@@snookmeister55 Poor old boomer, must be tough having to exist as an unseen and unheard old fossil. The world has moved on and neglected to bring you along. Shame.
"When, at the age of thirteen, I looked at my father, I knew him for a fool. At the age of twenty, I appreciated his wisdom. It's remarkable how much he had learned in that short a time". Mark Twain
I was always told by my parents "not to always believe what you see on tv or the internet". Now they believe everything they see on tv and the internet.
Old people (like women and children) are more vulnerable and therefore more fearful, becoming susceptible to propaganda and scams as they consume TV the most and are less comfortable with technology. It's much easier to give someone else advice from an outsider's perspective than to apply similar insights to your own life.
Sadly, what is happening is that minorities are now in their neighborhoods. Minorities who don't behave the same as older white people. Sometimes they aren't friendly, sometimes crime increases. Sometimes they are perfectly wonderful friendly people - but not often enough. My grandmother got mugged and hurt and believe me when I tell you, she looks at her neighborhood differently now. It's sad but that is a big part of some older people's opinions now.
@@TomSuntotheMaxyea cuz that’s why! Smh 🙄blame minorities for everything! The news and government has been fear mongering the elders for many years..but yea it’s the minorities!
Yea? Because you just believe this article from Techcrunch? No peer review, no science, nothing. He doesn't even link to this article for us to read. The history that repeats is that people are stupid. People will literally believe, anything, especially if their favorite celebrity says it. They won't even make any efforts to determine the truth. I offer you as my evidence.
Are kids even being taught history anymore? I'm living in Idaho and I know for a fact they're not being taught spelling and grammar here, but when I see people my age spewing the ridiculousness on Facebook I am bewildered. And they all claim to be patriots and wave their flags around.
@@andreabradley5837nah we get locked down by the old and fat people of society. Then they price us out of owning property because they are greedy and shut the door behind them.
Trashing the truth, eh? A study showed that HALF of Democrats think thousands of unarmed black men are killed each year by police. In reality an average of about 15 are. How are so many Democrats so wildly off? The Democrat media complex (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Bill Maher, Jon Oliver, etc) feeds them endless false narratives. Other lies from the Democrat media complex: - Hunter's laptop was a fake planted by Russia - Lab Leak Theory was a "racist" conspiracy theory, (but saying covid came from Chinese ppl eating bats wasn't racist at all!) - Officer Sicknick was beaten to death - Jacob Blake was a Good Samaritan who had pulled over to break up a fight - Michael Brown had his hands up - Trump and Putin communicated via a server at Alfa Bank - Trump staffers were using Russian phones - Trump called dead veterans "losers" - Trump saying to auto workers there would be a bloodbath if Biden won b/c he would allow a flood of Chinese vehicles was a threat of political violence - Jussie Smollette! - Michael Avanatti!
As an Asian American, we need more eastern sensibilities in this country. We do not abandon our kids once they reach 18 nor do we abandon our parents when they are no longer able to drive, do their own grocery shopping, etc.
I live in a disabled/elderly community, and it's just downright heartbreaking to see what goes on here. I'm one of the younger disabled ones, and seeing so many people just dropped off and forgotten is awful, disrespectful, and immoral. The only time some of them come over to visit is during a holiday, and they're found dead in their apartment. It's a gut-wrenching reality that I've had to face living here. I try to help when I can, but being disabled myself, I'm not exactly someone who should be relied on by someone who needs more than they are given.
There's an aspect to this that he touched on but didn't fully delve into: The modern loneliness epidemic has to be doubly hard on people who have been conditioned to socializing in person their whole lives.
I started watching the show catfish with my daughter and I was going nuts thinking how foolish people are to think they were in a long term long distance relationship with someone they have never spoken to. I think the lonely people of the world are looking to belong to something on both sides. The far left and the far right are both clinging to non-sense hoping to belong to something bigger. The protests and arguments on social media. Do you ever remember a time where everything on TV or life was so overly politicized. Here I am clicking on a bill mahr video looking for entertainment or maybe I am to hear looking for something i agree with. Pretty sad times we are in.
Speak for yourself , in the Latino and Native American culture we honor our elders and don’t abandon them to homes with strangers. My grandmother and mother both died in their own beds surrounded by their loved ones . Don’t include me in your BS
I am a 71 year old baby boomer. Not all young people are this way but I don't see the help of the young to the old like the days I was younger. You are absolutely right Bill. And the ones who can afford to exist outside of nursing homes with just a little more more money like me are not far behind. I grew up in Bernie Sanders country. I don't see much of it in Oklahoma. That set my values and not the south. I am lonely here. I feel like I am in a foreign country here. So I believe you are totally correct. I am in a national corporation owned apartment based in Conn. And the rich are not helping either. Its a What's in it for me not What's best for all concern including me. My heart hurts existing here. You are so right Bill. This video speaks volumes. I appreciate this and hope America is listening because I believe American values are dying.
I'm 57, on the older side of Gen X, an Army veteran, and reasonable liberal in my views. I agree we shouldn't disregard our elderly and the wisdom they can give. There is a big BUT in that argument and Donald Trump is living proof that with age, you don't necessarily get wisdom. If Trump wasn't protected by his family's fortune, I feel natural selection would have taken its course. If Trump somehow was drafted and went to Vietnam, I feel he would have been a "victim " of friendly fire. Wisdom is the combination of knowledge, knowing how and when to use it, and being humble enough to ask for help and advice from others in areas you aren't skilled in.
@@michaelzickefoose3545 that's why the younger gen needs to be aware not all old people are like trump or vice versa hence the reason to listen to each other in the first place. Gen z are too full of themselves to self reflect that they can be wrong sometimes.
Spot on, Troop. Thank you. We had an upwards of 20% Friendly Fire casualty rate in Vietnam, not all of which was an unfortunate mistake. Reason or Treason. Choose one. There is NO "Us or Them" in We The People GOP - Government Of Putin
Judge a nation on how it treats its infirm, mentally ill, veterans, elderly, children, artists, musicians and animals. You decide what grade our "republic," has earned. I have been alive for 58 years and a high school special education teacher for over three decades. I bet you can guess what grade I'd submit. I despise both the LEFT and the RIGHT. When your ideology becomes more important than human dignity, sympathy or understanding of those who are different than you, then you can count me out. Despite all the triumphs of science, man has not changed much over the last few thousand years. We may smell better, look better, but damn if we aren't still run by fear. It's really sad because we made it to the top, the roof. We don't need ladders anymore and here we are. God bless and all the best.
I disagree with #1 and mostly agree with #2. There are people who do only want to believe true things, but they still have their regular lives to lead. Like nobody has the time or interest to just dig deep and research everything, because that is what it would take. There is also a matter of intelligence, in that some people have a hard time figuring out what is true even after doing a bunch of research. So they just have to kind of go with their gut or they just remain neutral.
@@brianharper1611Lazy has nothing to do with living their regular lives. It has to do with, "whatever is most convenient will do fine.", when more effort can be made. The whole point in researching is to find the facts about what you want/need to know. It's either done or not. If the sources have incorrect information, that's not on the person.
@@srldwg I already agreed that there are people who believe what they want to believe and don't want to hear otherwise. Those aren't the people I am addressing. It sounds to me like maybe you want to believe that everyone just wants to believe what the want to believe and don't care about truth. That is called projection.
I don't believe Bill's comments. I'm 85 yrs old and none of this applies to me at all. I'm constantly questioning the news I hear and try to fact check things. I try to think I'm using critical thinking and do not swallow things just because it's in print or on my computer. Bill sometimes puts things and people in boxes which don't fit us all or even come close. Take what he says with a grain of salt and do some fact checking.
Do you have a college education? Because that's what makes the difference. Those with a college education get skilled up on analytical skills. Those without have to work with what they've got. And sometimes all they've got is blind faith in authority figures.
@@Belzedaras someone with a college education, I can use my analytical skills to see that this argument is bad. Having a degree does not make you smarter than someone without a degree. It just means you paid too much money to wear a robe and throw a square hat in the air.
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Exactly. It has nothing to do with age. Most people are just idiots. Every generation has had them and every one coming will too.
In Germany there was a political party which called itself „The grey Panthers“. To win over younger people for their cause they came up with a wise slogan:“You are the elderly of tomorrow.“ Should make the younguns think.
Fortunately, we have Rachel Maddow, Joe Scarborough, Chris Matthews, and Joy Reid to lead us to the promised land. Praise the Lo.......................oh........ummm.........yeah.
