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question everything

(47,510 posts) Sat Nov 3, 2018, 12:33 AM Nov 2018

Bill Maher today was the best

I certainly agree with one point - and I have made it before - that historians telling us that "this, too, shall pass" are wrong.

No, we've never had times like that before. I, personally blame social media. It just put everyone on hyperspinning.
Even here, on DU, most of the "greatest threads" are twits.

This https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/23/nazi-german-american-bund-rally-madison-square-garden-215522 was scary. No, he said, this is not Nuremberg 1934, this is Madison Square Garden in 1934.

And I agreed with Barbra Streisand complaining about the networks showing the clips of all of Trump rallies. We start watching the network news, or one of the MSNBC programs and I just tune everything out. I just cannot watch this.

Bari Weiss was the first guest and it was heartfelt.

I hope that it will soon be posted here. Rhiannon12866 please?

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Bill Maher today was the best (Original Post) question everything Nov 2018 OP

I lost my hbo because of att owning direct tv and taking off hbo on Dish. kimbutgar Nov 2018 #1

Already on YouTube question everything Nov 2018 #2

Thank you kimbutgar Nov 2018 #9

This clip is gone, but our trusty Rhiannon12866 for the rescue question everything Nov 2018 #16

I have at&t u verse and have to pay extra for HBO mnhtnbb Nov 2018 #15

The lesson that any human can be turned into doing the work of psychopaths applegrove Nov 2018 #3

Thank you, Applegrove, for your thoughtful post. Haggis for Breakfast Nov 2018 #5

Sad times. But not the time to be sad. Time to fight. applegrove Nov 2018 #10

Bari Weiss is awful Blecht Nov 2018 #4

She talked about Pittsburgh, her hometown, her synagogue question everything Nov 2018 #6

Thanks -- I'll give it a watch Blecht Nov 2018 #8

In her speaking of rising anti-Semitism misanthrope Nov 2018 #11

No. I don't think this was the time question everything Nov 2018 #12

To read more about using Israel to justify their anti semitism, read here question everything Nov 2018 #13

She came down on the right side at the end tonight. It was very powerful. I learnt applegrove Nov 2018 #7

The opening monologue was one of his best. mnhtnbb Nov 2018 #14

I stopped watching Maher after he began spewing Islamophobic hate. jcmaine72 Nov 2018 #17

I think that he likes to be an equal opportuniy offender question everything Nov 2018 #18

kimbutgar

(21,172 posts)

1. I lost my hbo because of att owning direct tv and taking off hbo on Dish.

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Sat Nov 3, 2018, 12:45 AM

Nov 2018

question everything

(47,510 posts)

2. Already on YouTube

Reply to kimbutgar (Reply #1)

Sat Nov 3, 2018, 12:46 AM

Nov 2018

kimbutgar

(21,172 posts)

9. Thank you

Reply to question everything (Reply #2)

Sat Nov 3, 2018, 12:58 AM

Nov 2018

question everything

(47,510 posts)

16. This clip is gone, but our trusty Rhiannon12866 for the rescue

Reply to kimbutgar (Reply #9)

Sat Nov 3, 2018, 01:53 PM

Nov 2018

and I like it that she separates the clips

https://www.democraticunderground.com/12232744

mnhtnbb

(31,397 posts)

15. I have at&t u verse and have to pay extra for HBO

Reply to kimbutgar (Reply #1)

Sat Nov 3, 2018, 06:37 AM

Nov 2018

but it's less than $10. a month. Worth it to me.

applegrove

(118,732 posts)

3. The lesson that any human can be turned into doing the work of psychopaths

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Sat Nov 3, 2018, 12:47 AM

Nov 2018

is a good one. The US is not immune. 60 Minutes did a story on that last year: they went to villages in eastern Europe where the parents of people alive today participated in the mass killing of Jews in WWII. It was only when the parents passed on that the people who were children at the time pointed out the known graves to war crimes investigators. Their parents did not because they felt complicit. In village after village the same thing happened. Liberals think they are immune but they are not. No human is immune. No country is. Genocide is a purely human series of events that take place under certain leaders and circumstances. We need to own what the US could become if we don't fight. If we don't get out the vote of everyone we know.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)

