Overtime: John McWhorter, Sam Stein | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

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  • @bluegregory6239
    @bluegregory6239 Před 2 lety +343

    I love Professor McWhorter. One of the few people unafraid to articulately call it like it is in a calm and rational way.

    • @asaasare220
      @asaasare220 Před 2 lety +10

      His only claim to fame is the perpetual sneer he has and his hatred of anything black

    • @KCal1213
      @KCal1213 Před 2 lety

      So what you mean is he will allow you to feel good as a racist and doesn't affect your White fragility.

    • @bluegregory6239
      @bluegregory6239 Před 2 lety +6

      @@KCal1213 Wow, a lot of assumptions packed into that comment.

    • @KCal1213
      @KCal1213 Před 2 lety

      @@bluegregory6239 you are a product of a culture that is built on White male supremacy. You are going to like anyone who doesn't disrupt your White fragility.

    • @mindfuldrone
      @mindfuldrone Před 2 lety +20

      He just sneers at stupid. And we all get why that hurts you.

  • @craighart9278
    @craighart9278 Před 2 lety +331

    Great to see John McWhorter on the show. Respect!

    • @michaelhutchings6602
      @michaelhutchings6602 Před 2 lety +3

      Seize all university endowments and redistribute them as reparations.

    • @devinkackerman6008
      @devinkackerman6008 Před 2 lety +1

      @@charleBerglund depending on what you intend to repair, it’s an awful lot of money swallowed up by administration and amenities that could directly endow local economies and the real world

    • @TheMauf
      @TheMauf Před 2 lety +4

      He’s been on here before. Was way better this time. Usually he blabs and blabs with no point

    • @josiplilic3384
      @josiplilic3384 Před 2 lety +1

      This Maher's rant was insulting my intelligence! I don't like squad & I think they're sellouts,but Bill said that Biden bands to their will??? In a galaxy far away......

    • @Gardosunron
      @Gardosunron Před 2 lety +1

      @@josiplilic3384 totally agree. how in hell has Biden bent to their will? What??? If he's bent to anyone's will it's Joe Manchin.

  • @shelleyscloud3651
    @shelleyscloud3651 Před 2 lety +334

    Love that Mr McWorter is getting more msm exposure. He deserves it, people deserve to hear what he has to say.

    • @abc456f
      @abc456f Před 2 lety +7

      Very bright guy.

    • @williamfriar6295
      @williamfriar6295 Před 2 lety +4

      I feel like we ALL deserve to hear what ANYONE has to say.

    • @shelleyscloud3651
      @shelleyscloud3651 Před 2 lety +12

      @@williamfriar6295 in theory… but in practice…I just don’t accept that ‘all opinions are equal’…

    • @arthurgarcialucero704
      @arthurgarcialucero704 Před 2 lety +2

      More milk toast

    • @jannichi6431
      @jannichi6431 Před 2 lety +1

      Good writer, he'd make a great host on MSM.

  • @scottieapplseed
    @scottieapplseed Před 2 lety +120

    This was the best Overtime I've watched in a long time; very real and jovial.

    • @ryanbarnes840
      @ryanbarnes840 Před 2 lety

      And also full of crap...Maher's false idea that Biden caters to lefties. Not sure where he is getting this from.

    • @ttacking_you
      @ttacking_you Před 2 lety +2

      Argh! Bollocks ! Nothing beats the old "4-man full panel roundtable" O'rtimes o' yore , says I ! Says I ! Harrumph!

    • @Wafaloo
      @Wafaloo Před 2 lety

      I usually find Overtime better than the show itself

    • @jonplaud
      @jonplaud Před 2 lety +2

      I wish Cuomo was on it.

    • @BishopWalters12
      @BishopWalters12 Před 2 lety

      The MSNBC guy is a dips@@@ that was trying so hard to make Biden's career look more impressive. He's the guy that was a punchline and laughed out of the 1988 election.

  • @LaurieWiegler
    @LaurieWiegler Před 2 lety +141

    Ha ha! Great to have Bill back and love the guests tonight. Sam Stein is hilarious.

  • @Linusrox123
    @Linusrox123 Před 2 lety +53

    GREAT Overtime! I'm always excited when McWhorter's on, but props to Sam Stein - he was pretty hilarious this show and it was great to see them laughing so hard. Refreshing!

  • @NYmomAdrienne3915
    @NYmomAdrienne3915 Před 2 lety +57

    As a 3rd party member, it is very hard to get on the ticket in all 50 states. The two major parties make it impossible through lawsuits and media doesn’t invite third parties to debates. We need a rank choice system as people also become afraid they are “throwing away their vote” by taking the risk voting 3rd party

    • @jhwilson00
      @jhwilson00 Před 2 lety +7

      I hate how the 2 parties do this crap to 3rd parties. We did not talk about the Greens getting thrown off a ton of ballots.

    • @locustjohn3865
      @locustjohn3865 Před 2 lety +2

      It's not a risk that you are throwing away your vote if you vote third party. You ARE throwing away your vote.

    • @emerraldx
      @emerraldx Před 2 lety +1

      all of the outside parties (Libertarian, Green, People, Forward) should all be working together to get some form of ranked choice voting and open primaries on the ballots locally so we can change the entire system from the inside. Even though time is of the essence I don’t see Andrew Yang and the Forward Party going hard at the presidential campaign until 2028 when more of those voting reforms have been enacted but I am sure if the right moment arises they want to be poised to jump in. Hope to see Cumo talking to those folks very soon 🧢

    • @DK-210
      @DK-210 Před 2 lety

      Even if third parties became a significant impact in congress, all R&D’s would do is battle for swing votes and spoiler makers. This country is fucked.

    • @JerzyFeliksKlein
      @JerzyFeliksKlein Před 2 lety +2

      @@locustjohn3865 Explain me this - what is throwing away your vote? You have two parties which are both bought by the same donors and do pretty much the same thing but occasionally put up a show about some social issue to pretend that there is a genuine choice. So they will argue about civil rights. abortion, trans community etc. but 95% of the laws they enact are pretty much the same because they have to keep their donors happy.

  • @pretentiouscameron7815
    @pretentiouscameron7815 Před 2 lety +223

    If everyone who says they want a third party actually voted that way, it would work. Maher touched on this, but it is very possible. People just need to follow through.

    • @itsm3th3b33
      @itsm3th3b33 Před 2 lety +1

      If that party is centrist I will vote for it. However, Yen isn't centrist. As extreme left as the Democratic party has become, nobody in that party dared to propose giving away "free" money to everyone. Daring, but not centrist.

