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Saw this bit from Bill Maher's show yesterday: “I feel like the bottom has to fall out at some point, and by the way, I’m hoping for it because I think one way
by weiming 8y ago
Saw this bit from Bill Maher's show yesterday:
“I feel like the bottom has to fall out at some point, and by the way, I’m hoping for it because I think one way you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy. So please, bring on the recession. Sorry if that hurts people but it’s either root for a recession, or you lose your democracy.”
I understand it's supposed to be comedy, but this sounded way too serious and not at all well-meaning.
- hashkb 8y agoAre you saying comedy has to be vapid? That satire and ridiculous thought experiments can't be used to illuminate the truth?
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- furgooswft13 8y agoYou mean this https://www.mediaite.com/tv/maher-says-hes-hoping-for-another-recession-to-get-rid-of-trump-sorry-if-that-hurts-people-but/ https://www.mediaite.com/tv/maher-says-hes-hoping-for-anothe... ? Sounded dead serious to me, and it is coming from someone who will be 100% fine during any recession. "Would you rather have your job/home or......Democracy.......hahaha no I'll have my TV show and millions of dollars either way". It might have been comedy/satire if he acknowledge how pompous he sounds. I did not watch the rest of the show, but this clip is not comedy, it's regular political commentary/bickering with the addition of a cheer track.
- ghaff 8y agoSounds to me like something that falls into the half-joking category. It's of the form, hate to say it but $BAD_THING would be worth it if it would get rid of the president/congress/etc. where you can make $BAD_THING arbitrarily bad until it's pretty outrageous and is obviously not meant to be taken seriously.
- RoutinePlayer 8y agoHmm, this almost sounds like a person reporting the following joke to the #MeToo movement: A woman walked into a bar and ordered a double entendre, so the bartender gave her one.