Democrat media. A study showed that HALF of Democrats think thousands of unarmed black men are killed each year by police. In reality an average of about 15 are. How are so many Democrats so wildly off? The Democrat media complex (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Bill Maher, Jon Oliver, etc) feeds them endless false narratives. Other lies from the Democrat media complex,: - Hunter's laptop was a fake planted by Russia - Lab Leak Theory was a "racist" conspiracy theory, (but saying covid came from Chinese ppl eating bats wasn't racist at all!) - Officer Sicknick was beaten to death - Jacob Blake was a Good Samaritan who had pulled over to break up a fight - Michael Brown had his hands up - Trump and Putin communicated via a server at Alfa Bank - Trump staffers were using Russian phones - Trump called dead veterans "losers" - Trump saying to auto workers there would be a bloodbath if Biden won b/c he would allow a flood of Chinese vehicles was a threat of political violence - Jussie Smollette! - Michael Avanatti!
OK, in older peoples defense we’ve seen some shit go down that nobody would’ve believed was happening. So the ridiculous stuff doesn’t sound so ridiculous.
One of the first things I noticed when moving from the US to a Latin country is how much more they revere their elders. Yes there are nursing homes (Hogars), but nearly as many.
Most of my family are hardcore Republicans and conservatives and they will not vote for trump. To put it in perspective, even though they are all devout christians but they hate televangelists because they are smart enough to see through the lies and half truths meant to fleece people.
It's just Bill Maher shouting at folks to get off his lawn again. He revels being grumpy and irritated. I looked after an elderly family member for many years.
The other day I was sitting at a bar with another boomer, and we were making fun of younger girls in there constantly taking selfies. I said "The apollo astronaut team took something like 20 pictures of their entire moon landing, and the average Gen Z chick in this bar probably takes more bathroom selfies than that on any given day." I said it as a joke, but then he looked at me and said "That would be true, except we never landed on the moon. It was all a big hoax." I did my best Adam Rose eyeroll and started talking to the person on the other side of me.
The hoax crowd is so ignorant they don't know there were 6 manned Moon landings between 1969 and 1972. There would have been 7 but the Apollo 13 mission had a mechanical failure and just circled the Moon. Apollo 8 orbited the Moon multiple times and was on live TV Christmas Eve 1968. Even our main rival at the time, the Soviet Union, never disputed the veracity and success of these missions.
I must be an optimist My first thought would have been the speaker was joking and inviting a dialogue about flat Earth, sovereign citizen, and there was NOT a JFK assassination conspiracy. Isn’t it often more fun to play Devil’s Advocate.
Now I got NEWS for you. Some idiot ran over my dog, just to kill her. Young people helped me and she is alive and I thank God for all the help the young people gave me. Many people in my generation would want to know what's in it for them. I don't hate young people.
That's wonderful but I would submit it was bc it involved an animal. They care more about those "pet causes" (pardon the pun) like dogs having cushy lives rather than people
@@kostanikas3881 Well, yes and no. If a dog destroys something, we know it needs more training. If people do it, we know it was done on purpose. But dogs don't get it as good as humans.
I'm sorry, but Tucker, Sean Hannity, and Lauren Ingram, are *way worse* because they 'secretley' all despise DT, but in public they say his manure smells like potpourri. There's evidence of this via text messages revealed during the Dominion voter machine scandal. Lou Dobbs actually believes what he says, even though he's wrong he still gets a pass - and a huge eye roll - from me. But if you secretly lie to the American public day-after-day for years-on-end you are the most dispicable type of person on the this planet, in my opinion.
Boomers: the greatest generation. Xers: the last of the functional generations (who had to live adulthood in all the camps. Nothing like life going Matrix halfway through) 😅
Survival seeds? I'm old. My mother was Gen World War II. She had a Victory Garden. Same as survival seeds. Things were rough. People made plans to look after themselves. In case it got worse. We used to call it common sense. Now all food sources are run by about 5 large corporations. We are incredibly vulnerable in our food supply. We accepted the 2,000 mile salad trucked from California was normal. No.
@@EHCBunny4realNearly all seed stock is "genetically modified" and has been for eons. Broccoli and cauliflower are literal genetic mutations of the mustard seed done by the Mesopotamians hundreds of years ago. Facts. You seem to take no issue with putting toxic solvents and glue on your fake fingernails. Oh, but the hybrid yellow and white corn on the cob is a no no. Did you know corn was genetically modified from straw grass?
I'm a physical therapist in a nursing home and I see this all the time. The elderly get thrown into a facility and are lucky to get an occasional visit from family. I used to live in Nicaragua, and this sort of shit does not fly (and they can't afford that sort of care anyways). Families respect and take great care of their elders there and in most countries around the world.
America gov and the medical industry finds that anyone over 85 is not worth the time and effort and money. My friends 88 father was in the emergency room and the doctor made a snarky comment about the patient being old and shrugged his shoulders. He takes care of his dad at home and the siblings don't offer any help. Just waiting for payday.
i think it works both way here, when they are young they do not take care of their kids neither, they go from ex wife to several ex girlfriends boyfriends, they live their live dropping off their kids at their ex, grannies aunties … most kids are just step-siblings .. why would i want to take care of a father who went to seek his own pleasure leaving me behind? or mother who was bringing a new boyfriend every other month , was going on vacation with them not with me … and when both are to old to take care of themselves suddenly they are my responsibility???
I’m sure they can spend a large portion of their time in Nicaragua tending to the old and infirm, but unless we want to federally mandate that people with old relatives can work 10 hour weeks, are immune from being fired, and must receive full pay this is what you get. Would you have the parents, each working a full time job and spending the entirety of their evenings raising their children, also be forced to take care of their elderly parents? There’s simply not enough time in the day for such a thing in modern societies. If we had the concept of multi-generational homes it might be different, but America’s old desire all of the attention and care of the young and don’t want to fill their own traditional roles (assisting with raising kids, tending to the house when able, etc.). That’s not to mention that they used to, you know, actually die before they reached 90. Looking after a 90 year old, much less two or more as some households would have to do, is a full time job and then some. When people were dropping dead in their 60s and early 70s they had a much higher quality of life, required much less care, and still assisted in day to day life. None of those things are true of modern elder care.
This is one of the down sides of being an American. We are taught to grow up and be independent. When we get old; we have no one. Most of the time I enjoy my alone. But; sometimes it is nice to have someone to help with the grocery shopping in which I don't have. Just a little time to help and maybe keep company. Not much. Not all day. Just a little help
Glad I moved to Istanbul 20 years ago when I was 54, because we tribal elders are respected in Turkey. But I’d be lost if I didn’t watch you, Bill, and I still vote.
The fact that the elderly even need to work is a problem, I think the idea that people spend 30ish years of working 40 hours a week before retiring is ridiculous already. To have to spend your entire life working, it doesn't really seem like a life worth living.
Another brutal irony; Maher condemning partisan propaganda and fear mongering. Democrats and their media machine have spent over the last eight years pretending half the country is “whyte suhhpremacists.” What a joke.
@@Lv-nq9qz Not true. Although, there are not that many notable figures under forty with sufficient life experience and especially, WISDOM, from which to garner much.
Don't disagree with Bill about fox news etc, but, anyone not willing to admit that msnbc employs the same types, only left leaning, is gonna be hard to trust.
From what I understand he spoke about an _increasing number_ of old people turning to Biden and then proceeded to explain why those who were still pro-Trump were the way they were. Put in short, no age group is monolithic and Bill wants to (or tried to) present the various facets of each generation. Well, Bill and ig his team of writers also.
Growing up in the 50s you TRUSTED news....How can you argue with Cronkite. Back then when "Hill Street Blue" was hot my aunti who was pretty sharp let it slip that she hoped the characters were OK till next week. Her brain had a hard time with the illusion of TV. Is it any different these days?
My half-sister lives in Ohio and she REALLY went down the rabbit hole on the MAGA/QAnon stuff. Unfortunately, she is the only living member of my extended family; my only other living family member is my son. Whenever we'd speak to each other (via Messenger), it wasn't two minutes before she started talking about aliens (the space kind) and other ludicrous conspiracies. I wanted to talk to her about her grandson and my son and recipes, but she wanted to set me straight and talk the "sheep" out of me. I haven't spoken to her in over 5 years. And I haven't tried.
Happened to me too with my dad who has Fox on his TV like 24x7. Kept telling me how stupid I was for being liberal. Didn’t need that and didn’t speak to him for several years and I woke up one day and felt like shit for doing that to an old man. We said our piece, found some peace finally, and told him he could either see me as his kid or “that lazy liberal”. He chose kid because it’s practically impossible to say I’m lazy given hes seen how much I work and have done reasonably well for myself. Also Trump has increasingly become a morally decrepit orange teenager. That has lost him a lot of credibility with the parents.
Learn how to steer the conversations to old friends and family and the best experiences in their lives. Then when the got too far right or left----then try one more time. It used to work for me on some people. We could talk about '60's music for 20 minutes or more. You can do it---for a few minutes anyway.
@@scottcummings8602 - who said anything about being sexy? Maher implied that old people should retire, despite not retiring himself. But I get it: double standards for men and women. Women are only tolerated if they're sexually appealing to men, otherwise they should bugger off.
