Bill Maher's CRINGEY Message For Struggling Americans

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  • Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
  • Real Time host Bill Maher said President Joe Biden's approval ratings are so abysmal because Americans are too concerned with their 'mental health.' Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. | Your Support is Crucial to the Show: go.tyt.com/jointoday
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    "During Friday’s Real Time, host Bill Maher blamed President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings on Americans being too concerned with their mental health, claiming people need to “Cheer the fuck up!”
    Maher encouraged his viewers to stop “acting like life in America in 2024 is unbearable” adding that Biden’s ratings are so low “not because he’s doing such a bad job,” but because Americans enjoy living “with their head in the toilet."
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  • @loserfantasia
    @loserfantasia 3 місяці тому +60

    Mahr is insanely out of touch

    • @telescopicS627
      @telescopicS627 3 місяці тому +3

      He represents Dems very well, even the ones on TYT.

    • @zelgie3013
      @zelgie3013 2 місяці тому

      @@telescopicS627 he doesn't. Dems hate him. Is the republican that aren't Trumpers that mostly love him now days.

    • @Jaypocalypse
      @Jaypocalypse 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@zelgie3013 he gets a lotta dems on that gobble him up, how can you say that when I can literally see different with my own eyes right here on UA-cam lol

    • @zelgie3013
      @zelgie3013 2 місяці тому

      @@Jaypocalypse alot you see doesn't equate to most dems. you're probably just in your own echo chamber so you don't see the republicans eating him up too. he's considered too conservative for the progressive and too leftist for the far right. Who's really eating him up right now are people who are more to the middle in both dems and reps and independents.

    • @j.d.waterhouse4197
      @j.d.waterhouse4197 2 місяці тому +1

      @@zelgie3013 I'm a Dem, and think he's the only person on the left making sense. The "defund the police" crowd is completely out of touch with reality.

  • @Paul-82
    @Paul-82 3 місяці тому +43

    Dear Americans, stop complaining. America is in great shape. Sincerely, an American that isn't struggling (Bill Maher)

  • @Dr-Zoid-Berserk
    @Dr-Zoid-Berserk 3 місяці тому +24

    I can’t buy a house or even a car anymore, but at least my tv is only $60.
    Yeah, that makes up for it.

    • @diannasgardenmenagerie967
      @diannasgardenmenagerie967 3 місяці тому +4

      And internet is cheap

    • @maxinewilson9754
      @maxinewilson9754 2 місяці тому

      And he’s in great shape. Here are his secrets:
      1) He doesn’t OVEREAT.
      2) He only eats HEALTHY
      3) He would never step foot in APPLEBEES!

    • @Dr-Zoid-Berserk
      @Dr-Zoid-Berserk 2 місяці тому +2

      @@maxinewilson9754
      Are you repeating one of his boomer jokes or something?

  • @Tab2120
    @Tab2120 2 місяці тому +11

    When you're rich, it doesn't matter if eggs are $1.99 or $7.99.

  • @zosometalgod
    @zosometalgod 3 місяці тому +33

    Exactly! I remember as kid in the 80's when Reagan was president and them saying unemployment is low and there's jobs out there! And my dad saying yes there's more jobs out there but they're low paying jobs like McDonald's and retail! I'll never forget my father pointing that out to me! And here we are in 2024 and nothing has changed! If my father was still alive he would be disgusted with where America is now! And he was a proud world war II vet and he hated flag waivers and people who had behind the flag like Trump!

    • @zosometalgod
      @zosometalgod 3 місяці тому +7

      @@marcosolo6491 I do have a education but we need a cost of living for most people! I own my own production company and doing good but I have empathy for people who need help! And my father was right years ago! And a lot of people can't afford a higher education and need help we're the only first world country that doesn't value education for everyone!

    • @athews1976
      @athews1976 3 місяці тому

      ​@@marcosolo6491
      😒You have d!ckhead-assed opinions. You know that?
      You can't possibly expect opinions with that sort of tone to get through to people. You ever see a cat biting it's own tail then gets more furious biting itself that there's someone back there biting it? 🙄Well... 😒

    • @athews1976
      @athews1976 3 місяці тому

      😒You have 🍆head-assed opinions. You know that?
      You can't possibly think that you can get through to people with that sort of tone. You ever see a cat biting it's own tail, then gets more furious biting itself because it thinks there's someone back there biting it?
      🙄Well... 😒

    • @athews1976
      @athews1976 3 місяці тому +6

      ​@@marcosolo6491
      😒You have jack🐴 opinions. You know that?
      You can't possibly think that you can get through to people with that sort of tone. You ever see a cat biting it's own tail, then gets more furious biting itself because it thinks there's someone back there biting it? 🙄Well... 😒

    • @red_panda4282
      @red_panda4282 2 місяці тому

      @@marcosolo6491 so I should strive to be like you then? The person who sounds like they are one post away from bursting an aneurysm. Maybe take a day off of youtube. Seriously, go hug something.
      I feel like maybe this anger is directed at someone specific in your life and it isn't really fair to dump on a random stranger.

