I’m a Kiwi living in Aus but watch the US soap opera unfolding with bated breath to see the unbelievable stuff the conservatives do/say/lie about while hoping upon hope that ‘good’ wins out.. . . however, I think Maher is 100% right on this one - gotta win that power and then not let go - brilliant episode - should be prescribed watching for all liberals/independents!
Sean Larkan to be fair, they tried to not let go in 2016. They literally were spying on the opponent to help stay in power. What more do you think they should do? Lol
@@shadeshadyshade254 I don't watch CNN and I'm not American...it's plain to the rest of the world that your Republican party is willing to do anything to hold onto to power. Trust me...the whole world is laughing at you.
Everybody in other countries feel so high and mighty because they see bad news about Trump in their liberal news media sources every day. However, Australia has it's own problems including having one of the most corrupt governments in the free world. Trump is a reality TV show in other countries but here, he is not doing that bad of a job. People in America are still doing fine perhaps even better than before so there is no reason to lose your shit because Trump paid hush money to Stormy Daniels. I don't give a shit. I already know Trump's character is one of the worst in existence but as long as he's putting in policies that I want, I don't give a shit.
As a person from Maine talking to a person from New Hampshire your phrase for your state is Live Free or Die. New Hampshire couldn't be the furthest thing from that New Hampshire is if you break the law. We are going to put you in jail for a long time. New Hampshire sucks!!!! At least Maine we get legal weed not a lot of crazy cops and we get to conceal carry that sounds more like a state that's Live Free or Die!!!! Anybody that's from New England knows they're extremely happy when they only have to drive the 25 minutes on I-95 to get through New Hampshire. Why cause it sucks! Your state should change its logo. It's the least freest of all states of New England. Smh...
a lot of liberals are stupid... like Bill said, they'd rather chase Ted Cruz out of a restaurant than chase him out of office... you can't combat evil if your tactics are moronic... I'd be honored if some fellow concerned citizens would check out my acoustic piano & vocal covers of 80s/90s classic songs on my channel. Covers include Sting, Prince, George Michael, Radiohead, Phil Collins, the GooGoo Dolls, Sarah McClachlan, Billy Joel, Earth Wind & Fire, plus a couple of '010s classics from Bruno Mars and Coldplay. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and peace.
"We need to protect voting rights so we can win elections, so we can protect voting rights." Common sense should TELL YOU that and not require a comedian to spell it out for you.
That's the plan? Enlist more criminals in the Democratic party to vote? Yeah, I could see why felons would vote for Democrats; Gun control, more government freebies, voting against law & order candidates who are usually conservative Republicans. Yeah. Great plan.
@Michael RS - Or maybe voting right is the very basic right that every citizen should have and no democratic government should take that away from their citizens? Because as soon as you start limiting voting rights. Today, it is the ex felons. Tomorrow, maybe they will target another groups that vote against them? Blacks perhaps? or Latino?
emotionscomeandgo He said ex felons. Why should people who have served their time be denied a vote? Because they’re from low income backgrounds and more likely to vote Democrat, while the criminals in the White House got to vote after breaking the law.
@@colinbaker3916 Also if you're poor the chances of being railroaded on a meaningless charge are much higher, especially since prisons are now a profit industry. There are also conspiracy theories that minorities are specifically targeted to make them ineligible to vote, the truth is probably that it's just an incidental byproduct of institutional racism. "The law applies equally to both rich men and poor men sleeping under a bridge." BTW in Australia - y'know, land of compulsory voting and electoral boundaries drawn up by an independent commission (ok, we've got to work on the knifing PM's bit), you still keep you obligation to vote if you are serving a sentence of under 3 years, and if over 3 years you stay on the roll and vote when you are released.
Funny thing about Wyoming is they are a solid red state with all Republican policies yet their people have to move or drive down here to Colorado to make a living.
Update: Florida overwhelmingly voted to allow felons to vote. Republicans then changed the rules so that they could only vote if they paid off any fines and lawyer's fee. In other words, the people spoke and the GOP said "Naah"
Same thing in Michigan, only different issue. Anti-gerrymandering referendum passed with 61% of the vote. Republicans are suing because of the provision that would exclude people from the commission if they have conflicts based on jobs previously held or family members who've held certain jobs. 61% means that even a given percentage of REPUBLICAN voters thought the present system sucked.
@@emsleywyatt3400 Wait. Republicans are suing because of a clause prohibiting people with conflict of interests serving in the commission?! I would expect a comedian to use that as a joke of questionable things Republicans haven't sunk to but that it is true!
Gunman610 seriously? Florida allows rapists and murderers and pedophiles to vote? Is that in state elections only or also federal elections as well? Even for democrats that’s frickin low. Wanting to win so bad that you allow people who sold drugs to children voting privileges.
@@prepperjonpnw6482 How it is low for the state to allow people to have political power by having the ability to vote? Remember that US declared independence due to wanting representation!
@@prepperjonpnw6482 www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/2/20677955/amendment-4-florida-felon-voting-rights-lawsuits-fines-fees. "Amendment 4 changed this by automatically allowing most people who had completed their sentences - EXCEPT for those convicted of felony sexual offenses and murder - to register to vote." (emphasis mine). And it's a bipartisan effort for a state that went heavily Republican in '18
Yes, most are garbage nowadays, especially those ruined with nauseating PC liberal, sjw bullshit. But there are still not more than 579,000 unemployed screenwriters in Hollywood.
@@ManAgainstCrime so are the good ones unemployed and the same old names are used...I bad ones....or just medocre ??? Hence all the "bad"stuff??!(ie films,tv,etc.????).....
Elections have consequences. NOT voting has consequences. NOT voting basically signals to politicians that they don't even have to take into consideration your concerns because there would not be any political price for acting in a way contrary to you want. Its one reason why republicans have been able to push an unpopular agenda for the last 20-30 years. So when only 30 percent vote in midterms and 55 percent vote in presidential elections, one should expect bad results. Low voter turnout almost always favors republicans. For those who choose not to vote because no one satisfies your purity test, Donald Trump and the republican party thanks you for your support. As far as they are concerned, you can chase all them out of restaurants as long as you stay away from the polls. They won't mind too much.