I don’t think Bill would ever put himself in a position like that with a person like Tim Dillon. He’d be exposed as a bit foolish, I’m sure, The problem with Bill is he makes these sweeping generalizations regarding populations. Meanwhile, he lives in a bubble in Hollywood Hills. His viewpoints are rather limited due to his limited exposure.
@@Rumplesti1tskinspot on, you can't cut or overtalk dillon, he's relentless! Bill love his confort zone, hitchens, greenwald, chomsky humiliated him. The intellectual complex of bill is huge, lately Burr obliterated Billy's gaza stance, and it became viral. Too bad, because as spectacular as it is, you could get something out of it.
I grew up with my grandparents so I was pretty conditioned. The elderly taught me a lot, especially my grandmother and her senior friends. I miss them all! I was part of the click even though I was so young. ❤
@@misterwhipple2870 It's not OK with me, either. Americans can't spell properly or compose and punctuate a sentence correctly. Your for you're, loose for lose, there for they're and their. The degradation of the English language in America is embarrassing and disgraceful.
The saddest thing about Lou Dobbs is that he USED to be an actual, respected presenter... when he was on CNN. I watched him for years, reporting on business, economics, the markets, etc. He was relatively "normal" back then... non partisan. But he must have drunk some right-wing KoolAid at some party... or maybe Fox just wrote him a check big enough to buy his integrity. Same with Maria Bartiromo. Used to be a respected financial reporter but is now a partisan hack. Pretty wild, ,wacky stuff.
The conspiracy side of me thinks there really could be some kind of mind control at work here. Never in a million years did I ever think that conservative republican voters would support a buffoon like Trump who calls our POWs losers and praises the communist dictators. They MUST be in the grips of literal hypnosis. There can be no other explanation.
Saddest part is even the Fox hacks don’t believe what they are saying. Tucker, square head, and angry blonde all hate maga but go along for the fame, power, and pay check.
Partially. The biggest issue is when dis/mis information is protected as "freedom of speech" and passed off as fact... And "the believers" take it at face value. When did lying become ok?
@@edg3048it happened gradually. As soon as I understand first media abandoned objectivity and covering both sides of the story. Then 3 TV channels become many channels and 24 news cycle began. You can't be factually correct if you cover story as it unfolds. Then internet really took off and average person on the street has a say in matters that he is not expert on. Internet made things really weird. On one hand it decimated profits of media, so they can't hire people to actually cover the stories. On the other hand it created weird communities of people called information bubbles. Every weirdo can find like minded people all over the world. And now people try to gather the pieces and talk about disinformation and misinformation.
They're teams of human beings. Of course they can be wrong, then and now. The difference is, when they were wrong then, they made a correction/retraction and apologized because they tried to deliver the facts and not take sides. Now, they double down on the BS because it delivers voters to their side. Then it was news. Now it's propaganda.
@@LisaFenton-h7f oh, that's right - the Orange Menace didn't ONLY denigrate women, nonwhites, and people from other countries, he even ridiculed a disabled man!
It sure is one of the few. Ageism is not considered to be bigotry. Weird, huh? And we've seen our share of Bill Maher's ageist "jokes" through the years. Physician, heal thyself.
@@BFSilenceDogood out of all of them they at least correct mistakes they did on reporting. They don't push out right lies like fox recently did with the voting machines.
I can't exactly blame people for the Ok Boomer trend when Boomers started dismissing current problems by saying "just do x, back in my day x was perfect"...
Ya! X working is no reason to keep doing x when you can do the new y thing. Sure y seems to have made everything fall to shit, but at least it's not that gross old x thing that worked just fine.
This Boomer likes "OK Boomer." We were called "The Me Generation" when we were young. Gen Z has nothing on us! We invented sex, drugs, and rock & roll. :)
@@chesterlestrange7725 The point is that X doesn't work anymore. Get a job in the summer to pay for you college degree doesnt cut it now. Walking around with resumes and a firm handshake doesn't do anything. Credit scores barely existed before 1989. My dad got a loan to start a business on bluster alone. Try talking the bank into a business loan now. In summary, x doesn't work anymore, so telling someone to do x is why they respond with "Ok boomer". If you haven't seen that X doesn't work it's because you have chosen not to. I'd love to do x. X is broken so I'm sitting here trying y.
@@hereigoagain5050The me generation never seemed to really fit... too narrow. Like Medievals saying, you Renaissance kids, you think you're so important... Gotta be yourself, find your own way, sign your name to everything. - But this is the age of enlightenment Daddy, perhaps you've noticed? In the wake of the Boomers, what? The meh generation?
Ya, I noticed that. Bill says something communist, then waits, like a deer caught in the headlights. Then you can almost hear the crickets chirping. Then his bored-to-death-with-this-crap soundman, wakes-up and pushes the recorded laugh button, in the empty studio.
My daughter and all of her friends still find Trump to be utterly repulsive, but my daughter doesn't hang out with incels, frat boys, Karens, and assholes, the sorts who WOULD support Trump.
@@derkeheath5172I’m sure your daughter hangs out with dudes dressed up like women and queers for Palestine. Not young people who can actually hold down a job and have morals.
The last stat I saw showed a majority of 30 and unders are not voting for Trump. It's possible they mean the 35-55 demographic, which has been that way for a few cycles, specifically the working class. Which is boggling, considering they think a guy who craps on gold toilets and uses his connections to get out of jams average people can't escape, speaks for them.
It’s a trend that is showing up in polling numbers. I find polls to be increasingly wrong. In this case I would not be surprised if some are trolling the polls and lying about supporting Trump. I see/hear more and more people that support Kennedy every day and yet the polls seem to keep him in the teens. Our polling methods are not working. They were certainly wrong in 2016.
I'm an old woman who grew up in communist Poland got married to an Englishman and came to the UK You can say I'm a communist/ capitalist mongrel. That's the reason, perhaps, I enjoy your programme. In the days when so many people hate your evenhanded analysis is very welcome Thank you. Barbara
@ejnorman8781 Joe Biden is building the wall, deporting immigrants and he is continuing Donald Trumps failed policies. Joe Biden is the republican that Fox News wants.
Old people still watch network television and in case you haven't noticed. All new shows are woke. Like every single one. Even new Family guy episodes.
@@tdestroyer4780 "All new shows are woke" ...what does that even mean? Woke is a ridiculous filler word with too broad a definition to even be meaningful. It's a lazy word.
I’m a 70 year old psychologist in practice for 35 years. Potential clients ask why younger psychologists don’t have the experience and depth of skills of older psychologists. Experience takes time to develop. There are many skilled younger psychologists. I know I’ve trained some. Takes time.
I’m a boomer Bill and I’ve been trying to fight against Fake News and false information for a while…it’s exhausting too. My Library background taught me to understand media literacy because I taught it to my students. Also, I learned the difference between fact and opinion.
I'm a grandma that doesn't conform to all the other grandmas and some think I'm crazy. I'm repetitively heard saying "turn off Fox, go outside, you're in a cult!" But then I'm 68 and I'm from Aspen Colorado.
I'm sorry and you've my sympathies. But seriously? Lauren BOEBERT? Your neighbours chose LAUREN BOEBERT as the face of Colerado to stand with the other fifty-one states.
You do realize bill is sitting next to a guy who pushed Russiagate for 4 years. Cuomo who put COVID patients into elderly homes killing thousands is sitting on the other side. It's rich for Bill to "call out" conspiracies.
I haven't seen deny the results of an election, demonize/politicize mitigation efforts in the middle of a global pandemic, or deny the existence of Global Climate Change, The Right Wing echo chamber does that and unfortunately more.
@@JB-pl1iu They're exactly the same. They've been caught numerous times editing clips to make sure they get taken out of context. A huge on that you know and probably believe is the "fine people on both sides" one. Watch the five seconds BEFORE that sound bite. The five seconds that change the meaning completely from what those "reporters" have spent years telling us.
I have really grown to enjoy you Bill. Proof that Dems and GOPs can meet in the middle away from the crazies at either end. I do wish you'd be nicer to God but I can pray about that 😊
My mother is in an assisted living facility because I cannot take care of her. She is huge with swollen legs. I cannot put her in a car. I cannot wrap her legs daily. I can’t move her. I have no choice.
We expect assisted living employees to have training/degrees in nursing but for some reason the kids of sick old ppl ade supposed to just be able to handle it "out of respect." My dad is 83, 6' 5", frail and mean. I'm not going to be his nurse.
It’s hard to get old. After working your entire life to raise your children, you face declining years where your kids have no time for you, and society wants to relegate you to “care” homes that are run for profit. These are awful places, which had the highest rates of death during the pandemic. Thank you, Bill.
