Bill Maher sounds alarm on China's dominance over US: 'They're eating our lunch'

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Bill Maher sounds alarm on China's dominance over US: 'They're eating
our lunch'

'Do you know who doesn't care that there's a stereotype of a Chinese man
in a Dr. Seuss book? China'
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News


"Real Time" host Bill Maher closed his show Friday night by sounding the
alarm on China's growing dominance over the United States.

"You're not going to win the battle for the 21st century if you are a
silly people. And Americans are a silly people," Maher began the
monologue, alluding to a "Lawrence of Arabia" quote.

"Do you know who doesn't care that there's a stereotype of a Chinese man
in a Dr. Seuss book? China," he said. "All 1.4 billion of them couldn't
give a crouching tiger flying f--- because they're not a silly people.
If anything, they are as serious as a prison fight."

— Bill Maher
Maher acknowledged that China does "bad stuff" from the concentration
camps of Uyghur Muslims to its treatment of Hong Kong.

But he stressed, "There's got to be something between an authoritarian
government that tells everyone what to do and a representative
government that can't do anything at all."

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"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 said, pointing to China's global Silk Road
infrastructure initiative.

He continued: "In China alone, they have 40,000 kilometers of high-speed
rail. America has none. ... We've been having Infrastructure Week every
week since 2009 but we never do anything. Half the country is having a
never-ending woke competition deciding whether Mr. Potato Head has a
d--- and the other half believes we have to stop the lizard people
because they're eating babies. We are a silly people.


"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, kick it down the road, and then write a
bill where a half-assed solution doesn't kick in for 10 years," Maher
explained. "China sees a problem and they fix it. They build a dam. We
debate what to rename it."

"China sees a problem and they fix it. They build a dam. We debate what
to rename it."

— Bill Maher
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The HBO star cited how it took "ten years" for a bus line in San
Francisco to pass its environmental review and how it took "16 years" to
build the Big Dig tunnel in Boston, comparing that to a 57-story
skyscraper that China built in "19 days" and Beijing's Sanyuan Bridge,
which was demolished and rebuilt in "43 hours."

"We bingewatch, they bingebuild. When COVID hit Wuhan, the city built a
quarantine center with 4,000 rooms in 10 days and they barely had to use
it because they quickly arrested the rest of the disease," Maher said.
"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've
made robots that check a kid's temperature and got their asses back in
school. Most of our kids are still pretending to take Zoom classes while
they watch TikTok and their brain cells fully commit ritual suicide."

Maher then blasted Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio,
accusing him of degrading school standards by eliminating merit and
substituting a lottery system for admittance to schools for advanced
learners.

"Do you think China's doing that, letting political correctness get in
the way of nurturing their best and brightest?" Maher continued. "Do 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, they'll be hungry again."

Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News. Follow him on
Twitter @JosephWulfsohn.

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On 3/28/2021 4:13 PM, a425couple wrote:
> from
> https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bill-maher-sounds-alarm-on-chinas-dominance-over-us-theyre-eating-our-lunch
>
> Bill Maher sounds alarm on China's dominance over US: 'They're eating
> our lunch'
>
> 'Do you know who doesn't care that there's a stereotype of a Chinese man
> in a Dr. Seuss book? China'
> By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News
>
> "Real Time" host Bill Maher closed his show Friday night by sounding the
> alarm on China's growing dominance over the United States.
>
> "You're not going to win the battle for the 21st century if you are a
> silly people. And Americans are a silly people," Maher began the
> monologue, alluding to a "Lawrence of Arabia" quote.
>
> "Do you know who doesn't care that there's a stereotype of a Chinese man
> in a Dr. Seuss book? China," he said. "All 1.4 billion of them couldn't
> give a crouching tiger flying f--- because they're not a silly people.
> If anything, they are as serious as a prison fight."
>

Prince Feisal: With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me,
it is merely good manners.
T.E. Lawrence: So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe,
so long will they be a little people, a silly people--greedy,
barborous and cruel.

T.E. Lawrence: Sherif! As long as you Arabs are a bunch of small
tribes, you are a small people, a silly people: greedy, barbarous,
and cruel.

T.E. Lawrence : There may be honor among thieves, but there's none
in politicians.

T.E. Lawrence : ...nor to drive away the Turks. He will come...
because it is his pleasure.
[pause]
Auda abu Tayi : Thy mother mated with a scorpion.