Dennis Mac, good work Dennis Mac, in the end it is the voter who decides what happens. Obama, Bernie " Go Vote!" Democrats: " No, Hillary does not exactly fit our mold". That is why I really feel that demsLibs had this coming. I said weeks ago, without a balanced SC its really over for them. Even with a blue wave. Dems showing up for midterms? Never happened before, they left Obama hanging after 1 year already in 2010.
I agree on the thought that voting should be more of a duty...maybe mandatory ? But I have to disagree on the voter shaming. Hillary was a candidate that came with nice slogans and little policy ideas during a time that cried for change. She had a big name but was just not the right candidate to put up against a (fake) populist on the right. She came across as platitudes and milktoast ideas and didnt excite anyone to go vote. Sanders had the youth and all the momentum on his side, but he got badly mistreated by the DNC, a bunch of primary elections were rigged, Hillary got debate questions in advance AND went for friggin Tim Caine as VP instead of Sanders. She came across as if she wore a pin that said: "You have no alternative to vote for, so I can just do what I want"
Silverfox Hillary came with policy ideas Are you kidding me? Well, I am not surprised you have this opinion. The media never really covered Hillary. TEven MSNBC, in their rush to catch Trump say stupid things would rather show an empty podium expecting Trump's arrival for hours than to cover Hillary's rallies. There you have it Silverfox. Hope you are enjoying what we have in office now
@Dennis You act as if someone is "owed" a vote just because they hold a nomination from some party. Well fuck that. That kind of favoring the mediocre is what got us Hillary as a candidate in the first place. Every vote from every person is fucking earned. We keep voting for evil, we keep getting evil.
Right, fine someone who's registered to vote and doesn't, then no one will ever register unless they live in a battleground state where it can actually matter. If there is no chance in hell anyone I want elected will win, then I'm not voting. Even then, the day when votes are cast is not a national holiday and many people who try can't get there soon enough. What a fantastic idea....give them more ways to discourage voting.
tremedar In Australia, the Electoral Office actively encourages people who have turned 18 to enrol. You can vote by post if you can’t make it to the polling booth on election day - which is always on a Saturday in any case. They can’t force you to actually fill out a ballot. If you really can’t decide, or are extremely apathetic, all you have to do is attend and get your name crossed off the list. But 95% of voters actually do vote - it forces one to at least think about the issues and to be politically aware.
Wyoming will destroy the country one day...when Yellowstone erupts. Meanwhile, I'll be sitting in Florida, NOT under a minimum 1 foot of volcanic ash. I mean, I'll probably starve to death since the food growing spots will be under signifigantly MORE ash...but, yay?
American people argue like you say about football teams and they buy Nike shoes and they buy apple smart phones and I November 3 I bet you half of them won’t even show up to vote They are probably going to be drinking beer and smoking marijuana Americans have low or no expectations when it comes to politicians
Between all the television entertainment hosts who speak out against the oppression of democracy by the GOP Bill Maher is the most articulate and direct to the heart-of-the-matter television personality. Well, him and John Stewart when he had The Daily Show.
He's like every other political commentator, making a living telling people what they want to hear. Conservative or liberal. Republican or Democrat. Except Bill does it with simple jokes.
@William MillerYes, and some Aliens and mermaids too. 🙄 Puerto Ricans have their right to vote. I think it is sad if your party only wins elections without the majority of the voters. rigged system . I think it's sad having a Russian Trojan Horse as President. 💅
3:04 "It's like they copy pasted Colorado and then forgot to put people in it" ROTFL!!!!! That was one of the funniest Bill Maher quotes I have heard in ages.
Susan Collins, Senator of Maine: Population - Stephen King, two lobsters and a bear. And Stephen King would make a better Senator...or the bear...or either of the lobsters.
FU Radical Libs That has little to do with ethics. You see those of us with a professional license must follow both law and ethics. She must have forgotten.
Apparently not. The Democrats had both houses of Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court after the 2008 election, and they couldn't hang onto any of them. They could have used that power to "beget more power", but they blew it. Maybe if they would stop supporting foreign and domestic terrorism and promising to push our country further into debt, we would be willing to vote for their party.
I'm going to be devils advocate here tho... What if power just protects a party from having to stay in steep with the America. I think of it as water building behind a dam. One day the dam will break and America will be a one party system for fifty years until an opposition party very different from Republicans emerges. And they won't be called Republicans.... If, of course, there still is a democracy.
On this point Maher is absolutely right, get off the streets protesting and into the voting booth. Win election from the state level on up to affect change and stop the GOP.
Why would you want to stop PROSPERITY of more Americans? Maher is a millionaire so doesn't care if Dems are in power but thanks to Reps i will have 500 /month more in 2019 and Dems want to take it away from me! VOTE FOR REPS (unless you are on welfare or on food stamps).
Actually, we democrats have to start working harder to succeed in local elections before we can move on the state level. Ot's called the grass-roots because that wher seed of ideas are planted that grow into planfs produce more seesds. People fom New York State don't all go to Albany to vote- they vots in a small subdivision of the state even to cast ballots in races forstate AND NATIONAL elections.decisions aboutwhere voting places are set up and manages the incoming voters and the exiting voters , how the votes will be cast, who counts the votes, and where and how and to whom the votes are reported so the results can be verified and reported.
There is a great speech by the late Justice Scalia where he talks about what makes America different from all the other democracies in the world, and why our rights are more protected. Its not the Bill of Rights that ensures our rights, its the system of checks and balances between both houses of the legislature, and between the other braches of the Federal Gov. that ensures those rights. Checks and balances between the House and Senate, and the Presidency ensure that no one party will be able to gain enough power to easily take away or infringe those rights. People like Bill Maher would have us regress into mob rule, where the presidency, legislature, and courts were all controlled by the 51%. "History is on our side" they say, but if they knew anything about history they would know that what they are advocating for has already been tried, and the results were not pretty.
True. But then George Washington ALSO brewed whiskey to sell to Indians so he could accuse them of being drunken rapist freeloaders, and take their land. In that sense he was a TRUE Republican, even though they had yet to officially adopt the term. His "warning" was for white people only.
Kurt S Virginia...iirc, the land was originally taken from it. But it should remain a territory. And they have representation in Congress, but no voting representation.
"We need to get people like Ted Cruz out of POWER, not out of restaurants." Thank god Bill, you get it. This crap pisses me off more than it should. These ridiculous scenes at restaurants make NATIONAL news and all they do is 1) make a few angry dems feel good, but *much* more importantly 2) royally piss off a shit ton of Red Hats all over the country and give Republican candidates more one line zingers for their campaigns. The only dinner we should be ruining is the one Republicans will eat on election day.