@@SECPTA that’s why i put my mother in a nursing home. I took care of her for 3 years. I was exhausted. I tried to get home health to come in. Her excellent insurance wasn’t paying,(they were supposed to), so i paid out of pocket. 4 hours, twice a week. I’d come home from working 12 hours. No shower, didn’t even make her bed. I was told it was more important to hold her hand and sit at the table talking to her, because she was lonely! I did everything for her. 3 years. No reimbursement from ins. They said they could only reimburse institutions! Care homes are not what prople think. Horrible neglect. The food actually stinks. Bed sores. Broken bones. Etc. If you love your parent, you’ll grieve for them.
@@jungefrau these places are for profit. The skilled help are at the desk. The workers are “nursing assistants”. No degree. Don’t know how to lift, transfer, assess. But they do all the care. One told me they were assigned 16 bedridden people per shift. Lucky if they changed diapers once a shift.
It’s a way to place emphasis on a point. Some people talk with their hands too. There are many ways to communicate. Doesn’t bother me. Except perhaps overuse of emojis. I just don’t get those.
I'm a staunch conservative, but I could I not tell you the last time I watched or read Fox News. Whenever it was, I am sure it was for sports coverage.
He's an old, unfunny man desperate to please CEO David Zaslav and major shareholder John Malone, all so he can cling to his dwindling cable audience; the paid laughers and paid clappers who keep his ego intact.
My grandmother is 95 yrs old and sits all day long playing games on her phone. Atleast they are brain boosting games but still the phone has made her very sedentary and hunched over.
@@Educatingben No he hasn't, he is just stuffing his pockets. Every individual clap you hear from the trained seals in his audience is another Benjamin in his pocket...He is just maximizing his earning potential.
My ex gf is Sudanese. She told me they had a saying in her country that when an old person dies, you lose a library…
yep maybe because writing down stuff (called history) is not a thing there?
@@johnneilbunting2750REALLY?
tell ur gf not so much nowadays
How beautiful!❤❤❤
Interracial dating…? It was white boy summer for you ?
When I was young, I was an ignorant fool. But now, after many decades of education and experience, I am no longer young.
I'm a boomer and feel the same way. I didn't cause the problem and don't have an answer.
I also don't accept being dismissed as a boomer by punks.
@@snookmeister55 Okay boomer
@@Temulon ok punk
@@snookmeister55 Poor old boomer, must be tough having to exist as an unseen and unheard old fossil. The world has moved on and neglected to bring you along. Shame.
"When, at the age of thirteen, I looked at my father, I knew him for a fool. At the age of twenty, I appreciated his wisdom. It's remarkable how much he had learned in that short a time". Mark Twain
Hilarious 😂
Now it takes much longer. Even at thirty they think "Hey, Boomer" is an appropriate insult for anyone who has actually leaned something.
I was always told by my parents "not to always believe what you see on tv or the internet". Now they believe everything they see on tv and the internet.
Old people (like women and children) are more vulnerable and therefore more fearful, becoming susceptible to propaganda and scams as they consume TV the most and are less comfortable with technology. It's much easier to give someone else advice from an outsider's perspective than to apply similar insights to your own life.
@@SukiKnight Uh... woman here. I'm perfectly capable of critical thinking and not susceptible to fear mongering and propaganda.
Sadly, what is happening is that minorities are now in their neighborhoods. Minorities who don't behave the same as older white people. Sometimes they aren't friendly, sometimes crime increases. Sometimes they are perfectly wonderful friendly people - but not often enough. My grandmother got mugged and hurt and believe me when I tell you, she looks at her neighborhood differently now. It's sad but that is a big part of some older people's opinions now.
@@plaidpandaGood for you. Likewise myself.
@@TomSuntotheMaxyea cuz that’s why! Smh 🙄blame minorities for everything! The news and government has been fear mongering the elders for many years..but yea it’s the minorities!
Beautiful. That’s how history repeats itself - through neglecting of wisdom and trashing the truth
Yea? Because you just believe this article from Techcrunch? No peer review, no science, nothing. He doesn't even link to this article for us to read.
The history that repeats is that people are stupid. People will literally believe, anything, especially if their favorite celebrity says it. They won't even make any efforts to determine the truth.
I offer you as my evidence.
Are kids even being taught history anymore? I'm living in Idaho and I know for a fact they're not being taught spelling and grammar here, but when I see people my age spewing the ridiculousness on Facebook I am bewildered. And they all claim to be patriots and wave their flags around.
@@andreabradley5837nah we get locked down by the old and fat people of society. Then they price us out of owning property because they are greedy and shut the door behind them.
The sad part is nobody really knows our history anymore… old or young. I’m really becoming pessimistic about the future of our country.
Trashing the truth, eh? A study showed that HALF of Democrats think thousands of unarmed black men are killed each year by police. In reality an average of about 15 are. How are so many Democrats so wildly off? The Democrat media complex (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Bill Maher, Jon Oliver, etc) feeds them endless false narratives. Other lies from the Democrat media complex:
- Hunter's laptop was a fake planted by Russia
- Lab Leak Theory was a "racist" conspiracy theory, (but saying covid came from Chinese ppl eating bats wasn't racist at all!)
- Officer Sicknick was beaten to death
- Jacob Blake was a Good Samaritan who had pulled over to break up a fight
- Michael Brown had his hands up
- Trump and Putin communicated via a server at Alfa Bank
- Trump staffers were using Russian phones
- Trump called dead veterans "losers"
- Trump saying to auto workers there would be a bloodbath if Biden won b/c he would allow a flood of Chinese vehicles was a threat of political violence
- Jussie Smollette!
- Michael Avanatti!
Bill Maher’s point of view on how we treated elderly people are spot on!!!
As an Asian American, we need more eastern sensibilities in this country. We do not abandon our kids once they reach 18 nor do we abandon our parents when they are no longer able to drive, do their own grocery shopping, etc.
Then why is Cuomo sitting next to him? You know the guy who killed 15,000 old people by putting COVID patients into elderly facilities.
abosolutely. and it's just so disgusting that older folks are treated as garbage.
True on the old people in nursing homes or alone in their homes having nobody to talk to😢
@@blippitybloo surprise! drag queens go to nursing homes all the time. sorry if that gets in the way of ur bigotry!
@@blippitybloo5 likes?🤔
Well pizzagate is real but ok. Likes mean truth 😊
I live in a disabled/elderly community, and it's just downright heartbreaking to see what goes on here. I'm one of the younger disabled ones, and seeing so many people just dropped off and forgotten is awful, disrespectful, and immoral. The only time some of them come over to visit is during a holiday, and they're found dead in their apartment. It's a gut-wrenching reality that I've had to face living here. I try to help when I can, but being disabled myself, I'm not exactly someone who should be relied on by someone who needs more than they are given.
@@blippityblooExcept trans people are only ever interested in talking about themselves.
There's an aspect to this that he touched on but didn't fully delve into: The modern loneliness epidemic has to be doubly hard on people who have been conditioned to socializing in person their whole lives.
He's mentioned it actually in previous videos, you'll just have to look back to find them.
@bored1ca I know that he's talked about the loneliness epidemic but I don't think he's delved into it specifically as it relates to the elderly.
I started watching the show catfish with my daughter and I was going nuts thinking how foolish people are to think they were in a long term long distance relationship with someone they have never spoken to. I think the lonely people of the world are looking to belong to something on both sides. The far left and the far right are both clinging to non-sense hoping to belong to something bigger. The protests and arguments on social media. Do you ever remember a time where everything on TV or life was so overly politicized. Here I am clicking on a bill mahr video looking for entertainment or maybe I am to hear looking for something i agree with. Pretty sad times we are in.
That’s is so true.
But he did talk about the loneliness at the end.
“No nation disrespects their elderly like America does.” - true, and this is the biggest reason for this generational difference.
Speak for yourself , in the Latino and Native American culture we honor our elders and don’t abandon them to homes with strangers. My grandmother and mother both died in their own beds surrounded by their loved ones . Don’t include me in your BS
@@ZapataE Same in Nigeria
Murica
Its mostly a worldwide issue. The respect your elders thing died.
I owe nobody anything. Respect is earned, remember?
I am a 71 year old baby boomer. Not all young people are this way but I don't see the help of the young to the old like the days I was younger. You are absolutely right Bill. And the ones who can afford to exist outside of nursing homes with just a little more more money like me are not far behind. I grew up in Bernie Sanders country. I don't see much of it in Oklahoma. That set my values and not the south. I am lonely here. I feel like I am in a foreign country here. So I believe you are totally correct. I am in a national corporation owned apartment based in Conn. And the rich are not helping either. Its a What's in it for me not What's best for all concern including me. My heart hurts existing here. You are so right Bill. This video speaks volumes. I appreciate this and hope America is listening because I believe American values are dying.
This needs more upvotes.
Love to you I hope you read this and know there are people who care.
@@jonofthehill Thank you I appreciate you and Good Fortune to you and yours.