  • @nohaydeque334
    @nohaydeque334 3 місяці тому +14

    life expectancy in the US actually fell in the last few years.

    • @Feral_Turd
      @Feral_Turd 2 місяці тому

      you can thank orange jeesus for that

  • @verng8864
    @verng8864 2 місяці тому +11

    wages aren't increasing to keep up with the greedy ass landlords constantly raising rent

  • @corey5109
    @corey5109 3 місяці тому +12

    I live in my car. While is is an improvement from sleeping on the street, it is still kind of hard to have a positive outlook.

  • @TheGymnast71
    @TheGymnast71 3 місяці тому +18

    She’s so right I can’t stand bill Maher it’s weird he used to be funny in his younger years now he’s a pain in the ass

    • @dobbylives8365
      @dobbylives8365 3 місяці тому +2

      Just what I was thinking; now he’s all bitter

  • @virgoviper5
    @virgoviper5 3 місяці тому +21

    No hope for retirement. Corporations don't care if employees stay. No loyalty. No hope for future

    • @telescopicS627
      @telescopicS627 3 місяці тому +2

      Vote Biden for higher rent, lower wages, and more migrants.

    • @LinkRocks
      @LinkRocks 3 місяці тому +5

      @@telescopicS627 Vote for Trump for more of your money going to his rich friends.

    • @NeoGio28
      @NeoGio28 3 місяці тому +4

      @@telescopicS627how will Trump be any different?

    • @telescopicS627
      @telescopicS627 3 місяці тому

      @@LinkRocks The rich did better under Biden and Obama. Fact.

    • @telescopicS627
      @telescopicS627 3 місяці тому

      @@NeoGio28 First, a Trump win will be seen as voters punishing Dems for catering to Wall Street and ignoring the poor. There are other reasons, not necessarily the reasons you hear in the media.

  • @therottenapplepk8881
    @therottenapplepk8881 3 місяці тому +16

    Bill Maher was only a liberal until he could legally buy weed

  • @ehgodfrey
    @ehgodfrey 2 місяці тому +8

    Prices go up and companies continue to have record profits...it isn't inflation it's gouging.

  • @rebeccahancock7406
    @rebeccahancock7406 3 місяці тому +10

    Agree with everything Anna said. I am voting blue, but blue must do more to help the average person. The middle class is gone and needs to be brought back.

  • @The-die-youve-created
    @The-die-youve-created 2 місяці тому +9

    Anna is correct. Personally I live from crushed to crushed. Every time I get to the ledge I get knocked back into the hole and I'm not alone.

  • @marygrace7016
    @marygrace7016 2 місяці тому +13

    It's insane how washed up Bill Maher is. He went from politically incorrect to incorrect politically about everything.

    • @AlexW58
      @AlexW58 2 місяці тому

      Nailed it.

  • @magfam9980
    @magfam9980 3 місяці тому +39

    Anna needs to stop saying inflation, its greedflation, shrinkflation and trickflation

    • @Iamrightyouarewrong
      @Iamrightyouarewrong 3 місяці тому +3

      Pillage, Plunder and R-word.

    • @telescopicS627
      @telescopicS627 3 місяці тому +1

      It's your leaders don't understand economics, neither do you. Start with the basics: supply and demand.

    • @coosoorlog
      @coosoorlog 3 місяці тому +2

      dumbflation

    • @magfam9980
      @magfam9980 3 місяці тому

      @@telescopicS627 supply for smaller for same price, look at coke, raised price of 12 oz can but changed shape to look taller, trickflation, Oreos charge more but decreased size , same with chips, shrinkflation, and all part of greedflation

    • @NotYourBusiness-bp2qn
      @NotYourBusiness-bp2qn 3 місяці тому +5

      You are so right. Corporations discovered greed a couple years ago and now prices are going up.
      No you simpleton. Corporations have always been greedy yet prices didn't rise like crazy until recently. It's not greed, it's not tricks, it's out of control money printing that's being going on for the last couple of decades finally catching up with the real economy.