No Bill doesn’t get it. Like most liberals he wants 3 liberal states to decide for everyone else. The only reason Hillary got more votes is because of the margin of victory in California. The electoral college is so every state has a say in who the president is, not just liberal states.
Inebriatd They aren't as natural at lying and cheating. They try to take the high road. They're better people than Republicans. Just look at their values
@@2126Eliza Yeah their values: For socialism, against due process of law, against a presumption of innocence, for the taking of innocent life, against decency, honor, and integrity. Yep, they're just the cream of humanity.
Which one???? Flooding Texas with illegal immigrants and then demanding they have a right to vote?? Or appeasing all the violent criminals in Florida so they will vote blue?? Or maybe demanding that two states merge into one?? Or is it getting rid of the Electoral College and dissolving the Republic??
elizabeth tudor 1. Getting rid of elecotoral college doesn't mean dissolving the country, A lot of country live democracy w/o electoral college. 2. You need an immigration reform for your immigrants problem. Something Congress and senate which have been led by Republican for years have failed to do. Even now with all branch of government in Their hand, they still failed to do.
aze wine.. 1. The UNITED STATES of America is a Republic not a pure democracy. The Electoral College was put in place so that the States would remain United.. Do you expect middle America to just sit back and allow themselves be dictated to and governed by the over populated liberal coasts for the rest of eternity!! Oh how the democrats would love to abolish the Electoral College but it would lead to civil war in the country.. 2. The first and most important thing that America can do about the illegal immigration problem is make the border secure. BUILD THE WALL.
The Democrats just had 8 years in power and haven't stopped crying since they lost the election. They want to hold onto power forever. Abolishing the Electoral College would all but guarantee their monopoly on power.. They are nothing but a bunch of bitter, hysterical, deceitful, power hungry gimps.
Because Republican wouldn't win if it's a real democracy? The last 8 years or so had been Republican congress and senate. If you had complain regarding immigration, you should really calling the republican congress.
James Kelley from on Kelley to anotger I whole heartedly disagree . They knew the election rules going in. It's not fair for a border state to let illegals in to get more voters. It's like baseball saying home runs should count more than other runs. Or a team saying that after losing. You have s great name by the way
If I were Ted, I would never eat anything prepared by anyone outside my circle... as it is, I imagine that if he ate anything that wasn't 20% spit, he'd furrow his brow, and send it back for 'tasting funny'.
I think one of the biggest ironies with the electoral college is Trump’s supporters support the electoral college yet Trump HIMSELF has said MULTIPLE times that he would prefer to go by the popular vote. That’s one policy I wish he would be able to do: remove the electoral college but it’ll never happen and I doubt Trump cares enough to.
Dems are going to like the Electoral College a lot more when the Repubs win the popular vote but the Dems win the White House by EC total... this could happen as soon as '020... I'd be honored if some fellow concerned citizens would check out my acoustic piano & vocal covers of 80s/90s classic songs on my channel. Covers include Sting, Prince, George Michael, Radiohead, Tom Petty, Phil Collins, the GooGoo Dolls, Billy Joel, Earth Wind & Fire, plus a couple of '010s classics from Bruno Mars and Coldplay. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and peace.
It has been a long time since I enjoyed overtime with Bill Maher...totally agree with his assesment.. Thank you bill...one addition to your comments...the Democratic party is part of the problem...think about it
Bill is right. How can 1,6 million people (North and South Dakota combined) get more senators (4) than 39 million Californians (2). US politics is stupid at times.
Max D - I think you mean we have population representation in the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Congress refers to the entire Legislative Branch. America has 2 different legislative bodies because the original 13 states couldn’t agree on how many diplomats each state should have. Smaller states like Rhode Island and Connecticut thought each state should have the same number of representatives, regardless of population size. And larger states like Virginia thought the number should be based on population size. (Also the issue of counting slaves as part of those populations was a whole other can of worms) This was such a major issue that it threatened to tear apart the young Union before it started (remember, they were still WRITING the Constitution at this point, the closest thing to an actual government was the Colonial militia). So they decided to use both ideas for their fledgling government. This 2-part legislature has been a part of American politics since the very beginning, and will most likely always be there.
@Kay Kay Everything you wrote is drivel! Innocent until proven guilty???? Where have you been living that you haven't noticed that there are a huge proportion of people accused and convicted of crimes that they didn't commit they are called MINORITIES! It's a fact look it up, plenty of cases.. And while we're at it Susan Collins looks like a man in drag herself.
@Kay Kay I refuse to go back and forth with you. I called what you said drivel because it was a whole lot of nothing. And you don't have to be in jail to know what's going on in America and feel other people's plight. But you choose not to be woke and look the other way then try to justify it, but ironically you are woke when it comes to this whole Kavanaugh accusal thing. Don't worry about where I got my education from since you choose to throw shade at me, and I'm fine with us having nothing in common I wouldn't want to have anything in common with you. Nothing but good to you bye.
Susan Collins is my senator and she has done a fantastic job for 22 years... she always votes her conscience and she always has the interests of Maine and the United States in mind. NO ONE has been tougher on Russian election interference than Sen. Collins... I refuse to condemn her just because she made a decision that i don't agree with (and it's not the first time).
More Puerto Ricans are living in Florida. After Hurricane Maria, many of us RICANS moved there. Rosello, a Republican, is endorsing Florida's DEMOCRATIC candidate for governorship. trumpf thought that throwing paper towels at us was funny? Wait until we RICANS help turn Florida BLUE! WE are mobilizing and getting folks to VOTE! WE will see who has the last laugh, CABRON! #PuertoRicansVoteBlue 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Yve LA BELLA After you turn Florida Democratic, no one will throw any paper at you. You will be like Venezuela without toilet paper and like California with a shit map to know what places full of shit on the streets to avoid.
