking to one another as friends and allies, and not divided by race. If we don't start, America will be a place to flee from and not a place to flee to.
His tone has done a 180 since there is no longer Trump in the white house. This shit he is talking about has been going on since Obingo was in the white house.
@@therealthreadkilla "Obingo"? Really. How infantile. There is nothing more mundane in the American body politic than partisan hackery. This why your in the deserved position you now find yourself in.
Hello, Delusional! LOL Bill "My Opinion Is Better Than Yours" Maher is FAR from 50 times more popular. Maybe in your feeble mind. Ho sad for you and yours. Could you please move to Canada, eh?
There’s lots of straight talkers right now. They just don’t reside as far left as him. The fact that he’s still popular shows how BOT-LIKE his audience is.
“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” -C.S. Lewis
"if you´re on the wrong road"...get sufficient tools to see yourself on the right track...enough of these superintellectuals pushing their notions sacred with bullshite logic..."avanza para atras"...
Who says it is the wrong road? Why is it the wrong road? Does not go as fast and straight as I would wish, but the direction seems right, and it is moving.
You are probably a old school liberal like Bill. The more I listen to this man the more I agree with him. I consider myself to be a conservative as well but i would lean towards the left if liberals were more like Bill.
@@john.premose He is definitely a liberal, just not the "if you cut off your dick then your magically a woman" alt-lefty. The notion that "progressivism" is taking us back to the racial segregation of the 50s is laughable. You clearly don't get irony.
I was a young “liberal” in the mid nineties and I embraced all of the races and nationalities. Now I’m being told that I’m not allowed to be colorblind because I’m white. WTF happened to the world 🤦🏼♂️
The great thing about this segment is that it speaks volumes not only about how things are in the USA, but in the world. Union is key to overcome difficulties, we can't forget that. Edit: I love how everyone thinks I'm from the USA xD I said what I said because I'm not, that's the point. Get out of your bubbles a little bit.
Maybe we Europeans can help our fellow Americans by going to "war"with the USA, maybe they will unite a little bit. Nvm, the world is fucked, we need aliens
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This is one of Bill's best new rules monologues of all time, bar none.. the fact that he schooled those fluff heads on The view using an Obama speech is just a small bonus. More power to the man.
@@uncommon8896, when I think of former President Trump I think of a rich reality TV star and/or businessman and that’s exactly what we got. 😆 A lot of his faults, of which they were myriad and sundry, were self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
@@davidlenz9902 What specifically did he do to divide the nation except have the wrong color skin to make you guys upset? I mean, for real. Explain to me how Obama was more divisive than Donald Trump.
The rest of the world will turn the US into a melted spot. United, you're either the strongest or second strongest country in the world. Divided, you're going to learn what it means to be China's b_tch.
@Reichsfuhrer John Smith it is a divine decison weather a nation exists or not or a nation is capable protecting its central government from corruption
Appreciate this guys more and more. One of the few voices out there willing to call out both sides. Nice to feel like your getting it straight and there is no narrative or hidden agenda being pushed. Keep it up Bill.
Bill may be cold and condescending, but damn he makes a lot of valid points. Segregation, regardless or the intent, is wrong, and I suggest applicants vote with their wallets and not go to colleges that promote this crap. Hopefully there are still some decent ones left.
Agreed. What (also) saddens me is colleges still clinging to the HBC label. It's great that those institutions devoted their efforts to bringing Black students up to a place where they can more effectively compete against everything that was working against them in this country (lofty goal to say the least, and a respectable accomplishment) . But in this day and age, to continuously remind everyone that this college is still obsessed with race ... when will we just be humans together and not push race in people's faces all day every day. 😔 I had a coworker whose daughter was looking at colleges and she picked an HBC solely on the fact it was an HBC. When my coworker announced the selection to folks at work she just haaaaaad to mention it's an HBC, every time, with this proud sparkle in her eye. Up til that day I never saw her as black, I only saw her as a strong and driven woman, but SHE wanted it to be about race.
Racial segregation was justified by dehumanizing others. If they're less human, they don't have equal human rights and there's nothing wrong with segregating them. The left has developed such a frantic religious fervor around their ideology that they have dehumanized their political opponents. For them, anyone to the right of Stalin is less than human and are unworthy of equal human rights.
@hazel Greene, I don’t have an issue with the “HBC” label, as it is simply a descriptor, allowing information on how they began. At least, it used to be about that; I’m not sure it’s still about convey the roots. My stepdad (who was genuinely white, like English settler white) was actually offered a scholarship to HBC to play football. I hate calling him my stepdad, because he has passed and he was just “dad” from the time I was 3. My biological father has also always been dad (well, I actually call him “old man” now) it was simply differentiated by which one I was around, but my heritage on his side is Chickamauga Cherokee and French. My mothers side is all Scottish and Irish. None of this matters. At this point I am American. The point of my post is that at some point “HBCs”, only saw that name as descriptive, and didn’t even segregate. On an interesting side note, the founder of that “HBC”, Dr. Lane’s grave was recently moved from my biological grandparents land to wherever his descendants wanted him to rest. He was buried in the woods on their land, not in a nefarious way, rather with a headstone of pure marble, and very well hidden. I don’t know why he was there, that hasn’t been figured out, but I only stumbled upon it while I was out hunting.
My favorite portion of this solid commentary: "And purposefully fragmenting things by race, reinforces a terrible message, that we are two nations hopelessly drifting apart from each other..." I think this insight applies to ALL the various ways that the two dominant political parties, and their mouthpieces in the corporate news media, fragment us with their terribly divisive messages, including not only race, but also socioeconomic status.
It's why many people talk about having more than two parties in this country (yes, there are more, but they have virtually no ground). The us v. them mentality in America is ridiculous and an insult to people who don't sit firmly in either camp. Those like Bill and others who have opinions that are both Republican and Democrat leaning feel left out and unheard, and it absolutely should be addressed.
Thank you Bill. Retired army, mixed raced Native, and sound engineer. One anthem or we just go back bronze age. I'm honestly cool these days with either as shit hits the fan...
Another mixed race Native here. And going all bronze age would have been fine with me 50 years ago. Now, not so much. Dressing out a deer now, at 70, is a whole lot more work than when I was young. That's not a lifestyle for old age without a fairly large support network such as a village. There, the skills of the elderly have a sustainable value to the future.
@@JohnSmith-ft2tw I remember when my uncles forced me to bore hunt. It was nasty. Plus those fools were drunk. I cared for idiots then even though fuck my family...
LMAO...I am Black and grew up with those who LIVED under separate but 'equal'. And if you're dumb enough to think all those white Southerners suddenly changed their minds as the laws changed in 1964 and 1965, you need to find any teachers still alive and slap them. Laws don't change minds. And that's the part of this I'm dumbfounded by when I hear white people talk...who stopped thinking the way they thought in the 1860's? No one. They just couldn't DO ANYTHING during Reconstruction because there was protection for Black folks. Soon as that left, so did the 'rights' my ancestors had. Ninety years of Jim Crow...who stopped thinking the way they thought in the 1960's? NO ONE. Those two LBJ signatures made white people Republicans in the majority to the present day (and counting). Like Dr. King SAID, "I fear, I am integrating my people into a burning house." White people will NEVER truly see us as equal...they have OWNING us in their DNA. I'm not hotep, but I often wonder if the problem wasn't the separate part...the most prosperity Black people have had collectively and not just as small clusters of individuals has been when white people have left us the hell alone and not terrorized us (i.e. Tulsa, Rosewood, Greenwood). It was the 'equal' part...we never had actual EQUALITY in that separation.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 that’s your problem- you think all whites are the same and think the same. It is very obvious you have never spent much time around white people. They do not fixate on race like some blacks do. Most whites I know treat you well if you treat them well. The vast majority don’t care if you are black or white or brown.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 You really don’t think anyone charged their minds? I’m not talking about the day such laws were enacted, but not even incrementally? For example, if I were a racist landlord who’d never had a black fellow rent a place in my building before-might I not learn after months or years that that black fellow is nothing like I had thought, and am now wondering that there surely must be other decent folk like him?
the media "fake news" does not reflect the majority, it gives false representation and world view from reality. it gives the spotlight to the spoiled entitled crowd followers a very very small group of paid actors,in hopes to influence the world view. Fact is everyone has a bias not racist view, everyone loves each other. Just like the Cajun navy guy with the rebel flag saving 20-30 black lives after Katrina.something the propaganda machine buried because it goes against the narrative.
As a Nigerian,I worry about what America is evolving into because if a civil war errups in America, it may very well fall and if that happens we are back to the dark ages. Europe is not as strong as it needs to be to resist the dark forces of human suffering much less protect and project freedom around the world. The world will fall into the hands of nations like china , russia, iran with leadership more like Mao, Stalin and the Ayatollars. I hope America survives, inspite of the chaos they seed from time to time because it is in the best interest of all peace and freedom loving peoples that there be a strong America to give the ruthless nations and their leaders pause.
@@emmanuelohai4506 same here. If America(multi cultural country fails it means we can’t collab on a global scale. America has a great cheat code others don’t. THE SMARTEST MINDS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
There’s nothing more I look forward to watching than real time on Friday nights. The only show that calls out bull s**t on both sides with honesty, integrity and some gotdamn witty humor!
Watch some Tucker Carlson. The media does nothing but vilify him, but he calls BS on both sides also. You should watch the dude rail against against Lindsey graham.
Watch some Cenk Uygur. The media does nothing but vilify him, but he calls out BS on both sides also. You should watch the dude rail against Joe Manchin.
@@obsoerver7272 And Bill Maher doesn’t come off as elitist? Sure… Tucker might come off that way, but regardless, I agree with about 90% of his positions. It says something when even Nikki Minaj starts retweeting the guy. He and Bill Maher have a lot in common these days. Both of their biggest beefs is media censorship and the apparent loss of freedom of speech… which coincidentally occurred the second the public voted for someone we weren’t supposed to vote for: Trump.
Bill Maher is the most reasoned voice out there right now... it's frustrating that such points are not more common. We really have gone back into another Dark Age.
The left is moving so far left so quickly that Bill is staring to be considered a centrist. He won’t be bullied into changing his opinions and that’s a great thing.
He doesn't seem to align with anything the left is saying these days. I think the left is going to start writing hit pieces on him soon. I don't think a lot of young people know who he is though so these opinions may skirt under the radar.
I'm watching from Europe and I've been concerned about this development for years. Thanks Bill, this was the voice of common sense all the way through. Your words in this segment is not comedy but WISDOM and that is rare in today's society. Ordinary people with common sense need to start speaking up otherwise I see a very dark future for the US. It only takes a couple of nutcases to destroy a great nation if decent people are too afraid to speak up.
In Europe, countries are mostly comprised of same ethnicity and people still find ways to segregate themselves mostly on political lines and more stupidly on sex ("gender") lines.
The far left is pushing this crap and Bill is a lefty. That's how insane the far left/socialists/communists are here now. Poisoned by our schools/universities.
I'm not huge on his personality, and I don't always see eye to eye with Maher, but I've never heard anything from anyone which made me feel like I did watching this. I agree emphatically on every facet.
If what Maher is saying were true, I’d agree with him. But he has a habit of creating the most ridiculous straw men then arguing against his creations. Take the “black national anthem” thing at the NFL. He creates a straw man that suggests people are supposed to sing one OR the other, depending on their race. That’s not at all the case. The Star Spangled Banner has long been associated with the US winning its battle for liberty and independence. All well and good, but Black Americans weren’t freed until almost a century later. “Lift Every Voice And Sing” celebrates the freedom of African Americans. People aren’t supposed to sing one or the other. Everyone should be singing both. The point of singing both is recognizing that the first song did not represent freedom for all Americans, and the Americans left out of the original celebration of freedom actually matter. Everyone, regardless of race, singing both songs is *not* segregation. Everyone singing both songs is recognizing the full story of liberty for all Americans, instead of just the part of the story that celebrates the liberty of some Americans. I don’t know why Maher can’t understand this.
