On Friday's broadcast of HBO's “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said, “Democrats are trying to make it as if voters don't live here, as if they don't go to the grocery store or Starbucks or the office. They're running for office. But they do. They live here, and they actually see women and people of color, and it's like a patriarchal, racist nightmare. “And the basis of the Democratic campaign has become that we're smart people. We've known that all along. We don't need to look into it.” He criticized the party's “intellectual incest.”
Mr. Maher began his final monologue by saying: “Someone has to tell the usual suspects on the left the adage that once you’re in a hole, don’t keep digging, stop digging. Talk about doubling down on what got you fucked up in the first place. Please. The one concession I've heard from some on the losing side — that liberals should stop saying Trump supporters are stupid — comes with a kind of implicit parenthesis. , I know they're stupid, just don't say it. Yes, I have bad news: They don't have a monopoly on stupidity. Two years after the pandemic ends, you. I wear a “Queer for Palestine” T-shirt and a mask, but I can’t define “woman” or “people who menstruate.” You are the teachers union/educational party and have made schools and universities the butt of your jokes. You lost a crazy contest with a real crazy person. You like to speak truth to power, and we should always do the same. But you have completely lost the ability to speak truth against bullshit. ”
He added, “The Democratic polling company Blueprint told Democrats a few months ago that black voters, black voters who are considered liberal, more likely to be found The president is too liberal rather than too conservative. They also don't just want voters to distance Harris from Biden, but also what they believe the Democratic Party as a whole has become: a sketch of “Portlandia,” a privileged class complaining about privilege. It also turns out that he wanted her to distance himself from a group of mean girls. I'm trying to perform a fetch. How shocking that people who see everything through the lens of race and gender attribute electoral defeats to racism and sexism. Yes, if we were not hopelessly enlightened, we would be electing a black president by now. Oh, what, what did we do? Ah, that's right. And re-elected him. I may have missed it because it wasn't on TikTok. And sexism? Hillary received 3 million more votes than Trump, which in a normal country would be considered a victory. It was the Electoral College, not 21st century sexism, that prevented a woman from becoming president. Democrats run for office as if voters don't live here, as if they don't go to the grocery store or Starbucks or the office. But they do. They live here and they actually see women and people of color, but it doesn't look like some patriarchal or racist nightmare. ”
Furthermore, he stated: [Hispanic people] I don't want your pity. And black people can't afford to be rich, they're not satisfying white people's endless desire to whip themselves, they just have lower prices and better jobs, and if they call the police, the I just want you to come. Black people: They are just like us. Kamala spent 100 days telling voters, “I know you feel like crime and illegal immigration are to blame, but those feelings are fucked. Look at this graph.” Sure, there's already a lot to not like about the new regime, but we might take a week to ask what went wrong. The cornerstone of the Democratic campaign is that we are smart people. That's what we've known all along. No need to look it up. We know that a priori. This is a Latin phrase that people in red hats will never understand. But they don't have to. Have you seen my “In This House We Believe…” lawn sign? See, it says we believe in science. Yes, that's why you demanded that no one discuss how far-fetched it is whether or not the coronavirus could have come from one lab in one city where it was being studied. . …The Democratic Party has unfortunately become like a royal family that has given birth to retarded children due to repeated incest. And the same can happen to an idea if it is conceived in an atmosphere of intellectual incest. ”
Maher concluded that Democrats should “make being too woke a reversible crime.”
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