I read your plugs. You're going to Nashville, right? Is that in Arizona?
No, but it's No, but it's a red state. I mean, you you don't want to insult all the red states. You go there.
I go there and I usually say, "Really? Nashville? " That's what I said.
But there are plenty of intelligent people in Nashville and in Arizona. They come out to see you. Bill Maher is forced to brutally shut down one of his guests here in this episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, leaving his audience genuinely stunned.
We have Fran Leitz, Labowitz, however you say her last name. And Bill Mahar, I could tell he doesn't like to do this. He doesn't enjoy doing this to his guests.
He doesn't do it very often. But every once in a while, one of them just gets way out of hand. And you just have to put them in in in your in their place.
And I feel him. It's not in my blood to let this stuff slide either. Whenever people are just getting over the top, just way too ridiculous, you just got to say something.
And Bill Maher is one of those people, too. And he absolutely put this woke idiot in her place. Let's get into this clip here where Bill Maher goes after one of his guests for just their ridiculously woke takes here live on Real Time with Bill Maher.
Trip to the border. Will that help her close the gap with Trump in Arizona? Uh I don't think she needs Arizona.
I mean, I don't think anyone needs Arizona. I think I would I would stay in Arizona with Putin. Here, take Arizona.
Leave Ukraine. You're wearing cowboy boots. I mean, come on.
You're even kind of showing some of the local. You're going to I read your plugs. You're going to Nashville, right?
Is that in Arizona? No, but it's No, but it's a red state. I mean, you you don't want to insult all the red states.
You go there. I go there and I usually say, "Really? Nashville?
That's what I said. " But there are plenty of intelligent people in Nashville and in Arizona. They come out to see you.
Not plenty. But look at their politicians, okay? Look at who they elect.
Okay? I'm not saying every You elected Eric Adams. You just said he just I did not.
I know, but New York did. New York. Brilliant.
New York. I did not. Okay.
Do we ever learn lessons from I I get that this is like a bit and she she's trying to be funny, but like I'm I'm with this guy right here. Like, does anybody find this woman funny? I I don't find this stuff funny at all.
I find this face absolutely hilarious, though, because this is exactly how I'm feeling. Like, I get that this is a bit and everything, but if I, you know, put myself in Bill Maher's shoes, if I'm in his position right now and I got to deal with this, like, please just just shut the hell up. Like, just stop talking.
Let me run my show because you're ruining it right now. and she's getting some sympathy laughs from Bill Maher and from the other guests on the show, but she's not she's not funny, man. Like, like, does anybody please let me know in the comments if you find any of this stuff funny?
Like I said, if I'm Bill Maher in this situation, I'm pissed off. Like, please just shut the hell up. [applause] Next question.
Do you ever learn Do we ever really learn lessons from from history or are humans faded to make the same mistakes over and over again? Well, there's a famous Santiana quote about those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. And we do seem to it just to me it seems like the amount of time the gap between when we repeat the mistake gets shorter and shorter.
I mean, Trump was only president four years ago and they seem to have completely have amnesia about what that was like. Give us a few weeks. You never know.
We still We still don't know if we're going to repeat that mistake. Oh, we're not. I already put my marker down.
Okay. Okay. Good.
Yeah. No, then it's a counter example. No, I'm not even worried about it.
Um, you're not even worried about No, not at all. Really? Yeah.
No, no, no. He's definitely We did We did repeat that and and it I don't think it was a mistake. I think I don't think it was a mistake the first time either.
I think the mistake that a lot of people realize that they made was electing Joe Biden and electing a Democrat. And and I'm not saying that that Donald Trump is perfect. By no means is he perfect.
And I will never be one of those people that just praises everything Donald Trump does because I'm supposed to. He's doing a lot of things wrong. I think especially with this whole, you know, Iran situation.
And I know a lot of people in the chat will be like, "But we have to defend Israel at all costs. " It's like, I'm not even going to argue with you, man. Believe whatever you want to believe.
I I just I I don't think that we need to be doing that, but whatever. The mistake was electing Joe Biden. And a lot of people see that.
A lot of people saw that and they're not going to make that mistake again. So the theory holds, you know, you don't forget history so that you don't repeat the same mistake. The mistake that was made was electing Joe Biden.
The people didn't make that same mistake with electing Kla Harris. They elected Donald Trump again. Was it a perfect decision?
No. Will any president ever be an absolutely perfect president? No.
The answer is no. We're never going to have a perfect president. They're all going to make mistakes for one reason or another.