    • @oscarinacan
      @oscarinacan Před 2 lety

      Millennials became the largest voting block a couple years ago but don't show up to vote. They can change everything but are lazy/disillusioned

    • @antoniagunther8407
      @antoniagunther8407 Před 2 lety

      It was Cuomo's idea.

    • @jasminecrandall2262
      @jasminecrandall2262 Před 2 lety

      100 %

    • @colinfrederick2603
      @colinfrederick2603 Před 2 lety +8

      It’s that those people dont vote in PRIMARIES.
      Voting 3rd party in the general, outside of a ranked-choice system, is stupid. It’s really really stupid. Strategic voting exists. First past the post voting systems doom 3rd party. Yang’s ranked-choice reforms are the key before it can be considered

  • @476429
    @476429 Před 2 lety +139

    In my experience, most people who don't follow through on voting for a third party are so terrified that the candidate they hate will win that they choose not to "throw their vote away" and instead vote for the candidate most likely to beat the candidate they hate. They're not voting *for* someone, they're voting *against* someone.
    I can't tell you the number of people who have said something like that to me. And it comes from both sides. So voting for the person they believe will do the best job does not matter as much to them as making sure the candidate they hate doesn't win.
    If Trump runs again, how many Democrats will vote for a candidate they really like in Yang's centrist party if they believe the Democratic candidate has the best chance of beating Trump? The same goes for Republicans.

    • @rabbit251
      @rabbit251 Před 2 lety

      Totally agree with you. I believe Biden won not because American's were so ga-ga about him, it was simply a vote against Trump. Very interesting to see where the midterm election will go. (Can Democrats get enough people out to vote to hold onto their majority in Congress?)

    • @riviereeric7004
      @riviereeric7004 Před 2 lety +7

      I completely agree for the presidential election... But why is it that we do not see more third party representatives in local elected official like governors (0 third party out of 50)? Even in New Hampshire, a state supposed to be a libertarian paradise, they have no libertarian in their state house of representative. 400 representatives, a huge number for such a small state, and out of 400 there are 0 libertarians, and no other third party. Why do you think that is, that states don´t try it more often to elect third party? Is it that the Dems and Reps have such a big influence that they always manage to kill off any third party campaigns?

    • @Ketraar
      @Ketraar Před 2 lety +8

      @@riviereeric7004 I would assume if the election process is the same (FPTP and the likes) then the issue would be the same where a 3rd candidate would just devide the vote and allow the more "concetrated" votes to vin. The only way to make more parties viable is to have representative elections, where seats are assigned based on percentages and not winner takes all systems. THAT is why you get only 2 parties/coalitions. In fact I'd argue that Dems are not one party and a collection of many, would you have representative elections the dem party would shatter in several ones, less so the republican party I guess now that they are cult like, but there could be also an emergence of right wing parties. TLDR: FPTP is the (biggest) problem.

    • @j.dragon651
      @j.dragon651 Před 2 lety

      @@riviereeric7004 For one, libertarians are loonier than shithouse rats.

    • @stuartmcdougall6084
      @stuartmcdougall6084 Před 2 lety +5

      Exactly why there should be preferential voting as in Australia.

  • @lynnbegley9174
    @lynnbegley9174 Před 2 lety +75

    Hope u support the health care bill for our vets ! Jon Stewart standing up & speaking out 👍👍👍👍👍💙

    • @oscarinacan
      @oscarinacan Před 2 lety +7

      He's on fire as always

    • @ncorp2668
      @ncorp2668 Před 2 lety +4

      How about healthcare for all? Only supporting healthcare benefits for vets is about as smart as supporting California legislation that only seeks to providing UBI for trans people. If we're only talking about select groups of people, then we're not supporting sustainable, long-term change.

    • @maryhalverson5713
      @maryhalverson5713 Před 2 lety +2

      @@ncorp2668 Jon Stewart needs to attend fewer celebrity dinner parties. The same could be said of Bill Maher.

    • @User-jo7jp
      @User-jo7jp Před 2 lety +1

      @@maryhalverson5713 even if this is true, it has nothing to do with anything. famous people hang out with other famous people, actors, politicians, athletes... get over it.

    • @Noname-ps3mq
      @Noname-ps3mq Před 2 lety

      I’m a physician and I’m all for va healthcare as long as we tackle the problem of veterans all trying to figure out how to get there disability to 100 percent so they pay no property taxes. It’s a scam. Literally I have veterans who come in on a daily basis and literally ask me can you help me get disabled so I can get 100 percent so I can get mine.. everyone else is. I’m like hell no you got the wrong guy here. Forgot those who are truly disabled or extreme ptsd from war.. most of the veterans are not 100 percent disabled. Not even close but they are all trying to get it. They end up hiring attys to help them build there soft cases and it’s disgusting. Many of them flat out tell me they simply don’t want to work at all.
      To those disabled I got your back 100 💯 if you are faking you are taking advantage

  • @redlightmax
    @redlightmax Před 2 lety +29

    Overtime should have two guests more often, with a maximum of three guests - it's less chaotic.

    • @rightwingersexposed8800
      @rightwingersexposed8800 Před 2 lety

      and a lot more stupid, radical centrists being so dumb they don't even know what they are talking about FORNIGHT IS FREE, FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  • @kerrialexander4211
    @kerrialexander4211 Před 2 lety +18

    John McWhorter was hysterical tonight!

  • @allansroom
    @allansroom Před 2 lety +55

    I'm so happy that Bill Maher is back!
    Thank you for the amazing and wonderful people you had on the show tonight!
    It always picks my spirits up when I see on the TV Guide that the show is new!
    Have a great week and looking forward to next week's show!
    You rock Bill Maher! 💖😊💖

    • @MrDeceptacon88
      @MrDeceptacon88 Před 2 lety +2

      Who the hell uses TV guide anymore?? Is it still being printed? Lmfao

    • @tammyobrien7158
      @tammyobrien7158 Před 2 lety +1

      I agree with you!! I loose my shit and
      When he goes on vacation, its a f bummer. I saw him and Iooked and he was on last night!! Whooooo! Thanks for saving the weekend and the rest of the year!