@@maargenbx1454 not sure if I'm missing something, but Maher's whole point is to unite (and change things), he wasn't suggesting to sing one or the other, simply one (and sure, make that "Lift Every Voice And Sing") . Would you agree on (some of) the rest of his points which to me exemplify "woke segregation" a lot more?
Pretty good summary of his impact. His demeanor is highly arrogant and condescending. Who cares. His ideas are almost uniformly on target. Slashes progressive and neocons alike.
@@sebastianschaer I didn’t say Maher was suggesting that people sing one or the other, but he argues that having two represents “segregation”, as if people were expected to sing one or the other. Having everyone sing both is not “segregation”.
Thank you Bill Maher. This smokes any monologue I’ve heard in a very long time. Our political positions differ in a lot of areas, but this was a very well stated commentary, and damn patriotic... and not status quo.
For me, it’s about standing together. I couldn’t care less about the words. Seven Nation Army or We Are the Champions/ We Will Rock You would work for me! JK.
Yes, the showing of a once united Yugoslavia for over a century, then the ruins of a civil war- very poignant. I do have a problem though with what Maher referred to as redress, when talking about the slavery issue. Blacks have everything and MORE, now in this country- but the one thing we can't give them, and all the $ in the world won't buy it for them, is SELF ESTEEM !! And not having enough, is NOT the fault of another race. How many white lives were lost the Civil War to abolish slavery? You know how many barely literate, newcomers to this country, who came across the Atlantic in the steerage compartment of the ship? And before they could disembark their disease ridden living quarters on the ship, many men had to allow themselves to be conscripted into the Union Army, and fight to abolish slavery. They were immediately separated from their families on the dock, and many men never saw them again. many of the women were constricted by years long servitude commitments, which just covered their room and board. EVERY ethnicity they came to these shores, had to fight for their place in this experiment of a country, that had just formed.
@@getlost3346 Slovenian didn't lost much lives in Yugoslavia war but other nations are. Nobody alive will not apologise but ask those who die. To die just for which government will rule awer you, they impose same taxes and in same language and don't care about you, but you willing to die for them so government can split your money stup...
Universities creating segregated dorms... we need to start filing federal charges against universities that do this. Drain them of cash until they fall into line with the civil rights laws we passed decades ago.
You should be able to live wherever you want off campus, including segregated frats (if that is what people want). But having racially separate dorms sends the wrong message. Especially if it is funded by taxpayer dollars. This Woke BS is slowly killing colleges anyway.
You give me hope for a unified nation. Love your neighbor no matter who they voted for as they’re your real community not your echo chamber on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit etc.
Because it's being fueled by young people with good hearts but ignorant minds. And they have mastered the skill of amplifying their voices via social media. They're also influenced by academics who may have been bullied in their youth who now find themselves essentially experimenting with social ideas they may have crafted after years of being a victim. This is not to say that there wasn't room for social improvement, but the pendulum has swung too far in one direction. Problem is, too many adults are ill-equipped to out-reason these young adults.
Because there are a lot of great people from all backgrounds and cultures that we wouldnt be able to enjoy the company of if we were stupidly forced to resegregate by race. Not just black people. This segregation shit is straight up regression. Being ultra focused on race is going to lead to disaster at some point
While your sentiment is appreciated and encouraging. Unfortunately, that is not reality. Truth be told there will always be two amerikka's. Even if you don't want to put it in terms of black and white. This country has two party political system which creates an "either or" society. Same thing with it's economic structure (Capitalism), it creates a "have & have not" system of finance. It just so happens that by history, and by design...black and brown people seem to be on both negative ends of those respected spectrums. I wish I could take your sentiment and spread it across the nation, because we need more people who think like you. Unfortunately, I not as optimistic. Because it's by design. The people in power (both sides) WANT it to be this way. And have spent the last 400 years defending it "way of life."
Black and brown people are not all on the other side. Look up top GDP per capita by ethnicity, Indians are # 1 and many asiatic peoples are in the top ten. Also, Nigerians do really well, which kind of proves that the system isn't rigged against black and brown people in general. I will say, though- African Americans do have a distinct story and history and i think terrible shit has obviously happened and continues to happen to them. This is undeniable and not such a simple tale
Yet he sat there for 30 mins and let two faaaaar left zealots give us divisive opinions with a wink and a nod…to your point though, I agree. Bill still has a way to go.
Yet another great mono from Bill. Sad it's so rare in popular entertainment now to see someone capable of thinking clearly and for themselves, while also being really funny.
@@jausti2 If you've ever sung anything (including a stunning number of church hymns that are sung in black churches) written before, say, about the 1970s, you have. So yes--we all have done so at least once. I have also sung Lift Every Voice during events to celebrate Dr. King's life and legacy on the national holiday that is his birthday. Personally, I think that *Lift Every Voice is the better choice to be our national anthem* here in the US (for everyone, regardless of melanin expression), but just as some people take issue with verses of The Star Spangled Banner that aren't sung, I expect the non-religious and anti-religious among our countrymen would generate false outrage because the third verse--of a hymn written by a white dude in 1900, for the record--speaks specifically and directly of asking God to keep us on the right path.
@@jausti2 As an American Indian (the phrase my family prefers), if it was written by a non-AmerIndian at any point in history (since the US continues to refuse to honor its treaties with AmerIndians to this day), pretty much everything I've ever sung falls into that category. Or you could try, you know, not assuming things about other people and being combative for no f***ing reason on a UA-cam channel that is literally dedicated to someone who refuses to engage in the double-plus ungood of groupthink.
Yeah, because the problem with "separate but equal" was playing two different songs before a football match and not, say, the systematic disenfranchisement of 30% to 50% of the population. Great historical analogy. (Just for the record: "Separate but equal" was a Jim Crow propaganda slogan. In reality, whites and blacks were neither separated - African American women especially would often work as domestic servants - nor in any way or form equal.)
Separate but equal is intended to create a level playing for every student who walks into a public education K-12 system in the USA. There are extensive processes in place at your local public school districts that make sure this concept is happening. You can have any public school administrator (K-12 public ed) explain how this happens on their campus. It is a federal protection for students K-12 who are recipients of special education services.
Guess you missed the part when he said 10 years ago we didn't have a racial divide..!! Wypipo in they country acting like nothing wrong is like watching the fall season come in with leaves changing color. Nothing to see here.
@@tyaucupis Your river is populated smells like urine feces an dead bodies oddly just like the Thames river of London years ago. Wtf wants to be anywhere near your river. #Troglodyte
I’ve never cared for Mr. Mahr, but the title of this video caught my attention. I figured it was worth a listen. Turns out, Bill and l are not as far apart as l had assumed! Mr. Mahr will be getting another view from me in the future! God bless America!!🇺🇸
Bill has been talking the best common sense about your country for decades, that's why so many of us US-watchersoverseas love him so much. He doesn't fall into the silly excesses o the Dems but calls out the looniess of Trumpist America as well.
Bill is basically a right wing hack at this point. When was last time he had socialist or a real Lefty on his show and not just another corporate neoliberal. He's closer to being a republican then he is a socialist that's for sure
We have to begin calling ourselves Classical Liberals and at the very least register as Independents if not Republican if we actually want the Democratic party to change. No more allegience to Wokeist Democrats.
@@notificationsareblocked.yo53 I’m a registered Republican now, but was a long time Liberal until it became WOKE and far left! Funny how a Democrat’s views 15-20 years ago is now considered Conservative!!!!
I don’t agree with liberals but I can respect the Carlin n old school types lol 😂 idk what happen to y’all now lol 😂 I try to keep my calm with werid blue hair Karen’s at school sorry I’m libertarian conservative but I’m try to do good by MLK n Malcom x
Bill Maher nailed the segregation of playing 2 National Anthems!!! Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “We may have arrived on different ships. But we’re in the same boat now.”
He is wrong there are no two National anthems in the USA, there is only one The Star Spangled Banner, Lift Every Voice and Sing has existed since the civil rights movement, I can't believe you people are barely having a problem with it, and by the way growing up in the 90s The Star Spangled Banner was played every day in school, and Lift Every Voice and Sing was only played during Black History Month and after The Star Spangled Banner! There was no issue, and how is it segregation if they are both sung at the same event? Honestly you people are just looking something to be angry about all the time!
@@jav9069 I so much agree with you. I remember when Jimi Hendrix played the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock and most folks stood up and applauded. :-)
@@jav9069 There calling it the "black national anthem". That is the issue. Calling it a (whatever race) national anthem is the problem. There is only ONE national anthem. It's not the song itself that's the problem
@@jsjazz12 NO ONE sings the verse that has long been excluded from popular culture. It makes zero sense to dwell on something that everyone else isn’t aware of or doesn’t care to elevate. Signed, A Different Thinking Black American (from the hood not the suburbs)
"I fear, I am integrating my people into a burning house."--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, 1967. Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea. Maybe the problem was, the forced segregation my elders and ancestors endured was never actually EQUAL.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 I'd give you more thumbs up if UA-cam allowed it. White people want to take credit for integration like it cost them something when in actually segregation and racism cost them and integration cost us more. But they don't want to take credit for racism, which is just a black people problem, not a white people problem. Besides, anyone who has ever read anything written by civil rights leaders and intellectuals will soon see that the movement was not about integration, it was about ending racism.
I think it's clear this is the best new rule Bill has done in a while. The writing, the delivery, the salience, it was all there! The comparison to Yugoslavia gave me shivers. Hear, hear for everything said!
As someone who grew up in Yugoslavia, this is a spot on reference. Though I am confident that it will go over most people's heads. (maybe 1 of 100 people I've met know that Yugoslavia was a country)
As someone who considers them a leftist to a degree, I feel like a lot of people defend this by saying no one really believes that. The fact that %40 of colleges have segregated dorms, is proof it’s not a small group of people, which is comcening
I, for one, would have preferred to have lived in a segregated dorm when I attended NU given how I was treated by my 2 white roommates. Same with my white neighbors when I went to U of C just 2 years later for grad school. You do realize that the least segregated time in our history was slavery. White people had no problem with black people living next door to them, living in the same house with them or even sleeping with them. If racism didn't exist in this country and integration had worked, this would be fine, but until then, it just sets up black people. Ultimately we were the big losers as far as integration is concerned. Just saying.
Maher does this on purpose. That’s an idiotic argument because Lift Every Voice and sing was already a black anthem before the National anthem. If there’s a women’s anthem from 100 years ago, then yes sing it. But there is no history of that. Lift every voice is spiritual, sung at a time when black people were not accepted. But some white Americans have never respected that pain and sense of not belonging. What amazes me about some white Americans is that you want black people to suddenly throw that history in the garbage. Lift every voice and sing should be celebrated by every American. Just as HBCU’s should be celebrated by every American. Black people educating themselves at a time when they weren’t ALLOWED to have an education? Celebrate it. No one has ever argued white people can’t sing “Lift every voice and sing.” What Maher and most of you actually want, is white washing and assimilation. You have no interest in re-creating the anthem to be more inclusive. So what’s the point?
@@andref9663 "what amazes me about some white Americans is YOU..." excuse me, what did I do? Haha but I understand what you mean, just be careful not to project like that
@@andref9663 Native Americans actually have a national anthem. They have way more of a right than the Black national anthem. There are many other ethnic minorities who hold onto the history and culture and educate their children with it and yet assimilate to American culture.
