“Real Time” host Bill Maher called out fellow Hollywood liberals for their previous pledge to leave the country under President Trump but “still here.”
In his closing monologue on Friday, Maher lashed out at Americans who complain about living in the US, starting with politicians like a progressive state representative candidate in New Hampshire who posted on social media saying “I’ve got to get the f— out of this country” and former It was President Trump who said he “could be relaxing in… the south of France” instead of running for president.
“Again, I’m confused by this political message: Vote for me because I hate it here,” quipped Maher.
“Now, does America have a big problem? yes. I often quote the ‘America sucks’ list. Things like being 54th in the world in infant mortality behind Cuba, 19th and literacy behind Russia, 72nd in representation of women in government behind Iraq, a lot of work to be done here. And is it possible for a country to lose itself so that leaving it is justified? Yes, but we’re not there yet. Not by a long shot. And we don’t have to stop. We need people who will stay and fix it.”
“Perhaps the problem is not that America is not worth defending. Maybe the problem is that there are a lot of people today who are entitled to whine who have no perspective and don’t know how good they are,” Maher continued, prompting cheers from his audience.
The HBO host shamed the “59% of liberals” who said in a poll they considered leaving America for good, telling them “You really want every immigrant to come to this country and have a good life but somehow it’s so horrible that you want to leave? ”
He also criticized the conservative movement in Texas pushing for secession, joking, “They have two bumper stickers in that state, ‘America: love it or leave it!’ and ‘We’re leaving it!’”
He then listed “liberal celebrities” such as Lena Dunham, Cher, Snoop Dogg, Bryan Cranston, Susan Sarandon, Al Sharpton, Whoopi Goldberg, Chelsea Handler and Barbra Streisand among others who “swore they would leave if a Republican was elected and no one ever has.” do it.”
“Real Time” host Bill Maher called out fellow Hollywood liberals for their previous pledge to leave the country under President Trump but “still here.” AP
“Miley Cyrus once said ‘I would move if Trump was my president. I don’t say things I don’t mean.’ Here she looks miserable having to wade through America at the Grammys last Sunday. I think he flew back from Tajikistan,” said Maher.
“In 2016, Eddie Griffin said, ‘If Trump wins I’m going to move to Africa’ – apparently very slow because in Trump’s four years, he only got to Van Nuys. George Lopez once said that if Trump wins, he ‘won’t have to worry about immigration. We’ll all be back.’ George Lopez, still here. And it seems the migrant traffic is not coming back.”
“The New Republic just aired a story about a vulnerable minority trying to escape America, including its author- a gay man trapped in the dystopian homophobic hell that is New York City. I wonder if he knows that there are 66 countries where being gay is a crime,” continued Maher.
“Cute story in the news last month. Burundi’s president is calling on his people to stone gay people and not in a good way. Wow. suddenly the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law doesn’t sound so bad. And Uganda, oh, they don’t just give you a ticket for parking in the back, you can get the death penalty for it! In China, they carry the death penalty for nearly 50 crimes and in 13 countries, atheism is punishable by death and 61 impose restrictions on women’s clothing so bring a scarf.”
Maher continues his list of countries that lack individual freedom: “According to Amnesty International, paramilitary groups kill government critics in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and arbitrary detention is widespread in Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua. If you’re wondering how that’s like a no cash guarantee, it’s not. In Russia, simply referring to the war in Ukraine as a war can land you 15 years in the great prison made famous by some of the world’s most famous novels. You think America is bad because we didn’t nominate Margot Robbie for an Oscar, just wait until you get thrown out the window of your own dream house.”
Maher lashed out at Americans who complain about living in the US, starting with politicians like a progressive state representative candidate in New Hampshire who posted on social media saying “I need to get the f— out of this country.” Real Time with Bill Maher
He also mentioned how thieves had their hands cut off in countries like Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Sudan, joking “if you come from San Francisco, do your shoplifting at home” and how protesters were “shot” in many countries.
“It almost seems like the world is full of suffering, intolerance and oppression on a scale we can’t imagine. But that is not true because if it happens, we will protest it. It has to happen in Israel only,” quips Maher.
The host continued, “And as for your isolation, if you were in some relatively affluent place like Canada or Japan or the UK, instead of them wanting you, at best you’d trade a lot of the stuff you hate about this country for a lot of the things you’d hate about your new home. It only took me four days in Amsterdam to realize that even though I adored Amsterdam, I didn’t want to live there! The buildings are narrow and needle-shaped, the food is terrible, the TV is in different languages, it’s wet and cold, the people are polite but cold, and they do a lot of strange things—, the explanation, according to my friend, is ‘Just remember, they’re tall.’”
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