    • @tammyobrien7158
      @tammyobrien7158 Před 2 lety

      @@MrDeceptacon88 that is pretty gd funny! I have forgotten about it till now!! Thanks! I am only 59 but I was there!! 1963 and don't even have a f clue what's really going on with these people who have been in the office since I was a f kid!! Gd go all of you and let us help you help us christ I know this , wtf happened, I live in Kansas and in the mid 60's & 1/2 way into the 80's we use to hang out at the park and talk listen to Boom boxes smoking weed out ya know not bothering anyone just having a good time i know I did I am a loner and I use to wander around this strip mall town and the fucking Jayhawkers took over my f town and have a laughable attitude that well bill you know this f place is where the Koch bro you know I don't have to toss names! I f hate it I am not w this at all I have been away since 1983 and I have lived in New York city and that at that time was the best time and the years were good I was only 20 when I was living there f I have had the best life growing up in the time I did, I have no f idea what the fuk I don't recognize it as living it's a f help me please please save my ass from this or f let's roll in together

    • @D-Fens_1632
      @D-Fens_1632 Před 2 lety +1

      I still watch old school live cable television and use the guide channel. I still believe in the magic of scrolling through the TV Guide channel and discovering new things and having things air when it seems appropriate I should watch them (like when something you were recently talking about winds up being on television that night, or you see some movie or documentary that seems eerily connected to something you're going through in life). The convenience of on demand streaming is nice but we've also lost something with it. It's like how nobody turns on the radio anymore and discovers new music, now they go to look for what they specifically want to hear. Well I guess music services like Spotify have algorithms to recommend new bands you might also like, but it's different than the magic of just turning something on and saying "what is THIS?"

    • @mkatepaski9947
      @mkatepaski9947 Před 2 lety

      @@MrDeceptacon88 older people and people who like tactile media

  • @brendasnow8255
    @brendasnow8255 Před 2 lety +20

    Oh, thank you, guests, for the reminder that this isn’t the only era when people have threatened to take up arms against the government.

  • @DK-210
    @DK-210 Před 2 lety +5

    This show is so much better with smart people and rational logic, I could watch this panel every week.

  • @bootney66
    @bootney66 Před 2 lety +29

    The image of “grandpa Joe” getting rid of the annoying grandkids is spot on 😂

    • @rightwingersexposed8800
      @rightwingersexposed8800 Před 2 lety +1

      proving what a boomer u are if you think this is a legitimate metaphor, when fortnight is free

    • @zacharykaiser5910
      @zacharykaiser5910 Před 2 lety

      @@rightwingersexposed8800 micro transactions

    • @rightwingersexposed8800
      @rightwingersexposed8800 Před rokem

      @@zacharykaiser5910 yes and?

    • @zacharykaiser5910
      @zacharykaiser5910 Před rokem

      @@rightwingersexposed8800 so it does cost money, my friend!

    • @rightwingersexposed8800
      @rightwingersexposed8800 Před rokem

      @@zacharykaiser5910 Except it doesn't, you can buy things but it doesn't cost to play.
      So your metaphor is completely irrelevant and wrong.
      Boomers gonna boom

  • @victoriaman117
    @victoriaman117 Před 2 lety +225

    I see John McWhorter and I know it’s going to be a conversation with some common sense.

    • @justgivemethetruth
      @justgivemethetruth Před 2 lety +6

      Get your visions checked.

    • @pdfortune
      @pdfortune Před 2 lety +2

      Typically. He couldn’t understand how Manchin is ok with a 450 billion dollar bill, but not 1.7 Trillion. Maher explained it, John brought it up again, and Maher moved on. 1.2 Trillion+ is the answer.

    • @Based_Proletariat
      @Based_Proletariat Před 2 lety

      🤡🤡🤡

    • @MrLGonzalez12
      @MrLGonzalez12 Před 2 lety

      I see him and I know white supremacy is not far behind

    • @anthonyelwick3600
      @anthonyelwick3600 Před 2 lety

      @@pdfortune manchin is a fool

  • @marlynnek6449
    @marlynnek6449 Před 2 lety +4

    LOVE John McWhorter!

  • @JerzyFeliksKlein
    @JerzyFeliksKlein Před 2 lety +17

    I think John may be right. The issue that's missing from the conversation is the concept of "critical mass". The question is not whether a 3rd party can be launched successfully but whether a critical mass of disenfranchised Americans who don't want to vote either Democrats or Republicans has been reached.

  • @86oldbehave
    @86oldbehave Před 2 lety +14

    Yeah don’t know ONE person who smokes weed suddenly thinks, Hey now it’s time to try this meth I’ve heard about

  • @dennislarson9560
    @dennislarson9560 Před 2 lety +43

    Minnesota tried a "third-party" Governor in 1998. Jesse Ventura beat both the DFL and the MN GOP governor candidates and was elected Governor. Without a party in the Legislature on his side, he got nothing done.

    • @TheTrut416
      @TheTrut416 Před 2 lety +10

      That's so true! Never thought of that!

    • @chrisitalia8868
      @chrisitalia8868 Před 2 lety +4

      Lol he was an oaf, good guy and all, but he was too hostile to work with anyone

  • @tutonelylesnaranjo6311
    @tutonelylesnaranjo6311 Před 2 lety +32

    Loved the conversation tonight ❤️

    • @rabbit251
      @rabbit251 Před 2 lety +2

      Yes, it was very entertaining and thought provoking, and funny all at the same time.

  • @vcvortex6356
    @vcvortex6356 Před 2 lety +31

    It is good to see Bill back. I'm glad that he gets time off, but as a fan, I hate the hiatus. Bill has always been awesome.

    • @oldsesalt8496
      @oldsesalt8496 Před 2 lety +2

      I wish Bill would go away. I mainly hate-watch him now.

    • @vcvortex6356
      @vcvortex6356 Před 2 lety +4

      @@oldsesalt8496 He can go away for you. All you have to do is not watch him. Anything I don't like, I ignore completely. This method has worked very well for me for 46 years.

    • @bruceleeroy8302
      @bruceleeroy8302 Před 2 lety

      Bill maher is terrible now. He calls people like AOC a radical and thinks Biden is "bending" to them. The radicals are the GOP and people like MTG. Of course, the one issue that affects Bill, marijuana, he's suddenly progressive again. But if it doesn't affect him, like the environment, healthcare, abortion rights he couldn't care less.

    • @vcvortex6356
      @vcvortex6356 Před 2 lety

      @@bruceleeroy8302 Thank you for pointing out that you are unable to realize that AOC is just as radical to the left as others are to the right. I love it when people fail to see these things.

    • @bruceleeroy8302
      @bruceleeroy8302 Před 2 lety

      @@vcvortex6356 I agree, she is radical in all the ways you’ve mentioned

  • @mikerepairsstuff
    @mikerepairsstuff Před 2 lety +9

    Thanks Bill Maher and guests and crew! What a microcosm of USA 🇺🇸 this episode was. Very good 👍

  • @karenmindiola1964
    @karenmindiola1964 Před 2 lety +34

    Glad to see Chris Cuomo on Bills show tonight. Great dialogue between these guys. Excellent guests and very entertaining and thought provoking.

