It’s that time of week again, and I’m happy to share two excellent video clips from Bill’s show last night. Enjoy!! But first, I’d like to explain why I continue to share Bill’s work, when some reject him completely over his N-Word comment. Bill and I are both satirists, so I shoot from the hip, based on stream of thought. Sometimes, things don’t come out the with the meaning I intended. Because I’m writing, I catch myself most of the time, feel appalled at myself, and correct the mistake, before it’s ever published. Even then, JD still finds cause to reign me in from time to time, so I can explain how a statement was intended. A live comedian does not have that luxury. I know what Bill was trying to say. He was telling the Republican that they treat Americans like slaves, and that he (Bill) was the wrong kind of slave. He has followed up with three separate apologies, and I think forgiveness is in order, even though I have been a civil rights activist for over 50 years. Bill is too valuable an asset for and too strong a supporter of civil rights to throw him away over a mistake.
‘Mueller is so far up Trump’s ass, he had to tell Putin to scoot over!’ Love it!
New Rule: Make America Shop Again
Shoppers have no money, because Republican billionaires have all the money, and they don’t shop.
When you finish laughing…
RESIST!!
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Well said, TC. Bill #1. Such good news, ‘poop tweet’. He can panic now. LOL
Bill #2. Shop? What’s that?? Yes, a lot of stores that I used to shop at (years ago) are gone now. I don’t know about the malls, as I don’t drive up there anymore. Kind of a shame.
Back story – I see your interpretation as EXACTLY what he meant. I have defended him too – and as part of that defense, I might add that even from the beginning Egberto Willies posted that he wasn’t offended – and now that Ice Cube (and who else was it?) has been invited to his show to chew him out AT HIS REQUEST – my God, who does that?! I’d hate to lose him too.
Bill I – You CAN’T make this stuff up! But, if you are Bill, you can make it even funnier.
New Rule: Yes, this is partly my fault. Because it hurts to move, and becomes so tiring when the pain becimes exhausing. I don’t shop in stores very much at all any more. I have never enjoyed shopping in stores anyway, of course, but now I am an extreme non-shopper. But couldn’t we get more people employed in renewable energy? And conserving wildlife and wild spaces requires a lot of labor too.
Such a beautiful frame and so compatible with a peaceful, non-violent but insistent RESISTANCE
Thanks Joanne.
Isn’t she good at those?!!?
Aw, gee – thanks!
YVW!!
Bill1- “Panic,” a simple, concise word describing intense adrenalin flow. Republican panic, a simple concise phrase describing adrenalin flow in the bowels. this may really clean their brains out!
Bill2- Hey, mining is a MANLY job, and if Rumpy is anything it is manly, bigly…just ask him! If you do, first he’ll ask Tillerson to take a step back, then he’ll reel it in and take it to the shop to be gold plated.
#1 — I too liked that line but I sure do hope that Mueller is wearing a bio-hazard suit and proper breathing apparatus! Drumpfenfarten is a toxic cesspool. I don’t care about Putin, but Mueller yes.
#2 — Here, Sears is on its way out, done in by online shopping mostly. And malls? . . . I have not been in the big local mall (Coquitlam Centre), other than to a restaurant on the outside, in probably a year. There is however a seniors’ walking club at the mall before the mall opens on Tuesdays and Thursdays. When all the stores are gone, North America will be covered in seniors’ fitness centres.
With all the crap that comes from Republicans – and after years of admiring Bill’s humor and wisdom, I am not going to hold one mistake against him. We NEED comedians like him, both for frankness and so that we can find some humor in what is otherwise misery.
Thank you much for posting these, TC –
Thanks for the much appreciated Bill Maher videos, TomCat. But most of all I appreciate your excellent comment, explaining why you continue posting his satire despite the controversy he’s created with unfortunate joke. Your spot on with your analysis of how he came to make his mistake and you’re quite right we should get over it after he has sincerely apologized for making this mistake.
Bill Maher #1: “This is like Watergate if Deep Throat was Nixon.” and Drumpf “called in an emergency flattery meeting.”; that Bill has such a wonderful way with words and the excellent timing of a very good stand-up comedian; the world would have been so much grayer if he had been fired for taking him over the top on occasion.
Bill Maher #2: Bill’s analysis what man-child Drumpf’s jobs are all about: the kind he sees on Sesame Street, really nails it. A very funny take on American jobs under Drumpf, but with the very serious and well thought-out undertone Bill always brings to “New Rules”.
Thanks all!