  • @normandothegreat
    @normandothegreat 2 місяці тому +6

    Rich people are so out of touch, no F'en idea what it's really like nowadays!

  • @lngtimesurfer
    @lngtimesurfer 2 місяці тому +11

    Maher has been turning right wing ever since his first show got cancelled.
    He bragged (on his show) about how he gets to fly on a PJ, he constantly carries water for the rich "they pay their fair share", he is one of the most uneducated people with respect to politics often getting caught showing his ignorance when his guests bring up well known political events and his response has been "when did that happen? I don't remember that".
    He's not a political commentator, he's the Jim Cramer of politics for HBO and hasn't had a good joke in the better part of a decade. His only "liberal" views are "Trump is bad" and "Pot is good" (while complaining about self medicating) 😂

  • @KeepAGod100
    @KeepAGod100 3 місяці тому +15

    Love Anna but her rant against narrowing roadways to make them more accessible for bicyclists and pedestrians is wrong. If she was right then widening roads, adding more freeways would’ve already worked in LA and elsewhere. Study after study has shown that doing this does not relief congestion. Pedestrian fatalities are at an all time high because drivers are racing everywhere and running into pedestrians in their big heavy SUVs. Narrowing the roadways slows cars down and makes it safer for everyone.

    • @teejatron9849
      @teejatron9849 2 місяці тому

      Her take on this is pathetic. "It can't be done," she says. OK, but Tokyo can do it? Even tiny villages in the Netherlands have good mass transit. Yeesh, Ana.

    • @teejatron9849
      @teejatron9849 2 місяці тому

      Like read a traffic study before you start talking complete nonsense, Ana

    • @BobothePirate24
      @BobothePirate24 2 місяці тому

      Liberal logic. More lanes doesn't make traffic flow better.

    • @cam6887
      @cam6887 2 місяці тому

      THANK YOU 100% CORRECT!!

    • @hackman6486
      @hackman6486 2 місяці тому +3

      HLA is a great thing lol. Why is that her example for things going to shit?
      "Buses and bikes bad" is such a dumb take.

  • @GeorgeSchneider8889
    @GeorgeSchneider8889 2 місяці тому +7

    30% of Americans have no clues about how 70% of their fellow citizens live 🤷‍♂️

  • @charlotteinnocent8752
    @charlotteinnocent8752 2 місяці тому +8

    We need to start ignoring Bill. "whining" is a very important part of democracy. We constantly work to IMPROVE, rather than sit there patting ourselves on the back while others in the country suffer. Patting on the back constantly is a republican move, because they do not believe in democracy.

  • @anthonydelfino6171
    @anthonydelfino6171 2 місяці тому +8

    "You can get a new TV for $60!" said to Americans who are struggling to buy groceries.
    This man is so out of touch with the realities of the day to day of Americans

  • @rebekahj8662
    @rebekahj8662 3 місяці тому +15

    Ana, those bike and bus lanes could mean mobility and opportunity to work for some people. Stop being selfish, the literal thing you were complaining about. Get a grip.

    • @tomuch4u969
      @tomuch4u969 2 місяці тому

      She’s an idiot who likes LA traffic. She doesn’t realize how pathetic it is a city that big all rely on cars.

    • @hackman6486
      @hackman6486 2 місяці тому +2

      Why are bus lanes her go to example for things going to shit? She herself is in a bubble (car bubble) complaining about Maher being in a bubble.

    • @oneforall7866
      @oneforall7866 2 місяці тому

      @@hackman6486 maybe because they are appropriating bus lanes for buses only, for example have you seen the toll lanes in the freeway? They just take out a good lane and the purpose is to collect money and create more congestion, i mean who plans that?

  • @lucymoys8382
    @lucymoys8382 2 місяці тому +5

    I HATE it when people complain about “over-medication” and “over-reliance on drugs to make us happy”. It just smacks of someone who has never had clinical depression. It just pisses me off so much, the opposite of depressed isn’t “happy” it’s “functioning human”. Urgh so small minded.

    • @talyahr3302
      @talyahr3302 2 місяці тому

      It can also be true that medication is over prescribed. That doesn't mean that applies to you personally. Perhaps taking everything personally is partially why you're depressed.

  • @Harley392
    @Harley392 3 місяці тому +11

    Maher is a waste of media space. Would never watch him.

  • @jamieward2880
    @jamieward2880 2 місяці тому +7

    Wages that never rise above inflation...eat the rich!!!

  • @melissabee1982
    @melissabee1982 2 місяці тому +6

    Bill Maher lost me when he said we should sacrifice our seniors to end covid lockdown. I doubt my parents would agree.