As many anthems as you are willing to have . However we should be free to kneel at any or all of them. If Anyone claims anything different then they aren't allowed their anthem.
@Logan Stolberg. If you truly are a very conservative person, you would mostly likely dislike all of his political opinions and his jokes towards republicans, so therefore you wouldn’t stand Bill Maher.
Quite a considerable percentage of Americans get their news from comedians. It is more work to make bad news funny than simply to create drama like a regular news team
I admire you, Mr Maher. You seem to be a fine human being, with a keen mind, and sharp wit. Please keep up with your great and valuable endeavor. We need folks like you.
It always pains me to turn on the TV and see yet another story of people squabbling over their petty differences when there are so much more important things to worry about. The fact that EVERYTHING is now viewed through the eyes of race. Simply because a cop is white and a suspect is black? Must be racist. It is absolutely insane! I am a conservative, I believe in integration and being together as one people regardless of ethnicity. As a child watching MLK's "I have a dream" speech gave me goosebumps. It impacted me so deeply that I have lived the rest of my life by his words. To always judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. I don't care about your skin color, who you sleep with or what god you worship. There is no reason why we can't live in harmony and work on real problems together. Alas, I don't think people will ever wake up.
I was born in the US in the late 40's and until very, very recent history have never heard the poem, "Lift Every Voice," discribed as a black national anthem or any other type of anthem. The only place that I heard anyone singing the poem was infrequently during some religious program in black churches. When I say infrequently, that is somewhat similar to once every blue moon kind of thing. It is a nice inspirational poem and that is all it should have seen as. As a black man I can state unequivocally that notions of black separative ideology is harmful, counter productive and egregiously stupid! Dr. King never wanted this kind of nonsense, he wanted black inclusion in American society not this inane, constant harping upon our superficial differences. Race is a word without plural form because there is only one race and that is the human race. I"m of the mindset that science has shown this to be true.
Dr. King said before he died that he made a mistake and then thought he led his people into a burning house! Integration east the worst thing the black community could have done! We need to separate, FOREVER!!!!
Been watching you for years...but this...this was different...this was the most lucid and focused and spot on assessment you have ever delivered. You don't need my praise sir, but you have it.
Oooooo wow Bill sure nailed that racist part cause woke black people have the power to make real change in America. We got police judges financial stability loans we can actually use that hate to our advantage... Wow I never knew black folks could be racist thanks for that. From woke to racist white folks watch out black folks have more power they Karen an Darren combined. Nailed it! 😐
@@mija4201223 Boy did you miss the point. You mentioned power which is interesting because having black movements promoted in all facets of America is quite powerful. The media, academia, politicians and so on. But in any case, that's not the point. It's not about enacting power as much as the belief system itself. Look at segregation. Segregation is an idea that is becoming popular among leftists. Who else believes in segregation? Now, I'm not even against segregation if someone wants to. But leftists are finding themselves in similar beliefs from the same people they'd call racists.
@@ouzi9122 I am a native Spanish speaker, so when in doubt, I use the Spanish rule which demands Roman numerals for centuries. Wasn't sure if the same applies in English. 😂
Never ever thought I would see Bill Maher as a great patriot who makes tears come to my eyes because he gets it and he's got the courage to say it. This is what this country is about. This is what made America America.
He is also a great patriot when he calls the people on January 6th insurrectionists and points to their annointed orange asshole as the catalyst. Bill hasn't changed, he sees bullshit and calls it out. Doesn't matter which tribe is taking a shit, Bill will smell it.
Bill, I've been watching you for years, from Poland. You are a witty genius who can brutally and accurately point out the absurdities of all contemporary politics, all over the world. Exactly - these divisions, if we dig more as the extreme left and the extreme right want it, will lead us to catastrophe. The same is currently happening in Poland, maybe not so much in terms of race, but in terms of two political camps. Please Bill - never stop. Your voice of reason is the only light in the tunnel!
Thanks for sharing your bigot just like Bill. 10 years ago we had racial equality. The anthem rooted in racism an terror they had to remove the slavery parts. The flag was created when Africans where still in chains. Wtf would I respect flag that literally is a representation of WORLD WIDE TERROR.
@@mija4201223 I’m conservative, I’m am an American who happens to be black, I’m not African-American (that’s racist because it’s yet another label). I love our Country warts and all. Generations of Americans, men and woman, all colors and religions dies and sacrificed under our Flag, so that hateful racist people like you can freely talk a bunch of garbage. Again I’m a conservative and don’t agree with most of Bill but his point on unification and not re-creating a segregated system of black or Latino groups, black anthems etc………. Is dangerous and I agree with him
@@mija4201223 It’s also the same flag flown by Union soldiers against the confederates who freed the slaves. Well actually the flag changes whenever they add states to the union. So the Flag has only been this way since 1957. This flag we have today was born during the civil rights movement. The flag’s continuous change reflects Americas continuous change. And change is something America continues to need. We may have freedom in some sense but not all of us have freedom in all regards. Not suggesting you should respect the flag.
Hahaha....me too!!! I have a soft spot for guys in black frame glasses, and surprisingly enough, Bill is no exception. I don't know, maybe it's some sort of emerging "Clark Kent/Superman in disguise" kink. No matter the reason, Bill is definitely rockin' those god damn frames!!!!
Couldn't agree more. When we were young, whenever the kids had a fight, my parents always made us work it out among ourselves before intervening. If we didn't, we all got disciplined or received consequences. It wasn't always perfect, but at least we knew we had to try to make it together. Every single American has to try, try and try to really put aside our differences and think of the longevity and prosperity of this country we love even if it may be very hard. Otherwise, we will all perish together.
I was digging this until Obama popped up. The most divisive President we've probably ever had who started his Presidency with a beer summit that kicked off the anti police thing which has grown much bigger. The man who's wife said she was proud of America for the first time in her life when her husband was elected and who has done nothing but hate on America's "Whiteness" so yeah until then he sounded common sense
@The boogeyman lol you go ahead and believe that is the way forward.... continue spreading hate and intolerance.... not having an argument with someone who is willful ignorant of WHO is pushing race based segregation.... But you do you 😂🤣😂
@The boogeyman also are you on the right comment??? Literally about getting past differences and fighting for America and you enter adding divide and making it based on YOUR political opinion ... lol The opposite of respecting other opinions ... I find it funny 😂🤣
Ok, Obama wasn't a brave, smart man nor did he grow up here in America. I guess you forgot he grew up traveling the world and attending elite schools and the most elite school was the one in Hawaii because the students had to start kindergarten there and move up. Obama was the only student who got into that school as a teenager. People in Hawaii pondered that one. Obama was very out of touch with black Americans. Neither side of his family were slaves so he didn't even have that in common so I'm not sure what you're saying and to tell people to vote Democrat regardless of who they are is ignorance. That's how it works I guess. That's how Biden got was the biggest racist back in the day and is to blame for the disproportionate amount of blacks going to jail for longer than whites with the crime bill he signed. So uh yeah vote Democrat no matter who they are. 🥴
The thing is some of us Democrats aren't so far left that we forget how far we have come. This is ridiculous and they don't speak for all of us. I would love to live and be around white or black people as a hispanic. These people are going backwards.
@@Rebel-cd6gc It's come full circle. Segregation, media over the past decade re-introducing racism and sexism. Neither party benefits from the madness.
The interesting thing is that his message hasn't really changed. His political commentary has spanned 5 presidencies. Ignoring the tribalism, most conservatives would probably agree with him more often than not.
I went to a mostly white college. And I noticed that they put me and the other black kids in rooms right next to each other. I think this was done to make us feel comfortable but it had the opposite effect. We felt we’d been singled out and ostracized from everyone else. We were all low key offended and often joked about how obvious this covert attempt at racism really was.
I’m a conservative and I’ve always respected him holding his “side” accountable. I wish more on both sides would say “time out, we sound insanely out of touch and are alienating virtually everyone right now”. You don’t have to agree with someone to appreciate that.
I am really so tired of that part of our time. We need more people like Bill that can be a little bit unbiased here and there and actually disagree with "his tribe" every now and then. Nowadays it just feels like difference of opinion is not even allowed to exist anymore.
Bill Maher is one of the few remaining reminders of why I _started out_ as a leftist. I might even go back if there were more, like him. Now, I'm not on the right either, but I do mock both, as appropriate. Unfortunately, the left is often the louder one and is thus more often deemed appropriate by me to mock. But hey, I'll proudly wave the flag of problematic (common insult word used by the left) degenerate (common insult word used by the right).
@@DarkAdonisVyers Yep like I said I’m a conservative Christian but I don’t take the knee jerk reaction to an issue based on what Fox News or the daily wire report. I disagree with the right on some issues and take a moderate stance on others. Some I’m very conservative or right leaning. Either way I embrace discussions, not labels, hate or vilification because you disagree with me. I was more left leaning in my teens but in my early 30s now I’ve shifted. Either way, We’ve got to learn to talk to each other or we will become irreparably divided.
I agree. I miss the old days when we could talk to each other even if we disagred. We could be civil and respect the others right to their opinion.
He HAS NOT "always" held his side accountable! He just used Obama as a symbol of a Uniter ffs. Don't you remember the "stupid cops" and his Son Trayvon?
"Believing in separate but equal, that's out of step, by 67 years". Go Bill!
Well schools and neighborhoods are actually more segregated than in the 70’s. Mind addressing that?
Then you should root for the changing of the national anthem because it supports slavery
@@rollotherevolutionaryreneg395 blk ppl are supposed to be ok with that tho. We aren’t supposed to feel like singing a song written by a person who didn’t consider us human as divisive….
@@rollotherevolutionaryreneg395 So if we changed the lyrics to the third verse of the Star Spangled Banner, you'd be OK with the National Anthem?
@@franciscolopez7101 No, that's what they did before it's still the same.
“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
-Mark Twain
Loyalty to humanity always. Loyalty to country or government when it serves humanity.
The real Mark Twain was Afro-American, right? 🤣
No, but Twain was a true humanitarian
The problem is that we live in a polarized country where any government, no matter how centrist or reasonable or producing of positive results is going to be attacked by one side or the other depending on if there is a "D" or an "R" administration or Congressional majority in power. So are you disagreeing with Bill's video? I'm not sure what your point is except to get clicks.
@@megamaserthe fuck did your manatees ever do for us?
One anthem: The national anthem. But Bill as always is fantastic. "We might disagree but we find a way to get high together." Genius.
One Nation Under A Groove?
@@kevinthomas4074 Yes!
As a life long conservative, I’d have never guessed that Bill Maher would be the lone voice of reason in a crazy f#%&$ed up world. Well said, Bill! 👍👏🏻
That's because he's not a "lifelong" anything. Ideology binds us to the notion that one side is always right, and that's obviously not true.
We take the decision to bind ourselves to a group because the group offers both strength of numbers and affirmation of SOME beliefs.
But people stop questioning that affiliation as 'SOME" in even in cases where it might conflict with their positions, because we feel, neurologically, a need for that safety in numbers, to lower our anxiety over the unknown as a consequence of difficult decisions. We want to stay in the tribe, so we stop questioning the tribe and start presuming its ideological opponents are always wrong.
Anyone who self-identifies as a "Liberal" or a "Conservative" is immediately signaling that they've made up their mind base on binary opposite notions, when almost every issue has positions of nuance.
If you weren't a "lifelong" anything, he wouldn't surprise you at all.
I guess you didn’t listen to everything thing he said? Get rid of the national anthem we have and pick another? Don’t even have a National Anthem? All he said is if we have a national anthem we have only one.
@@lowellthomson1958 You're awfully serious for a youtube commenter
You can be liberal and be opposed to segregation. I lean liberal and the hard left seems guano crazy to me. Seriously, segregation?!?
