Left-wing HBO host Bill Maher slammed the "never ending woke
competition" that is engulfing America, warning that it has turned
Americans into a "silly people" and that China is "eating our lunch" as
a result.
"And finally, new rule, you're not gonna win the battle for the 21st
century if you are a silly people and Americans are a silly people,"
Maher said on his show "Real Time" on Friday. "That's the classic
phrase from Lawrence of Arabia when Lawrence tells his Bedouin allies
that as long as they stay a bunch of squabbling tribes, they will
remain a silly people. Well, we're the silly people now. You know who
doesn't care that there's a stereotype of a Chinese man in a Dr. Seuss
book? China. All 1.4 billion of them could give a Crouching Tiger
flying f**k . because they're not a silly people."
"In two generations, China has built 500 entire cities from scratch,
moved the majority of their huge population from poverty to the middle
class and mostly cornered the market in 5G and pharmaceuticals. Oh, and
they bought Africa," Maher continued. "Their New Silk Road initiative
is the biggest infrastructure project in history, indebting not just
that continent, but large parts of Asia, Europe and the Middle East to
the people who built their roads, bridges and ports."
Maher said that while China is dominating in seemingly every arena that
they enter, America is struggling because "half the country's having a
never ending woke competition deciding whether Mr. Potato Head has a
d*ck" while others believe in conspiracy theories.
"We're not losing to China. We lost," Maher said. "The returns just
haven't all come in yet. They made robots that check a kid's
temperature and got their a**es back in school. Most of our kids are
still pretending to take zoom classes while they watch Tik Tok and
[their] brain cells slowly commit ritual suicide."
"There is a progressive trend now to sacrifice merit for equity,
colleges are chucking the SAT and ACT test and in New York Mayor de
Blasio announced merit would no longer decide who gets into the schools
for advanced learners, but rather a lottery system," he concluded. "You
think China's doing that? Letting political correctness get in the way
of nurturing their best and brightest? You think Chinese colleges are
offering courses in the philosophy of Star Trek, the sociology of
Seinfeld, and Surviving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse? Those are real,
and so is China and they are eating our lunch. And believe me in an
hour, though, they'll be hungry again."
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TRANSCRIPT:
BILL MAHER, HBO HOST: And finally, new rule, you're not gonna win the
battle for the 21st century if you are a silly people and Americans are
a silly people. That's the classic phrase from Lawrence of Arabia when
Lawrence tells his Bedouin allies that as long as they stay a bunch of
squabbling tribes, they will remain a silly people. Well, we're the
silly people now. You know who doesn't care that there's a stereotype
of a Chinese man in a Dr. Seuss book? China. All 1.4 billion of them
could give a Crouching Tiger flying f**k . because they're not a silly
people. If anything, they are as serious as a prison fight. Look, we
all know China does bad stuff. They break promises about Hong Kong
autonomy, they put Uyghurs in camps and punish dissent and we don't
want to be that, but there's got to be something between authoritarian
government that tells everyone what to do, and a representative
government that can't do anything at all.
In two generations, China has built 500 entire cities from scratch,
moved the majority of their huge population from poverty to the middle
class and mostly cornered the market in 5G and pharmaceuticals. Oh, and
they bought Africa. Their New Silk Road initiative is the biggest
infrastructure project in history, indebting not just that continent,
but large parts of Asia, Europe and the Middle East to the people who
built their roads, bridges and ports. If you want to go anywhere in the
world these days, you better have a yen for travel. Yeah.
In China alone, they have 40,000 kilometers of high speed rail. America
has none. Our fastest train is the train that goes around the zoo.
California wanted to build high speed rail connecting the entire state
but alas, could not, we're 6 billion in the hole just trying to finish
the track connecting the vital hubs of Bakersfield and Merced. One
small step for nobody one giant leap if you're a raisin. On a national
level, we've been having infrastructure week every week since 2009. But
we never do anything. Half the country's having a never ending woke
competition deciding whether Mr. Potato Head has a d*ck and the other
half believes we have to stop the lizard people because they're eating
babies. We are a silly people. Even when we all agree on something,
like getting rid of the penny, no the inertia, the a** covering, the
graph, the lawyers, the cowardice, nothing ever moves in this impacted
colon of a country. We see a problem and we ignore it, lie about it,
fight about it, endlessly litigate it, sunset clause it, it kick it
down the road and then write a bill where a half a**ed solution doesn't
kick in for 10 years.
China sees a problem and they fix it. They build a dam. We debate what
to rename it. That's why their airports look like this. And ours look
like this. In San Francisco, it took 10 years just to get to bus lines
through environmental review. The big dig a tunnel in Boston took 16
years and don't get me started on my solar [inaudible].
China once put up a 57-story skyscraper in 19 days. They demolished and
rebuilt the Sanyuan Bridge in Beijing in 43 hours. We binge watch, they
binge build. When COVID hit Wuhan, the city built a quarantine center
with 4000 rooms in 10 days, and they barely had to use it because they
quickly arrested the spread of the disease. They were back to throwing
raves in swimming pools. While we were stuck at home surfing the dark
web for black market Charmin.
We're not losing to China. We lost. The returns just haven't all come
in yet. They made robots that check a kid's temperature and got their
a**es back in school. Most of our kids are still pretending to take
zoom classes while they watch Tik Tok and they're brain cells slowly
commit ritual suicide. As George Bush once said, `is our children
learning.' There is a progressive trend now to sacrifice merit for
equity, colleges are chucking the SAT and ACT test and in New York
Mayor de Blasio announced merit would no longer decide who gets into
the schools for advanced learners, but rather a lottery system. You
think China's doing that? Letting political correctness get in the way
of nurturing their best and brightest? You think Chinese colleges are
offering courses in the philosophy of Star Trek, the sociology of
Seinfeld, and Surviving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse? Those are real,
and so is China and they are eating our lunch. And believe me in an
hour, though, they'll be hungry again.
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Trump won.