Bill Maher calls Americans a foolish people; Said we lost in China – Deadline

You know it’s a good week Real time when the two stories that consumed the news this week – the accusations against Andrew Cuomo and the accusations against the Royal Family – take precedence over bigger topics such as crony capitalism and Chinese hegemony.

“We’re not losing to China,” Maher said on HBO Friday night. “We lost. We’re just waiting for the returns to come in.” It was part of a scathing segment of the “New Rules” where he called Americans “dumb people”.

“You are not going to win the battle of the 21st century if you are a foolish people, and Americans are a foolish people,” Maher said. “This is the classic phrase from Laurence of Arabia when Lawrence tells his Bedouin allies that as long as they remain a bickering bunch of tribes, they will remain a foolish people. Well, we’re stupid people now.

Maher then pivoted to China.

“You know who doesn’t care that there’s a stereotype of a Chinese in a Dr. Suess book?” China. The 1.4 billion of them could give a crouching tiger a f * ck. Because they are not stupid people.

“We all know China does bad things,” he said, “but there has to be something between a totalitarian government that knows what to do and a representative government that can’t do anything at all.”

Speaking of the latter, the Real time Host and guest comedian Larry Wilmore and author Scott Galloway took part in what Maher called “screen companies” – Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple. “Jeff Bezos lost $ 35 billion in his divorce and made it back in a month,” the host said.

Galloway, who is also a professor at NYU, responded with his own mind-boggling facts.

During the pandemic, “we have seen billionaires go from $ 1.9 trillion in wealth to $ 4 trillion,” he said. “One individual has added Hungary’s GDP to his net worth since the first virus – and that’s Elon Musk – just in time to ‘Peace, out’ and move to Texas so he doesn’t have to pay any taxes. ‘taxes.

“The dirty secret of this pandemic,” Galloway continued, “is that the richest 10%, if not the richest 1%, are living their best lives.”

These issues almost eclipsed the charges against Andrew Cuomo – of which Maher said: “Obviously if he was the head of a company he would have left” – and what he dismissed as “the thing. royal ”.