    • @ZapataE
      @ZapataE Před 2 lety +1

      Fredo is as fake as his Covid quarantine …. The common man doesn’t live in the Hamptons Fredo ,

    • @jannichi6431
      @jannichi6431 Před 2 lety +1

      Glad Chris has a podcast, miss Andrew too as the NY Girls sure piled up on him. Didn't like the politics of the way he got shoved out.

    • @williambartholmey5946
      @williambartholmey5946 Před 2 lety

      @@jannichi6431 Did you like how Andrew effectively killed thousands of people in nursing homes with his Covid nonsense?

    • @jannichi6431
      @jannichi6431 Před 2 lety

      @@williambartholmey5946 In perspective, Andrew saved and educationed more to GET the VAX to prevent death than any other single individual at the time. Nursing homes are individual businesses with individual liabilities. NY has far more oversight of the industry than my southern state would ever. Following the story at the time was tragic, however the media covered video blame seemed misguided and only reinforces my point, Cuomo was targeted.

    • @williambartholmey5946
      @williambartholmey5946 Před 2 lety

      @@jannichi6431 You really need to read up on Cuomo's reckless handling of the nursing home situation during the first year of the pandemic.

  • @sjhotz
    @sjhotz Před 2 lety +18

    Awesome show tonight, thanks Bill!

  • @maverik15j
    @maverik15j Před 2 lety +5

    The Fortnite analogy is spot on. 😂😂😂

  • @SLangel18
    @SLangel18 Před 2 lety +14

    I’m scared of voting for who I really want and “wasting” my vote and having the one opponent I hated the most win.

    • @Missy-Missy1111
      @Missy-Missy1111 Před 2 lety +1

      Same here!

    • @stevengentry7838
      @stevengentry7838 Před 2 lety +2

      "wasting your vote"----???????----so u would rather vote 4 some1 u don't want------??????--------just to be in "the crowd"------????????-----i vote for who i want in----period...........

    • @snuffeldjuret
      @snuffeldjuret Před 2 lety

      I happily vote "third party" even though I'm Swedish and have 8 established and viable parties to choose between. Establishment rot is establishment rot, no matter if it is within 2 or 8 established parties.

  • @kencampbell2359
    @kencampbell2359 Před 2 lety +17

    The best "Real Time" in ages thanks to Sam Stein and the brilliant John McWhorter!

    • @KCal1213
      @KCal1213 Před 2 lety

      Notice you called him brilliant. He is one of the articulate Black folk you might let in your house to serve you at your dinner party.

  • @pimpmastert4980
    @pimpmastert4980 Před 2 lety +7

    What an awesome episode!! Delivered in everyway 👏👏specially the comedy department. Sam Stein is fukin hilarious 😆.

    • @DianePeace420
      @DianePeace420 Před 2 lety

      Says a person that just made a CZcams account. Why would people trust you? They can track your number online, don't you realize that?

  • @davidt3956
    @davidt3956 Před 2 lety +36

    No, Republicans "stealing" Perot's points isn't what stopped him. It was his dropping out of the race claiming the Democrats and Republicans were trying to ruin his daughter's wedding, then trying to get back in, that did it.

    • @detroitdiezel7856
      @detroitdiezel7856 Před 2 lety +7

      Agreed. I was all in on Perot, until he quit, then rejoined... oh yeah and that clueless old man with the hearing aid as his running mate absolutely scared the shit out of me!

    • @homelessjesse9453
      @homelessjesse9453 Před 2 lety +2

      America never deserved a great man like Perot.

    • @erichancock6815
      @erichancock6815 Před 2 lety

      Agreed: had he stuck with it he'd have been a much bigger threat to the establishments than he was, though even with his message & money I'm not sure it would've been enough. Remember his full TV spots where he explained his plan to fix what was wrong with graphs & such? Not just attack propaganda. Problem is I doubt even he would be able to compete with today's social media manipulation of a growing majority of voters, unless he had his own media platform. Only someone that rich could stand up to the incorporated politics of today & if they're that rich, they probably support enough of one side or the other to join either flock. Even then, if you did get such an outsider into the Whitehouse, they'd never get anything done with the establishments running the other branches & with the support of the media on either side of the divide, they'd be spun as the bad guy outsider.

    • @mikemahne2503
      @mikemahne2503 Před 2 lety

      Remember the Vice Presidential debate?

    • @davidt3956
      @davidt3956 Před 2 lety +1

      @@homelessjesse9453 Trudeau had a great cartoon. Every panel was a guy at the foot of the steps, talking to a home owner at the door. The first was something like "I'm the electrician, I'm here to fix the toilet." The second was similar. The third was "I'm a software salesman. I'm here to fix the country." Sure he was great...

  • @peterobach4444
    @peterobach4444 Před 2 lety +20

    Bills story of keeping pot behind his nuts going through airports genuinely mad me laugh out loud. never stop Bill the world needs your humor now more than ever.

    • @jannichi6431
      @jannichi6431 Před 2 lety +2

      It's Snot! BluntHilarious 😁

    • @mattpiercey1576
      @mattpiercey1576 Před 2 lety

      But isn't his story about needing to carry pot behind his nuts so he has something to smoke while flying proof it's an addictive substance? Most people wouldn't need any

  • @jasminecrandall2262
    @jasminecrandall2262 Před 2 lety +19

    I'm a big fan of John McWhorter! Who else can so eloquently call out the ridiculousness of both sides? Lose the party affiliation people, for the good of us all. We need an Independent Party, like yesterday.

    • @michaelhutchings6602
      @michaelhutchings6602 Před 2 lety

      Just stop voting. It literally doesn’t matter.

    • @jasminecrandall2262
      @jasminecrandall2262 Před 2 lety +1

      @@michaelhutchings6602 You're right. We need to change that or else we're screwed and no one should have kids.

    • @michaelhutchings6602
      @michaelhutchings6602 Před 2 lety

      @@jasminecrandall2262 Why? Just don’t vote. Voting is a pointless activity that accomplishes nothing.

    • @lg7014
      @lg7014 Před 2 lety

      McWhorter is on the payroll of the right-wing think-tanks funded by the Koch Network, ALEC and State Policy Network

    • @mikescorpio1108
      @mikescorpio1108 Před 2 lety

      @@michaelhutchings6602 not voting got Trump elected.

