Bill Maher pummeled young Americans who subscribe to far-left ideologies such as communism and abolishing the police in a scathing diatribe. In a discussion about ageism, the liberal host of the HBO show “Real Time with Bill Maher” hammered progressive millennials and Gen Z for being “gullible” enough to actually want to cancel capitalism and Abraham Lincoln.
Maher highlighted countries such as Greece and Japan that respect their elders and go to them for wisdom, but noted that America’s youth shows disdain for older people.
“This is the only country in the world dumb enough not to get this most basic, intuitive, obvious, ‘file-it-under-duh’ concept: that if, as they say, you learn something new every day, it stands to reason someone who’s logged 10,000 more days is going to be, in general, wiser,” Maher stated. “Life is a series of patterns. You don’t see it the first time — because it’s not a pattern yet — but by the third time, you go ‘okay, I get it now.'”
The HBO host asked, “Is there anything more piss-ignorant than not using old people as a resource, not taking advantage of their accumulated knowledge?”
“Do you know the reason why advertisers in this country love the 18-34 demographic? Because it’s the most gullible,” Maher quipped.
Maher referenced a 2020 Gallup poll that young Americans were far more likely to embrace the revolutionary idea of abolishing the police.
“A third of people under 35 say they’re in favor of abolishing the police — not defunding, but doing away with a police force altogether, which is less of a policy position and more of a leg tattoo,” Maher joked.
While 33% of Americans under 35 were in favor of dismantling the police altogether, only 16% of people aged 35-49 wanted to abolish the police, and a mere 4% of adults aged 50 and older wanted to eliminate law enforcement completely, according to the poll.
Maher then cited a 2019 survey from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation that found 36% of millennials approve of communism, which is up from 28% in 2018. The study also discovered that 70% of millennials are “extremely likely” or “somewhat likely” to vote for a socialist candidate.
“36% of millennials think it might be a good idea to try communism. But much of the world did try it,” Maher said. “I know, millennials think that doesn’t count because they weren’t alive when it happened, but it did happen, and there are people around who remember it. Pining for communism is like pining for Betamax or Myspace.”
“So when you say, you’re old, you don’t get it – get what – abolish the police? And the border patrol? And capitalism? And cancel Lincoln? No, I get it; the problem isn’t that I don’t get what you’re saying, or that I’m old; the problem is that your ideas are stupid,” Maher blasted.
“You think someone 80 is hopeless because they can’t use an iPhone? Maybe the one who’s hopeless is the one who can’t stop using it,” the host continued.
“You think I’m out of it because I’m not on Twitch? Maybe I ‘get’ Twitch, but I just think people watching other people play video games is a waste of f***ing time,” Maher said of the social media platform that streams live video of gamers.
“20% of Gen Z agree with the statement ‘society would be better off if all property was owned by the public and managed by the government,’ and another 29% say they ‘don’t know’ if that’s a good idea,” Maher said in his final dig at progressive young Americans. “Here’s who does know: anyone who wasn’t born yesterday.”
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A month ago, Maher went on the offensive against woke brats who control the media and use “Stalinesque” tactics, comparing the current cancel culture climate to that of the blacklist era of the 1950s.
What happened to Maher, did he finally wake up? First time I have heard him talk any sense!
Well, he IS getting OLDER, you know! Maybe he finally stopped running his own mouth long enough to actually LISTEN to this crap these young people have been TAUGHT in school, for the past 20 years, or so! He’ll never be a Conservative, but, maybe he can see some of the damage that’s being done to these kids…
I am sure that Mayer is a ‘gate keeper’ and will utilize his ‘talents’ to lead us off in a different direction and where the NWO wants us to go.
I’m glad he is commenting its great for conservative leaning folks to read his comments. Ill take all of this over the crazy woke crap.
Bill, you are one of the major causes of this problem. Please just shut up and go away, stop helping.
You must be super stupid zen.
Amazing how this guy is all of a sudden on the right track after contributing to our destruction.
Perhaps he finally realized that all this liberal crap will destroy him. No longer will he be a “big time” entertainer making zillions; no longer will he own his multi-million dollar residence – government will own it; no longer will he be able to freely spout out the sh** he has spouted out for years, etc. Amazing that he finally woke up and realized that what the democrats are advocating will be the destruction of him!
Amen. Amazing how this guy finally woke up and is making sense now. Maybe he started at least reading The Holy Boble?
OMG Bill Maher is now a woke conservative! He must be canceled for finally speaking intelligently!
Are those who created this problem now scared at what they created?
The kids didn’t pull this Communist crap out of thin air. It’s public school “teachers” who are brainwashing children in “progressive” doctrine.
It hasn’t always been this way with our youth. It started when President John F. Kennedy started the Peace Corp and convinced the kids they could run the country and the business of the rest of the world, better than the older more experienced adults. Another dumb Democrat’s decision that seems to correlate to today’s efforts to use our youth to do away with Capitalism and put the country under Marxist rule.
Maher must be losing his fan base…you know the stupid ones he pushed to vote for Biden. Well they’re disappointed now, and he has to rebrand himself.
Maybe USA need about 50 – 60 years under a Stalinist regime, to have to come back from somewhere with better understanding of the history!
Bill was pompous and in bed with the political and Hollywood Elite….. maybe he just finally figured out they were not ELITE after all. We already vacillate from normal (conservative) to the heretics of the left with the election cycles…. and people don’t see the irony of good economy…spend economy….good economy… spend economy. Just remember the children’s story of the “Killing of the Goose that laid the Golden Eggs” feed the goose, don’t tax the goose to death! Oh.. but I guess the goose is not “woke” enough!
It appears that Bill is upset because his chickens have come home to roost!