But he should understand the situation in its entirety when doing so. For instance, the Danish Prime Minister called out Bernie Sanders, clarifying that “Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy.” Besides that, it should be clear at this point that Scandinavia is, in fact, not socialist at all (see one of my articles summarizing this here). But intentions don’t count. That out of the way, I was a little embarrassed for Bill when I watched the September 15, 2017, episode of his show. Thankfully, since he is more than vocal about his extracurricular habits, Bill can say was stoned when he said it. This, naturally, pissed off the people being made fun of, and Bret was saying that an inability by Democrats to reach out to poor people allowed Drumpf to swoop in and grab their votes in 2016. Even more curiously, in his list of “socialist-friendly” countries where people are happier than in the US, Maher includes Iceland, a country that has focused on reducing its debt on a massive scale in recent years by posting budget surpluses, Sweden, a country that partly privatized the health care system after the government version caused too many problems, and Switzerland of all places, one of the economically freest countries in the world. Bill Maher has a recurring comment: “If people in the Midwest want me to stop calling them stupid, they should stop being stupid.” Using those terms, the Midwest voters who helped send Drumpf into the White House weren’t going to stop acting stupid. That socialism is on the rise in America has become well-established over the last few months. He’s usually more on the ball than that. Imagine being a twenty-three year old actress, wading through the swamp known as Hollywood. To be able to proceed, you need to solve the following simple math (so we know that you are a human) :-). What bread bags represented was an inability to buy decent winter boots. She was an intellectual, not a folksy pig farmer. I also relate to Bill, in a way, because like him I am a liberal with a sense of humor. Friday, April 5, 2019. Bread bags on your feet is neither a metaphor nor entirely literal, but a mix of the two. According to Bret, the bit “practically explains the 2016 election.”. Bill wanted to know what Democrats should do differently in 2018. have some type of universal health care, “free” education, somewhat strong labor unions, and pensions.
They were discussing election 2016, and pondering upon the idea that Drumpf didn’t technically win the election, Hillary lost it. Yes, he was right in saying these people do not like to be mocked and that Bill’s joke was an affront to their white-trash pride. He didn’t make any lower-income fans by making fun of Joni Ernst, but that’s OK. Hearing Bill Maher call a Rudi Giuliani program a success made me cock my head like a confused puppy. Those calling for socialism should instead embrace individual liberty and the very system that brought us the prosperity we enjoy today. But he should understand the situation in its entirety when doing so. A couple weeks ago, Iowa's racist representative and noted A-hole Steve King said something racist.
Maybe he should reconsider his latest drift to the left. It’s difficult to get them to vote for a Democrat in the first place, but when you brought gender into it? I think he’s a unique combination of smart and funny, and I tune in to Real Time weekly. Again, we could talk about semi-privatized health care and school education in Sweden, the freest and least-regulated labor market among OECD countries in Denmark, or the centuries-long story of a small, decentralized Switzerland, which has possibly the longest tradition of a private property-based market economy and a political climate focused on individual liberty in the world. Maher starts off his five-minute monologue by accusing Republicans of constantly putting up a strawman argument by referring to Venezuela as a prime example of what happens under socialism, subsequently referring to the UN’s new World Happiness Index: Republicans have to explain, if socialism is such a one-way ticket to becoming the nightmare of Venezuela, then why do all the happiest countries in the world embrace it? The Freakonomics duo wrote about it, and the Hidden Brain podcast did an episode on the phenomena.