@@gigiontube Perhaps Gigi would volunteer to go clean up the masses of dead fish, turtles and manatees stinking up the best Florida beaches in the country.....due to "RedTide Rick Scotts" cut backs of funds to the waterways protections branch to the tune of 700 million dollars, which has created the worst red tide due to polution, in the history of the state. Republicans only know how to destroy well thought out regulations conceived by people who have a clue about important things like our environment. They pretend environmental deregulation is about helping the little business owner get started leading the country to massive prosperity, but all it is, is a con job to allow already massive cash rich corporations to earn a few million more for the Ceo's and shareholders by not having to abide by common sense regulation to protect we the peoples air and water.....and guess who gets stuck with the clean up costs once the water and air damage is done?.....oh that's right....we little people and our government taxes pay thru the nose to clean it up.....the corporations of course continue to pay less and less taxes because of republican theft from the people.....and for what reason?.....corporate profits are at an 80 yr high.....trillions parked in offshore accts hidden away from contributing to our planets well being..... And you gullible ignorant mofo's who vote for the GOP keep wanting to hand them ever more power, while cheering when the GOP attack unions and workers rights and civil rights for you and your kids. Republican voters are the most uninformed ignorant gullible people on the planet......and guess what Jethro....if you keep falling for their schtick....the planet will not be around for your kids and their kids futures.
@@pillipilli7908 Well then you are a idiot because Republicans hate minorities.....the fact you want us to believe you are latino is hilarious...GTFOH!!..😂
At the very least it needs to be adjusted. One state shouldn't determine who the next President is, but one section of the country's votes shouldn't be worth ten times everyone else's.
A handful of states already are set to vote based on the popular vote regardless of state results. But not enough states have joined in to make it work yet, and won't go into effect until that happens.
Electoral College is fine: >Representatives + Senator = # of Voters >Divide population by amount of voters in state --------------------- Key: Representative (Rep) Senator (Sen) ~ Round Read: ~12345 Citizens: 1 Voter Estimated 12345 citizens make up 1 voter. ---------------------- States with small population: *N Dakota: 755.393K Population* RED 1 Rep 2 Sen = 3 Voters ~251798 Citizens:1 Voter *S Dakota: 869.666K Population* RED 1 Rep 2 Sen = 3 Voter ~289889 Citizens:1 Voter *Wyoming 579.315K Population* RED 1 Rep 2 Sen = 3 Voters ~193105 Citizens: 1 Voter >Small states average 200K per voter. States with large population: *Minnesota 5577K (5.5M) Population* BLUE 8 Rep 2 Sen = 10 Voters ~557700 Citizens: 1 Voter *Maryland 6052K (6.052M) Population* BLUE 8 Rep 2 Sen = 10 Voters ~605200 Citizens: 1 Voter *Ohio 11600K (11.6M) Poulation* RED 16 Rep 2 Sen = 18 Voters ~644444 Citizens: 1 Voter *New York: 8538K (8.5M) Population* BLUE 27 Rep 2 Sen = 29 Voters ~294414 Citizens: 1 Voter *California: 39000 (39M) Population* BLUE 53 Rep 2 Sen = 55 Voters ~709091 Citizens: 1 Voter *Texas: 28300K (23M) Population* RED 36 Rep 2 Sen = 38 Voters ~744736 Citizens: 1 Voter >New York fits well to small state ratio. >While "Large" Red states are actually more underrepresented than "Large" Blue states, large states are more underrepresented than small states except New York. So there are under representation on both sides. And this is going toward left's favor since it may include illegals and unregistered in the population count... Btw this disproves Maher's lackluster claim as number of representatives heavily rely on population count.
The state governments need a say in the White House. Hell, they've already been kicked out of the US Congress. No other federal republic has ever enjoyed such self-determination of a country's subdivisions. We need to protect that.
Regardless who you support we shouldn't stoop so low to harass & bully people no matter who they are, its ignorant, immature, wrong, & Biased. Everyone should have a right to eat where ever they want whether they are Democrat or Republican. It makes Democrats who are attacking these Republicans look really bad! Its about right and wrong and its wrong to bully people PERIOD!
that question dates back over 200 years. Virginia and Georgia were the largest colonies and demanded a house of representatives based on population. Rhode Island and Delaware so hell no. If were going to be United then each colony must be equally represented. Let's do two senators each. After much arguing they said fuck it. Lets do both a house and senate. One on population and one on equality among colonies. As you can see it today, CA has 55 votes in the house and in presidential elections. WY has 1, so there's your population representation. But you can't have 1 state completed over running smaller states. Otherwise, those smaller states have no reason to want to be "United" with the larger.
I love you Bill Maher, but just so you are aware Wyoming hosts four major river basins in the western United States.The Yellowstone, Wind, Bighorn, and Shoshone rivers in northwestern Wyoming; the Tongue, Powder, Belle Fourche, Cheyenne, and Niobrara rivers in northeastern Wyoming; and the North Platte and Laramie rivers in southeastern Wyoming are all headwaters of the Missouri-Mississippi River Basin. Not to mention the headwaters of the Snake into the Columbia and the Green River into the Colorado. We suck at sending decent folks to DC, but we are great at sending water to major portions of the U.S.
Which is awesome, in terms of geography but, states like Wyoming, Arkansas (low population states) could REALLY be amalgamated together to form meaningful state governments and to reduce the overall size/costs of their governments. It's just a numbers game.
Oh Bill, I feel your pain even tho I’m a foreigner living outside the US. I’ve always respected the USA as the fairest strongest superpower, but maybe it’s reign is coming to an end. I don’t see it surviving this “internal self-destruct mode”. Unless of course you guys get a miracle
Did you listen to her press conference? She said it was a vote of conscience. It was *not* to her advantage politically. What do you mean by her future employers?
The part about the Senate and the Electoral College is clearly outdated. The majority is now subject to the tyranny of the minority, and the minority has so rigged the system where it is pretty effortless for them to maintain power. If the Dems ever manage to get all three branches again, the Constitution needs to be amended to erase this disparity.
What are you talking about? Since Carter it went...4years Dems, 12 years Rep, 8 years dems, 8 years rep, 8 years dems, 4 years rep,. Keep in mind that Dems are trying to change the country to Communism, higher taxes and take away guns and the hate religion....its a tuff thing to sell!!!
Actually Bill forgot to fill you in on a few things. The perceived inequality of the Electoral college is quite intentional. The United States is NOT a Democracy. We are a Republic of States...United. One of the issues leading to our fight for independence from the Brits was about representation. We developed a system that bucks the trend of pretty much every other country. The electoral college decentralizes overrepresentation of highly populated areas and ensures all the states that make up our Republic have a proportional say (not equal, but proportional).
