James Carville knew how to win and he blamed the democratic losses.
This November 2nd on Stupid Wokeness to which AOC fired back that
wokeness is a term almost exclusively used by older people these days.
So that should tell you all you need to know, what?
>> [LAUGH].
>> This is a term folks like you, brought out very recently and
had been proudly displaying it every March since just last year,
the Guardian declared woke the word of our era.
I guess they didn't get the memo from the Mean Girls Club.
>> [LAUGH].
>> We don't use that emoji anymore, woke please we say fetch now.
>> [LAUGH] [APPLAUSE].
>> What a great strategy.
Never missing an opportunity to remind voters how lame and
clueless and hopelessly uncool they are,
especially since those are the ones who actually vote but okay, fine.
What word would you like us to use for the plainly insane excesses of
the left that are not liberalism but something completely different?
Because you can't have that word liberal from us and
think it should cover things like canceling Lincoln and
teaching third graders their oppressors, that's all your new thing.
>> Again, that is not their new thing.
That's stuff that Breitbart and
Ben Shapiro have farmed from some third grade teacher in one town and
has tried to make you think that's the whole left.
And Bill Maher is like yeah, no, that is because he's not that left.
And first of all they're not claiming that they're liberals.
Like seriously, he is stuck in this nineties mentality and
believes that whatever positions we had there were perfectly fine.
And whatever ignorance is I have culturally in terms of religion,
in terms of race, I never need to get better, ignorance is fine.
Whatever way you've evolved on however, first of all, he thinks he's more in tune
with what diverse communities around this country believe.
He's been for decades, a wealthy guy who lives in LA and doesn't talk to anyone,
who doesn't write for the New York times or host a show on Fox News.
And she's not saying any of the things that he's saying, he honestly can't
even keep up with a Congresswoman, let alone regular Americans.
>> I was there in a room with Bill Maher as he was telling,
just talking to his hair person.
I fulfilled things on Bill Maher's writer to fly to Sundance where
he had specifics about his private jet and what kind it needed to be,
how much we'd needed to be on board his jet which I thought was cool at the time.
Like this dude won't fly with other people to Sundance to do his special show in
2004.
I know that he knows he's the elite, he's the guy who brags about like I dropped
a million bucks, I dropped a million bucks for Obama, he knows who he is.
>> Broken down over time,
the LGBT population of America seems to be roughly doubling every generation.
According to a recent Gallup Poll, less than 1% of Americans born
before 1946 that's Joe Biden's generation ,identify that way.
2.6% of boomers do, 4.2% of gen x, 10.5% of millennials and 20.8% of gen z,
which means if we follow this trajectory, we will all be gay in 2054.
>> [LAUGH].
>> If you attend a small dinner party of typically very liberal upper income
Angelenos, it is not uncommon to hear parents who each have a trans
kid having a conversation about that.
What are the odds of that happening in Youngstown Ohio?
If this Spike and trans-children is all natural, why is it regional?
Either Ohio is shaming them or California is creating them.
>> [LAUGH].
>> So for all the issues that I have with Bill Maher and his focus on this and
him apparently not having a thought about whether there
might be regional shaming that is reducing the numbers or whatever.
The fact that he can say something like that knowing that his audience is gonna
laugh at the joke.
Was that a joke, was that a point, was that witty, was that incisive?
But his audience did like it, he does know his audience.
That is the last the only for many of these political comedians,
the skill that they have is knowing what their audience wants to hear.
Bill Maher has had it, with the fact that people in the LGBTQ
community feel like they can acknowledge that.
And even if he had, let's say that he had a point, let's say that there was for
some young people that they don't know exactly what they're
gonna identify as when they're 40.
But they briefly think that they're something, one of members of these groups.
Why is Bill Maher here, why does Bill Maher like so many right wingers care so
much about that if some freshman high schooler calls herself a lesbian?
And isn't sure enough of that for Bill Maher's standards,
why does he care about that?
But he does care about that, he really does care as so many right wingers do,
their life turns based on your self-dentification Francesca.
>> Absolutely, I mean again stop telling on yourself,
like what are you trying to say?
Are you trying to say that you care about the sexuality of high schoolers and kids?
Cuz that's weird, or are you trying to say that you yourself
are angry that you don't live or you didn't grow up?
At a time when it was a little bit minimally more free to come out and
be yourself and be and live your own truth?
Is that what's going on here, right?
That you're mad that other people live in a more accepting society, but
that's exactly right, that point about either Ohio is shaming them.
Yeah, Ohio and many, many, many states are consistently
shaming trans-kids, gay kids for their being themselves.
And so it's funny because he's in California, he's filming in LA and
a lot of his audience are tourists who are visiting LA.
And they sort of get barked in from the Santa Monica pier and
sent free tickets straight up.
This is how he feels the studio audience begging them to come in.
They're all like Midwesterners who are coming to California being look at all
the gays.
Meanwhile their kids are gay and
they're trying to shame that like it's just a weird really, really,
really bizarre concoction of comedy in the heaviest quotes possible.
>> There's something going on in the schools that never went on before.
Now I'm not in schools, [LAUGH] have no interaction with children whatsoever.
But I do understand this issue because I read accounts from parents, from
educators, from people and this is all over the country with american history.
We learned about the civil war, I mean they mentioned racism,
we understood slavery and Lincoln and blah blah blah.
But they didn't really go into it, anymore than gone with the wing goes into it.
It was there, but you didn't feel it viscerally,
now we're doing that and I think that's a good thing, people should understand that.
That's different than teaching that racism is the essence of America.
That's what people get upset about or involving children who are probably not
old enough or sophisticated enough to understand this very complicated issue.
Yes, people, our kids are taught and sometimes separated into groups,
oppressor and oppressed again.
Again, does a kid even know what those words mean,
would they gravitate towards that if you hadn't told them?
>> There are a lot of reasons to have a problem with that video.
A lot of really lazy thinking, a lot of needless surrendering to right wing
talking points, but just understand that.
Look, I'm not gonna say, I've never watched Bill Maher in like two years ago.
I did, but he has been seating massive ground of the right wing possible, whether
out of ignorance or because he actually agrees with them for literally decades.
All the stuff about political correctness,
right wing narrative that some people needlessly gave to them, they're doing
the same thing now on cancel culture as well as on critical race theory.
And there's a lot of lazy thinking there.
Now look, he did say some stuff that was okay.
He said it's good that we're learning more about blah blah blah because I learned
about Lincoln and blah blah blah.
That's a bad sign if like your example is slavery and Lincoln and blah blah blah.
We should learn more now.
He indicates that we should, but then he launches into, I hear these accounts of
the teachers and the parents and I don't think that it's right, what they're doing.
Okay. Well what are they doing?
You got some anecdotal information like separating into oppressed and oppressors.
What did one elementary school teacher do that?
Now look, if one elementary school teacher did that, is that good?
No, we might even cover it.
It's not a good thing to do.
But it is not the status quo of education.
It's not happening in classrooms around the country.
It is not what the republicans are saying.
And if you understand nothing, Bill Maher,
you should understand an opportunistic political narrative.
And the fact that you're just giving it to them.
And the stakes when you give it to them is what we understand about our history.
He said the idea that racism is the essence of America.
Now look, it's not the only essence of America, but
it has been at the core of America from the very beginning.
And it is not a bad thing to understand that understanding our history
being exposed to it and trying to learn from it.
Is that a bad thing, ignorance isn't better