  • @waltermartinez5372
    @waltermartinez5372 3 місяці тому +8

    Its easy for Bill Maher to say that because he is already super rich. To him its great the way things are going. Not for the average person that is barely surviving

  • @George-hl2xm
    @George-hl2xm 2 місяці тому +6

    Inflation has been tamed its price gouging by greedy corporations

  • @jb7670
    @jb7670 3 місяці тому +7

    "Let them eat TVs."

    • @athews1976
      @athews1976 3 місяці тому

      That is *EXACTLY* what he said!😣
      Fuck that guy!😒

  • @ASaund-qb6wy
    @ASaund-qb6wy 2 місяці тому +9

    People need to realize life expectancy has tripled because of lower infant mortality. They weren’t dying left and right at thirty. That’s a common misunderstanding.

  • @greg6924
    @greg6924 3 місяці тому +19

    Maher is trying his edgelord phase. He has failed miserably in this endeavor.

  • @insomniacdreamer1689
    @insomniacdreamer1689 2 місяці тому +5

    There needs to be a reality show where these billionaires go somewhere like the slums in NY, LA, Detroit anywhere in America and make them live like normal Americans for 30 days. No access to their wealth, they drive themselves to work for 8hrs, get a regular paycheck and pay a full month of bills on a full month of income for ordinary Americans

  • @thedarknessunderneathpodca6366
    @thedarknessunderneathpodca6366 3 місяці тому +7

    Ana has become one of my favorite media personalities. She is hilarious.

  • @imjustamerican
    @imjustamerican 2 місяці тому +5

    Bruh, it cost too much to afford monthly bills.

  • @readable95
    @readable95 3 місяці тому +7

    To be fair bus lanes would be good if you had dedicated public transport
    It would make cars off the road as long as there’s enough public transport

  • @writerconsidered
    @writerconsidered 3 місяці тому +6

    I saw a video with Milton Friedman basically arguing the same point about certain things being cheaper to buy. Being selective he left out the essential things. Weed and porn doesn't put food on the table. The things we lack are the things that matter most. Affordable house number one followed by healthcare, retirement, and food. Those things are unaffordable and the thing that most Americans struggle with the most. Unimportant things like cell phones are affordable.

  • @BuggJohnson000
    @BuggJohnson000 2 місяці тому +7

    Bill really said "Let them eat cake." 😂

    • @General_Kenobi_212
      @General_Kenobi_212 2 місяці тому +2

      All these rich elites should remember what happened to the last person who said that

  • @Cardinal_Hordriss
    @Cardinal_Hordriss 2 місяці тому +7

    More people should use bikes and public transport to save the environment - providing it doesn’t inconvenience the privileged in the slightest. This attitude is why America is dragging down the western world when it comes to tackling climate change.

  • @gsnaponfire
    @gsnaponfire 2 місяці тому +7

    Anna and Cenk are getting pretty conservative

  • @jasonfuller1001
    @jasonfuller1001 3 місяці тому +7

    Nothing like a rich guy complaining that other people are not grateful for a crust of bread. There will come a time, like other times in history, where the have-nots will be pushed too far. This NEVER ends well for the rich. French Revolution is just one example.

    • @jasonfuller1001
      @jasonfuller1001 3 місяці тому +2

      Here are two more examples, mouth breather. The fall of the Mayan Empire and the fall of the Chinese Dynasties. Both fell when the have-nots destroyed the haves. Would you like more?@@marcosolo6491

    • @jasonfuller1001
      @jasonfuller1001 3 місяці тому +2

      The Cuban Revolution. The Romanian Revolution. Two more. There is no example "from America" because our country only has a mere 200 years of history. But it could certainly be coming.@@marcosolo6491

  • @danielkopec819
    @danielkopec819 3 місяці тому +7

    Bike lanes are good actually.

  • @brainsparks5860
    @brainsparks5860 3 місяці тому +13

    Bill Maher is a serious douche, though. For real. Keep trying to be better. It's been a long time since I have agreed with Ana....but, yeah. Everything she said in this segment: 100% correct

  • @seth_sesu
    @seth_sesu 3 місяці тому +7

    Anna is absolutely wrong about converting car lanes to bike lanes. Piles of research prove that more car lanes induce more traffic congestion. Cyclists are the solution to traffic not cars.

    • @freesalt3989
      @freesalt3989 3 місяці тому

      I thought more vehicles create more congestion not more lanes.