I gave a thumb up but I'd like to disagree. Shouldn't PEOPLE be the ones represented, not AREAS? I have real difficulties with the idea that the president of the US, with all that immense power he has (filling Supreme Court seats, e.g.), can be someone who achieved ("won") 3 000 000 votes less than the other candidate. @@apollyonzorz
90% of our problems can be fixed with one very simple thing: term limits. Unfortunately it will never happen. The careerists of both parties are so addicted to their power and privilege that they won't give up their hold on either. To quote Orwell: "The creatures looked from pig to man, man to pig, and pig to man again; but already it was impossible to tell which was which."
I take exception to the disparaging of the Connecticut Compromise. Yes every state has two senators but states with more people have more representatives.
It is not a question of need. That was a decision that President Harrison made and Congress at the time. IN 1889 the Republican party was the Liberal Party. I guess you could ask the question, why do we need 50 states. I come from the 3rd smallest state but 29th biggest by population.
@@aronkovacs1386 Really? Have you reviewed the legislative record of the 116th Congress, or are you just bloviating your general "feelings?" Have you read the (Democratic) House's first bill, HR 1, the "For the People Act?" Among other things, it proposes strengthening voting rights, as guaranteed by the 15th and 19th Amendments, addresses (unconstitutional) gerrymandering, the preposterously unconstitutional findings of Citizens United v. FEC, voting rights for the disenfranchised and Supreme Court ethics. I'm guessing you did not. No matter, the Republican Senate killed it on arrival. Nothing fair about your comment, mate. Nothing informed, either. Mindless partisanship.
Please come back to reality. California has appropriate population representation in the House. As do all states. The Senate is to protect the rights of states who do not have the population with equal representation. Perhaps try to understand more and listen to Bill less. He has zero context.
+Carey McDowell Interesting take. So Wisconsin, for example, has a population of just under 6 million. While California has a population of just under 40 million. More than 6x as much. You seem to be saying it's perfectly fair that 6 million people get the same voting power as 40 million people. Why is that fair? That seems to be the exact opposite of fair.
@@catastrophicbroccoli4065: It's specifically to compensate for the population differential. Without it, the heavily populated states could steamroll over the less populated states at will. This way, in the Senate anyway, all states carry equal weight. They're proportionally represented in the House.
+Brother Karafuchov I understand the "justification" for it. But what you are effectively saying is "40 million people want one thing, and 6 million people want something different. It's a tie!" No sane, rational person would agree that is a fair system.
One of the best parts about the sheer wrongness of Wyoming is the fact it isnt named after a local river, tribe, person, etc. It's named after a valley in Pennsylvania.
It's undemocratic - a small state with 700k population gets two senators and CA gets two senators even though it's 40 million people - so the voters in the small state are over represented and CA is under represented
@@joeexotic2545 The US is not a democracy. We are a constitutional federal republic that uses representative democracy. How is it that so many people want to complain about the country, but have no idea how things work to begin with?
@@CaliMeatWagon don't tell me that , tell that to all the american politicians who've been calling America "the world's greatest democracy " for as long as I can remember
Somebody once wrote, "Those who don't vote get the government they deserve." Unfortunately, those of us who do vote also get that government. We've had two minority presidents already in this short century. But if enough people voted, that wouldn't happen-even with gerrymandering and voter suppression. GET OUT AND VOTE! (Apologies for yelling, but some people have a hard time hearing this.)
No......Joe Manchin is a Conservative just with a D next to his name. I hope that Manchinoses to that Republican. The people of West Virginia wont know any better
False Equivalency, every state has two Senators, regardless of population, purposely set up that way, so every voice has an equal voice(vote) in the Senate. Now the House of Representatives is where the population dictates the amount of votes, California has 53 and Wyoming has 1, you don't bring that up right, since it doesn't help your point? Congress was set up as a bicameral legislature, each having their own responsibilities as a form separation of powers, to help prevent the consolidation of power.
3spy1rex3 Go ahead, tell that person who assaulted a random guy on the street you want to give him the privilege of deciding who runs the country. Oh wait, you all advocate for that shit, nvm. I thought I was talking to the party of Kennedy, not fucking Joseph Stalin.
Traveller Leng Do some research before you write something even more idiotic here. Violent felons are NOT part of that 1.4 million people trying to get their votes back. Those guys lost their chance permanently, this is for the lesser ones, many who didn't even actually DO the crime they were convicted of.
^^^ SKY FALL ...Florida does restore voting rights to ex-Felons just not automatically once they have served their time & paid their debt. They have to wait 5 Years before they can apply to have their rights restored. Only 2 other states do this. These people need to have their right to vote back!
This is one of the funniest and painfully true monologues
Im a liberal but the party is going crazy, bill maher is an exception
Bill Maher is a comedian but all his monologues is based on truths, he never lies, he just has a funny way of being brutally honest.
No one points out the irony of America better than Bill Maher (Chris Rock runs a close second).
I’m a Kiwi living in Aus but watch the US soap opera unfolding with bated breath to see the unbelievable stuff the conservatives do/say/lie about while hoping upon hope that ‘good’ wins out.. . . however, I think Maher is 100% right on this one - gotta win that power and then not let go - brilliant episode - should be prescribed watching for all liberals/independents!
Sean Larkan to be fair, they tried to not let go in 2016. They literally were spying on the opponent to help stay in power. What more do you think they should do? Lol
Unbelievable stuff by conservatives?? Are u bloody kidding lol....switch the channel from CNN etc propaganda
@@shadeshadyshade254 I don't watch CNN and I'm not American...it's plain to the rest of the world that your Republican party is willing to do anything to hold onto to power. Trust me...the whole world is laughing at you.
Everybody in other countries feel so high and mighty because they see bad news about Trump in their liberal news media sources every day. However, Australia has it's own problems including having one of the most corrupt governments in the free world. Trump is a reality TV show in other countries but here, he is not doing that bad of a job. People in America are still doing fine perhaps even better than before so there is no reason to lose your shit because Trump paid hush money to Stormy Daniels. I don't give a shit. I already know Trump's character is one of the worst in existence but as long as he's putting in policies that I want, I don't give a shit.
@@Caesar316 anything?? Are you nuts?? You are such a hypocrite that you ignore the Lies & corruption of the dems??? Get a grip, wherever u live.
Bill, you always make my day brighter...keep on going, we need someone like you to release our tensions
As a person from New Hampshire, I can confirm that the population of Maine is Stephen King, two lobsters, and a bear.