@@jonofthehilli upvoted but becareful, this could really be a bot we are replying too 😂
@@derrickmarsh50 pretty sure you're a bot
Keep up,your kindness ,open minded , warm hearted personality. Remember you're not alone.😊
I'm 57, on the older side of Gen X, an Army veteran, and reasonable liberal in my views. I agree we shouldn't disregard our elderly and the wisdom they can give. There is a big BUT in that argument and Donald Trump is living proof that with age, you don't necessarily get wisdom. If Trump wasn't protected by his family's fortune, I feel natural selection would have taken its course. If Trump somehow was drafted and went to Vietnam, I feel he would have been a "victim " of friendly fire. Wisdom is the combination of knowledge, knowing how and when to use it, and being humble enough to ask for help and advice from others in areas you aren't skilled in.
Probably the most reasonable comment I've read here.
OK Older Side of Gen X :)
@@michaelzickefoose3545 that's why the younger gen needs to be aware not all old people are like trump or vice versa hence the reason to listen to each other in the first place. Gen z are too full of themselves to self reflect that they can be wrong sometimes.
Do you actually think that, or is that just a fantasy you have of somebody killing Trump? Get some help bro.
Spot on, Troop. Thank you.
We had an upwards of 20% Friendly Fire casualty rate in Vietnam, not all of which was an unfortunate mistake.
Reason or Treason. Choose one.
There is NO "Us or Them" in We The People
GOP - Government Of Putin
Judge a nation on how it treats its infirm, mentally ill, veterans, elderly, children, artists, musicians and animals. You decide what grade our "republic," has earned. I have been alive for 58 years and a high school special education teacher for over three decades. I bet you can guess what grade I'd submit. I despise both the LEFT and the RIGHT. When your ideology becomes more important than human dignity, sympathy or understanding of those who are different than you, then you can count me out. Despite all the triumphs of science, man has not changed much over the last few thousand years. We may smell better, look better, but damn if we aren't still run by fear. It's really sad because we made it to the top, the roof. We don't need ladders anymore and here we are. God bless and all the best.
There were old ladies in the 70's and 80's who belived everything in the Nat'l Enquirer and World Weekly News.
Don't forget who owned NE...Rupert Murdoch.
They still do
Well the World Weekly News is no longer around, but for shits and giggles, The National Enquirer is rather more upscale than TMZ.
Whatever became of Bat boy?
Weekly world news not world weekly news.
Regardless of age, people 1. Believe what they want to believe 2. Sometimes are too lazy or prejudiced to find the truth.
I disagree with #1 and mostly agree with #2. There are people who do only want to believe true things, but they still have their regular lives to lead. Like nobody has the time or interest to just dig deep and research everything, because that is what it would take. There is also a matter of intelligence, in that some people have a hard time figuring out what is true even after doing a bunch of research. So they just have to kind of go with their gut or they just remain neutral.
@@brianharper1611Or they believe what they want and don't want to hear otherwise...
@@brianharper1611Lazy has nothing to do with living their regular lives. It has to do with, "whatever is most convenient will do fine.", when more effort can be made.
The whole point in researching is to find the facts about what you want/need to know.
It's either done or not.
If the sources have incorrect information, that's not on the person.
@@srldwg
I already agreed that there are people who believe what they want to believe and don't want to hear otherwise. Those aren't the people I am addressing.
It sounds to me like maybe you want to believe that everyone just wants to believe what the want to believe and don't care about truth. That is called projection.
@@srldwg
I disagree.
Once again your message is clear and I thank you and encourage you to, please continue.
I don't believe Bill's comments. I'm 85 yrs old and none of this applies to me at all. I'm constantly questioning the news I hear and try to fact check things. I try to think I'm using critical thinking and do not swallow things just because it's in print or on my computer. Bill sometimes puts things and people in boxes which don't fit us all or even come close. Take what he says with a grain of salt and do some fact checking.
Maybe you're the exception to the rule, lucky you.
It was a generalization that’s pretty close for many older people. I’m 65 so part of that group and think he hit the nail on the head.
Do you have a college education? Because that's what makes the difference. Those with a college education get skilled up on analytical skills. Those without have to work with what they've got. And sometimes all they've got is blind faith in authority figures.
@@Belzedaras someone with a college education, I can use my analytical skills to see that this argument is bad. Having a degree does not make you smarter than someone without a degree.
It just means you paid too much money to wear a robe and throw a square hat in the air.
Exactly. It has nothing to do with age. Most people are just idiots.
Every generation has had them and every one coming will too.
In Germany there was a political party which called itself „The grey Panthers“. To win over younger people for their cause they came up with a wise slogan:“You are the elderly of tomorrow.“ Should make the younguns think.
Maggie Kuhn started the advocacy group the Gray Panthers in 1970 in the U.S.
Life is uncertain, eat dessert first
Young people don't think! They play with their cell phones and their penises and vaginas... Then they turn 40.
would tell young people who make fun of old people; "well I hope in time you dont have to suffer the same fate as them"
Yeah the German one would be called the Grey Panzers
Fortunately, we have Rachel Maddow, Joe Scarborough, Chris Matthews, and Joy Reid to lead us to the promised land. Praise the Lo.......................oh........ummm.........yeah.
Love Rachel!
Rachel Maddow? I love that dude.
Follow the money and see who is getting rich from us fighting against each other.
China? 😂
Old people
I know who
Democrat media. A study showed that HALF of Democrats think thousands of unarmed black men are killed each year by police. In reality an average of about 15 are. How are so many Democrats so wildly off? The Democrat media complex (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Bill Maher, Jon Oliver, etc) feeds them endless false narratives. Other lies from the Democrat media complex,:
- Hunter's laptop was a fake planted by Russia
- Lab Leak Theory was a "racist" conspiracy theory, (but saying covid came from Chinese ppl eating bats wasn't racist at all!)
- Officer Sicknick was beaten to death
- Jacob Blake was a Good Samaritan who had pulled over to break up a fight
- Michael Brown had his hands up
- Trump and Putin communicated via a server at Alfa Bank
- Trump staffers were using Russian phones
- Trump called dead veterans "losers"
- Trump saying to auto workers there would be a bloodbath if Biden won b/c he would allow a flood of Chinese vehicles was a threat of political violence
- Jussie Smollette!
- Michael Avanatti!
Divide and conquer is a strategy as old as humans.
OK, in older peoples defense we’ve seen some shit go down that nobody would’ve believed was happening. So the ridiculous stuff doesn’t sound so ridiculous.
Oh my god! You got it right! I’m almost 88 and agree with your “Old Folks” are subject to everything you said…except me! Love you, Bill.
One of the first things I noticed when moving from the US to a Latin country is how much more they revere their elders. Yes there are nursing homes (Hogars), but nearly as many.
Most of my family are hardcore Republicans and conservatives and they will not vote for trump. To put it in perspective, even though they are all devout christians but they hate televangelists because they are smart enough to see through the lies and half truths meant to fleece people.
they like the bye-den krime fam?
They aren't voting for Biden, either. No "hardcore" conservative would ever do that
@@Simon-talks That's just the pot calling the kettle "black" because both families are proud of their douchebag sons.
I feel sorry for your family
@@Simon-talks Now is this the genius crime family or the sleepy all the time crime family. You nitwits make as much sense as tastebuds on an as*hole
Dude I'm a 35 year old millennial and I get called "boomer"
Facts. Anyone older than 30 is old.
@@Utoobeh4tesfreespeech Right? I mention that I'm old as fuck at work and people are always insisting that I'm not "that old" fuck you yes I am,
@@ragnarrklangsrok1685 okay, boomer 😂
Yup. People who use that as an insult think anyone they disagree with must be a boomer.
The confused clapping is so funny 😂😂
It sounds so forced
@@Jsimms1324it's because even the crowd doesn't think bill is funny
I love you Bill Maher! I couldn't agree with you more on just about everything! Thank you
It's just Bill Maher shouting at folks to get off his lawn again. He revels being grumpy and irritated. I looked after an elderly family member for many years.
I'm not a major fan of Bill Maher, but that's why I watch and listen to him. A reality check we all need from time to time.
The other day I was sitting at a bar with another boomer, and we were making fun of younger girls in there constantly taking selfies. I said "The apollo astronaut team took something like 20 pictures of their entire moon landing, and the average Gen Z chick in this bar probably takes more bathroom selfies than that on any given day." I said it as a joke, but then he looked at me and said "That would be true, except we never landed on the moon. It was all a big hoax." I did my best Adam Rose eyeroll and started talking to the person on the other side of me.
1970s meme: Ever notice that the same people who believe the moon landing was a hoax believe that professional wrestling is real?
The hoax crowd is so ignorant they don't know there were 6 manned Moon landings between 1969 and 1972. There would have been 7 but the Apollo 13 mission had a mechanical failure and just circled the Moon. Apollo 8 orbited the Moon multiple times and was on live TV Christmas Eve 1968. Even our main rival at the time, the Soviet Union, never disputed the veracity and success of these missions.
