Funny, not funny ha ha, just funny that Maher would talk about “silly people” and why America is losing to China. Well, he should look in the mirror, because he and his fellow godless illiberal locusts of the left are the ones who have given us the great divide in our country. He mentions high speed rail in California…the reason we don’t have high speed rail is because we are a nation of individuals, where just about everybody over the age of 16 has a car and since the 50s we have a pretty good Interstate highway system. Or had. It still works in most of the country despite some states that spend more money on bullet trains to nowhere than fixing potholes. In China, they need rail and busses to get around. I suspect in Beijing they still have more bicycles than cars. And as far as building things, when you have no regulations, and your government is run by tyrants, that’s an easy thing to do. And besides serfs and slaves work cheap in China. Ask the Uighurs and the million or so in concentration camps. As for the idea that we have decaying airports in cities like NY or NJ or LA or any Dem controlled city – corruption. Let me do that over – that is Corruption with a big “C”. They squander their tax money on frivolous things like spending billions on bullet trains to nowhere. Also this Dem and Rino penchant for taxing and spending has given us an unsustainable deficit and debt. China has built their Navy and military literally on the INTEREST we pay on the debt we owe to China. And if you want to talk about what slows building or anything productive – you need look no further than the Trial Lawyers and Dem politicians they support and the Democrat regulations that makes it just about impossible to open a business, even a taco stand in America – well, maybe not for illegals…
Once upon a time, we had a unified country whose core values were shared. God. The Declaration of Independence. The Constitution. The Bill of Rights. Let’s face it – the first amendment has literally been destroyed, obliterated by cancel culture and “wokeism”. These illiberal lefties do not believe in the words of the Constitution or Declaration. They do not believe in God. They trot out the Constitution if it suits them then ignore it when it doesn’t. And the key is that like the sociopaths who run all tyrannies, they do not believe in a higher power than themselves. And that is the reason God is important to the survival of this country. Without God or at least an agnostic belief in a Higher power, as in Jefferson’s Deism – anything goes. Any corrupt Sociopath can become ruler – like Mao, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and the dozens of tin pot dictators where literally millions were starved and murdered in their wake. The tyrants of the left want to disarm law biding citizens – to make us all more compliant serfs. That would be our second amendment to the Constitution they look to destroy. As some bright guy once said, when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns – and the tyrants in power… Today, we have a godless illiberal left calling themselves progressives who are undermining our values at every turn. Couple that with corrupt politicians and the Monopolies and Oligarchies essentially controlling elections, this country is as divided as it has ever been – yes, including the Great War during the 1860s – our Civil War.
Some in power no doubt think that emulating the totalitarian Communist Chinese state is a good thing. That’s really not much better than those idiots who complemented Hitler for getting his trains to run on time. Yes, tyrannies are more efficient. But when we had a functioning democratic republic, we had enough incentive to make that system work. During the Depression we built the Empire State Building, the Hoover Damn, and the Golden Gate Bridge. Today, we can’t fix a pothole without ten bureaucrats signing off on the project.
A unified America no longer seems possible. I don’t see a massive war as in 1861 as the result, but I do see break away states that no longer obey the corrupt government in DC. What will this new Divided States of America look like? Whatever happens, I am quite sure China and the rest of America’s enemies will be quite happy with the chaos that ensues.
Maher may be a lefty comic that I usually find snarky and not that inciteful, but his point about America being a “silly country” is very true. Not to be picky, but Yen is Japanese not Chinese currency. Not funny. Saying Dick and Fuck is funny to his woke crowd. Not to me. Like much of what he and other not so inciteful lefty comics do – substitute profanity for substance. He’s no Lenny Bruce. The essential issue is quite true. But the reason we are a “silly country” is not really discussed. What he and his fellow illiberal locusts of the left do not seem to grasp is that THEY, their attack on the fundamental values of America, more than anything else, is the reason we have become a “silly country”.
And for this Lenny Bruce wannabe, the following is still funny, ha ha, inciteful, brilliant after more than 60 years: