You know it’s a good week Real time when the two stories that consumed the news of the week – the accusations against Andrew Cuomo and the accusations against the Royal Family – are in the background for more important topics, like crony capitalism and the hegemony of China.
“We are not losing to China,” said Maher at HBO on Friday night. “We lost. We are just waiting for the returns to arrive.” This was part of a scathing segment of “New Rules”, in which he called Americans “a foolish people”.
“You are not going to win the battle for the 21st century if you are a foolish people and Americans are a foolish people,” said Maher. “This is the classic phrase from Lawrence of Arabia when Lawrence tells his Bedouin allies that as long as they remain as a bunch of disputing tribes, they will remain a foolish people. Well, we are the foolish people now. “
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Maher then moved to China.
“Do you know who doesn’t care that there is a stereotype of a Chinese man in a book by Dr. Suess? China. All 1.4 billion of them could give a crouching tiger flying f * ck. Because they are not a silly people. “
“We all know that China does bad things,” he said, “but there must be something between a totalitarian government that knows what to do and a representative government that can do nothing.”
Speaking of the latter, the Real time Comedian presenter and guest Larry Wilmore and author Scott Galloway participated in what Maher called “screen companies” – Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple. “Jeff Bezos lost 35 billion in his divorce and recovered everything in 1 month,” said the host.
Galloway, who is also a professor at NYU, responded with his own astonishing facts.
During the pandemic, “we saw billionaires go from 1.9 trillion in wealth to 4 trillion,” he said. “We had an individual who added Hungary’s GDP to his net worth since the first virus – and this is Elon Musk – just in time for ‘Peace, out’ and move to Texas to avoid having to pay taxes.”
“The dirty secret of this pandemic,” continued Galloway, “is that the top 10%, if not the top 1%, are living their best lives.”
These issues almost eclipsed the charges against Andrew Cuomo – of which Maher said: “Obviously, if he were the head of any corporation, he would have left” – and what he dismissed as “The Real Thing”.