5. Thank you, Applegrove, for your thoughtful post.

Reply to applegrove (Reply #3)

Sat Nov 3, 2018, 12:50 AM

Nov 2018

applegrove

(118,732 posts)

10. Sad times. But not the time to be sad. Time to fight.

Reply to Haggis for Breakfast (Reply #5)

Sat Nov 3, 2018, 12:58 AM

Nov 2018

Blecht

(3,803 posts)

4. Bari Weiss is awful

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Sat Nov 3, 2018, 12:48 AM

Nov 2018

I have the show recorded and will watch it later.

I was originally planning to skip over her segment -- she is always such a horrible proponent of bothsiderism -- can you tell me why I should listen to her tonight?

question everything

(47,510 posts)

6. She talked about Pittsburgh, her hometown, her synagogue

Reply to Blecht (Reply #4)

Sat Nov 3, 2018, 12:52 AM

Nov 2018

She was the first guest. Talked about the victims that she knew, about the increase of anti semitism.

And at the end, chastised those Jews who still love Trump because of his support of Israel and told them that it was time of reckoning, of realizing that supporting him is against the traditional teaching.

If you watch the clip - already on the Video forum, she is from the 7 min to the 15.

Blecht

(3,803 posts)

8. Thanks -- I'll give it a watch

Reply to question everything (Reply #6)

Sat Nov 3, 2018, 12:57 AM

Nov 2018

I can't stand her NY Times work, and her previous appearances on Real Time have pissed me off to no end, but this sounds different.

misanthrope

(7,419 posts)

11. In her speaking of rising anti-Semitism

Reply to question everything (Reply #6)

Sat Nov 3, 2018, 01:27 AM

Nov 2018

did she also not try to label those who take issue with policies and actions of the Israeli government as anti-Semites, i.e., bigots? I could easily be mistaken as I was half-listening while working on my computer but I thought I heard her say as much.

question everything

(47,510 posts)

12. No. I don't think this was the time

Reply to misanthrope (Reply #11)

Sat Nov 3, 2018, 01:31 AM

Nov 2018

it was really mostly to mourn the victims and to talk about the rise of anti semitism and, I was glad, to link this to Trump.

Rhiannon12866 managed to separate the various clips.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211350673

question everything

(47,510 posts)

13. To read more about using Israel to justify their anti semitism, read here

Reply to misanthrope (Reply #11)

Sat Nov 3, 2018, 02:29 AM

Nov 2018

https://www.democraticunderground.com/12235059

applegrove

(118,732 posts)

7. She came down on the right side at the end tonight. It was very powerful. I learnt

Reply to Blecht (Reply #4)

Sat Nov 3, 2018, 12:57 AM

Nov 2018

a lot.

mnhtnbb

(31,397 posts)

14. The opening monologue was one of his best.

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Sat Nov 3, 2018, 06:34 AM

Nov 2018

The first interview with Bari Weiss was excellent. The interview with Barbra Streisand at the end was great. I love her point--and question--whatever happened to being kind?

He also played segments of her new song Don't Lie to Me.

It was a terrific show.

jcmaine72

(1,773 posts)

17. I stopped watching Maher after he began spewing Islamophobic hate.

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Sat Nov 3, 2018, 02:05 PM

Nov 2018

However, he still makes me laugh on occasion.

question everything

(47,510 posts)

18. I think that he likes to be an equal opportuniy offender

Reply to jcmaine72 (Reply #17)

Sat Nov 3, 2018, 02:31 PM

Nov 2018

He thinks that this keeps him on edge.

The man, after all, is 61 (or 62?) by now.

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