  • @retsz
    @retsz Před 2 lety +13

    I want a 3rd party... and a 4th, and a 5th, and so on. The issue is, the only thing the democrats and Republicans can agree on is they don't want to give up the stranglehold they have on the American political system. The one thing they'll join together on is to obliterate any chance for a new party to be a viable option.

  • @ronshaddox2382
    @ronshaddox2382 Před 2 lety +2

    Really great guests this week. Bill Maher actually asked the right questions and made the right comments for the first time in THREE YEARS plus years.

  • @klimaxxx06
    @klimaxxx06 Před 2 lety +2

    So now they’re saying Biden is too left bending to the will of AOC and Bernie?? 😂 Give me a break!

  • @nonmagicmike723
    @nonmagicmike723 Před 2 lety +43

    The lack of third (and fourth) parties in America isn't really due to lack of money or to the voters but to the political system itself. Such a multiparty setting is only viable in a Swedish-style parliamentary system or some kind of mixed-member proportional representation. Ranked-choice voting might also give a shot to third parties.

    • @godofdun
      @godofdun Před 2 lety +4

      Exactly, they constantly miss the electoral system piece of this puzzle, even careful considerate people like McWorter.

    • @Henofmayhem
      @Henofmayhem Před 2 lety +1

      As an American, I agree but on the more harsher side. This country is full of stupid people that vote for hypocritical fck heads. Aoc, pelosi, turtle face and Ted Cruz. People used to keep who they supported and voted for quite, now they shout it as loud as possible. The system is jacked for sure but it’s the people that will always fck anything up. Just sit back and watch it burn, you’ll sleep better at night.

    • @EarlHayward
      @EarlHayward Před 2 lety +2

      How is the unicameral parliament any different than our bicameral legislature? In my opinion, the difference is not so much the structure, but rather the maturity... Our legislative branch has existing much longer and developed differently. Our founding fathers did not expect to have a two party system, that developed as a result of our individualistic focus, population growth/diversity (Sweden is very hegemonic), and the various political parties merging/consolidating in order to have enough power to pass laws at the Federal level.
      ...
      The one thing that would have made a huge difference, and still would be a benefit to our society, is the "Single Subject Rule"... Think about what we have now, we pass a law that appropriates $500m, and while only $15m benefits XYZ group, anyone who votes against the bill is deemed to hate XYZ group - ignoring the fact that the other $485m is a waste of money for pet projects of those in Congress (also called pork)! That is our problem...

    • @EarlHayward
      @EarlHayward Před 2 lety +1

      @@godofdun The electoral system has nothing to do with our legislative branch. Rather, it is a consequence of our legislative branch/structure. Our problem is we have let the President become what it was feared to be, a dictator in charge of a single party ruled democracy.
      ...
      In the beginning, there was initial consideration to having the President elected by the Senate, but it was deemed best to have the President elected by the people so that the President could protect the people from Legislature; hence veto power unless a super majority, as to avoid tyranny by simple majority, overrides the veto.
      ...
      Ironically, the risk our founding fathers tried to mitigate is exactly where we seem to be headed by those that do not understand our governance structure, as a Republic, and seek a single party, simple majority, dictatorship over all citizens. Frankly, we might as well just let China take over as they at least have worked out the problems with a single party democratic dictatorship!

    • @JerzyFeliksKlein
      @JerzyFeliksKlein Před 2 lety +2

      It actually makes me giggle when Americans bring up "Swedish-style" because it's pretty evident they have no clue. Almost all European countries have multiparty systems. Even the UK has Liberal Democrats who sit somewhere in the middle and SNP - Scottish Nationalist Party. Having a system with only two parties, both of whom are almost equally despised by large parts of a population is a sign of a broken democracy. There is obviously the other side of a spectrum - Italy, who has tens of different parties and who had more governments since WW2 than years that passed since ( I think on average an Italian government lasts 1.57 years) and they had close to 80 governments since WW2. So there is a level of instability on the other side of a spectrum, but there is a sweet spot somewhere in the middle where citizens have genuine choice of what policies they want and who will represent them. Most of the countries have coalition governments because no one party dominates (not always but most of the time) and this is conducive of moderation and understanding that democracy runs on consensus and compromise. All the silly, American "Swedish-style", "it cannot work elsewhere" is just a complete BS. It can and it works. Stop looking for excuses and sort yourself out.

  • @Not_Vladimir_Putin
    @Not_Vladimir_Putin Před 2 lety +5

    Sam Stein needs his own show. Pretty funny for a Journalist.

  • @santemedical6802
    @santemedical6802 Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks Bill.
    i missed your show.
    thank you for making my Saturday great again.

  • @donnawoods8039
    @donnawoods8039 Před 2 lety +1

    John McWhorter... love him. Logical!

  • @stacyjamesnear
    @stacyjamesnear Před 2 lety +3

    I believe that part of yang and the forward parties platform is ranked Choice voting. Their belief is that if rank Choice voting is our process then voting for that third party candidate becomes less of a risk.

  • @michelekett8450
    @michelekett8450 Před 2 lety +33

    When we get over ‘left’ and ‘right’ a little common sense will prevail. Politics needs to be about the improvement if life on the planet and fir the benefit of people. Sadly, greed, ego and hubris, particularly among male politicians still rules.

    • @dawnoceanside7300
      @dawnoceanside7300 Před 2 lety

      We?

    • @ryanbarnes840
      @ryanbarnes840 Před 2 lety +5

      Right, and which party has the ideas for doing that? I'd argue the left. But Bill apparently thinks better healthcare, cheaper education, and better paying jobs are radical ideas...

    • @KCal1213
      @KCal1213 Před 2 lety

      And the removal of White male supremacy.

    • @locustjohn3865
      @locustjohn3865 Před 2 lety

      @@ryanbarnes840 The problem becomes the left doesn't realize that things like better healthcare costs money. Far more money than can be raised simply by taxing corporations and the wealthy.

    • @ryanbarnes840
      @ryanbarnes840 Před 2 lety

      @@locustjohn3865 Wrong, the left does realize that, they just think it's worth the money, as do I. Also, you talk about how expensive it is? You do realize we have one of the most expensive healthcare systems per capita in the world already, right? So tell me how it'd be more expensive than what we've already got? Again, more excuses. Yes, it will take more than just simply taxing the wealthy and corporations, but you know what? That's going to be a huge chunk that goes into it. It's ridiculous that something as important as healthcare is being talked about like it's new living room furniture. "Gee honey, you think we can afford it?" Yes, we can, and it's worth it. Tired of this dishonesty. We have no problem paying for wars, no problem bailing out the corrupt wealthy corporations when they make irresponsible decisions, our politicians have no problems getting rich, pretty sure we can afford healthcare if we really WANT it.
      The keyword here is want. If you want to admit it, just say it. It's not a priority for you. That's fine, but I think it's time to stop being selfish. We're ranked really high among developed nations when it comes to people dying from preventable deaths, and our life expectancy has gone down over the last 20 years while countries in Europe have gone up. That's not a random occurrence. That is completely and utterly tied to the fact that people don't want to go to the doctor when something might be wrong because it's expensive. Even to people with healthcare, there's a co-pay, not to mention the bill you get after the visit. No, this has to change. So again, Bill is a corporatist stooge who was advocating for this just a few years ago. Now he's all about the woke left. Pretty sure getting healthcare is more important than worrying about woke teenagers.

