Can the American understand what I write here? I fear not.
Jul 23, 2021 10:45:44 #
A very sobering message, especially to our politicians (Republicans and Democrats) in Washington. "Real-Time" host Bill Maher closed his show Friday night by sounding the alarm on China's growing dominance over the United States. Why are Americans sleeping?
"You're not going to win the battle for the 21st century if you are such silly people. And Americans are all 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 fuck because they're not silly people. If anything, they are as serious as a prison fight."
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. "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 dick and the other half believes we have to stop the lizard people because they're eating babies. We are such 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 with each other, 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. Then the half-assed bill is forgotten. "China sees a problem and they fix it. They build a dam. We debate what to rename it."
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 binge-watch, they binge-build. When C***D hit W***n, 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." Our teacher's unions are finding every single way to keep themselves on the payroll, but keep students out of the classrooms. WAKE UP AMERICANS!! That means ALL of YOU.
Maher then blasted 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. Our country is going down the toilet. "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 and universities are offering courses in 'The Philosophy of Star Trek, 'The Sociology of Seinfeld,' and 'Surviving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse'? Can this be real? Well let me tell you, China is real. And they are eating our lunch. And believe me, in an hour, they'll be hungry again."
PS I don't like Bill Maher and his attitude, but I will give him credit when he is right, he is right!
"You're not going to win the battle for the 21st century if you are such silly people. And Americans are all 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 fuck because they're not silly people. If anything, they are as serious as a prison fight."
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. "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 dick and the other half believes we have to stop the lizard people because they're eating babies. We are such 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 with each other, 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. Then the half-assed bill is forgotten. "China sees a problem and they fix it. They build a dam. We debate what to rename it."
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 binge-watch, they binge-build. When C***D hit W***n, 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." Our teacher's unions are finding every single way to keep themselves on the payroll, but keep students out of the classrooms. WAKE UP AMERICANS!! That means ALL of YOU.
Maher then blasted 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. Our country is going down the toilet. "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 and universities are offering courses in 'The Philosophy of Star Trek, 'The Sociology of Seinfeld,' and 'Surviving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse'? Can this be real? Well let me tell you, China is real. And they are eating our lunch. And believe me, in an hour, they'll be hungry again."
PS I don't like Bill Maher and his attitude, but I will give him credit when he is right, he is right!
Jul 23, 2021 11:22:41 #
Jul 23, 2021 11:32:44 #
Capt-jack wrote:
A very sobering message, especially to our politic... (show quote)
Big government is not a representative government, but a government to serve it's in crowd while stealing money from US citizens, IMO. We've gone from a "can do" attitude to a "can't stop whining" attitude, especially in our young people, who have been subverted by sub par educations and l*****t activist college professors.....
Jul 23, 2021 11:44:12 #
debeda wrote:
Big government is not a representative government, but a government to serve it's in crowd while stealing money from US citizens, IMO. We've gone from a "can do" attitude to a "can't stop whining" attitude, especially in our young people, who have been subverted by sub par educations and l*****t activist college professors.....
Sadly, I have written for many years to many people about our schools and have been criticized and mocked many times saying I was wrong. Now I believe it is too late to fix, I see the end to America as we knew it for 240 years
is ending. Even today my congressmen can not see the writing on the wall and he has an R after his name.
Jul 23, 2021 11:53:16 #
Capt-jack wrote:
Sadly, I have written for many years to many people about our schools and have been criticized and mocked many times saying I was wrong. Now I believe it is too late to fix, I see the end to America as we knew it for 240 years
is ending. Even today my congressmen can not see the writing on the wall and he has an R after his name.
is ending. Even today my congressmen can not see the writing on the wall and he has an R after his name.
Yes😪😪😪😪😪 Makes you wonder why Obama wanted to get every kid in college. Obviously not just to saddle them with debtðŸ˜
Jul 23, 2021 12:17:35 #
lpnmajor
Loc: Arkansas
Capt-jack wrote:
A very sobering message, especially to our politic... (show quote)
The singular focus for both parties is gaining and keeping power......................................but none of them have a clue about what to do with it when they have it. All policies are designed to affect the next e******n, not deal with current, real, problems. BTW, it's much easier to fix an imaginary problem.
Jul 23, 2021 12:22:55 #
lpnmajor wrote:
The singular focus for both parties is gaining and keeping power......................................but none of them have a clue about what to do with it when they have it. All policies are designed to affect the next e******n, not deal with current, real, problems. BTW, it's much easier to fix an imaginary problem.
Totally agree with you on that! For politicians, as with most, self interest trumps altruism, or at least doing what you were hired to do.....
Jul 23, 2021 12:38:52 #
nwtk2007
Loc: Texas
debeda wrote:
Totally agree with you on that! For politicians, as with most, self interest trumps altruism, or at least doing what you were hired to do.....
I think Trump had it right. They couldn't buy him nor influence him.
Jul 23, 2021 12:54:55 #
nwtk2007 wrote:
I think Trump had it right. They couldn't buy him nor influence him.
Yep. It's why they h**ed him so much.
Jul 23, 2021 14:49:17 #
Jul 24, 2021 17:31:54 #
lpnmajor wrote:
The singular focus for both parties is gaining and keeping power......................................but none of them have a clue about what to do with it when they have it. All policies are designed to affect the next e******n, not deal with current, real, problems. BTW, it's much easier to fix an imaginary problem.
Hummm, the only imaginary problem I see is CV-19, just another flu, k**ls less than 1%. But low IQ Americans buy all the BS the left puts out like "WE ALL ARE GOING TO DIE IF WE DON'T WEAR A MASK" By the way, masks spread the v***s, as you wear it all day long and then you go home and take it off and drop it on the kitchen table
or dining room table! Can you see you may have brought billions of the bugs into your home for all to get?
Jul 25, 2021 02:49:34 #
Very Enlighten, informed and excellent exchange of views and information great posts thanks to all
Jul 25, 2021 11:35:37 #
Capt-jack wrote:
A very sobering message, especially to our politic... (show quote)
I don't like Bill Maher ether but agree with this also.
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