Did everybody clap?
I must be an optimist My first thought would have been the speaker was joking and inviting a dialogue about flat Earth, sovereign citizen, and there was NOT a JFK assassination conspiracy. Isn’t it often more fun to play Devil’s Advocate.
your friend is right
Now I got NEWS for you. Some idiot ran over my dog, just to kill her. Young people helped me and she is alive and I thank God for all the help the young people gave me. Many people in my generation would want to know what's in it for them. I don't hate young people.
Nobody said to actually hate young people.
@@rael5469 watch the last part of the video. No, he never said that exactly, but he paints a good picture.
That's wonderful but I would submit it was bc it involved an animal. They care more about those "pet causes" (pardon the pun) like dogs having cushy lives rather than people
My aunt once said “In America they treat dogs better than people”.
@@kostanikas3881 Well, yes and no. If a dog destroys something, we know it needs more training. If people do it, we know it was done on purpose. But dogs don't get it as good as humans.
I like how he talks about nursing homes with Cuomo right there lol
Im stunned also. He had a mass murderer sitting right next to him. Is Charles Manson his next guest?
We want our Social Security.
So we vote Biden 💙🇺🇸
and YOU KIDS STAY OFF MY LAWN!
And it needs to be 99% of what we put into it!
Red has promised you won't get it.
Elder welfare...
Lou Dobbs sycophancy was the most pathetic he disgusted me working for a company that had the word “news” in it and behaving that way
Ikr like he used to be decent. Was sad to see his fall.
Cult level
@@AAAFilm-yt7gx Seriously believe his mind went buh-bye, at some point.
Lou Dobbs used to be a hateful democrat propaganda spreader for the left. Then he decided to be a decent human being.
I'm sorry, but Tucker, Sean Hannity, and Lauren Ingram, are *way worse* because they 'secretley' all despise DT, but in public they say his manure smells like potpourri. There's evidence of this via text messages revealed during the Dominion voter machine scandal. Lou Dobbs actually believes what he says, even though he's wrong he still gets a pass - and a huge eye roll - from me. But if you secretly lie to the American public day-after-day for years-on-end you are the most dispicable type of person on the this planet, in my opinion.
It goes both ways Bill. Respect must be earned AND maintained. Signed, Gen X.
Here's another canned nugget: Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
Boomers: the greatest generation.
Xers: the last of the functional generations (who had to live adulthood in all the camps. Nothing like life going Matrix halfway through) 😅
Survival seeds? I'm old. My mother was Gen World War II. She had a Victory Garden. Same as survival seeds. Things were rough. People made plans to look after themselves. In case it got worse. We used to call it common sense. Now all food sources are run by about 5 large corporations. We are incredibly vulnerable in our food supply. We accepted the 2,000 mile salad trucked from California was normal. No.
One pandemic later we all know that the food supply isn't the problem but the toilet paper supply.
True. A lot of seeds are GMO seeds. You have to be careful when buying seeds these days. My family refuses to buy seeds from the US.
@@drCox12Touché 😂
@@EHCBunny4realNearly all seed stock is "genetically modified" and has been for eons. Broccoli and cauliflower are literal genetic mutations of the mustard seed done by the Mesopotamians hundreds of years ago. Facts. You seem to take no issue with putting toxic solvents and glue on your fake fingernails. Oh, but the hybrid yellow and white corn on the cob is a no no. Did you know corn was genetically modified from straw grass?
I live in Florida. If you only have food for a week, you are badly unprepared.
I'm a physical therapist in a nursing home and I see this all the time. The elderly get thrown into a facility and are lucky to get an occasional visit from family.
I used to live in Nicaragua, and this sort of shit does not fly (and they can't afford that sort of care anyways). Families respect and take great care of their elders there and in most countries around the world.
America gov and the medical industry finds that anyone over 85 is not worth the time and effort and money.
My friends 88 father was in the emergency room and the doctor made a snarky comment about the patient being old and shrugged his shoulders.
He takes care of his dad at home and the siblings don't offer any help. Just waiting for payday.
I’m not an elderly babysitter.
i think it works both way here, when they are young they do not take care of their kids neither, they go from ex wife to several ex girlfriends boyfriends, they live their live dropping off their kids at their ex, grannies aunties … most kids are just step-siblings .. why would i want to take care of a father who went to seek his own pleasure leaving me behind? or mother who was bringing a new boyfriend every other month , was going on vacation with them not with me … and when both are to old to take care of themselves suddenly they are my responsibility???
I’m sure they can spend a large portion of their time in Nicaragua tending to the old and infirm, but unless we want to federally mandate that people with old relatives can work 10 hour weeks, are immune from being fired, and must receive full pay this is what you get. Would you have the parents, each working a full time job and spending the entirety of their evenings raising their children, also be forced to take care of their elderly parents? There’s simply not enough time in the day for such a thing in modern societies.
If we had the concept of multi-generational homes it might be different, but America’s old desire all of the attention and care of the young and don’t want to fill their own traditional roles (assisting with raising kids, tending to the house when able, etc.). That’s not to mention that they used to, you know, actually die before they reached 90. Looking after a 90 year old, much less two or more as some households would have to do, is a full time job and then some. When people were dropping dead in their 60s and early 70s they had a much higher quality of life, required much less care, and still assisted in day to day life. None of those things are true of modern elder care.
This is one of the down sides of being an American. We are taught to grow up and be independent. When we get old; we have no one. Most of the time I enjoy my alone. But; sometimes it is nice to have someone to help with the grocery shopping in which I don't have. Just a little time to help and maybe keep company. Not much. Not all day. Just a little help
Glad I moved to Istanbul 20 years ago when I was 54, because we tribal elders are respected in Turkey. But I’d be lost if I didn’t watch you, Bill, and I still vote.
That’s the saddest part of getting old - feeling worthless and useless in the job market. Experience means nothing!
The fact that the elderly even need to work is a problem, I think the idea that people spend 30ish years of working 40 hours a week before retiring is ridiculous already. To have to spend your entire life working, it doesn't really seem like a life worth living.
True
Where do you take the money you need to survive? From the money tree?
The older I get, the more I know what I don't know...
Are you sure?
For me, especially when it comes to electronics, and how to employ them!
@@spider3web221not even close 😂
I wish I knew now... what I know now.
@@ZenaBlase Exactly! Along the lines of 'Youth is wasted on the young'.
Bil you rock. Always make me laugh with your commonsense and humanity. As a boomer, thank you😊
You're right about one thing. The elderly are being unappreciated. The brutal irony is while you point this out one of your guests is Andrew Cuomo.
This is particularly true in the U.S., and worsening.
Another brutal irony; Maher condemning partisan propaganda and fear mongering. Democrats and their media machine have spent over the last eight years pretending half the country is “whyte suhhpremacists.” What a joke.
Bill never has anyone younger thab 40 on his show.
@@Lv-nq9qz Not true. Although, there are not that many notable figures under forty with sufficient life experience and especially, WISDOM, from which to garner much.
I noticed that too. And I think that was a subtle bitch slap to Cuomo without him even realizing it
Don't disagree with Bill about fox news etc, but, anyone not willing to admit that msnbc employs the same types, only left leaning, is gonna be hard to trust.
I agree. Both sides are very polarizing.
Good to see you talking about stuff that actually matters again Bill.
How come I have the feeling Jon Voight and James Wood sent those emails to Bill.
midnight cowboy in the onion field, do dah, do dah
Didnt he just say boomers are going for Biden then he talks about the opposite
I was confused about that as well.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was, and is, confused about that.
More old people than last time, but obviously not all.
From what I understand he spoke about an _increasing number_ of old people turning to Biden and then proceeded to explain why those who were still pro-Trump were the way they were. Put in short, no age group is monolithic and Bill wants to (or tried to) present the various facets of each generation. Well, Bill and ig his team of writers also.
I THOUGHT IT WAS ME
He's not wrong.
Growing up in the 50s you TRUSTED news....How can you argue with Cronkite. Back then when "Hill Street Blue" was hot my aunti who was pretty sharp let it slip that she hoped the characters were OK till next week. Her brain had a hard time with the illusion of TV. Is it any different these days?
My half-sister lives in Ohio and she REALLY went down the rabbit hole on the MAGA/QAnon stuff. Unfortunately, she is the only living member of my extended family; my only other living family member is my son. Whenever we'd speak to each other (via Messenger), it wasn't two minutes before she started talking about aliens (the space kind) and other ludicrous conspiracies. I wanted to talk to her about her grandson and my son and recipes, but she wanted to set me straight and talk the "sheep" out of me. I haven't spoken to her in over 5 years. And I haven't tried.
