Bill Maher: What do you think of Trump saying he'll go after entitlements if he's re-elected? Erik Erickson: Bulls**t. Bill Maher: Bulls**t that he says it? Erik Erickson: He's not going to do it. Nobody's going to do it. I mean this is what the president says... Bill Maher: But why say it then? Erik Erickson: Because he wanted more money from the Republicans in his budget for nuclear defense so they gave him more money by saying we'll deal with entitlements next time around. And next time around just like George W. Bush said he'll do it he won't actually do it. Alex Wagner: He's been pretty good about following up on all the big promises. I mean... They don't always get through, but like... Erik Erickson: There's no way. And even if the republicans... Paul Ryan wanted this forever, you had both houses of congress and a republican president, they wouldn't touch it. When we finally go bankrupt as a nation, they'll all deal with these issues and until then we're not going to.
Presentism. Yeah, this professor is right. It's just a way to congratulate yourself about being better than George Washington, because you have a gay friend and he didn't. But if he was alive today he would too. And if you were alive then you wouldn't.
He criticized the phenomenon known as presentism, which means judging everyone in the past by the standards of the present. It's the belief that people who lived a hundred or five hundred or a thousand years ago really should have known better. Which is so stupid. It's like getting mad at yourself for not knowing what you know now when you were 10. Stupid me spending all that time raising sea monkeys...
But its also true that much of history is indisputably factual because we have artifacts and coins and birth records and archaeology. And somebody in Mesopotamia kept a record of how much grain they ate. It's not all up in the air to change or delete or make up based on what makes you feel better today.
Who doesn't have moments from your past that make you cringe? Who hasn't said "I can't believe I said that. I can't believe I wore that. I can't believe I thought that. I can't believe I did that." You ate dirt. You wanted to be a Ghostbuster. You shoplifted gum. You tried to be a white break dancer. You wanted marry Scott Baio.
Trump won all the swing states. All seven. I mean he ran the table. Trump won so big, today he called the secretary of state in Georgia and he asked him to lose him 11,000 votes.
My message to the losers" "Losers, look in the mirror." No? Well, maybe you should. Sorry. Well, that's my feeling.
Now that graduation season has ended and we won't be spoiling anyone's big day, let's talk about what higher education in America really is: a racket that sells you a very expensive ticket to the upper-middle class.
“I don’t blame the kid – the smirking kid. I blame lead poisoning and bad parenting, and, oh yeah, I blame that fucking kid. What a little prick. Smirk face. Like that’s not a dick move at any age to stick your face in this elderly man....I do not get what Catholic priests see in these kids.”
“You kind of have to overlook the fact that Trump isn’t a virus from space. He came from the Republican Party, he’s the kind of logical end of the Reagan revolution. He’s not an anomaly, he’s not an aberration. It started long ago. All the things that are in Trumpism were there: The racial dog whistles, the anti-intellectualism, the anti-science. He’s just the end of the road for that. And so when I hear the anti-Trumpers, I applaud, but at the same time I go ‘yeah, but there’s something in there that we’re not really saying.’”
Host Bill Maher: “I’ve been hoping for a recession. People hate me for it, but it would get rid of Trump. So you shouldn’t hate me for it.” New York magazine columnist Josh Barro: “I mean recessions are really bad. People lose their jobs and homes and we shouldn’t wish for it.” Maher: “I know. It’s worth it.”
Liberal Bill Maher has noted that theres only one faith that kill you or wants to kill you if you draw a bad cartoon of the prophet and theres only on faith that kills you or wants to kill you if you renounce the faith. He added this is not just a small group of zealots. It's more than just a fringe element. He went on to say that comparison of Muslim violence to Christianity was liberal bullshit
“George Bush, over the Memorial Day weekend, held the Wounded Warrior 100K [bike ride], which was a kind of a celebration for wounded warriors who came back from Iraq, and I guess they walked or ran or something on their prosthetic limbs. And I found this to be nauseating. I mean, first he sends them off to war to get their limbs blown off, and then he has them over for a barbecue. This is like the Cleveland guy having a pizza party for those girls he had in his basement.”
Believing everything doesn't make you noble, it makes you gullible.
Democrats kept saying in the campaign, "You can't possibly think Trump is preferable to what we're selling," and many voters keep saying "Yes. We. Can. In fact, our primary reason voting for him is to create a bulwark against you. Because your side thinks silence is violence, and looting is not. Because you're the party of chasing speakers off college campuses, and making everyone walk on eggshells, and replacing "Let's not see color' with "Let's see it always and everywhere.'" formerly the position of the Ku Klux Klan. It would be so easy to win elections if we'd just drop this shit. Democrats need to listen to our new President-Elect's old boss OBAMA: This idea of purity and you're never compromised, and you're always politically woke and all that stuff -- you should get over that quickly. MAHER: Quickly -- like before they vote in Georgia.
Bill Maher: What do you think of Trump saying he'll go after entitlements if he's re-elected?
Erik Erickson: Bulls**t.
Bill Maher: Bulls**t that he says it?
Erik Erickson: He's not going to do it. Nobody's going to do it. I mean this is what the president says...
Bill Maher: But why say it then?
Erik Erickson: Because he wanted more money from the Republicans in his budget for nuclear defense so they gave him more money by saying we'll deal with entitlements next time around. And next time around just like George W. Bush said he'll do it he won't actually do it.
Alex Wagner: He's been pretty good about following up on all the big promises. I mean... They don't always get through, but like...
Erik Erickson: There's no way. And even if the republicans... Paul Ryan wanted this forever, you had both houses of congress and a republican president, they wouldn't touch it. When we finally go bankrupt as a nation, they'll all deal with these issues and until then we're not going to.