HBO talk show host and comedian Bill Maher said the Democratic Party’s constant racial “pandering” isn’t working.
On his latest episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” he told them that harping on identity politics is outdated and simply not effective.
To put it mildly.
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“Outdated racial favoritism is one reason Democrats lose elections”
Bill Maher made his comments at the closing of his show Friday night.
“I don’t give a shit who wins the next election. And outdated racial favoritism is one of the reasons Democrats lose elections,” Maher said.
“When Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi wore the Kente suit, I don’t think it earned them a vote because of their strong emotional connection to Ghana,” the comedian jokes, referring to white Democratic members of Congress who dressed in African garb during the George Floyd ceremony. protests.
Maher continued:
“Here in California we now segregate kidnappings. Really,” Maher said. “California doesn’t just have AMBER Alerts for missing children. We have “ebony alerts” for black children and “feather” alerts for Native American children. What is it, are you looking for them by listening on the ground?”
Maher warned that “far-left liberals live by an old paradigm. Americans no longer fit into neat little boxes.
The HBO host cited the recent successes of black artists in country music, historically a white-dominated field, particularly Beyoncé’s country song topping the charts and Lil Nas X’s Country Music Award.
“It doesn’t work for them or for us,” Maher said. “Democrats are hemorrhaging the very voters they think they are pandering to.”
Maher added that the old political and social lines simply aren’t true anymore, saying, “Two-thirds of Republican voters support legalizing pot. And 41% of Democrats own or live with someone who owns a gun. Ms. Marvel is Pakistani and the winner of the NBA’s last two slam dunk contests is white.
“The new Captain America is black and Spider-Man is black and Puerto Rican, just like the AI George Washington,” Maher joked.
He was making fun of recent AI-generated images of America’s first president, similar to this one.
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Bill Maher: ‘Our black president was half white and our black vice president is half Asian’
Just when viewers thought Maher might be done making his point, he took it to the next level.
“Latinos make up half of the Border Patrol and the name of the coolest black guy on the planet is Lenny Kravitz. RuPaul has a ranch in Wyoming that does fracking,” Maher continued.
“Somehow the leader of the Village People was straight… The leader of the Proud Boys is not an old white guy. He is Enrique Tarrio, an Afro-Cuban… Caitlyn Jenner is a pro-Trump trans woman who supports a ban on trans athletes from competing in women’s sports… Our black president was half white and our black vice president is half Asian.
Maher listed endless examples in American culture where the kind of identity politics Democrats focus on shows how out of touch that party is with current reality.
Maher concluded by saying, “The point is that you are still building your politics by cutting and dividing people into these fixed categories.”
“Democrats need to get the memo,” he concluded.