Bill is a moderate. I'm an independent
I like our differences
But there comes the Progressives who just want to F-up everything!! And are the true enemy of our country!
Just my 0.02.
One of your best segments ever. I went to school in West Oakland. My schools were 85-90 % black (Im Mexican)
There was so much consciousness and pride about MLKs teachings. About everyone being equal. About getting along. Never were we taught to be resentful.
I’m 35 now and cannot believe what is going on now. I just can’t.
Went to an more or less an all white school moved to London lived there for 7 years had friends from all over the world, it was great to hear different views different perspectives it was truly great...this reversal of this by the "Woke" brigade is nonsense of the highest order, the absolute highest order
here's the thing, though: the Left discovered MLK's *real* teachings. That whites were irredeemable. That blacks deserved democratic-socialism paid for by whites. That the space programme was bad.
I went to schools k-3 mostly white 4-6 1/3 each White Black and Mexican and 7-12 about 45% each Mexican and White and 10% native and we all got along. We inter-married. We are life long friends. My group of friends tease me alot because I'm the only white at the table. I tease them back that I lived on the hill and they didn't. No one gets butthurt over it.
@@dander7829 lived with ,grew up,and loved a multi cultural group of friends. Where are we now? It seems we can't even talk about the beauty of our differences and find out our similarities.
Yep, I went to high school and college in late 90s and all races mixed and got along pretty well. I didn’t see any of the divisiveness that is out there today . I’m not sure what the cause is . The media and universities are 2 main culprits
From a black grandma in the nyc pj's, THANK YOUUUUU BILL. I DON'T AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU SAY, BUT THISSSS 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
I’m a white dude in cargo shorts, and I’m glad we’re part of the same country, black grandma.
This whole thread is condescending. You’re not a “black grandma in the nyc pjs” lol wtf.
Stop pretending to be someone you’re not to prove a point. It’s pathetic.
@@teezy5619 I guess there's no way to know, but why would someone make that up?
Bless you
No self respecting grandmother from da hood would ever admit to Bill Maher that she's wearing seethrough pj's! 😇🥰🤣
"I'm not out of step- believing in separate but equal that's out of step.: by 67 years".
Gave me chills
You're gay. But I agree.
Leave it to the woke left to bring _Plessy v. Ferguson_ back in vogue. On account of their astonishing lack of self-awareness they don't realize that they've gone so far to the left on the dial they're slamming into the far right. I wanna know why people are allowing their civil liberties to be taken away by snot-nosed university freshmen who are so fragile they melt at the slightest "offense" -- most of which is _performative_ delicacy. At least 60% of the electorate resides between the two bookends of far right and far left; if they wanted to they could stand up a third party that would outnumber the extremists by almost 2:1. Why aren't we? It's clear that no one in government is speaking for _us,_ only the rabid base of their respective parties; unless we assert ourselves as a voting bloc, that is only going to continue and get worse.
This is making me cry. Finally we have someone on the left speaking up who actually has influence.
@Terrance Coleman In this day and age (post tRump era) anyone up to and including center right is far left.
The guy speaking in the video has been driving what would become what is happening now. He believes in being rude and saying what he wants and mocking people. That mindset leads to racism because he inspires people to be rude and say what they want and to mock people. So rudely telling Who'ity to get out and leave their multicultural space alone is following Bill's behavior. Not Bill's ideology, but Bill's behavior. Behavior Inspires Behavior, people already have their favorite ideologies. Anyone wishing to get the message out about their ideology will find Bill's Behavior inspiring.
For the uneducated who say that Behavior does not inspire Behavior, how did WWI or WWII Happen?
It started with one man's Behavior towards other people, laws and rules he did not like.
Bill did not like the established law and order, so he (and other comedians) fomented rebellion. They did not like the schools teaching religion.
They did not like the traditional family structure.
They did not like constraining scruples.
Well constraining scruples were what was holding back what you see rampant in the USA.
Now people have no scruples so you have anarchy.
NO! You can not have a little of each, that is anti-nature.
One side will always be content and the other side will never have enough.
Bill likes to act like a bear and now he does not like bears ravaging the bee hives.
Well soon enough the bees will get riled up and the bears will be sent running.
FYI the bees are the Right Wing Conservatives.
@@enerzise3161 Yeah yeah you got riled up and still failed.
@@enerzise3161 You think what the US has now is anarchy? Even embellishing the truth wouldn't make that statement close to the truth.
@Terrance Coleman Yes, an American perspective. Bill is American, speaking on American issues 🤦♂️
"Well congratulations liberal parents you just paid 100 grand for your kid to move to Biloxi Mississippi in 1948". GOLD!!
Yup. Being angry at an uplifting song that portrays what our country stands for while holding on to a song written by a racist slave owner sounds just like MS in 1948!
@@jausti2 Its the only anthem we have. It isnt just a song of freedom for americans, its a song of freedom for our allies, and a song of reckoning for our enemies. What is it going to take for people to put aside their PETTY differences and remember that the world doesnt revolve around progressive leftist feelings.
F. Scott Key did put that racist verse in the Anthem originally, but the Leaders in power at the time would NOT allow that verse in, even during that time. That story should tell you that, yea there WERE white supremacist ways of thought in our highest institutions, but there were people who fight against those ways of thinking. Grow up, be a man, take some personal responsibility for yourself and stop playing the victim, it makes you weak. These bs examples of racism used in the media today are an insult to the men and women who faced and continue face real racism. If you cry wolf too many times, no one is going to help you when the real wolf comes
@@aikidoka00dude blk ppl have embraced that song and actually performed some of the most entertaining renditions of it. I think the song should be played because of what it means to certain ppl. I’m just pointing out the irony in ppl claiming the song about uplifting and fighting towards freedom written by a true civil rights hero is divisive. And I would like for ppl to think about the fact that blk ppl live, laugh and enjoy events right alongside of you all while knowing the racist history behind it. James Weldon Johnson and that song represent America at its best and was an anthem for those who fought to finally make this country live up to its stated value. We aren’t trying to replace the anthem. We never have. It’s just a shame that the beauty of that mans work and what it symbolizes is getting lost in this paranoia.
@@aikidoka00 and lol at you telling me to grow up? You really don’t realize that ppl that use the rhetoric you use aren’t really looked upon as the authority on anything among ppl like myself? Lol
@@jausti2 There are alot of good songs that inspire and are uplifting that are way better than the N. Anthem. The song itself isnt in question, its the playing it along side the N. Anthem that is the problem. That song, no matter how goofy it may sound by todays standards, is the Song of America. There are plenty of other patriotic songs, and if you wana add this one to the list, so be it cool. But you cant play it alongside or replace the N.Anthem. Again the world doesnt revolve around you, or even a small percentage of american population. Point taken about black ppl livin, lovin and enjoying life with white ppl in the sense that that is what America is all about. And as far as the racist history behind it, unfortunately that does still effect black ppl today, but you know why? Because leftist wont let racism die. Do you really think racism will beat racism? No, racism breeds more racism, its that simple. What is racism? Treating someone different based on the color of their skin. You dont get to have a special anthem lol. Everyone who came to this country originally got hosed. Native Americans *you know the real original sin of America) killed other Native Americans for the land, europeans came and killed them, africans sold slaves to Europeans, chinese came and got hosed, the catholics came and got hosed, the irish came and got hosed, hispanics come here and get hosed (you know the current sin of America) Spoiler alert if you aint got money, you are probably gona get hosed. And thats never been more true today than it was at the beginning. Lol there has never been a better time or place to be black in the history of humanity!
It doesnt matter what race you are in America. Its all about who has money and who doesnt. The race problem is kept alive by leftist who use it to retain power, its that simple.
But as far as white supremacy in our institutions? Thats a laugh. PoC are in every avenue of power at every level of our society. Cops have body cams now.
The mainstream media is so desperate to report something racial, that they'll stoop so low as to call a cop shooting a black girl with a knife about to stab another black girl holding a dog racist lol. Is that it? Is that what racism looks like now? Nah man thats like a girl lying about being raped. Not only is detrimental to the accused, its a slap in the face to people who have really been raped. Thats why I use the cry wolf analogy. You keep calling everything racist, when the blowback comes there's a chance black ppl could experience actual racism again, and then no one will believe you. Basic tentants that you seem to ignore..you cant judge a book by its cover, judge a person by their character and not the color of their skin, Dont cry wolf, the golden rule. These are wise tenants you should try checking them out. Wisdom > Intelligence, everytime
Speaking as a Black American: We aren’t the only racial/ethnic group here who’s been through some ish. We don’t deserve to have everyone sing “our anthem” anymore than the next racial/ethnic group. ✌🏽👍
thank you
Your welcome
You’re high af. Asians did not go thru the complex American slavery. You sir are not a black man.
That's really cool to hear.
@@Cryptum404 Asians went through
1. Sundown towns
2.The Chinese Exclusion Act which basically banned Asian immigration until 1965
3. Bondage slavery through debt where they had to work in the West until their debts were paid.
4. Being racially profiled and put in camps in World War 2.
Also, if you think American slavery was bad, and you really want that Oppression Olympics, then I have news for you. A lot of the rest of the planet has gone through much much much worse and they have citizens in the US .So No
As usual, Maher is spot on right about this. One people, one Nation, one anthem.
Yeah, as with Afro-Americans learning that the sellers of those slaves, their supposed ancestry, were mostly `black´ people & Orientals. Evil white folks were not 25% of the slavers ever, as we were too lazy, too craven, and our little penises failed to secure the loyalty of any women.
Bill, you're killing it this season, keep it up!!
But he shouldn't though! He is actually saying reasonable things that shouldn't even be an issue!
I am not American, but it stands to reason to me that a nation should and can only one anthem, as a symbol of unity.
The fact that Americans are now even DISCUSSING this is deeply worrying! Because, Bill was right about Yugoslavia, I am from the Balkans, I know! That country went down the shithole so fast you can't even believe it, and of course it was due to deep differences and inequalities, but a HUGE part of it was due to people stop believing in the "country" even on the simpliest things (like an anthem) to the point that they started identifing themselves not as "Yugoslavs" anymore but as "Serbian, "Croats" or whatever. That was a death sentence for the country and something from which the region has yet to recover fully even after all these decades, which led to horror stories that people can't even believe and yet it happened.
I don't see the US going that way, but I am worried because it is showing clear signs of going EXACTLY that way... and is not as if I could have predicted the horror show of Yugoslavia either, so...
@@Skerdy I love the divide I want to see the USA change into something like the Balkan states. Tired of the woke and race garbage time to split. The future is China. It’s predicted the USA will be divided into racial states. Or two countries. I definitely don’t believe in America it’s nowhere close to what it was before. Now their trying to replace Caucasians. That’s a war and a massive one at that you don’t simply replace the majority it’s far easier said then done. You can’t do it without a hot war or industrial genocide
No bills showing he's a white liberal as a black person I have stopped watching this liberal hunky.
I always thought that the point of anthems is that everyone puts their differences aside and for a couple of minutes, are reminded through mutual demonstration that they are all part of one civilisation. It can humanise the "other" by showing that we do have things in common. People who can't stop snarling at each other long enough to sing a song together (out of key) for two minutes are unlikely to maintain a successful, unified civilisation.
🇺🇸👍🇺🇸 Try and explain that to the View
YES....and I'm a Black person who grew up singing "Lift every voice and sing" at specific functions (in the 70's). I like the song. I still sing it. I always will. Honestly, though I never really thought of it as a Black National Anthem. Just a song--an important song--with compelling lyrics about the Black experience. (BTW The last line of the song is a commitment to America......so it's ironic it's being used to be divisive....just sayin'...) So I say, ONE ANTHEM because we are/should be/ want to be ONE PEOPLE.