  • @eil11een
    @eil11een Před 2 lety +8

    glad bill is back

  • @shmookins
    @shmookins Před 2 lety +1

    Now there's a hiding place I never would have thought of. Genius!
    Now if I can only find a set of balls somewhere...

  • @nazzme6181
    @nazzme6181 Před 2 lety +3

    Sam Stein has always been funny AF!!!! He'd be an excellent guest at Club Random!!!!💝

  • @mikelkirby2791
    @mikelkirby2791 Před 2 lety +4

    That was a hilarious Q & A session.

  • @09rja
    @09rja Před 9 měsíci +1

    In the age of the intenet, I've always been surprised there hasn't been another Ross Perot. He actually led the '92 campaign at one point (in at least one poll).

  • @pnut3844able
    @pnut3844able Před 2 lety +18

    A centrist party? Count me intrigued

  • @lindataylor8302
    @lindataylor8302 Před 2 lety +15

    Love this show

    • @ZYX261
      @ZYX261 Před 2 lety +2

      Me too! Are we twins?

    • @lindataylor8302
      @lindataylor8302 Před 2 lety +2

      @@ZYX261 maybe

    • @Brandon_388
      @Brandon_388 Před 2 lety +1

      My name is Brandon

    • @ZapataE
      @ZapataE Před 2 lety +1

      I wish there were more like it. I fear Bill will retire one day and we will be left with nothing but Fox News Trumpers and MSNBC liberals ….

  • @darenihill
    @darenihill Před 2 lety +6

    How is rank based voting not part of this conversation? If you're wanting a central 3rd party you need to remove the fear mongering politics from both parties and their 2 party system.

  • @JayTSteele
    @JayTSteele Před 2 lety

    'Are you on the pot?'...... is exactly what my mom used to ask me when I was in high school
    Lol

  • @dulpurp
    @dulpurp Před 2 lety +2

    The 3rd party conversation should not have been strictly about the presidential race. It has better chance succeeding in lower positions. Congress, mayors, etc.

  • @stevenbrowne4654
    @stevenbrowne4654 Před 2 lety +4

    Great panel and a great show.

  • @sophonias24
    @sophonias24 Před 2 lety +3

    How can we solve our problems when our criteria for a "leader" is someone with a personality? Instead of vetting someone for their effectiveness we want them to entertain us and be likeable. And when problems is not solved we blame the elites?

    • @shmookins
      @shmookins Před 2 lety +1

      Yeah, imagine looking for a medical doctor you need and what you look for is 'personality'...
      Real life isn't an actor in a TV show for entertainment purposes. I want skilled people who I can believe can get things done be it a politician, mechanic, nurse, or whatever. Go make imaginary friendships somewhere else.

  • @anthonyhealey7120
    @anthonyhealey7120 Před 2 lety

    "... it's 'de facto' in effect".
    What a quote, I fell about laughing - thanks Bill, you made my day.

  • @karlhungus545
    @karlhungus545 Před 2 lety +2

    1:11 This is the entire problem with the US political system. Why should politics 'require a lot of money'?! That's crazy talk.

  • @eternalskeptic
    @eternalskeptic Před 2 lety +7

    He invited
    He incited
    They rioted
    Then he denied it
    Even though he'd implied it
    Now he must be indicted.

  • @nivvy19
    @nivvy19 Před 2 lety +3

    you cant talk about the possibility of a third party without mentioning ranked choice voting. cmon bill

  • @southsidesky
    @southsidesky Před 2 lety +1

    The best Overtime ever.

  • @sandraclark2235
    @sandraclark2235 Před 2 lety +14

    The "cold civil war" terrifies me. If there were a real civil war here, I might have to move because I live in Kentucky! I live here because it's affordable, but the people keep electing Mitch McConnell. If I have to move to a more expensive location, I might end up on Section 8 and food stamps. That's a scary possibility for someone like me, who takes pride in independence.

    • @jannichi6431
      @jannichi6431 Před 2 lety +5

      blessing to you and your sensibility, places like Austin difficult, the get mine NOW mentality $$. Keep safe, hope the floods have you and yours dry and safe😢

    • @genebrooks5824
      @genebrooks5824 Před 2 lety +2

      More people favor a peaceful separation like Secession. Expect to see that on ballots across the country especially in border states.

    • @patsysadowski1546
      @patsysadowski1546 Před 2 lety +5

      @@genebrooks5824 I think those most likely to want to secede would be surprised at how much federal money they get and how much it costs to secure a border. Then there is the extreme weather conditions and resulting disasters. No federal support then either.

    • @genebrooks5824
      @genebrooks5824 Před 2 lety +4

      @@patsysadowski1546 Much of it comes from just 4 states those being Texas, Florida, California and New York so the South and other FLYOVERS could be supported by TX and FL along with new trade deals with like minded fascists regimes. As long as they respect the new borders , that's all that matters.

    • @14dolphins
      @14dolphins Před 2 lety +2

      move to Austin TX it's inexpensive and the most liberal part of Texas

  • @WillDanceAlone2U
    @WillDanceAlone2U Před 2 lety +5

    Great fun talk!!

  • @Horrid1960
    @Horrid1960 Před 2 lety +3

    So it's all about 'Popularity' (without substance) & lots of money (without considering value)? ... Yeah ... sounds like the America we're seeing today.

  • @bluorb
    @bluorb Před 2 lety +1

    Whats the real gateway drug? Spinning in circles until you're so dizzy you fall down. We're all just chasing that first high. Criminalize spinning in circles!!!

  • @jdt2003
    @jdt2003 Před 2 lety +1

    Ranked Choice Voting would be a nice step forward. Not sure the duopoly would like it but it's what the people need for better political choice.

  • @mark2359
    @mark2359 Před 2 lety +15

    We all know that in 2024 it's going to be trump vs Biden. I hope I'm wrong but the system has never let me down in regards to always letting me down.

