It’s that time of week again, so here are four fine video clips from Bill’s show last night. Enjoy!
Monologue: Apprentice: White House Edition
Who is the biggest criminal, Cohen or Giuliani? Neither.
He does have a point. A lot of my writing is intentionally offensive, because that’s often the only way to get folks to pay attention, but I have no hatred of people. I hate some of the things people do.
Oh Stormy! Oh Stormy! Bring back that Stormy day! I look forward to the lawsuit’s discovery process.
Stoners did a dumb thing by picking 4/20 as a day to celebrate weed. It’s the day Republicans celebrate Hitler’s birthday. I like supporting legalization. However, if it is the core issue, I’m concerned the election might go up in smoke.
Good one, Bill!
RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!
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Will watch ltr. Bill’s the best.
Bill – Monologue – When I meet my friend at Starbucks, I make a point of being early, and, though she hasn’t said so, I think she makes a point of being a little late. And this isn’t even a purpose built Starbucks; it’s in a supermarket. (And we virtually never order.)
Jordan Peterson – It seems obvious to me that there is a difference between discussing a subject which has “built in offense” and being gratuitously offensive, a difference which Jordan Peterson doesn’t seem to get – and Bill doesn’t either.
Avenatti – Bill is worried that this is taking attention away from “real issues”? If they can take the regime’s attention away from those real issues, they are doing America a tremendous service.
New Rules – Well, there are certainly worse issues than marijuana. (It remains to be seen whether we can come up with a better one.) It is both a health care issue and a prison reform issue, so there’s that.
Overtime
Monologue — “First Trump goes to Washington, now Giuliani. Congratulations New York, you’re slowly getting rid of your rat problem!”
Jordan B Peterson — Forgotten today too often is what Jesus demonstrated: love the sinner, hate the sin. We have become inured to other people’s thoughts and therefore them, literally equating them with each other. Look at the LGBTQ community as sort of an example. Being LGBTQ means these people were born with different inclinations, they did not choose this inclination. They are children of God and more than deserve to be loved. But in conservative Christian circles in the US, they are condemned for being LGBTQ. Many would make being LGBTQ illegal, and some even, would condemn them to death. Certainly other places in the world, for example Uganda, have laws against being LGBTQ and they are regularly beaten and killed. There are problems in Canada too but not to the same extent (by a long shot) as the US. Peterson is interesting to listen to and I dare say, I would love to read his book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. Interesting to me, Peterson is also a Canuck. Check him out on Wikipedia.
I will note that he does not list Ayn Rand as an influence. If anything, she may have sent him in the opposite direction.
Michael Avenatti — Another lawyer in politics? It appears that he is a bear with a sore paw and there is no way that Drumpf can out run him!
4/20 — Bill has a point. However, like you Puddy Tat, “if it is the core issue, I’m concerned the election might go up in smoke.” There are multiple issues and each has a following. It would be important for everyone to remember that.
Maher’s comedy is a necessity in these ugly times.
Bill Maher #1: I bet imagining tax-dollars going towards office furniture for Pruit and Carson was déjà vu for many.
Bill Maher #2: I’ve seen too many extreme right-wingers cut off “snowflakes” who said they found their remarks offensive with: “If you are so sensitive, then being offended is your problem.” It’s hard to draw a line where people are necessarily being offensive in order to talk about certain issues, as Peterson maintains, and people who are offensive just because they will know it’ll hurt the people they hate.
Bill Maher #3: I wish Avenatti good luck with his lawsuit against Drumpf on behalf of stormy. But please do not let it go to his head when he wins and go into politics. I’m sorry, I can’t fathom why people would think that a much publicised win in court would be a good basis to become a politician and represent “we, the people” for the good of the country and not himself.
Bill Maher #4: 4/20 meant nothing to me, living in a country where the use of pot, but not growing it, has been accepted in Ditch society for longer than I remember. To a progressive who has never touched the stuff herself, making it’s legalisation the single issue for Democrats sounds rather silly (but very humorous in a show like Bill’s. Single Payer Healthcare should appeal much more and to all, even some Republican voters.
To show how accepted pot is in The Netherlands the following story my husband came home with last Sunday. He was out cycling for his usual workout on a beautiful sunny day, with a lot of other people out and about doing the same. At some point he was cycling behind a couple, of which the man was skeelering in appropriate gear at quite some speed and the woman was next to him on what we call an e-bike, a bicycle with an assisting electrical motor. When my husband passed them (he was going just a little faster than they were), he got a strong whiff of marijuana and looked back to see that the man was smoking a large joint while merrily skating along.
I love your take on Peterson.
As I’m sure you probably know, 4/20 wasn’t the date, but the TIME the “Waldos” stoners from San Rafael High School met after school to toke a bit out by the wall (hence, their nickname “Waldos”).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)
Instead we can celebrate 6/1 for weed. On 6/1/67, we had the first Great American Smoke-in at the Grateful Dead concert in Tompkins Square Park in NYC. I was there. Well over a thousand people were smoking weed. The cops were hands-off and most toked with us.
Thanks all. Hugs!