PS-- It tickles me that the song is in the Hymnal at my almost all white and very conservative church.
Whoopie Wokeberg would wholeheartedly disagree.
I think Colin Kaepernick and the taking a knee thing killed that. The media made it clear what side they are on. We are not really a nation anymore. Bill Maher is funny, but he is living in an America that no longer exists.
@@jefferyschroeder5245 Dude, we fought the American Civil War to free the slaves. That was over a hundred and fifty years ago. You were never a slave; I was never a slave owner. As a matter of fact, at least one of my ancestors fought in the Union army during that war. Yeah, you're welcome. Lots of our ancestors suffered injustice in this country and in every country. So what? You need to move on and get over it. Frankly, for at least the last sixty years you enjoyed more rights in this country than I have. So, salute this country's anthem, or you are perfectly free to leave this country at any time.
The funny thing is there are millions of black people from other countries that would do anything to come here. Hey, maybe you could trade places with one of them?
AT LAST! Bill Maher, THIS is your role. And dare I say, your duty. As a life-long liberal, as most of us are (along with you), it needs a GENUINE liberal like you to lead this charge against the Woke.
the woke are Wall Street's (and their masters') response to the Occupy movement, the only real people's movement in the anglo world in the last 30 years. Their stealing of the tea party was just a rehersal.
I remember the exact moment i realised what was going on : Colbert had 2 "occupy" guests on. They were the 2 most obvious glowies i have ever seen (as someone from a former commie country, we all have a special spidy sense for smelling out glowies). They were just as stereotipical as the people that were suppose to represent the tea party. And they were spouting out the exact talking points that every media was mocking them for.
@@dracowar6 What's a "glowie"? I've not heard this term before.
Agreed; great comment
@@Crimethoughtfull Glowies are government shills posing as members of other groups they’re either collecting intelligence on or controlling the public perception of through acting
But Bill isn't anymore liberal in the classical sense of the word than you are. Leftists are illiberal in many ways.
I'm a Conservative, and I want us united as one talking to one another as friends and allies, and not divided by race. If we don't start, America will be a place to flee from and not a place to flee to.
Nothing is keeping anybody here.
No one is forced to sing the National Anthem.
Bill you are 50 times more popular than ever . There are very few straight talkers as yourself . Keep on keeping on .
His tone has done a 180 since there is no longer Trump in the white house. This shit he is talking about has been going on since Obingo was in the white house.
@@therealthreadkilla "Obingo"? Really. How infantile. There is nothing more mundane in the American body politic than partisan hackery. This why your in the deserved position you now find yourself in.
Hello, Delusional! LOL Bill "My Opinion Is Better Than Yours" Maher is FAR from 50 times more popular. Maybe in your feeble mind. Ho sad for you and yours. Could you please move to Canada, eh?
There’s lots of straight talkers right now. They just don’t reside as far left as him. The fact that he’s still popular shows how BOT-LIKE his audience is.
@Jon Dau ahh that old chestnut.
“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”
-C.S. Lewis
Which is why the people who call themselves "progressives" are really regressive.
So what are you saying we SHOULD go back to segregation?
@@JakeyD23 No, we're saying we should NOT go back and these woke SJW leftists are taking is back there, whether they mean to or not.
"if you´re on the wrong road"...get sufficient tools to see yourself on the right track...enough of these superintellectuals pushing their notions sacred with bullshite logic..."avanza para atras"...
Who says it is the wrong road? Why is it the wrong road? Does not go as fast and straight as I would wish, but the direction seems right, and it is moving.
I’m a conservative….and I agree with every single word he just said.
You are probably a old school liberal like Bill. The more I listen to this man the more I agree with him. I consider myself to be a conservative as well but i would lean towards the left if liberals were more like Bill.
Right, he is what liberalism used to represent, not the hypocritical mockery it has become
Who cares if you're a conservative? Any good human beings would agree with what Bill said no matter the political affiliation.
Of course you do, because Bill Maher IS a conservative. The idea of him being anywhere close to progressive is laughable.
@@john.premose He is definitely a liberal, just not the "if you cut off your dick then your magically a woman" alt-lefty.
The notion that "progressivism" is taking us back to the racial segregation of the 50s is laughable. You clearly don't get irony.
I was a young “liberal” in the mid nineties and I embraced all of the races and nationalities. Now I’m being told that I’m not allowed to be colorblind because I’m white.
WTF happened to the world 🤦🏼♂️
The great thing about this segment is that it speaks volumes not only about how things are in the USA, but in the world. Union is key to overcome difficulties, we can't forget that.
Edit: I love how everyone thinks I'm from the USA xD I said what I said because I'm not, that's the point. Get out of your bubbles a little bit.
Unity is not possible if someone questions you entire existence
Maybe we Europeans can help our fellow Americans by going to "war"with the USA, maybe they will unite a little bit.
Nvm, the world is fucked, we need aliens
@@deadman1017 who is questioning who’s existence?
Common ground for Progressives and Conservatives is shown in the 1942 USDA video, *Hemp For Victory.*
Cannabis Sativa doesn't care about your age, gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion or income level.
@@MM-cv5jp Uhh...the people who have to be told that black lives matter. Perhaps you're aware...??
This is one of Bill's best new rules monologues of all time, bar none.. the fact that he schooled those fluff heads on The view using an Obama speech is just a small bonus. More power to the man.
Except nobody divided this nation more than Obama. The great _GasLighter_ in Chief.
@@davidlenz9902 🙄
@@davidlenz9902 yup when I think Trump.. Unity comes to mind 🙄😆
@@uncommon8896, when I think of former President Trump I think of a rich reality TV star and/or businessman and that’s exactly what we got. 😆
A lot of his faults, of which they were myriad and sundry, were self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
@@davidlenz9902 What specifically did he do to divide the nation except have the wrong color skin to make you guys upset? I mean, for real. Explain to me how Obama was more divisive than Donald Trump.
"You can't have a melting pot with two pots" Bill Maher.
The rest of the world will turn the US into a melted spot. United, you're either the strongest or second strongest country in the world. Divided, you're going to learn what it means to be China's b_tch.
@Reichsfuhrer John Smith correct. Diversity is division which is weakness.
@Reichsfuhrer John Smith it is a divine decison weather a nation exists or not or a nation is capable protecting its central government from corruption
If you haven't noticed the black community doesn't want to melt together anymore.
@@taekwondotime The future world power?
Appreciate this guys more and more. One of the few voices out there willing to call out both sides. Nice to feel like your getting it straight and there is no narrative or hidden agenda being pushed. Keep it up Bill.
"An evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes."-Sun tzu
I immediately thought of Scar lol.
“If the German people won’t fight for me, they deserve destruction.”
- “Corporal Schickelgruber”
Who is the evil enemy?
@@mija4201223 ANYONE WHO SEEKS DIVISION BY DESTROYING THE HOPES OF UNITY AND TRUE EQUALITY!
@@mija4201223 Communist revolutionaries atm.
Bill may be cold and condescending, but damn he makes a lot of valid points.
Segregation, regardless or the intent, is wrong, and I suggest applicants vote with their wallets and not go to colleges that promote this crap. Hopefully there are still some decent ones left.
Agreed. What (also) saddens me is colleges still clinging to the HBC label. It's great that those institutions devoted their efforts to bringing Black students up to a place where they can more effectively compete against everything that was working against them in this country (lofty goal to say the least, and a respectable accomplishment) . But in this day and age, to continuously remind everyone that this college is still obsessed with race ... when will we just be humans together and not push race in people's faces all day every day. 😔
I had a coworker whose daughter was looking at colleges and she picked an HBC solely on the fact it was an HBC. When my coworker announced the selection to folks at work she just haaaaaad to mention it's an HBC, every time, with this proud sparkle in her eye. Up til that day I never saw her as black, I only saw her as a strong and driven woman, but SHE wanted it to be about race.
No it’s not “bad”. And I say,
Segregation now… segregation tumawrruh… segregation fohevah 🙏
Racial segregation was justified by dehumanizing others. If they're less human, they don't have equal human rights and there's nothing wrong with segregating them. The left has developed such a frantic religious fervor around their ideology that they have dehumanized their political opponents. For them, anyone to the right of Stalin is less than human and are unworthy of equal human rights.
@hazel Greene, I don’t have an issue with the “HBC” label, as it is simply a descriptor, allowing information on how they began. At least, it used to be about that; I’m not sure it’s still about convey the roots. My stepdad (who was genuinely white, like English settler white) was actually offered a scholarship to HBC to play football. I hate calling him my stepdad, because he has passed and he was just “dad” from the time I was 3. My biological father has also always been dad (well, I actually call him “old man” now) it was simply differentiated by which one I was around, but my heritage on his side is Chickamauga Cherokee and French. My mothers side is all Scottish and Irish. None of this matters. At this point I am American. The point of my post is that at some point “HBCs”, only saw that name as descriptive, and didn’t even segregate. On an interesting side note, the founder of that “HBC”, Dr. Lane’s grave was recently moved from my biological grandparents land to wherever his descendants wanted him to rest. He was buried in the woods on their land, not in a nefarious way, rather with a headstone of pure marble, and very well hidden. I don’t know why he was there, that hasn’t been figured out, but I only stumbled upon it while I was out hunting.
I wish i cld like it a hundred times.
Spot on. Spot on. Spot on. Thank you Bill. Speaking reasonably as always. The Obama clip was great. We are slipping away from that. Very sad.
Yes, that was such a great clip of Obama.
@@DisrespectfulRob Well, I think he was sincere…then the infamous “They” got a hold of him, like they did Sleepy Joe.
Obama who bombed women and children with drone strikes but listened to the Fugees so he cool lol
@@DisrespectfulRob No. It's people like you who demonized and made him seem like the anti-christ.
I agree with the notion that the US should have 1 anthem but i don't agree with changing the anthem into the new one.
Bill, this is your finest “new rule” monologue to date!
My favorite portion of this solid commentary: "And purposefully fragmenting things by race, reinforces a terrible message, that we are two nations hopelessly drifting apart from each other..." I think this insight applies to ALL the various ways that the two dominant political parties, and their mouthpieces in the corporate news media, fragment us with their terribly divisive messages, including not only race, but also socioeconomic status.
Divide and rule.
@The Culture & Anarchy Podcast sounds like your head is stuck somewhere.
@The Culture & Anarchy Podcast I doubt you even understand Nationalism.
We are we've always been
It's why many people talk about having more than two parties in this country (yes, there are more, but they have virtually no ground). The us v. them mentality in America is ridiculous and an insult to people who don't sit firmly in either camp. Those like Bill and others who have opinions that are both Republican and Democrat leaning feel left out and unheard, and it absolutely should be addressed.
Thank you Bill. Retired army, mixed raced Native, and sound engineer. One anthem or we just go back bronze age. I'm honestly cool these days with either as shit hits the fan...
Which battalion man?
@@calebfromblood6915 you know! The one that boils your blood civilian!
Another mixed race Native here. And going all bronze age would have been fine with me 50 years ago. Now, not so much. Dressing out a deer now, at 70, is a whole lot more work than when I was young.
That's not a lifestyle for old age without a fairly large support network such as a village. There, the skills of the elderly have a sustainable value to the future.
@@JohnSmith-ft2tw I remember when my uncles forced me to bore hunt. It was nasty. Plus those fools were drunk. I cared for idiots then even though fuck my family...
You’re not an engineer.
Glad this was posted in its entirety. This needs to be heard and shared.
This was the best most eye opening show yet. Pretty much perfection. Thanks Bill. Well done.....
I came up in the 80s. Never thought we'd have to argue against separate but equal ideologies. I was taught we had settled this in the 1960s.