Happened to me too with my dad who has Fox on his TV like 24x7. Kept telling me how stupid I was for being liberal. Didn’t need that and didn’t speak to him for several years and I woke up one day and felt like shit for doing that to an old man. We said our piece, found some peace finally, and told him he could either see me as his kid or “that lazy liberal”. He chose kid because it’s practically impossible to say I’m lazy given hes seen how much I work and have done reasonably well for myself. Also Trump has increasingly become a morally decrepit orange teenager. That has lost him a lot of credibility with the parents.
You sound like a low info judge mental leftterd.
@@RM-jb2bvAnd you sound like someone who lives with their mom, and tells everyone what's wrong in their lives. Try a mirror.
Learn how to steer the conversations to old friends and family and the best experiences in their lives. Then when the got too far right or left----then try one more time. It used to work for me on some people. We could talk about '60's music for 20 minutes or more. You can do it---for a few minutes anyway.
@@RM-jb2bv Try again, ..I guess. Or don't. Nobody cares.
Go Bill Maher!!
Bill Maher is actually older than Madonna, and nobody expects him to retire 🤷🏼
He doesn’t sing or still try to wear a cone bra to look good! Lol
Bill knows he is not sexy and no one wants to see him try to be.... Madonna doesn't understand this.
@@scottcummings8602 - who said anything about being sexy? Maher implied that old people should retire, despite not retiring himself. But I get it: double standards for men and women. Women are only tolerated if they're sexually appealing to men, otherwise they should bugger off.
Mentions retirement and elderly care homes with Andrew Cuomo five feet away from him. Bill Maher is a god amongst us all.
Why? Cuomo is a nobody.
You afraid of him or what? Maher isn't.
He would be a lot more popular if he would stop talking out of both sides of his mouth
There are only two things I don't like about Mr. Maher.
His face.
@@ZenaBlase He's not an ideologist like many of the morons in this country.
@@fivestring65ify Popularity and logic don't always go together.
Right, we are cranky so we vote for Trump. Must be the only reason.
I’d love to see a conversation about boomers between Bill and Tim Dillon
and burr
I don’t think Bill would ever put himself in a position like that with a person like Tim Dillon. He’d be exposed as a bit foolish, I’m sure,
The problem with Bill is he makes these sweeping generalizations regarding populations. Meanwhile, he lives in a bubble in Hollywood Hills. His viewpoints are rather limited due to his limited exposure.
@@Rumplesti1tskinspot on, you can't cut or overtalk dillon, he's relentless! Bill love his confort zone, hitchens, greenwald, chomsky humiliated him. The intellectual complex of bill is huge, lately Burr obliterated Billy's gaza stance, and it became viral. Too bad, because as spectacular as it is, you could get something out of it.
Dillion would humiliate Bill. Easily.
Who TF is "Tim Dillon"?
I grew up with my grandparents so I was pretty conditioned. The elderly taught me a lot, especially my grandmother and her senior friends. I miss them all! I was part of the click even though I was so young. ❤
That's " c l i q u e " , honey . . .
"click" is OK by me.
@@hereigoagain5050 Creeping ignorance is one of this country's serious problems. It's not okay by me.
@@misterwhipple2870 It's not OK with me, either. Americans can't spell properly or compose and punctuate a sentence correctly. Your for you're, loose for lose, there for they're and their. The degradation of the English language in America is embarrassing and disgraceful.
@@misterwhipple2870 Really? Auto-text bloopers are hardly "creeping ignorance."
Wow, hit the nail on the head
The saddest thing about Lou Dobbs is that he USED to be an actual, respected presenter... when he was on CNN. I watched him for years, reporting on business, economics, the markets, etc. He was relatively "normal" back then... non partisan. But he must have drunk some right-wing KoolAid at some party... or maybe Fox just wrote him a check big enough to buy his integrity. Same with Maria Bartiromo. Used to be a respected financial reporter but is now a partisan hack. Pretty wild, ,wacky stuff.
Indeed, Lou Dobbs went off a cliff. He used to be a respected newsman, then he started verbally fellating tRump on the air every night.
The conspiracy side of me thinks there really could be some kind of mind control at work here. Never in a million years did I ever think that conservative republican voters would support a buffoon like Trump who calls our POWs losers and praises the communist dictators. They MUST be in the grips of literal hypnosis. There can be no other explanation.
Saddest part is even the Fox hacks don’t believe what they are saying. Tucker, square head, and angry blonde all hate maga but go along for the fame, power, and pay check.
Bill is wrong.
It’s the difference between believing the MSM at face value and knowing every news source may be wrong at any time.
Partially. The biggest issue is when dis/mis information is protected as "freedom of speech" and passed off as fact... And "the believers" take it at face value. When did lying become ok?
@@edg3048You’d have to way back to when Biden first ran for office…
@@edg3048it happened gradually. As soon as I understand first media abandoned objectivity and covering both sides of the story. Then 3 TV channels become many channels and 24 news cycle began. You can't be factually correct if you cover story as it unfolds. Then internet really took off and average person on the street has a say in matters that he is not expert on. Internet made things really weird. On one hand it decimated profits of media, so they can't hire people to actually cover the stories. On the other hand it created weird communities of people called information bubbles. Every weirdo can find like minded people all over the world.
And now people try to gather the pieces and talk about disinformation and misinformation.
MSM stands for mainstream news. By and large it's the truth, but doesn't tell you everything that you need to know.
They're teams of human beings. Of course they can be wrong, then and now. The difference is, when they were wrong then, they made a correction/retraction and apologized because they tried to deliver the facts and not take sides. Now, they double down on the BS because it delivers voters to their side. Then it was news. Now it's propaganda.
One of the best new rules I've seen in years kudos🎉🎉🎉
Been saying this since i turned 40. The last allowed prejudice is against seniors.
and disabled people, too
Prejudice against fat people seems to be alive and well, with Maher participating fully.
@@LisaFenton-h7f oh, that's right - the Orange Menace didn't ONLY denigrate women, nonwhites, and people from other countries, he even ridiculed a disabled man!
There are many allowed prejudices, and age is definitely one of them
It sure is one of the few. Ageism is not considered to be bigotry. Weird, huh? And we've seen our share of Bill Maher's ageist "jokes" through the years. Physician, heal thyself.
Blue one sided blindness calls out Red one sided blindness
That's happening all the time.
@@anaibarangan4908 pretty much the same shit over and over again. Blows my mind that so many keep feeding into it
Thank you! Protect the elderly!
Bill, your comments are right on thank you for informing America
Misinforming and dividing? Nuce
MSNBC, NBC, ABC, PBS and associated press are complicit as well.
Yes but not to the level of Fox and right wing media. They take it to a whole different level.
@@BFSilenceDogood out of all of them they at least correct mistakes they did on reporting. They don't push out right lies like fox recently did with the voting machines.
PBS? really?
They are equally terrible. It just depends on the topic. @@svscared
Oh yes..."BOTH SIDES DO IT". What a gem of a wish...by those on the cavernously gullible, irrepressibly ignorant right.
Thank you for this.
I can't exactly blame people for the Ok Boomer trend when Boomers started dismissing current problems by saying "just do x, back in my day x was perfect"...
Ya! X working is no reason to keep doing x when you can do the new y thing. Sure y seems to have made everything fall to shit, but at least it's not that gross old x thing that worked just fine.
This Boomer likes "OK Boomer." We were called "The Me Generation" when we were young. Gen Z has nothing on us! We invented sex, drugs, and rock & roll. :)
@@chesterlestrange7725
The point is that X doesn't work anymore.
Get a job in the summer to pay for you college degree doesnt cut it now.
Walking around with resumes and a firm handshake doesn't do anything.
Credit scores barely existed before 1989. My dad got a loan to start a business on bluster alone. Try talking the bank into a business loan now.
In summary, x doesn't work anymore, so telling someone to do x is why they respond with "Ok boomer".
If you haven't seen that X doesn't work it's because you have chosen not to.
I'd love to do x. X is broken so I'm sitting here trying y.
Ya you went from cocaine to Rogaine
@@hereigoagain5050The me generation never seemed to really fit... too narrow.
Like Medievals saying, you Renaissance kids, you think you're so important... Gotta be yourself, find your own way, sign your name to everything. - But this is the age of enlightenment Daddy, perhaps you've noticed?
In the wake of the Boomers, what? The meh generation?
Clap now. Clap now. Clap now... Bill what happened?
Imagine having a life that consists of waiting all week so you can complain about the clapping on a youtube video in the comment section. Sad.
@@nhynyx lol. That sure is a sad story you made up.
Ya, I noticed that. Bill says something communist, then waits, like a deer caught in the headlights. Then you can almost hear the crickets chirping. Then his bored-to-death-with-this-crap soundman, wakes-up and pushes the recorded laugh button, in the empty studio.
i cant believe bill brought up nursing home with cuomo sitting there
😂
Methinks that was a subtle sucker punch to him lol
@@woodyburnsoh it was indeed. 🤣 it was a jab. Subtle, but a jab nonetheless.
“They never engage with the idea itself.” So true
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I have not seen a increasing amount of young trump supporters. Mostly just people who don't like either candidate.