    • @tdon39
      @tdon39 3 місяці тому

      Fk cyclists

    • @tyler5545
      @tyler5545 3 місяці тому +1

      @@freesalt3989Intuitively you’d think so, but no. Look up induced demand. It’s what all traffic studies have ultimately found, adding more lanes actually ends up making traffic worse.

    • @seth_sesu
      @seth_sesu 3 місяці тому

      @@tyler5545 it’s true

    • @seth_sesu
      @seth_sesu 3 місяці тому

      @@freesalt3989 there is a lot of research and literature on this. Americans are trapped in cities that require them to drive everywhere because increasingly car capacity actually exponentially increases the need to drive a car by crowding out other ways of travel.
      A good book is “the high cost of free parking”
      Take a trip to Amsterdam or Tokyo or other major cities around the world and you can see the contrast with dangerous, polluted American cities.

  • @Ex0dus111
    @Ex0dus111 3 місяці тому +3

    Dedicated bus lanes will greatly REDUCE traffic congestion. As it has many other places.
    The simple reason is once you give people options, many of them will pick the bus. They didn't have that option before because the bus was stuck in traffic with everyone else.

  • @nunya2514
    @nunya2514 2 місяці тому +8

    Totally with Ana about Bill. He's a tool

    • @MichaelSpanhake
      @MichaelSpanhake 2 місяці тому +1

      Genuinely enjoy + respect Ana's commentaries, primarily because she has a level of maturity and self esteem ( Both products of age) that enable her to be uncompromisingly honest at the expense of being occasionally contentious. While I might not agree with some of her opinions, I will always prefer integrity to sycophancy which invariably. Inflicts me with irritable bowel syndrome. 9:08

  • @gabenewman219
    @gabenewman219 3 місяці тому +8

    I have said the same thing even as a street person of fifteen years. American poverty is nothing compared to most of the world, but if Project 2025 comes to pass, we're gonna look just like every other 3rd world nation. This is serious. Vote Blue!

    • @BobothePirate24
      @BobothePirate24 2 місяці тому

      Have you seen the last 3 years? How could anybody vote blue? The world's on fire and it's not Trump's fault.

  • @lianidri80
    @lianidri80 2 місяці тому +4

    Yes Anna....I am with you...these rich dudes are so out of touch with the common folks

  • @joesaurer1
    @joesaurer1 2 місяці тому +4

    Bill Maher really came out and said "why is the proletariat upset? We gave you stuffed crust bread and circuses"

  • @GARCATCH_
    @GARCATCH_ 3 місяці тому +7

    Lmao Ana talking like she ain't rich

  • @lalah9481
    @lalah9481 3 місяці тому +5

    What the truly out of touch and isolated elite looks like.

  • @RosieTipton-me8rd
    @RosieTipton-me8rd 2 місяці тому +5

    Have had dedicated bike and bus lanes in Australia for decades - works amazingly

    • @SupportTheArts-yo8ox
      @SupportTheArts-yo8ox 2 місяці тому +1

      Yes, but there's not city there is nearly the size of LA or NYC

  • @Remi1982
    @Remi1982 3 місяці тому +6

    Their rant about public transit reminded me that left leaning american comentators would be on the right in any other occidental civilised contry... 😅

  • @rextrek
    @rextrek 3 місяці тому +5

    just having Universal Healthcare would HELP Americans 100%

  • @anntares172
    @anntares172 2 місяці тому +5

    This dude doesn't know what it's like not to have retirement savings, job stability, health concerns (food, healthcare, dentalcare), quality of life, home ownership, not being able to afford kids, having kids and being in a constant panic. No amount of porn and pizza is going to fix that. One paycheck away from homelessness.

  • @imgonnastealyourgirl
    @imgonnastealyourgirl 2 місяці тому +11

    Are we spoiled? Proceeds to complain about traffic.

  • @sagisli
    @sagisli 2 місяці тому +6

    I divorced Maher a long time ago. He's not funny, smart or relevant anymore.