LMAO...I am Black and grew up with those who LIVED under separate but 'equal'. And if you're dumb enough to think all those white Southerners suddenly changed their minds as the laws changed in 1964 and 1965, you need to find any teachers still alive and slap them. Laws don't change minds. And that's the part of this I'm dumbfounded by when I hear white people talk...who stopped thinking the way they thought in the 1860's? No one. They just couldn't DO ANYTHING during Reconstruction because there was protection for Black folks. Soon as that left, so did the 'rights' my ancestors had. Ninety years of Jim Crow...who stopped thinking the way they thought in the 1960's? NO ONE. Those two LBJ signatures made white people Republicans in the majority to the present day (and counting). Like Dr. King SAID, "I fear, I am integrating my people into a burning house." White people will NEVER truly see us as equal...they have OWNING us in their DNA. I'm not hotep, but I often wonder if the problem wasn't the separate part...the most prosperity Black people have had collectively and not just as small clusters of individuals has been when white people have left us the hell alone and not terrorized us (i.e. Tulsa, Rosewood, Greenwood). It was the 'equal' part...we never had actual EQUALITY in that separation.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 that’s your problem- you think all whites are the same and think the same. It is very obvious you have never spent much time around white people. They do not fixate on race like some blacks do. Most whites I know treat you well if you treat them well. The vast majority don’t care if you are black or white or brown.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 You really don’t think anyone charged their minds? I’m not talking about the day such laws were enacted, but not even incrementally? For example, if I were a racist landlord who’d never had a black fellow rent a place in my building before-might I not learn after months or years that that black fellow is nothing like I had thought, and am now wondering that there surely must be other decent folk like him?
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 So move back to Africa and form your own successful country. Show us how it's done. We'll wait.
@@LG123ABC yeah he'll "voluntarily" move back to africa just like his ancestors did coming here
I’m Nigerian but I can relate cos we also have our division issues. Bill you are a great soul👍
the media "fake news" does not reflect the majority, it gives false representation and world view from reality. it gives the spotlight to the spoiled entitled crowd followers a very very small group of paid actors,in hopes to influence the world view. Fact is everyone has a bias not racist view, everyone loves each other. Just like the Cajun navy guy with the rebel flag saving 20-30 black lives after Katrina.something the propaganda machine buried because it goes against the narrative.
@@bloodstormzcrimsonskyz623 You are so right. This is all a money making scam. All of the mainstream media is guilty. Not just the left, or right.
Good to see another Nigerian commenting here.
As a Nigerian,I worry about what America is evolving into because if a civil war errups in America, it may very well fall and if that happens we are back to the dark ages.
Europe is not as strong as it needs to be to resist the dark forces of human suffering much less protect and project freedom around the world.
The world will fall into the hands of nations like china , russia, iran with leadership more like Mao, Stalin and the Ayatollars.
I hope America survives, inspite of the chaos they seed from time to time because it is in the best interest of all peace and freedom loving peoples that there be a strong America to give the ruthless nations and their leaders pause.
@@emmanuelohai4506 same here. If America(multi cultural country fails it means we can’t collab on a global scale. America has a great cheat code others don’t. THE SMARTEST MINDS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
There’s nothing more I look forward to watching than real time on Friday nights. The only show that calls out bull s**t on both sides with honesty, integrity and some gotdamn witty humor!
Watch some Tucker Carlson. The media does nothing but vilify him, but he calls BS on both sides also. You should watch the dude rail against against Lindsey graham.
Watch some Cenk Uygur. The media does nothing but vilify him, but he calls out BS on both sides also. You should watch the dude rail against Joe Manchin.
@@chingron Tucker Carlson....that's the Breck Girl Jon Stewart limpdhkk-slapped a while back
Yeah, it used to be like that. Now, just boring.
@@obsoerver7272 And Bill Maher doesn’t come off as elitist? Sure… Tucker might come off that way, but regardless, I agree with about 90% of his positions. It says something when even Nikki Minaj starts retweeting the guy.
He and Bill Maher have a lot in common these days. Both of their biggest beefs is media censorship and the apparent loss of freedom of speech… which coincidentally occurred the second the public voted for someone we weren’t supposed to vote for: Trump.
Bill Maher is the most reasoned voice out there right now... it's frustrating that such points are not more common. We really have gone back into another Dark Age.
Bill, this was SO on point and excellent . True and chock full of wit and wisdom and great one liners. You can’t have a melting pot with 2 pots.❤️☮️
Its the se xy glasses
@@chineseviruszombie773 they seem to be turning a lot of people on😎
Its not the glasses.
A melting pot implies assimilation. I can see how you feel that way about immigrants. Black people aren't immigrants. B well
Congratulations, you just spent 100K to send your kid to college in Biloxi Mississippi in 1948.
The left is moving so far left so quickly that Bill is staring to be considered a centrist. He won’t be bullied into changing his opinions and that’s a great thing.
Bill fought tooth and nail to get us here. Now he's crying because they are going after his white skin.
He was a libertarian until the Bush years .... he's just going back to his original positions.
He doesn't seem to align with anything the left is saying these days. I think the left is going to start writing hit pieces on him soon. I don't think a lot of young people know who he is though so these opinions may skirt under the radar.
Bill is not, and never has been, a leftist. He has been a status quo centrist lib
@@codzboy74 well ya he made a living making fun of both the right and left. Easier to make fun of the left now tho
I'm watching from Europe and I've been concerned about this development for years. Thanks Bill, this was the voice of common sense all the way through. Your words in this segment is not comedy but WISDOM and that is rare in today's society.
Ordinary people with common sense need to start speaking up otherwise I see a very dark future for the US. It only takes a couple of nutcases to destroy a great nation if decent people are too afraid to speak up.
In Europe, countries are mostly comprised of same ethnicity and people still find ways to segregate themselves mostly on political lines and more stupidly on sex ("gender") lines.
The far left is pushing this crap and Bill is a lefty. That's how insane the far left/socialists/communists are here now. Poisoned by our schools/universities.
Who cares about Europe!!
@@KabulMM A lot more people than the US actually. There's more than 700 million people who live there, nearly half a billion more than our country!
Replay of what happened in Hitler's Germany
I’m 73. Scary times. Thank you Mr Maher for common sense. Just my opinion. We are one nation.
I'm not huge on his personality, and I don't always see eye to eye with Maher, but I've never heard anything from anyone which made me feel like I did watching this. I agree emphatically on every facet.
maybe three first names will help you discern his bullshit artistry..lol
If what Maher is saying were true, I’d agree with him. But he has a habit of creating the most ridiculous straw men then arguing against his creations. Take the “black national anthem” thing at the NFL. He creates a straw man that suggests people are supposed to sing one OR the other, depending on their race. That’s not at all the case. The Star Spangled Banner has long been associated with the US winning its battle for liberty and independence. All well and good, but Black Americans weren’t freed until almost a century later. “Lift Every Voice And Sing” celebrates the freedom of African Americans.
People aren’t supposed to sing one or the other. Everyone should be singing both. The point of singing both is recognizing that the first song did not represent freedom for all Americans, and the Americans left out of the original celebration of freedom actually matter. Everyone, regardless of race, singing both songs is *not* segregation. Everyone singing both songs is recognizing the full story of liberty for all Americans, instead of just the part of the story that celebrates the liberty of some Americans. I don’t know why Maher can’t understand this.
@@maargenbx1454 not sure if I'm missing something, but Maher's whole point is to unite (and change things), he wasn't suggesting to sing one or the other, simply one (and sure, make that "Lift Every Voice And Sing") . Would you agree on (some of) the rest of his points which to me exemplify "woke segregation" a lot more?
Pretty good summary of his impact. His demeanor is highly arrogant and condescending. Who cares. His ideas are almost uniformly on target. Slashes progressive and neocons alike.
@@sebastianschaer I didn’t say Maher was suggesting that people sing one or the other, but he argues that having two represents “segregation”, as if people were expected to sing one or the other. Having everyone sing both is not “segregation”.
Thank you Bill Maher. This smokes any monologue I’ve heard in a very long time. Our political positions differ in a lot of areas, but this was a very well stated commentary, and damn patriotic... and not status quo.
It's not a monologue, but point taken.
For me, it’s about standing together. I couldn’t care less about the words. Seven Nation Army or We Are the Champions/ We Will Rock You would work for me! JK.
The Yugoslavia part cuts right to the heart. I share the same fear, and I'm glad I'm not alone with this concern.
Yes, the showing of a once united Yugoslavia for over a century, then the ruins of a civil war- very poignant. I do have a problem though with what Maher referred to as redress, when talking about the slavery issue. Blacks have everything and MORE, now in this country- but the one thing we can't give them, and all the $ in the world won't buy it for them, is SELF ESTEEM !! And not having enough, is NOT the fault of another race. How many white lives were lost the Civil War to abolish slavery? You know how many barely literate, newcomers to this country, who came across the Atlantic in the steerage compartment of the ship? And before they could disembark their disease ridden living quarters on the ship, many men had to allow themselves to be conscripted into the Union Army, and fight to abolish slavery. They were immediately separated from their families on the dock, and many men never saw them again. many of the women were constricted by years long servitude commitments, which just covered their room and board. EVERY ethnicity they came to these shores, had to fight for their place in this experiment of a country, that had just formed.
Slovenia and Croatia are well better off and free from Serbian tyranny. Go to Croatia and see how happy the Croats are?
No Croatian will apologize for the war of independence. Not one!
@@getlost3346 Slovenian didn't lost much lives in Yugoslavia war but other nations are. Nobody alive will not apologise but ask those who die. To die just for which government will rule awer you, they impose same taxes and in same language and don't care about you, but you willing to die for them so government can split your money stup...
@@remmymafia3889 as a Croatian myself, no apologies. Better to be taxed by your own then by foreigners. Are you taxed? Where is your taxes going?
Bill Maher… the only sane and sensible liberal on TV!
Universities creating segregated dorms... we need to start filing federal charges against universities that do this. Drain them of cash until they fall into line with the civil rights laws we passed decades ago.
@Laughing At You wrong about what? Your reply makes no sense.
@Laughing At You You are wrong, segregation is not the answer.
You should be able to live wherever you want off campus, including segregated frats (if that is what people want). But having racially separate dorms sends the wrong message. Especially if it is funded by taxpayer dollars. This Woke BS is slowly killing colleges anyway.
Drain their cash and they’ll cry systemic racism
@Laughing At You Is that you, Steve Bannon?
You give me hope for a unified nation. Love your neighbor no matter who they voted for as they’re your real community not your echo chamber on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit etc.
Don't let Maxine Waters hear you say that. "Let them know they're not welcome!"
Well done, Mr. Maher. You deserve a standing ovation for that segment.
Bill Maher has attracked many conservatives here. He is the one who helps unite our country.
I've been a Leftist all my life. This new left is just crazy. It's like we're moving back 50 years.
When you realize that your enemy is not the right, but the far left, there might be progress
@@marshallbates4875 Bingo.
I'm center right your comments are refreshing it's nice hear that you don't follow the new psychotic leftists ideology 👍
Because it's being fueled by young people with good hearts but ignorant minds. And they have mastered the skill of amplifying their voices via social media. They're also influenced by academics who may have been bullied in their youth who now find themselves essentially experimenting with social ideas they may have crafted after years of being a victim.
This is not to say that there wasn't room for social improvement, but the pendulum has swung too far in one direction. Problem is, too many adults are ill-equipped to out-reason these young adults.
You don't know what left is so I doubt you were ever left.