As a person from Maine talking to a person from New Hampshire your phrase for your state is Live Free or Die. New Hampshire couldn't be the furthest thing from that New Hampshire is if you break the law. We are going to put you in jail for a long time. New Hampshire sucks!!!! At least Maine we get legal weed not a lot of crazy cops and we get to conceal carry that sounds more like a state that's Live Free or Die!!!! Anybody that's from New England knows they're extremely happy when they only have to drive the 25 minutes on I-95 to get through New Hampshire. Why cause it sucks! Your state should change its logo. It's the least freest of all states of New England. Smh...
@@questioneverything42 So...are you one of the lobsters, or are you the bear? Or...Mr. King?
@@TheKyrix82 I live in a state where our motto is Dirigo. Figure out what it means. ;)
New Hampshire and Maine have roughly the same population. Somewhere around 1.5 million each if I remember right.
@@joeldavis5815 That is a lot of Lobsters and Bears...
"A Nation of Sheep will beget a Government of Wolves" - Edward R. Murrow.
warpedjaffas1 That is why democratic should support 2nd Amendment.
a lot of liberals are stupid... like Bill said, they'd rather chase Ted Cruz out of a restaurant than chase him out of office... you can't combat evil if your tactics are moronic... I'd be honored if some fellow concerned citizens would check out my acoustic piano & vocal covers of 80s/90s classic songs on my channel. Covers include Sting, Prince, George Michael, Radiohead, Phil Collins, the GooGoo Dolls, Sarah McClachlan, Billy Joel, Earth Wind & Fire, plus a couple of '010s classics from Bruno Mars and Coldplay. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and peace.
timely quote
@@stevecarter5732 and while you focus on only that, they are free to devour everything else, and you're not even paying attention.
i wouldnt call republicans wolves more like mentally challenged rhinos
"We need to protect voting rights so we can win elections, so we can protect voting rights."
Common sense should TELL YOU that and not require a comedian to spell it out for you.
That's the plan? Enlist more criminals in the Democratic party to vote?
Yeah, I could see why felons would vote for Democrats; Gun control, more government freebies, voting against law & order candidates who are usually conservative Republicans.
Yeah. Great plan.
Protect voting rights aka breaking the law? Getting illegal aliens to vote... The dead... Importing voters lmao
@Michael RS - Or maybe voting right is the very basic right that every citizen should have and no democratic government should take that away from their citizens? Because as soon as you start limiting voting rights. Today, it is the ex felons. Tomorrow, maybe they will target another groups that vote against them? Blacks perhaps? or Latino?
emotionscomeandgo He said ex felons. Why should people who have served their time be denied a vote? Because they’re from low income backgrounds and more likely to vote Democrat, while the criminals in the White House got to vote after breaking the law.
@@colinbaker3916 Also if you're poor the chances of being railroaded on a meaningless charge are much higher, especially since prisons are now a profit industry. There are also conspiracy theories that minorities are specifically targeted to make them ineligible to vote, the truth is probably that it's just an incidental byproduct of institutional racism.
"The law applies equally to both rich men and poor men sleeping under a bridge."
BTW in Australia - y'know, land of compulsory voting and electoral boundaries drawn up by an independent commission (ok, we've got to work on the knifing PM's bit), you still keep you obligation to vote if you are serving a sentence of under 3 years, and if over 3 years you stay on the roll and vote when you are released.
2:39 Rant on Wyoming is so on point. lol. They copy pasted Colorado and forgot to put people in it.
Best Realtime in a while!
Flav elitism is what cost us in 2016...
Funny thing about Wyoming is they are a solid red state with all Republican policies yet their people have to move or drive down here to Colorado to make a living.
Dumb fucked liberal.
Lmao so butthurt trumptards above. 😂😂😂
Scar he’s getting impeached you trumptard. 😂😂😂😂 he won’t survive another election.
Update: Florida overwhelmingly voted to allow felons to vote. Republicans then changed the rules so that they could only vote if they paid off any fines and lawyer's fee. In other words, the people spoke and the GOP said "Naah"
Same thing in Michigan, only different issue. Anti-gerrymandering referendum passed with 61% of the vote. Republicans are suing because of the provision that would exclude people from the commission if they have conflicts based on jobs previously held or family members who've held certain jobs. 61% means that even a given percentage of REPUBLICAN voters thought the present system sucked.
@@emsleywyatt3400
Wait. Republicans are suing because of a clause prohibiting people with conflict of interests serving in the commission?!
I would expect a comedian to use that as a joke of questionable things Republicans haven't sunk to but that it is true!
Gunman610 seriously? Florida allows rapists and murderers and pedophiles to vote? Is that in state elections only or also federal elections as well? Even for democrats that’s frickin low. Wanting to win so bad that you allow people who sold drugs to children voting privileges.
@@prepperjonpnw6482
How it is low for the state to allow people to have political power by having the ability to vote?
Remember that US declared independence due to wanting representation!
@@prepperjonpnw6482 www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/2/20677955/amendment-4-florida-felon-voting-rights-lawsuits-fines-fees.
"Amendment 4 changed this by automatically allowing most people who had completed their sentences - EXCEPT for those convicted of felony sexual offenses and murder - to register to vote." (emphasis mine). And it's a bipartisan effort for a state that went heavily Republican in '18
To be fair, there are probably more unemployed screenwriters in Hollywood than there are people in Wyoming.
That's more than 579,000 unemployed screenwriters then? ;o)
Probably, have you seen how many horrible movies have come out lately?
Yes, most are garbage nowadays, especially those ruined with nauseating PC liberal, sjw bullshit. But there are still not more than 579,000 unemployed screenwriters in Hollywood.
@@Darkhorde so does that mean all the GOOD screen writers are out of work??... and all the BAD ones are being employed???
@@ManAgainstCrime so are the good ones unemployed and the same old names are used...I bad ones....or just medocre ??? Hence all the "bad"stuff??!(ie films,tv,etc.????).....
I love the beginning and the end of Bill's shows...when he speaks and everyone doesn't spend the remaining half hour talking over each other.
Elections have consequences. NOT voting has consequences. NOT voting basically signals to politicians that they don't even have to take into consideration your concerns because there would not be any political price for acting in a way contrary to you want. Its one reason why republicans have been able to push an unpopular agenda for the last 20-30 years. So when only 30 percent vote in midterms and 55 percent vote in presidential elections, one should expect bad results.