Um it's just unfortunate that the mistakes that Trump is making, it seems like, you know, he's supposed to be anti-establishment and, you know, too rich to be bought out and things like that. And it's just like he's, you know, it's it's feeling like he might be bought out a little bit or compromised in some sort of way to where he has to do Israel's bidding. It's unfortunate because I I really like the guy.
I think he's very entertaining. He's got to be the most entertaining president of all time, but it's just like a massive like stain on his resume from my perspective, which doesn't really matter. You know, I don't my resume of him, my my opinion of him doesn't matter at the end of the day, but that's just like my honest thoughts on it.
But anyway, the mistake that was not repeated was electing a Democrat. Definitely going to lose this. I hope you just I said it weeks ago and now the polls are but the polls will be even on an election day.
I promise you don't don't worry about it. Don't think about it. I don't think about it.
Just don't think about it. What do you think about it? And then even if he does win, well, you wouldn't have gone through all that stress.
[laughter] [applause] A better way. Better way. Uh, what do you make of comparisons between the Roman Empire and the US?
Are we a society on the brink of decline? H well, better food in Roman Empire. How do we know that?
How do we know what they ate? We know what they want. What?
How do we know? I'm going to give you a book that the Roman Empire. It's the everything of the Roman Empire.
Yeah, I've read books on the Roman Empire. I love One book. I'm going to eat one book.
Really? Okay. And and okay, so what did they eat?
Oh, I mean I think all through history food was more pure than the we eat now for for of course. Pasta. [laughter] You think the ancient Romans had pasta?
Yeah. I thought it was invented in China. It was.
But then they sent it to Italy. They invented pasta in China, but there was no connection between China and the Roman Empire. There was no there was that was the Roman.
I'm waiting for you all. You've all wrote the book on this. We have the gun.
really I mean he wrote the book. So the Roman Empire fell in the fifth century or some would say the 4th AD. I don't think there was connection.
Marco Polo was the first person. I'm just suggesting we should do some research. [laughter] There was connection but I don't think that this is the main the main issue.
[laughter] It's definitely not the main issue. I I I think again it's important to understand the differences between different historical periods and not just to make these analogies. If you think for instance about the collapse of the Roman Republic which is perhaps more pertinent to what the situation now is in the United States.
Yes. What we should understand is that in the ancient world it was simply impossible to maintain a large-scale democracy because it was impossible to maintain a large-scale conversation. Democracy is basically conversation.
Dictatorship is one person dictating everything. Democracy is lots of people trying to talk with each other rich decisions. Now the only examples we have of democracies in the ancient world are citystates like the Warren Republic or Athens or small tribes because you simply had no information technology to hold a conversation between millions of people spread over a vast territory.
So you don't have any example of a large scale democracy before the late modern age. Only then you have the information technology first newspapers then telegraph, radio, television that can maintain a large scale conversation and again the the the crucial question now is whether the new information technologies that we are just inventing like so like social media and AI might destroy democracy. I mean because democracy is built on top of information technology.
So if you have a major upheaval in information technology, there is an earthquake in democracy, which is what we are feeling right now. And he was going to say that. This guy's [clears throat] way too smart to be on this panel.
I'll be real with you. He's talking about actual issues and and things that could genuinely happen and, you know, through the basis of, you know, scientific fact and and and also some theory. And everybody else on this panel is just like trying to make funny jokes that aren't really funny.
And um it's it's kind of just like embarrassing and cringey to watch. Maybe this is funny to like old people or something. I don't know.
I don't find anything that this Fran person said. And you know, even when she she started to talk about we can just trade Arizona for Ukraine and and everything. Bill Maher had to shut her down because it's it's just ridiculous statements.
Like I get you're trying to be funny. Shock value. Haha.
But like it's just not funny. Like it's not even like not funny in the leftist way where I'm so offended clutching my pearls. It's just genuinely just just not funny.
Like I I don't know what to say. I can't, you know, pretend like that that wasn't extremely cringe. And Bill Maher couldn't either.
It's just just not a funny joke. And just just too woke, man. Just these people just too woke.
And and once you become too woke, you can't be funny anymore, you know? It's just not possible to be funny and politically correct all the time. It actually goes like directly against comedy, you know?
Like it's like Bill Maher is not politically correct all the time. That's why he's actually funny sometimes. Anyway, let me know in the comments you guys think about this whole episode of Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill Maher goes after one of his woke guests, friend, Levit Levitz, however the hell you say her woke ass name.
Let me know in the comments what you guys think about this whole Bill Maher versus his guest situation.