  • @sidneyoverland6869
    @sidneyoverland6869 3 місяці тому +5

    I’m a white woman & I am very grateful for my Costco wardrobe ever since Covid. My Costco leggings look just like Lulu Lemon, I guess.
    I am not grateful for the shithole healthcare under Biden. I am not grateful for the years I couldn’t see a doctor on my HMO. I am not grateful for the grift of a $1400 insurance plan when they were not following the mandates of the ACA because the doctor didn’t have time to see me or find out what my health issues were.
    I am not grateful that the PPO was so expensive we couldn’t buy it, but we had to pay an extra $30,000 in income taxes while the richest don’t have to pay.
    I hate Biden & the health insurance lobby. I hate the director of the IRS who is a Trumper. I hate that when we had car repairs, root canals, and other expenses/emergencies, the IRS didn’t pick up the phone. In fact, my husband called the IRS when he was laid off & it took him a month to get through. The IRS stole $1000 out of my husband’s small severance pay when he was unemployed.
    Bill Mahr is a rich stoner. He doesn’t care about anyone but himself. His only saving character trait is that he loves his dogs & he supports Peeta.
    I don’t like Bill M. anymore.
    The California Nurses Association is supporting a Single Payer Bill called CALCARE. I hope it’s good insurance because I have very few choices on my plan.
    I was used to good healthcare before I moved to this county & I’m not allowed to drive 30 minutes away to Silicon Valley.
    I think the biggest problem is healthcare because it is disabling. The simplest things become disabling…

  • @larryc1616
    @larryc1616 3 місяці тому +5

    Bill was always ahead of the times, but now is behind the times on many subjects. John Oliver is way better.

  • @coosoorlog
    @coosoorlog 3 місяці тому +6

    Ana. It is actually a SCIENTIFICALLY ESTABLISHED FACT that traffic congestion in big cities simply cannot be solved by increasing the number of lanes and roads. This is what studies indicate. The only workable solution is better public transportation. The biggest problem with that is that Americans love their cars and cannot fathom the thought that public transportation can actually be effective and perfectly pleasant, as it is in many huge city centers in the world.

    • @writerconsidered
      @writerconsidered 3 місяці тому

      You missed the point, we are putting the cart before the horse. You need need a good well designed public transportation that will incentivize the use of public transportation. This isn't Denmark or Germany which has been building good public transport for decades. This is a broken down infrastructure America. And she isn't arguing to expand lanes, she's only asking not to decrease lanes which is what they are doing. So its the worst of both worlds, crimping lanes with a continued crap public transport. This is the worst of urban planning. And we have the exact same thing in Boston.

    • @coosoorlog
      @coosoorlog 2 місяці тому

      @@writerconsideredyeah I have to admit I have little idea of what they are doing exactly over there but I haven't heard specific criticism of if by Ana or any discussion about it on TYT. In this clip, it just sounds like the kind of knee jerk hostile reaction that I've encountered elsewhere when any kind of major improvement to public transportation is suggested. Space is a very limited and precious resource in dense city centers so it's often impossible to develop public transportation in any sensible and meaningful way without scrapping lanes or roads somewhere.

  • @silverburn55
    @silverburn55 2 місяці тому +5

    As a cyclist, bike lanes will be awesome. *my* quality of life will go up!

  • @kazikian
    @kazikian 2 місяці тому +5

    Of course we “have it pretty good” - we live in the wealthiest nation the world has ever seen. That’s precisely why it’s shameful we’re not doing so much better!

  • @philbeattie3978
    @philbeattie3978 3 місяці тому +4

    Maher is about as funny as a bad case of hemorrhoids. That should reflect his pay cheque.

  • @sicknado
    @sicknado 3 місяці тому +4

    Remember when UA-cam didn't have Ads?

  • @pauladams3156
    @pauladams3156 3 місяці тому +6

    Never respected Maher-Smart Ass!!!

  • @cpinckard3702
    @cpinckard3702 2 місяці тому +3

    If the commuter rail system hadn’t been ripped out of la and the rest of the state and country for the fortunes of automakers there wouldn’t be traffic problems

  • @niltomega2978
    @niltomega2978 3 місяці тому +3

    Im surprised people still eat out and use door dash. Ive cut WAY back on all that. Its like people dont know how to go into emergency mode

    • @xiaoka
      @xiaoka 3 місяці тому

      Emergency mode?
      Not wasting money on a daily basis is an emergency? 😂

    • @niltomega2978
      @niltomega2978 2 місяці тому

      @@xiaoka If eating out and door dash is what you do, you are wasting money

  • @a23ward
    @a23ward 3 місяці тому +3

    I would be so happy if I never owned a car and could ride a bike everywhere. I get what Ana is saying about bike lanes. American cities were not designed for bicycles or mass transit. Most of us live in the burbs, and L.A. is 30 miles wide and has mountains. Ugh, a triathlete's dream come true.

  • @SplotPublishing
    @SplotPublishing 3 місяці тому +5

    Why is Ana like this? Why so selfish and whiny? Los Angeles voters voted for their bike lanes, so maybe, hey, get over yourself? Oh, boo-hoo, you'll be inconvenienced. Why assume they're just too stupid to understand what they've done? Isn't that what you accuse the Democrats in congress of doing? But if someone else whines, you attack them. Come on, relax. Stop.