Low voter turnout almost always favors republicans. For those who choose not to vote because no one satisfies your purity test, Donald Trump and the republican party thanks you for your support. As far as they are concerned, you can chase all them out of restaurants as long as you stay away from the polls. They won't mind too much.
Dennis Mac, good work Dennis Mac, in the end it is the voter who decides what happens. Obama, Bernie " Go Vote!" Democrats: " No, Hillary does not exactly fit our mold". That is why I really feel that demsLibs had this coming. I said weeks ago, without a balanced SC its really over for them. Even with a blue wave. Dems showing up for midterms? Never happened before, they left Obama hanging after 1 year already in 2010.
Dennis well said BRAVO! Very deep thought. Vote to save our country
I agree on the thought that voting should be more of a duty...maybe mandatory ?
But I have to disagree on the voter shaming. Hillary was a candidate that came with nice slogans and little policy ideas during a time that cried for change. She had a big name but was just not the right candidate to put up against a (fake) populist on the right. She came across as platitudes and milktoast ideas and didnt excite anyone to go vote. Sanders had the youth and all the momentum on his side, but he got badly mistreated by the DNC, a bunch of primary elections were rigged, Hillary got debate questions in advance AND went for friggin Tim Caine as VP instead of Sanders. She came across as if she wore a pin that said: "You have no alternative to vote for, so I can just do what I want"
Silverfox Hillary came with policy ideas Are you kidding me? Well, I am not surprised you have this opinion. The media never really covered Hillary. TEven MSNBC, in their rush to catch Trump say stupid things would rather show an empty podium expecting Trump's arrival for hours than to cover Hillary's rallies. There you have it Silverfox. Hope you are enjoying what we have in office now
@Dennis You act as if someone is "owed" a vote just because they hold a nomination from some party. Well fuck that. That kind of favoring the mediocre is what got us Hillary as a candidate in the first place. Every vote from every person is fucking earned. We keep voting for evil, we keep getting evil.
"Why is Wyoming even a state?" I DIED.
Best state in the USA tbh
@@taylorb7191 😂😂
I ask the same question about Florida.
@@ella_encantada Go visit and see for yourself
Taylor B
What can you even do in Wyoming?
Love you Bill Maher...
Good job!
What are you gay? He doesn't love you...
People who hate America love Bill Maher.
Why is Wyoming even a state lol
Because all those natural backdrops were used for Western movies and thus symbolize our glorious frontiersman/cowboy lineage
How can Wyoming be a state if it doesn't exist? #billisfakenews /s
There's a joke kinda about that, "Why is north east Colorado so windy? Because Wyoming blows and Nebraska sucks!"
Really that's a real question you have.?
Y'all are evil...
Australia has compulsory voting.Duty of Citizenship.
And I applaud that. America should adopt the same thing. For example, a registered voter will get a heavy monetary fine if he/she does not vote.
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Right, fine someone who's registered to vote and doesn't, then no one will ever register unless they live in a battleground state where it can actually matter. If there is no chance in hell anyone I want elected will win, then I'm not voting. Even then, the day when votes are cast is not a national holiday and many people who try can't get there soon enough. What a fantastic idea....give them more ways to discourage voting.
you lie
tremedar In Australia, the Electoral Office actively encourages people who have turned 18 to enrol. You can vote by post if you can’t make it to the polling booth on election day - which is always on a Saturday in any case. They can’t force you to actually fill out a ballot. If you really can’t decide, or are extremely apathetic, all you have to do is attend and get your name crossed off the list. But 95% of voters actually do vote - it forces one to at least think about the issues and to be politically aware.
I really like Bill Maher, I listen to him often, and learn a great deal, Thank you!
So... Stephen King votes for Susan Collins or is he outvoted by the lobsters?
Lobsters are red...
@@bigwrnrg Maine is blue
They both get outvoted by the Independent Bear. A bear is equal to about 3 Stephen Kings and 50 lobstahs.
Stephen gets a vote for every books he's written. He can outvote the whole state.
No way he'd vote for Susan Collins - he said he does not support her
Wyoming should be a big national park instead, not a state.
LMAO, I agree!
Wyoming will destroy the country one day...when Yellowstone erupts. Meanwhile, I'll be sitting in Florida, NOT under a minimum 1 foot of volcanic ash. I mean, I'll probably starve to death since the food growing spots will be under signifigantly MORE ash...but, yay?
People spend more time arguing about football teams and who is better James or Jordan instead of paying attention to real issues.
RazielBorn Jordan is better.
Real issues like the fact that half the country is rallying to replace due process and presumption of innocence with mob hysteria? I agree!
Fortunately Trump is just as distracted by football. Otherwise things would be much worse.
American people argue like you say about football teams and they buy Nike shoes and they buy apple smart phones and I November 3 I bet you half of them won’t even show up to vote They are probably going to be drinking beer and smoking marijuana Americans have low or no expectations when it comes to politicians
Bread and circuses
Bill was really on a roll and you can see it in his face. He knew he was nailing it.
Between all the television entertainment hosts who speak out against the oppression of democracy by the GOP Bill Maher is the most articulate and direct to the heart-of-the-matter television personality. Well, him and John Stewart when he had The Daily Show.
He's like every other political commentator, making a living telling people what they want to hear. Conservative or liberal. Republican or Democrat. Except Bill does it with simple jokes.
Also there are a few Puerto Ricans who moved to Florida after Trump ignored their needs and will be able to vote now.
Good for them!! I hope they rub it in his FAT ORANGE FACE.
Just wait for florida to turn like Puerto rico
He ignored it at his own peril. They were American citizens.
Most think they're white and vote Republican. They like to get shitted on if they stay Republican. I'm sorry "Dixicrat."
@William MillerYes, and some Aliens and mermaids too. 🙄
Puerto Ricans have their right to vote.
I think it is sad if your party only wins elections without the majority of the voters. rigged system .
I think it's sad having a Russian Trojan Horse as President.
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Definitely one of the best editorials in the last few years of real time. Perfectly summed up so many frustrations all at once.
Bill Maher at his absolute best!
3:04 "It's like they copy pasted Colorado and then forgot to put people in it" ROTFL!!!!! That was one of the funniest Bill Maher quotes I have heard in ages.
What ROTFL means?
anthony Francis Rolling on the floor laughing.