Your best segment yet Bill. I would never want to live in a world where we couldn't live alongside our black brothers and sisters
Becuase they are
Brothers From Another Mother
Because there are a lot of great people from all backgrounds and cultures that we wouldnt be able to enjoy the company of if we were stupidly forced to resegregate by race. Not just black people. This segregation shit is straight up regression. Being ultra focused on race is going to lead to disaster at some point
@@Matt23455 out of curiosity, why would you ask why?
While your sentiment is appreciated and encouraging. Unfortunately, that is not reality. Truth be told there will always be two amerikka's. Even if you don't want to put it in terms of black and white. This country has two party political system which creates an "either or" society. Same thing with it's economic structure (Capitalism), it creates a "have & have not" system of finance. It just so happens that by history, and by design...black and brown people seem to be on both negative ends of those respected spectrums. I wish I could take your sentiment and spread it across the nation, because we need more people who think like you. Unfortunately, I not as optimistic. Because it's by design. The people in power (both sides) WANT it to be this way. And have spent the last 400 years defending it "way of life."
Black and brown people are not all on the other side. Look up top GDP per capita by ethnicity, Indians are # 1 and many asiatic peoples are in the top ten. Also, Nigerians do really well, which kind of proves that the system isn't rigged against black and brown people in general. I will say, though- African Americans do have a distinct story and history and i think terrible shit has obviously happened and continues to happen to them. This is undeniable and not such a simple tale
Bill nailed it. We need to be working to unite, not to divide.
Yet he sat there for 30 mins and let two faaaaar left zealots give us divisive opinions with a wink and a nod…to your point though, I agree. Bill still has a way to go.
Yet another great mono from Bill. Sad it's so rare in popular entertainment now to see someone capable of thinking clearly and for themselves, while also being really funny.
I read something not too long ago that seems to fit here: "when you're so woke that you agree with the KKK, it might be time to take a nap."
You ever sung a song written by someone who considered ppl that look like you to be subhuman?
That's the circle of woke
@@jausti2 If you've ever sung anything (including a stunning number of church hymns that are sung in black churches) written before, say, about the 1970s, you have. So yes--we all have done so at least once.
I have also sung Lift Every Voice during events to celebrate Dr. King's life and legacy on the national holiday that is his birthday.
Personally, I think that *Lift Every Voice is the better choice to be our national anthem* here in the US (for everyone, regardless of melanin expression), but just as some people take issue with verses of The Star Spangled Banner that aren't sung, I expect the non-religious and anti-religious among our countrymen would generate false outrage because the third verse--of a hymn written by a white dude in 1900, for the record--speaks specifically and directly of asking God to keep us on the right path.
@@K_Cummins so what song have you sung by someone who thought you were subhuman
@@jausti2 As an American Indian (the phrase my family prefers), if it was written by a non-AmerIndian at any point in history (since the US continues to refuse to honor its treaties with AmerIndians to this day), pretty much everything I've ever sung falls into that category.
Or you could try, you know, not assuming things about other people and being combative for no f***ing reason on a UA-cam channel that is literally dedicated to someone who refuses to engage in the double-plus ungood of groupthink.
Bills comments on “Separate but Equal,” were the best part of this video.
Yeah, because the problem with "separate but equal" was playing two different songs before a football match and not, say, the systematic disenfranchisement of 30% to 50% of the population. Great historical analogy.
(Just for the record: "Separate but equal" was a Jim Crow propaganda slogan. In reality, whites and blacks were neither separated - African American women especially would often work as domestic servants - nor in any way or form equal.)
Separate but equal is intended to create a level playing for every student who walks into a public education K-12 system in the USA. There are extensive processes in place at your local public school districts that make sure this concept is happening. You can have any public school administrator (K-12 public ed) explain how this happens on their campus.
It is a federal protection for students K-12 who are recipients of special education services.
@@larsmarianne913 cry me a river.
Guess you missed the part when he said 10 years ago we didn't have a racial divide..!! Wypipo in they country acting like nothing wrong is like watching the fall season come in with leaves changing color. Nothing to see here.
@@tyaucupis Your river is populated smells like urine feces an dead bodies oddly just like the Thames river of London years ago. Wtf wants to be anywhere near your river. #Troglodyte
Glad to see Bill once again delivering the kind of commentary and observations that made us fans years ago.
I’ve never cared for Mr. Mahr, but the title of this video caught my attention. I figured it was worth a listen. Turns out, Bill and l are not as far apart as l had assumed! Mr. Mahr will be getting another view from me in the future!
God bless America!!🇺🇸
The entire show was good…hope you watch it
Bill has been talking the best common sense about your country for decades, that's why so many of us US-watchersoverseas love him so much. He doesn't fall into the silly excesses o the Dems but calls out the looniess of Trumpist America as well.
@@jumblyman , very true.. he's been doing it for years. He's not afraid to call out BS from anyone.
He’s been on fire for the last few months
Bill is basically a right wing hack at this point. When was last time he had socialist or a real Lefty on his show and not just another corporate neoliberal. He's closer to being a republican then he is a socialist that's for sure
Thanks Bill. I’m an old school liberal too. You’re the only comedian/late night comic I can stomach these days.
We have to begin calling ourselves Classical Liberals and at the very least register as Independents if not Republican if we actually want the Democratic party to change. No more allegience to Wokeist Democrats.
@@notificationsareblocked.yo53 I’m a registered Republican now, but was a long time Liberal until it became WOKE and far left! Funny how a Democrat’s views 15-20 years ago is now considered Conservative!!!!
I don’t agree with liberals but I can respect the Carlin n old school types lol 😂 idk what happen to y’all now lol 😂 I try to keep my calm with werid blue hair Karen’s at school sorry I’m libertarian conservative but I’m try to do good by MLK n Malcom x
Then you haven't been watching Colbert.
@@notificationsareblocked.yo53 Definitely. Classical or classic liberals sounds great to me!
Bill Maher nailed the segregation of playing 2 National Anthems!!! Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “We may have arrived on different ships. But we’re in the same boat now.”
He is wrong there are no two National anthems in the USA, there is only one The Star Spangled Banner, Lift Every Voice and Sing has existed since the civil rights movement, I can't believe you people are barely having a problem with it, and by the way growing up in the 90s The Star Spangled Banner was played every day in school, and Lift Every Voice and Sing was only played during Black History Month and after The Star Spangled Banner! There was no issue, and how is it segregation if they are both sung at the same event? Honestly you people are just looking something to be angry about all the time!
You do realize MLK sang this song as well?
@@jav9069 Both sides are really angry about something about a week or less.
@@jav9069 I so much agree with you. I remember when Jimi Hendrix played the Star Spangled Banner
at Woodstock and most folks stood up and applauded. :-)
@@jav9069 There calling it the "black national anthem". That is the issue. Calling it a (whatever race) national anthem is the problem. There is only ONE national anthem.
It's not the song itself that's the problem
What a National Treasure Bill Maher is!
Said very well! Do we want to go backwards 67 years or move forward in One Mind and one Accord. 🇺🇸💕
Our anthem has more than one verse. The third is about slavery. Even though it's rarely sung it's wrong and needs to removed.
@@jsjazz12 The third isn't about slavery. It just mentions slaves, and it actually mentions them as Americans too.
@@jsjazz12 NO ONE sings the verse that has long been excluded from popular culture. It makes zero sense to dwell on something that everyone else isn’t aware of or doesn’t care to elevate.
Signed, A Different Thinking Black American (from the hood not the suburbs)
Let's go back 79 years to when America legalized "Marihuana" to fight the Nazis.
Watch the 1942 USDA film *Hemp For Victory* and end the war on drugs.
How can we go forward when Conservatives ran on keeping black people out of the nice suburbs?
Never been a fan of Bill but damn, he's been nailing it on some issues lately.
@The Paradox Destroyer I think DropD was already a member of the common sense club, it's just Maher who has recently joined it
@@dtpena He's been there forever. Maybe you could have learned something by paying attention to him in years past.
Of course he is speaking to you. So there's no need to walk in anyone's else's shoes or try to
“Believing in ‘separate but equal’ is out of step, by sixty seven years.”
"I fear, I am integrating my people into a burning house."--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, 1967. Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea. Maybe the problem was, the forced segregation my elders and ancestors endured was never actually EQUAL.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 So go away already.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 I'd give you more thumbs up if UA-cam allowed it. White people want to take credit for integration like it cost them something when in actually segregation and racism cost them and integration cost us more. But they don't want to take credit for racism, which is just a black people problem, not a white people problem. Besides, anyone who has ever read anything written by civil rights leaders and intellectuals will soon see that the movement was not about integration, it was about ending racism.
I love how many people and myself are with Bill on so many topics 100% and also on the opposite side of just as many.
I think it's clear this is the best new rule Bill has done in a while. The writing, the delivery, the salience, it was all there! The comparison to Yugoslavia gave me shivers. Hear, hear for everything said!
As someone who grew up in Yugoslavia, this is a spot on reference. Though I am confident that it will go over most people's heads. (maybe 1 of 100 people I've met know that Yugoslavia was a country)
He's had many many great "new rule" segments.
@@eddy71454 Yeah but the best is always the last “good” one people can recall.
Personally, I thought it was about 3/10.
@@Phineas1626 🙃
As someone who considers them a leftist to a degree, I feel like a lot of people defend this by saying no one really believes that. The fact that %40 of colleges have segregated dorms, is proof it’s not a small group of people, which is comcening
Wqw2e
Ya, leftists constantly lie about there intentions
I, for one, would have preferred to have lived in a segregated dorm when I attended NU given how I was treated by my 2 white roommates. Same with my white neighbors when I went to U of C just 2 years later for grad school. You do realize that the least segregated time in our history was slavery. White people had no problem with black people living next door to them, living in the same house with them or even sleeping with them. If racism didn't exist in this country and integration had worked, this would be fine, but until then, it just sets up black people. Ultimately we were the big losers as far as integration is concerned. Just saying.
@@andreabrown4541 Feel free to segregate yourself anytime lmao. Just don't expect to have the same privileges that you do now.
@@andreabrown4541 Just get your own dorm. It's more expensive but if you want to be alone, then that's the way to go.
"why not a women's anthem, why not a gay anthem, why not...."
Hey Bill, stop giving them ideas. They might just do that.
Lol
Maher does this on purpose. That’s an idiotic argument because Lift Every Voice and sing was already a black anthem before the National anthem. If there’s a women’s anthem from 100 years ago, then yes sing it. But there is no history of that. Lift every voice is spiritual, sung at a time when black people were not accepted. But some white Americans have never respected that pain and sense of not belonging. What amazes me about some white Americans is that you want black people to suddenly throw that history in the garbage. Lift every voice and sing should be celebrated by every American. Just as HBCU’s should be celebrated by every American. Black people educating themselves at a time when they weren’t ALLOWED to have an education? Celebrate it. No one has ever argued white people can’t sing “Lift every voice and sing.” What Maher and most of you actually want, is white washing and assimilation. You have no interest in re-creating the anthem to be more inclusive. So what’s the point?
@@andref9663 "what amazes me about some white Americans is YOU..."
excuse me, what did I do? Haha but I understand what you mean, just be careful not to project like that
@@andref9663 Native Americans actually have a national anthem. They have way more of a right than the Black national anthem. There are many other ethnic minorities who hold onto the history and culture and educate their children with it and yet assimilate to American culture.
As many anthems as you are willing to have . However we should be free to kneel at any or all of them. If Anyone claims anything different then they aren't allowed their anthem.
Bill is one of the greatest intellectuals of our era
I’m very conservative but man I love Bill Maher!
same and religilous was pretty funny
@Logan Stolberg. Then I doubt you’re a conservative.
@@SuperBatman-jr6rp what do you mean?
@Logan Stolberg. If you truly are a very conservative person, you would mostly likely dislike all of his political opinions and his jokes towards republicans, so therefore you wouldn’t stand Bill Maher.