    • @ZarlanTheGreen
      @ZarlanTheGreen 2 місяці тому

      ....and it is a well established fact, that dedicated bus lanes and bike lanes, reduce car congestion ...as does just reducing car lanes, by itself (counter-intuitive, I know, but it's clearly true)

  • @dougsmith6793
    @dougsmith6793 3 місяці тому +3

    It's a tough line to walk between complaining about how bad things are and simultaneously being thankful for the fact that there are so many ways things could be much worse.

  • @detritusofseattle
    @detritusofseattle 2 місяці тому +5

    Ana, you really need to look into walkable cities, strong towns, and city planning. Adding lanes to your highways does not reduce congestion. It actually stays just as bad or gets worse because now more people will drive. Car dependence is the problem. LA is poorly planned and far too car dependent, which is why you have the congestion problems you have.
    Biking, public transit are far more efficient than cars. If more people opt for this instead of cars, there will be less congestion, and there will be a reason to improve public transit and biking infrastructure so that it is far more doable.

    • @aoeu256
      @aoeu256 2 місяці тому

      Another idea to make walkable cities is if people get used to living in smaller houses (via augmented reality) and exercise machines. Also building up and using those line cars (gondola lifts), that can "change" lines like a monkey or spider.

  • @MG-vo7pz
    @MG-vo7pz 2 місяці тому +6

    Bill has always been a limousine liberal

    • @maryhalverson5713
      @maryhalverson5713 2 місяці тому

      His spindly forearms aren't just due to his advanced age.

  • @MobileGamingChronicles
    @MobileGamingChronicles 2 місяці тому +3

    Bill Maher: I'm doing well, therefore the country is doing well!

  • @kisesegelquist9380
    @kisesegelquist9380 2 місяці тому +5

    Thank you Anna from a woman in her 50s!

  • @paulajf4205
    @paulajf4205 2 місяці тому +4

    To make matters worse, it seems whenever people are referring to "rising wages," it's really meaning corporate type jobs, big organizations like hospitals, or union jobs. It's never factoring people like myself that are freelance or people who work for small or independent businesses.

  • @cpinckard3702
    @cpinckard3702 2 місяці тому +4

    Carcentric urban planning was a stupid mistake and the solution is a return to commuter rail infrastructure even better than before. More cars on the road means more congestion. Widening roads and adding lanes only causes induced demand and more traffic jams due to inevitable bottlenecks down the road with more vehicles trying to squeeze through.

    • @melissabee1982
      @melissabee1982 2 місяці тому

      Have you ridden it lately? Slow, dirty and dangerous.

  • @stevenread5473
    @stevenread5473 2 місяці тому +4

    I don't understand why people don't use the market in a free market economy. I bought a gallon of milk for $2.95 at Aldi , the same day I went to Publix , that gallon of Milk was $5 . Why? A Box of cereal was almost $7 at Publix . At Aldi $3.50. Even gasoline can very .20 cents a gallon on the same day. People are idiots . They know how to complain though. If something is too expensive leave it on the shelf. If everyone one did that the price would drop.

    • @Riasat202
      @Riasat202 2 місяці тому

      People actually have shit to do than appear on TLC's "Extreme Cheapstakes." What, you want them to wait outside the gas station all day for the price to drop?

    • @stevenread5473
      @stevenread5473 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Riasat202 The government does not set prices , for gas or anything else. If people do not use the free market it's useless. No one is suggesting anyone sit outside the gas station and wait for the price to drop. That's a strawman . Just buy from the seller who's selling for less. Gas is a poor example because it's not a free market . You are at the mercy of the refinery's.

    • @andrewm.grossm.d.8002
      @andrewm.grossm.d.8002 2 місяці тому

      Yeah there are Apps that show the lowest prices for everything especially gas, like Gas Buddy. Also just look on 2-3 sites to find the cheapest food it isn’t hard and there are Apps to help. Maher maybe out of touch with the common folk but he knows that Biden is so much better than Trump for our future so we don’t become a Dictatorship. Migrants were an issue under Trump as well and we would have a good Bill in the Border if Trump didn’t say don’t pass it so I could use it as an issue to get elected. And Trump won’t make anyone’s life better including his supporters so you all enjoy living in a Dictatorship under Trump.