    • @BishopWalters12
      @BishopWalters12 Před 2 lety

      I understand your point but I disagree for a few reasons, The Republican party/ most Conservative voters understand that they need independent voters and maybe even some pissed off progressives to win. Ron Desantis has better leadership skills, he's clearly younger, smarter and less bulls@@@. On the Democratic side, I don't even know if Joe will make the 2024 election with his decline that we are seeing right now, there's no way that the DNC will use him again, he has all time low approval ratings, he's on his way to being the worst President a least in more modern times and the Democrats are going to get crushed in the midterms. Let's say your right, Trump beats Biden but that will be a depressing election if that happens and I'm not even going to vote.

    • @michaelmorningstar8645
      @michaelmorningstar8645 Před 2 lety

      Trump will be dead or in prison.

  • @user-em6ie2be7x
    @user-em6ie2be7x Před 2 lety +12

    Let's see Republicans say we love our Veterans with a straight face. 💢

    • @curbozerboomer1773
      @curbozerboomer1773 Před 2 lety

      this show did not react to the latest betrayal of veterans by the Repulsivican Party!

  • @agentxchannel6640
    @agentxchannel6640 Před 2 lety +2

    We DON' T NEED a 'centralist' nominee - bi-partisan is NEVER a 'win' for the American people.

  • @hereigoagain5050
    @hereigoagain5050 Před 2 lety +1

    John and Sam are great. Bill must admire them: he didn't interrupt them. I hope we can keep large corporations out of the pot industry if the Feds legalize it.

  • @cherylgarry460
    @cherylgarry460 Před 2 lety +4

    Idk. Maybe a third party is viable at this point. I want a government that works. How is it that meeting the needs of our country has been labeled radical?

  • @UrOnlyWarning
    @UrOnlyWarning Před 2 lety +10

    Expected. Hell Trump's formed his own republicans haven't realized it yet...

    • @Leroy100
      @Leroy100 Před 2 lety

      Notice that Biden Supporters never post anything Pro Biden? It’s all just Anti Trump.

    • @markcollins5464
      @markcollins5464 Před 2 lety +2

    • @ZYX261
      @ZYX261 Před 2 lety

      Christian Nationalists need to form their own party.

    • @silencemeviolateme6076
      @silencemeviolateme6076 Před 2 lety +1

      Trump was a tea party president.

  • @Gardosunron
    @Gardosunron Před 2 lety +2

    One thing I hate is when Bill goes on about the "radical" left of the Democratic Party/AOC etc. What's radical about wanting to address climate change and helping with student debt?

  • @dunkelmonkey
    @dunkelmonkey Před 2 lety

    Oh the nerve to say ANYTHING about President Sniffer to say "get out of my hair"

  • @hazelstewart7054
    @hazelstewart7054 Před 2 lety +13

    Missed the show, glad to see Chris Cuomo. I also admired Mario Cuomo and thought he was a great orator and governor.

  • @PeterParker-bc7mk
    @PeterParker-bc7mk Před 2 lety +4

    I voted for Gary Johnson knew he wouldnt win but I saw on the news if he got 11% of the vote they would allow a 3rd party in the debates. He got more then 11% and no 3rd party in the debates. Why?

  • @blaineselkirk9946
    @blaineselkirk9946 Před 2 lety

    I've consumed my last sunflower seed. Thx Bill!

  • @jr3213
    @jr3213 Před 2 lety +1

    decriminalization is the correct path for marijuana, not legalization.

  • @gpan62
    @gpan62 Před 2 lety +3

    I believe Chris Cuomo also proposed a ranking system of voting in which you rank the candidates 1,2,3 etc. Or just vote for one, or two. The winner would be anyone who achieved 50% of the 1s, and 2s. Nadar would not have spoiled the vote that way.

  • @demetriusbriscoe9814
    @demetriusbriscoe9814 Před 2 lety +3

    When has being a moderate created change ever?

    • @edwinamendelssohn5129
      @edwinamendelssohn5129 Před 2 lety

      Why is it always change? How is the government responsible for "change." Change for the sake of change is vanity. If anything they need to be out of most of what goes in in this country as they are the creators of messes

  • @keanemorrissey5478
    @keanemorrissey5478 Před 2 lety

    One of the few times the zinger got Bill instead of the other way around

  • @KarlaElaine100
    @KarlaElaine100 Před 2 lety +1

    I absolutely support the centralist party!

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Před 2 lety +3

    "It's snot!"
    "No it isn't!"
    "It is... it's snot!"
    "Look, either it is, or it's not.. which is it?"
    "It's SNOT!"
    "AH! So you admit it's not!"
    "... I'm too high for this...."

  • @bigdaddyjoe2819
    @bigdaddyjoe2819 Před 2 lety +15

    Great show Bill!!! Hope you had a great vacation. Keep it up! So true on the planetary population!!!! See Bill Barr!!! lol

  • @JerjerB
    @JerjerB Před 2 lety

    Dr. McWhorter is an American, nay, GLOBAL treasure!

  • @codebloke2200
    @codebloke2200 Před 2 lety

    I really liked how John McWhorter interjected to keep the conversation on point to Bill's question about a viable 3rd party. Sam Stein just wanted to hijack the question to sing praise to Biden.

  • @Games_and_Music
    @Games_and_Music Před 2 lety +3

    Also, i hope that Donald gets ousted and runs as an Independent, hopefully this will shatter the establishments, and HOPEFULLY, Yang or a Bernie-like (heck, or Bernie himself) candidate will take the victory.

  • @NezzConstantine
    @NezzConstantine Před 2 lety +10

    Even though we have mass social media, it sure as hell doesn't help that anyone not democrat or republican are barred from televised debates hosted by tv stations that get most of the attention of the "normie" folks. The average person probably works all day and grabs an hour or so of news a night on tv before bed. To know a third party is to be involved online more than the average person. So, if there is an absence of a third party voice on a medium consumed by most of the average electorate, then how can they get enough steam to get votes. That's why you have some third party people like Jill Stein do stupid crap to get on the news just to be seen by the average person to even be known to exist in the first place. Old media is still very much in control of who makes it and who doesn't, despite our massive social media's.

    • @silverpurkat
      @silverpurkat Před 2 lety +3

      Yes but keep in mind the retired and average person over 40 is slowly aging and the generations born into the internet are aging to voters that don’t watch the 6 o’clock news. It’s just a matter of time that the media networks will lose control over their narrative in a decade. HOWEVER we all should be concern about net neutrality and that subject should be very important for the third party narrative.