Same
When comedians are the only voice of reason, we are in trouble.
Remember when comedians were there to make you think and even offend you at times?
Pepperidge Farm Remembers
Except this is not a voice of reason here.
It is a voice of ignorance and idiocy.
@@richarddecredico6098 you tell them sis!
@@richarddecredico6098 please explain your meaning??? I’m genuinely confused as to how he was not being a voice of reason?
Quite a considerable percentage of Americans get their news from comedians.
It is more work to make bad news funny than simply to create drama like a regular news team
I admire you, Mr Maher. You seem to be a fine human being, with a keen mind, and sharp wit. Please keep up with your great and valuable endeavor. We need folks like you.
Even a broken clock is right two times s day
It always pains me to turn on the TV and see yet another story of people squabbling over their petty differences when there are so much more important things to worry about. The fact that EVERYTHING is now viewed through the eyes of race. Simply because a cop is white and a suspect is black? Must be racist. It is absolutely insane! I am a conservative, I believe in integration and being together as one people regardless of ethnicity. As a child watching MLK's "I have a dream" speech gave me goosebumps. It impacted me so deeply that I have lived the rest of my life by his words. To always judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. I don't care about your skin color, who you sleep with or what god you worship. There is no reason why we can't live in harmony and work on real problems together. Alas, I don't think people will ever wake up.
"Maybe we should set up some sort of camps" ooouu that's cold 🥶 🧊 ☃️
Interesting to see him ‘clap back’. It’s never really been his style but here he did. Good.
Hello there👋👋,how are you?hope you had a wonderful day today?GOD BLESS YOU!!!❤️❤️
Instead of actually inviting on a BLACK PERSON to have these discussions
@@Stephenwhite013 Whoopie already spoke her mind openly and wide.
You must not have been watching the past 5+ years.
Bill Maher has always spoken his mind, this isn't something new.
"One nation who come together and sing one anthem always out of key". Amen!!
I was born in the US in the late 40's and until very, very recent history have never heard the poem, "Lift Every Voice," discribed as a black national anthem or any other type of anthem. The only place that I heard anyone singing the poem was infrequently during some religious program in black churches. When I say infrequently, that is somewhat similar to once every blue moon kind of thing. It is a nice inspirational poem and that is all it should have seen as. As a black man I can state unequivocally that notions of black separative ideology is harmful, counter productive and egregiously stupid! Dr. King never wanted this kind of nonsense, he wanted black inclusion in American society not this inane, constant harping upon our superficial differences. Race is a word without plural form because there is only one race and that is the human race. I"m of the mindset that science has shown this to be true.
👍
The problem is liberals have taken over
Thank you sir. You speak truth.
And you’re so very proud of your ignorance?
Dr. King said before he died that he made a mistake and then thought he led his people into a burning house! Integration east the worst thing the black community could have done! We need to separate, FOREVER!!!!
As a conservative I've been agreeing more and more with you Bill. You've been great lately. 👍🇺🇲
Agreed. Too bad 80% of his shows are woke nonsense without a real, conservative guest.
@@university-Living he's had a few! But yeah, most are just an echo chamber for himself.
@@university-Living Huh? He had Ben Shapiro on like a month ago
@@gregbors8364 right..hence the rare occasion he has a real conservative...and he had all liberals or never Trumprs on most of all the other shows.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." - Abraham Lincoln
That quote is from the Bible....
@@CanIbeFrank Abe quotes from the best.
That was amazing. I have no other words. This segment needs to go viral
I agree. Our National Anthem is for all of us.
Brilliant!
Bill, we are proud of you, your voice and your message.
Thank you.
That was the realest shit I’ve heard in a long time
If you want to hear some 'real', listen to Jason Whitlock's "Fearless" program.
@The Paradox Destroyer .. No.. he’s just showing some common sense for once
Meanwhile, rightwingers spreading white supremacy propaganda. Come on Bill, your better than this.
Tom McDonald.
@@juanjones6463 what are you talking about?
Been watching you for years...but this...this was different...this was the most lucid and focused and spot on assessment you have ever delivered. You don't need my praise sir, but you have it.
@@hiddenamericachannel , always correct may be a bit much but he usually exhibits some common sense.
I lean more right than left and bill nailed this and I find myself listening to him more and more when I use to hate what he said…
Thank you Bill! Speaking as a strong Canadian conservative I completely agree. You are One Nation. Figure it out. You can do it.🇺🇸🇨🇦
Please keep it up Bill! You’re the only voice of reason!
Bill, you hit the nail on the head yet again.
Props to you👍
So much truth here. People need to understand this and accept it. Segregation is bad. That some people want to go back to it is CRAZY.
"Being so woke you come out the racist side" - nailed it...
I think this pretty much validate the horse-shoe theory.
This is pretty much what wokism is.
Oooooo wow Bill sure nailed that racist part cause woke black people have the power to make real change in America. We got police judges financial stability loans we can actually use that hate to our advantage... Wow I never knew black folks could be racist thanks for that. From woke to racist white folks watch out black folks have more power they Karen an Darren combined. Nailed it! 😐
That slogan should be on t shirts
@@mija4201223 Boy did you miss the point. You mentioned power which is interesting because having black movements promoted in all facets of America is quite powerful. The media, academia, politicians and so on.
But in any case, that's not the point. It's not about enacting power as much as the belief system itself. Look at segregation. Segregation is an idea that is becoming popular among leftists. Who else believes in segregation? Now, I'm not even against segregation if someone wants to. But leftists are finding themselves in similar beliefs from the same people they'd call racists.
Bill, honestly, keep doing what you're doing, and stand your ground. God do we ever need people of sense more than ever in the public sphere.
Probably the most poignant new rule you’ve ever taped, Bill……………. thank you. 🙏
The sad part is having to say these things in the XXI century!
@@AlejandroRodriguez-se4ue yeah use Roman numerals to make a point about the present 😆
@@ouzi9122 I am a native Spanish speaker, so when in doubt, I use the Spanish rule which demands Roman numerals for centuries. Wasn't sure if the same applies in English. 😂
In an election year, he would be all in whatever BS the Dems were pushing. This guy is as fraud. Wake up to his game.
@@nathantibbs4602 So you are here to gather more reasons to dislike Bill?
We have ONE national anthem. That’s it and that’s all. Anyone that doesn’t like our national anthem is welcome to leave this country.
Never ever thought I would see Bill Maher as a great patriot who makes tears come to my eyes because he gets it and he's got the courage to say it. This is what this country is about. This is what made America America.
The funny thing is: He hasn't changed much. Everyone else did.
He is also a great patriot when he calls the people on January 6th insurrectionists and points to their annointed orange asshole as the catalyst. Bill hasn't changed, he sees bullshit and calls it out. Doesn't matter which tribe is taking a shit, Bill will smell it.
Bill, I've been watching you for years, from Poland. You are a witty genius who can brutally and accurately point out the absurdities of all contemporary politics, all over the world. Exactly - these divisions, if we dig more as the extreme left and the extreme right want it, will lead us to catastrophe. The same is currently happening in Poland, maybe not so much in terms of race, but in terms of two political camps. Please Bill - never stop. Your voice of reason is the only light in the tunnel!
I’m a conservative and all I can say is Amen to this message from Bill.
AS you felt the need to tell, I have a feeling that even the bimbo from the Bronx is more conservative than you.
Thanks for sharing your bigot just like Bill. 10 years ago we had racial equality. The anthem rooted in racism an terror they had to remove the slavery parts. The flag was created when Africans where still in chains. Wtf would I respect flag that literally is a representation of WORLD WIDE TERROR.
@@mija4201223 I’m conservative, I’m am an American who happens to be black, I’m not African-American (that’s racist because it’s yet another label). I love our Country warts and all.
Generations of Americans, men and woman, all colors and religions dies and sacrificed under our Flag, so that hateful racist people like you can freely talk a bunch of garbage. Again I’m a conservative and don’t agree with most of Bill but his point on unification and not re-creating a segregated system of black or Latino groups, black anthems etc………. Is dangerous and I agree with him
@@mija4201223 It’s also the same flag flown by Union soldiers against the confederates who freed the slaves. Well actually the flag changes whenever they add states to the union. So the Flag has only been this way since 1957. This flag we have today was born during the civil rights movement. The flag’s continuous change reflects Americas continuous change. And change is something America continues to need. We may have freedom in some sense but not all of us have freedom in all regards.
Not suggesting you should respect the flag.
must be something wrong when conservatives agree with bill maher
Completely agree with Maher on this.
Me to 😅
Love this guy. I think a bit more so with the glasses.
Hahaha....me too!!! I have a soft spot for guys in black frame glasses, and surprisingly enough, Bill is no exception. I don't know, maybe it's some sort of emerging "Clark Kent/Superman in disguise" kink. No matter the reason, Bill is definitely rockin' those god damn frames!!!!
Couldn't agree more. When we were young, whenever the kids had a fight, my parents always made us work it out among ourselves before intervening. If we didn't, we all got disciplined or received consequences. It wasn't always perfect, but at least we knew we had to try to make it together.
Every single American has to try, try and try to really put aside our differences and think of the longevity and prosperity of this country we love even if it may be very hard. Otherwise, we will all perish together.
@The boogeyman you missed the whole point 😂🤣😂
I was digging this until Obama popped up. The most divisive President we've probably ever had who started his Presidency with a beer summit that kicked off the anti police thing which has grown much bigger. The man who's wife said she was proud of America for the first time in her life when her husband was elected and who has done nothing but hate on America's "Whiteness" so yeah until then he sounded common sense
@The boogeyman lol you go ahead and believe that is the way forward.... continue spreading hate and intolerance.... not having an argument with someone who is willful ignorant of WHO is pushing race based segregation....
But you do you 😂🤣😂
@The boogeyman also are you on the right comment???
Literally about getting past differences and fighting for America and you enter adding divide and making it based on YOUR political opinion ... lol
The opposite of respecting other opinions ... I find it funny 😂🤣
Ok, Obama wasn't a brave, smart man nor did he grow up here in America. I guess you forgot he grew up traveling the world and attending elite schools and the most elite school was the one in Hawaii because the students had to start kindergarten there and move up. Obama was the only student who got into that school as a teenager. People in Hawaii pondered that one. Obama was very out of touch with black Americans. Neither side of his family were slaves so he didn't even have that in common so I'm not sure what you're saying and to tell people to vote Democrat regardless of who they are is ignorance. That's how it works I guess. That's how Biden got was the biggest racist back in the day and is to blame for the disproportionate amount of blacks going to jail for longer than whites with the crime bill he signed. So uh yeah vote Democrat no matter who they are. 🥴
Never was a fan but he has been making more sense than anyone lately! I really loved this! Keep up the thought-provoking work!!
The thing is some of us Democrats aren't so far left that we forget how far we have come. This is ridiculous and they don't speak for all of us. I would love to live and be around white or black people as a hispanic. These people are going backwards.
@@Rebel-cd6gc It's come full circle. Segregation, media over the past decade re-introducing racism and sexism. Neither party benefits from the madness.
He has been consistent this whole time. You should also listen when he dresses down the other side. He is right then as well.
The interesting thing is that his message hasn't really changed. His political commentary has spanned 5 presidencies. Ignoring the tribalism, most conservatives would probably agree with him more often than not.
I went to a mostly white college. And I noticed that they put me and the other black kids in rooms right next to each other. I think this was done to make us feel comfortable but it had the opposite effect. We felt we’d been singled out and ostracized from everyone else. We were all low key offended and often joked about how obvious this covert attempt at racism really was.
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This is why Mr. Maher is one of my top 10 favorite human beings.