My daughter and all of her friends still find Trump to be utterly repulsive, but my daughter doesn't hang out with incels, frat boys, Karens, and assholes, the sorts who WOULD support Trump.
@@derkeheath5172I’m sure your daughter hangs out with dudes dressed up like women and queers for Palestine. Not young people who can actually hold down a job and have morals.
The last stat I saw showed a majority of 30 and unders are not voting for Trump. It's possible they mean the 35-55 demographic, which has been that way for a few cycles, specifically the working class. Which is boggling, considering they think a guy who craps on gold toilets and uses his connections to get out of jams average people can't escape, speaks for them.
It’s a trend that is showing up in polling numbers. I find polls to be increasingly wrong. In this case I would not be surprised if some are trolling the polls and lying about supporting Trump. I see/hear more and more people that support Kennedy every day and yet the polls seem to keep him in the teens. Our polling methods are not working. They were certainly wrong in 2016.
Ive seen a lot of them here on youtube. Black conservative channels are blooming too.
Favorite recent saying: Fox and Facebook did to our parents what our parents thought video games would do to us.
I'm an old woman who grew up in communist Poland got married to an Englishman and came to the UK
You can say I'm a communist/ capitalist mongrel. That's the reason, perhaps, I enjoy your programme. In the days when so many people hate your evenhanded analysis is very welcome
Thank you. Barbara
When Bill gets all preachy. You know its election time baby!!
Wait so older people are leaning towards Biden but also watching Fox News? Make this make sense.
@ejnorman8781
Joe Biden is building the wall, deporting immigrants and he is continuing Donald Trumps failed policies. Joe Biden is the republican that Fox News wants.
Old people still watch network television and in case you haven't noticed. All new shows are woke. Like every single one. Even new Family guy episodes.
What he's doing is trying to give Andrew Cuomo a platform he lost a lot of credibility on this one
It is possible to view their Russo-Republican hogwash propaganda without it actually reprogramming a normal brain .
@@tdestroyer4780
"All new shows are woke"
...what does that even mean? Woke is a ridiculous filler word with too broad a definition to even be meaningful. It's a lazy word.
I may not agree with everything that Bill says but I'm always willing to listen.
This only took like 4 days to upload
It's weird they have sign that says queers for Palestine, the Palestinians would throw them off a building.
“Fox News and Facebook did to our parents what they said video games would do to us.”
Damn that’s accurate 🤣
Please don't use fox and news in the same sentence. I have seen it written faux news lol
Farcical Oleaginous Xenophobic noise.
I've seen it written as Fox Noose since the attempts on Mike Pence's and Nancy Pelosi's lives on - oh, when was that again?
Along with MSNBC & CNN. All extremely one sided.
I’m a 70 year old psychologist in practice for 35 years. Potential clients ask why younger psychologists don’t have the experience and depth of skills of older psychologists.
Experience takes time to develop.
There are many skilled younger psychologists. I know I’ve trained some.
Takes time.
I’m a boomer Bill and I’ve been trying to fight against Fake News and false information for a while…it’s exhausting too.
My Library background taught me to understand media literacy because I taught it to my students.
Also, I learned the difference between fact and opinion.
I'm a grandma that doesn't conform to all the other grandmas and some think I'm crazy.
I'm repetitively heard saying "turn off Fox, go outside, you're in a cult!" But then I'm 68 and I'm from Aspen Colorado.
I'm sorry and you've my sympathies. But seriously? Lauren BOEBERT? Your neighbours chose LAUREN BOEBERT as the face of Colerado to stand with the other fifty-one states.
Anyone overly devoted to their political party is cultish
I don’t watch cable TV news. FOX is to the Right, CNN to the Left, and MSNBC is Radical Left/Socialist. All have their agenda, and propaganda.
@@Belzedar the most of them were men that like to see girls and tight pants wearing guns. Disgusting.
You do realize bill is sitting next to a guy who pushed Russiagate for 4 years. Cuomo who put COVID patients into elderly homes killing thousands is sitting on the other side. It's rich for Bill to "call out" conspiracies.
Funny how you leave out CNN, MSNBC, etc.
I haven't seen deny the results of an election, demonize/politicize mitigation efforts in the middle of a global pandemic, or deny the existence of Global Climate Change, The Right Wing echo chamber does that and unfortunately more.
You can't compare those to the propaganda crap from Fox . Night and day.
Except those aren't even comparable to FOX news.
@@JB-pl1iu They're exactly the same. They've been caught numerous times editing clips to make sure they get taken out of context. A huge on that you know and probably believe is the "fine people on both sides" one. Watch the five seconds BEFORE that sound bite. The five seconds that change the meaning completely from what those "reporters" have spent years telling us.
I have really grown to enjoy you Bill. Proof that Dems and GOPs can meet in the middle away from the crazies at either end. I do wish you'd be nicer to God but I can pray about that 😊
My mother is in an assisted living facility because I cannot take care of her. She is huge with swollen legs. I cannot put her in a car. I cannot wrap her legs daily. I can’t move her. I have no choice.
We expect assisted living employees to have training/degrees in nursing but for some reason the kids of sick old ppl ade supposed to just be able to handle it "out of respect." My dad is 83, 6' 5", frail and mean. I'm not going to be his nurse.
It’s hard to get old. After working your entire life to raise your children, you face declining years where your kids have no time for you, and society wants to relegate you to “care” homes that are run for profit. These are awful places, which had the highest rates of death during the pandemic. Thank you, Bill.
How much do you think she weighs?
@@SECPTA that’s why i put my mother in a nursing home. I took care of her for 3 years. I was exhausted. I tried to get home health to come in. Her excellent insurance wasn’t paying,(they were supposed to), so i paid out of pocket. 4 hours, twice a week. I’d come home from working 12 hours. No shower, didn’t even make her bed. I was told it was more important to hold her hand and sit at the table talking to her, because she was lonely! I did everything for her. 3 years. No reimbursement from ins. They said they could only reimburse institutions! Care homes are not what prople think. Horrible neglect. The food actually stinks. Bed sores. Broken bones. Etc. If you love your parent, you’ll grieve for them.
@@jungefrau these places are for profit. The skilled help are at the desk. The workers are “nursing assistants”. No degree. Don’t know how to lift, transfer, assess. But they do all the care. One told me they were assigned 16 bedridden people per shift. Lucky if they changed diapers once a shift.
Why does he smack his lips all the time
He's old
It’s a way to place emphasis on a point. Some people talk with their hands too. There are many ways to communicate. Doesn’t bother me. Except perhaps overuse of emojis. I just don’t get those.
Look at your own little physical idiosyncrasies… geez… if this is all you got outta the video, then “Okay, Zoomer!” 😂
Why is that so important to you? (I lip-smacked after I wrote that)
❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊@@BigBearBloo
LOL - popping up that photo of MADdonna.... spot on and hilarious.
Reminds me of the underlying theme of “No Country For Old Men”.
I'm a staunch conservative, but I could I not tell you the last time I watched or read Fox News. Whenever it was, I am sure it was for sports coverage.
So you are a newsmax person?
What in the world is he talking about? I’m a retired senior he’s nuts if he believes half
Don't forget Bill Maher view is coming from a 68yrs old perspective .He's no spring chicken.
And a boomer
He's an old, unfunny man desperate to please CEO David Zaslav and major shareholder John Malone, all so he can cling to his dwindling cable audience; the paid laughers and paid clappers who keep his ego intact.
Keep adding to the ageism problem. You're well on your way to peak prejudice with this comment alone.
The Lou Dobbs bit was creepily like something from the Soviet Union.
You'd think we grew up on the same street! Thanks again Bill 🙋♀️
Haha crazy people buying survival gear. We'll see who gets the last laugh on that one
Ok, Bill. Now do the liberal echo chamber: MSNBC, CNN, NPR, WaPO, etc.
YES!!! ✌🏽✌🏽🇺🇸🇺🇸
which one of them was fined 800 million for spreading lies again? Oh thats right NONE OF THEM!
I am just glad Cuomo didn’t s&xually harass anyone!
Doesn’t fit the narrative….
Are you new to his show? He Rags on liberals more than he does anyone!
My grandmother is 95 yrs old and sits all day long playing games on her phone. Atleast they are brain boosting games but still the phone has made her very sedentary and hunched over.
Bill..always on the mark!!!!
lol Bill talking about prejudice, that’s rich.
Well said Bill.
"We need to talk about the ideas... not judge the people."
Then proceeds to do the whole segment judging people, not arguing what they're saying. LMAO
Bill has made a career out of being a hypocrite.
Bill Maher has lost his mind
@@Educatingben No he hasn't, he is just stuffing his pockets. Every individual clap you hear from the trained seals in his audience is another Benjamin in his pocket...He is just maximizing his earning potential.
Says the guy shilling his latest book on Fox News a few weeks ago.