    • @strategicsage7694
      @strategicsage7694 Před 2 lety

      People are generally not barred from debates based on their party. There are people from the major parties who can't in debates either in presidential primary cycles. They're barred based on support polls, because at some point you have to draw a line somewhere (you can't just have have 300 people or whatever on the stage debating). And the debates themselves have less and less importance in terms of determining people's votes in modern politics anyway.

  • @CEMunn
    @CEMunn Před 2 lety

    Maher is awesome. So glad you’re back. Truth snd common sense. Wish you all had added the fact that legalizing pot is a cash cow.

  • @8arrows
    @8arrows Před 2 lety +1

    A lot of the economy goes “up in smoke”. With nothing to show for it.

  • @boblozaintherealworld3577
    @boblozaintherealworld3577 Před 2 lety +14

    Whether or not the new third party will work depends on the US voters. So, I disagree with the idea that it needs a personality nowadays. Maybe Maher is on point here. SO MANY of us are exhausted with this present system. I'm on board with it. (so far the people behind this are Andrew Yang, David Jolley and Christine Whitman) This was a funny overtime. Two professional journalists lol'ing at the marijuana story.

    • @shanghaidiscovery2664
      @shanghaidiscovery2664 Před 2 lety

      It depends on US voters but also on all current politicians. If US politics were any other business it would have already been taken down on competition / antitrust ground for exactly what Bill describes: your idea tracks so it is adopted by one of the two parties. The way to solve it and solve the money issue is quite simple. Put a cap on how much money can be spent: 500 k or 1 million for a house / senate race. In the age of social media anyway, you can do a lot for free. And then maybe other ideas can be heard. Fringe ideas, or centrist ideas can be carried on their own.
      But if you want to look at what the current system does then this is the data for the most expensive senate race ever. 260 million spent by 4 candidates and the groups supporting them. well actually the 2 independents spent 39 k total.....www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2020&id=GAS1
      But whilst more parties allow more ideas to be heard, it won't be on its own. France had 12 candidates for president yes about 50% of the population only voted. So in the end you still need charisma and something that gets people to the polls.

    • @lesliefish4753
      @lesliefish4753 Před 2 lety

      In that case, vote Libertarian. They're already on the ballot.

    • @boblozaintherealworld3577
      @boblozaintherealworld3577 Před rokem +1

      @@lesliefish4753 Maybe. But we now know that the Libertarian party itself is just too scattered. And I have voted Libertarian a few times at the state level. Just saying.

    • @boblozaintherealworld3577
      @boblozaintherealworld3577 Před rokem

      Same here.

  • @theunclejesusshow8260
    @theunclejesusshow8260 Před 2 lety +5

    I AM going to take many of the jobs away from the Major Modern-day Preachers

  • @DrSerendip
    @DrSerendip Před 2 lety

    That was the primary period of the John Birch Society.

  • @ehsan6744
    @ehsan6744 Před 2 lety +1

    Sam Stein rules🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @davidwarburton2915
    @davidwarburton2915 Před 2 lety +6

    The parties shifted to the extremes when moderates left them to become Independents. Every registered Independent leans towards Republicans or Democrats. Independents should join the party to which they lean and vote in the primaries. This would produce more moderate general election candidates. For example, right leaning Independents in Pennsylvania would have prevented Doug Mastriano from being the GOP nominee if they had voted in the GOP primary. But they weren’t there to vote.

    • @tomboss9940
      @tomboss9940 Před 2 lety

      ??? There's only one extreme party, the extreme right Republicans. The democrats are center-right. There's no big party left of center in the US.

    • @michaelmorningstar8645
      @michaelmorningstar8645 Před 2 lety

      If you think the Democrats are extreme you are too ignorant to have valid opinions.

  • @Fisarmonica23
    @Fisarmonica23 Před 2 lety +8

    Ross Perot had zero charisma, yet he captured 30%. That’s amazing by todays standards.

    • @ricodelavega4511
      @ricodelavega4511 Před 2 lety +1

      dude had a way of framing things, and thats its own kind of charisma, not the stand up in front of thousands and have them eating out of your hand type (like the fuhrer). He tanked because of the paranoid conspiracy theory he spouted off in late summer 92. Trump has since made conspiracy theories mainstream, so in today's political climate perot would wipe the floor with trump.

  • @JerjerB
    @JerjerB Před 2 lety

    Most of the country is CENTRIST... We really DO need a Centrist party!

  • @mh4zd
    @mh4zd Před 2 lety +1

    "Social media could create a furor..." Or was that, "Social media could create a Fuhrer..." ?

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 Před 2 lety +3

    If America wants more parties, reform your legislature elections to something similar to Germany’s.

    • @ttacking_you
      @ttacking_you Před 2 lety

      Germany had God only knows how many political parties when it spawned the "fuhrer" , but I don't think that matters if 2 parties can produce,( via some _"mephitic miasma"_ ) , something as horrible as a trump

    • @michaelmorningstar8645
      @michaelmorningstar8645 Před 2 lety

      Because it worked so well for them.

  • @D-Fens_1632
    @D-Fens_1632 Před 2 lety +18

    In "In the Valley of Novelty," Terence McKenna said that someone once challenged him to ask the mushroom how to save the world. The next time McKenna was on mushrooms, he did ask, and the mushroom, "without a moment's hesitation," answered, "each person should parent only once." McKenna observed:
    "This is an astonishing idea. This is not zero population growth, this is population falling by 50% every 20 years from here on out. If people in the high-tech, industrial democracies would limit themselves to one child, almost immediately the destruction of the Earth's ecosystems and resources would halt. We preach population control in the third world, but the statistics show that to a woman in the first world who has a child, that child will consume between eight hundred and a thousand times more resources in the course of its lifetime than a child born in Bangladesh, or some other third world place."

    • @verybadenglish2975
      @verybadenglish2975 Před 2 lety +1

      One must think the mushroom was a comedian.

    • @DubsBrown
      @DubsBrown Před 2 lety +1

      Ah, so the China one child policy was actually good /s
      In all seriousness I hate Elon being Smug about helping keep up population growth when population growth is a major reason the environment is in trouble

    • @D-Fens_1632
      @D-Fens_1632 Před 2 lety +1

      Unfortunately it's not realistic, so I say go with Bill Burr's idea of randomly sinking cruise ships. They're full of people who won't be missed.

  • @rudyburnias3915
    @rudyburnias3915 Před 2 lety +1

    So when both party's have nothing to worry about and they both work on behalf of the same institutions, what do we do?

  • @cutl00senc
    @cutl00senc Před 2 lety

    As I’ve stated for many years, the largest group of voters not represented by either party is the American blue collar workforce.