Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime - Episode #504: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Michael Render (a.k.a Killer Mike), Carl Hulse, Rick Wilson, Betsy Woodruff

Episode Date: August 17, 2019

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Will Hong Kong become an issue for the Democratic presidential hopefuls? Well... Already is. Yeah, a little bit. It's the one piece of China policy where they can actually be tougher than the president because the president doesn't give a shit about human rights, which is why he hasn't talked about the mass incarceration

of Uyghur Muslims in China, and which is why he's acting like she is going to be able to just magically fix this problem, you know? So, yeah, it presents an opportunity for Democrats to reach out to the community of Americans who are really pissed about China without, you know, without trying

to compete with Trump on his specific... Tough when you've got a trade war going, though. Nancy Pelosi always made this a huge issue, human rights in China. I would totally expect them to really emphasize this and try and, you know, put Trump in a corner on this. As I should. It shows that he's weak. Uh, Carl, would any gun

control legislation survive the Republican majority on the Supreme Court. That's a great point. Well, that is a really, really great question. They can pass all the legislation they want, which is tough to begin with, but then, right. Senator White House, who you had on earlier, filed a brief in the court this week, basically telling them to stay away from the gun control issue, because the Republican nominees on the Supreme Court were carefully screened for their strong Second Amendment positions,

and Republicans have blocked other Democratic judges because of this. So I'm not sure it would survive. You know, the famous Scalia decision is the law of the land. I'll make a way to get there. I would argue it weakens black Democratic state-run people who are looking to run for statewide seats. What does? Wait, where are we? I bet that pushing the Second Amendment line in the Deep South,

pushing the Second Amendment line in the Deep South, not only will turn out more Republican, motor vase from the white worker class and white rural class, you begin to keep black working class people and men in particular at home. Because again, I live in Atlanta, but that's in Georgia. Georgia's a radically different place from Atlanta.

And if I'm driving to South Georgia and North Florida, I have a concealed weapons license. There's not a time that I don't have a weapon on. Right. I think in the gun conversation, I don't know that people recognize the extent to which the NRA is in chaos right now. Yeah. I've been covering conservative movement politics for years, and

I have never seen people in the broader pro-gun community as pissed off and as interested in complaining to reporters about the way the NRA is operating, the way it's spending donor money, than they have been in the last six months. It's really crazy.

It turned out the NRA is pretty swampy. Yes, very swampy. You's dropped right now, Mike? Huh? You're strapped right now? No, I'm in California. I couldn't admit if I was. Right.

But I got homies that. On hood, I got some homies out here. You got my ass too, right? I got you. I got you. I got you. All right. Stand behind me.

All right. Mike, what did you think of Cardi B's summit with Bernie Sanders? Man. They had a, I would get a week's paid. I was so encouraged because this is a country that prompt. Well, this is a country of vagrants, unwarrants, and protesters. In our inception, right? We're essentially the hood of the United Kingdom.

No, that's Australia. Yeah, I know right. That's right. That's right. Australia would be like ghetto. But Cardi represents a young Afro-Latina woman from poor and working class background who has now used her platform

when she could have become far more conservative, made her money and walked away. She used it to engage not only for her own self-interest, but the self-interest on behalf of her people. She's now probably in a 40, 35% to 45% tax bracket. And she said, I don't mind paying my money. I just would like my money to go other places besides military. I'd like it to go in education.

And I think that's what my grandparents wanted. When they moved from the Deep South, it's what your parents want. So for me, seeing her participate in it invigorates me because I know other young women, 18, 19, 21 years old, who may not be going to college for four and six years degrees, but maybe going to beauty school, maybe working menial jobs. It makes them active. Okay, well, that's an interesting point then,

because Bernie, who you support. Yes. Okay, he's for free college. I've raised this point before. Why should people who don't go to college be subsidizing the ones who do because the people who go to college are going to make a lot more money. College is not free. Somebody's going to be paying for that

college. I don't understand why the people who get the benefit of it shouldn't be paying for it. College and trade school. And this is from a dad who has had children who went to both. My oldest son went to Omnetech Trade and Learned Computer Engineering and things of that nature and sound engineering. My daughter did two years. She did the same two years twice. I mean in Savannah State. You have 21 grand.

I love it. That's my baby. Really sticks in your mind there, doesn't it? Yeah, I know. But he offered college and trade school. Part of being an American is being a steward for the next generation of Americans. My grandparents worked in fields. My grandmother went to college. My grandfather toiled on a blue-collar job so that my sisters and I could then have post-secondary education.

I don't mind, as an American now, investing in the greater America. If we're going to build an infrastructure, you've got to have carpenters and electricians. If that's one of your children, that's fine by me. Okay. Rick Wilson would bringing the troops back from Afghanistan give Trump enough political capital to win in 2020. I haven't heard that race. No, what it's going to do is provide video of the Taliban cutting women's heads off.

Right. And stoning women to death. It's returning to a state of medieval savagery. It's making it... But let's boycott Israel. Making Afghanistan great again. Because that's where the real Nazis are. I would like to...

Yes. It matters of talking about immigration. You know, there's a group of Folasche Jews out of Eastern Africa that are in Israel, too. Right, yep. And I would like to say in our talk about Israel, let's not forget there's a Palestinian group of people living there, and that conflict is there, and we know about it. Many of us have Jewish and Palestinian friends. As American, it's something that you constantly are balancing. But let's not forget that there's what they call Beta Israel or the Eastern African Jews that are there, and they also are not treated the best by government.

And we should be in our relation and our growth of our relationship within Israel be encouraging. Because there was seven, nine years ago, women were being given in vitro and not given the full spectrum of the dangers and things that are going on. So let's make sure that in our talk with Israel that we don't leave out that there's a bigger. Yes. Because it's government. It's not about religion. There was a big exodus from Ethiopia. Exactly.

Exactly. Exactly. And were they connected in some way? the Rastas are... Well, the Rastafarians are... Aren't they from Ethiopianism? Because they worship Hili Salasi. Yeah, but that's Christianity.

Like, the oldest Christian Bible is in Ethiopia. But prior to European... But why do the Rostas worship this Ethiopian emperor... Why do white people worship a Caesar who looks like a beach bump? I don't know. But people need something to worship that doesn't look like them. Who do we worship?

But what I do know is... What we know is Abrahamic religion started in that Eastern Horn in Africa. because so it affects people differently. But let's just not forget that there's an old, thousands of year old group of Jewish people called Falosha's that are in Israel, too, and they need to be treated with love and in respect.

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