  • @Ither1
    @Ither1 2 місяці тому +2

    Ludwig institute shows real unemployment is 24%, but the federal gov doesn’t include most of us in their calculation

  • @mannyboy95
    @mannyboy95 2 місяці тому +4

    That new 32 hr week bill sounds good. Companies already receice gov subsidies time to pay up to the workers that keep them in business.

  • @paulkennedy9759
    @paulkennedy9759 2 місяці тому +8

    maher has no ability to empathize with those less fortunate than himself. selfish.

  • @mikemooseman5354
    @mikemooseman5354 3 місяці тому +6

    Damn! Ana be MAD!!! 😅

  • @tokarteam1
    @tokarteam1 2 місяці тому +4

    I when to LA twice. The infrastructure is laughable. Richest state in the richest country on the history of the planet and not capable of making a descent transport system.
    Then you go downtown and you have just streets full of homeless people. How dystopian is that?! 😅
    But you have trillions to spend in regime change wars and destabilizing the entire planet 🤷‍♂️

  • @Agent_Metapod
    @Agent_Metapod 3 місяці тому +6

    I think Ana doesn't like Bill Maher 😂

  • @michaelspellman6264
    @michaelspellman6264 3 місяці тому +6

    Bill Mahr is a prick, but the Lulu Lemon joke was actually pretty good lol

  • @johnnylafayette
    @johnnylafayette 2 місяці тому +3

    I mean when we can't afford to drink ourselves into a coma . We start questioning politics 😂😂😂😂😂😂.

  • @mbarker_lng
    @mbarker_lng 3 місяці тому +3

    Cheap TVs and stuffed crust pizza ("bread & circuses"); sure. But health care or affordable higher education? Forget it.

  • @gravestone4840
    @gravestone4840 3 місяці тому +4

    Eat the rich is about to be a lot more than a slogan.

  • @tammyobrien7158
    @tammyobrien7158 3 місяці тому +9

    Yeah, bill maher has it good, bill is for bill maher, hes out of touch with the people

    • @fndtay100
      @fndtay100 3 місяці тому +1

      Bill has never been in touch with people... never watched his shows, he sucks

  • @coachtaewherbalife8817
    @coachtaewherbalife8817 3 місяці тому +4

    Increase minimum wage so the average worker can have a reasonable lifestyle. The low end workers have the worst deal right now.

  • @burtonkrichard8898
    @burtonkrichard8898 2 місяці тому +6

    More public transit will take more people off the roads. Anna somehow doesn’t understand that more public transit improves traffic congestion. A person taking a bike to work will remove one car off the road. A bus will remove like 8 cars off the roads.

  • @savagewaifu4694
    @savagewaifu4694 3 місяці тому +4

    "You will own nothing and be happy with your stuffed crust pizza"

  • @theMosen
    @theMosen 3 місяці тому +4

    Bike lanes are good, actually. You alleviate traffic congestion by disincentivizing car travel and promoting other more efficient forms of transport

  • @drewbarrymore6191
    @drewbarrymore6191 2 місяці тому +4

    Bill Maher has no idea what real life is like 😢

  • @christopherreisner5043
    @christopherreisner5043 2 місяці тому +3

    Hooray for bike lanes. I water my plants with Ana's tears.

  • @davidmaynard7473
    @davidmaynard7473 2 місяці тому +4

    Let me say first that I like Ana….but I haven’t heard her say something positive for a long time. Like yes, the country has problems but my goodness, there are good things happening too.

  • @ArsinoeIvy
    @ArsinoeIvy 3 місяці тому +3

    You can only access the amazing things with money, maybe most of the bottom 40% may have running water and indoor plumbing and refrigerators, but they don’t have any stability, security, or any hope that one emergency won’t put them on the street. Any increase in wages is immediately lost in increasing cost of living expenses (mostly rent & food) and the people who end up with the increased wages the bottom 40% earn are the top 20% that own the assets that the bottom 40% can’t afford to own themselves….

  • @jamesstrathy2178
    @jamesstrathy2178 2 місяці тому +3

    Why are the largest drivers of inflation ever pointed out. Corporations are causing 50% of inflation! Never gets talked about.

  • @ErikBlair
    @ErikBlair 2 місяці тому +3

    Thank you Ana for representing the people in this country who get it and aren't playing BS politics. Thank you for standing up to this crap!

  • @jpenir
    @jpenir 2 місяці тому +5

    Maher is completely out of touch

  • @NextNate03
    @NextNate03 3 місяці тому +2

    Regarding lanes:
    That suppose to help lower traffic.
    There are countless of studies and IRL that proves that it does lower traffic.
    Look for "Not-Just-Bikes".