@@ZachTheRantingGuy why? I don't know what it mean!!!
anthony Francis It means you laugh so hard, you feel like you’ll end up on the floor because of how funny it is.
One of the smartest episodes by a stand up ever. Had to watch it a few times to get all the jokes.
Susan Collins, Senator of Maine: Population - Stephen King, two lobsters and a bear. And Stephen King would make a better Senator...or the bear...or either of the lobsters.
I see what you did there.
lobster for Maine 2018: consider the lobster.
You know, you're right, clearly pro-lifers really do want our political system to be a horror story for their own petty reasons
Maine Justice!
FU Radical Libs That has little to do with ethics. You see those of us with a professional license must follow both law and ethics. She must have forgotten.
I haven't cried from laughter that much in a while. Long live Bill Maher!
"Power begets power."
Truer words were never spoken.
Apparently not.
The Democrats had both houses of Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court after the 2008 election, and they couldn't hang onto any of them.
They could have used that power to "beget more power", but they blew it.
Maybe if they would stop supporting foreign and domestic terrorism and promising to push our country further into debt, we would be willing to vote for their party.
I'm going to be devils advocate here tho... What if power just protects a party from having to stay in steep with the America. I think of it as water building behind a dam. One day the dam will break and America will be a one party system for fifty years until an opposition party very different from Republicans emerges. And they won't be called Republicans.... If, of course, there still is a democracy.
On this point Maher is absolutely right, get off the streets protesting and into the voting booth. Win election from the state level on up to affect change and stop the GOP.
Why can’t we do both?
Why would you want to stop PROSPERITY of more Americans? Maher is a millionaire so doesn't care if Dems are in power but thanks to Reps i will have 500 /month more in 2019 and Dems want to take it away from me! VOTE FOR REPS (unless you are on welfare or on food stamps).
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Can’t happen. The DemonRats are too busy getting high on legalized drugs and screaming on the streets.
Completely demented!!!
Actually, we democrats have to start working harder to succeed in local elections before we can move on the state level. Ot's called the grass-roots because that wher seed of ideas are planted that grow into planfs produce more seesds.
People fom New York State don't all go to Albany to vote- they vots in a small subdivision of the state even to cast ballots in races forstate AND NATIONAL elections.decisions aboutwhere voting places are set up and manages the incoming voters and the exiting voters
, how the votes will be cast, who counts the votes, and where and how and to whom the votes are reported so the results can be verified and reported.
Guapo viejo - outstanding, go get ‘em in November!
This was the exact shit George Washington was warning us about
There is a great speech by the late Justice Scalia where he talks about what makes America different from all the other democracies in the world, and why our rights are more protected. Its not the Bill of Rights that ensures our rights, its the system of checks and balances between both houses of the legislature, and between the other braches of the Federal Gov. that ensures those rights. Checks and balances between the House and Senate, and the Presidency ensure that no one party will be able to gain enough power to easily take away or infringe those rights.
People like Bill Maher would have us regress into mob rule, where the presidency, legislature, and courts were all controlled by the 51%. "History is on our side" they say, but if they knew anything about history they would know that what they are advocating for has already been tried, and the results were not pretty.
True. But then George Washington ALSO brewed whiskey to sell to Indians so he could accuse them of being drunken rapist freeloaders, and take their land. In that sense he was a TRUE Republican, even though they had yet to officially adopt the term. His "warning" was for white people only.
@@MrDavidBFoster Another Dem who doesn't know his history. Which party was it that freed the slaves?
@@That1insaneguy The Republicans. Just not because they felt sorry for black people.
@@That1insaneguy Oh, and I don't subscribe to Democrats' ideoleology any more than I do Republicans'. I just find them to be less aurally grating.
Crazy how Wyoming is a state, yet DC has to fight tooth and nail for statehood just to get declined every time.
James Burgess because DC would provide no actual value as a state
James Burgess DC is a territory though. It should probably be added to Maryland, or Virginia.
Kurt S Virginia...iirc, the land was originally taken from it.
But it should remain a territory. And they have representation in Congress, but no voting representation.
DC . License plates say.
“ taxation without representation“ no shite!
@@uvscuti2047 nor does Wyoming
"We need to get people like Ted Cruz out of POWER, not out of restaurants." Thank god Bill, you get it. This crap pisses me off more than it should. These ridiculous scenes at restaurants make NATIONAL news and all they do is 1) make a few angry dems feel good, but *much* more importantly 2) royally piss off a shit ton of Red Hats all over the country and give Republican candidates more one line zingers for their campaigns. The only dinner we should be ruining is the one Republicans will eat on election day.
TH-cam Moderator lol
No Bill doesn’t get it. Like most liberals he wants 3 liberal states to decide for everyone else. The only reason Hillary got more votes is because of the margin of victory in California. The electoral college is so every state has a say in who the president is, not just liberal states.
We need people like Ted Cruz in power. And restaurants.
Inebriatd They aren't as natural at lying and cheating. They try to take the high road. They're better people than Republicans. Just look at their values
@@2126Eliza Yeah their values: For socialism, against due process of law, against a presumption of innocence, for the taking of innocent life, against decency, honor, and integrity. Yep, they're just the cream of humanity.
So much sense on this one,
Which one???? Flooding Texas with illegal immigrants and then demanding they have a right to vote?? Or appeasing all the violent criminals in Florida so they will vote blue?? Or maybe demanding that two states merge into one?? Or is it getting rid of the Electoral College and dissolving the Republic??
elizabeth tudor
1. Getting rid of elecotoral college doesn't mean dissolving the country, A lot of country live democracy w/o electoral college.
2. You need an immigration reform for your immigrants problem. Something Congress and senate which have been led by Republican for years have failed to do. Even now with all branch of government in Their hand, they still failed to do.
aze wine.. 1. The UNITED STATES of America is a Republic not a pure democracy. The Electoral College was put in place so that the States would remain United.. Do you expect middle America to just sit back and allow themselves be dictated to and governed by the over populated liberal coasts for the rest of eternity!! Oh how the democrats would love to abolish the Electoral College but it would lead to civil war in the country..
2. The first and most important thing that America can do about the illegal immigration problem is make the border secure. BUILD THE WALL.
The Democrats just had 8 years in power and haven't stopped crying since they lost the election. They want to hold onto power forever. Abolishing the Electoral College would all but guarantee their monopoly on power.. They are nothing but a bunch of bitter, hysterical, deceitful, power hungry gimps.
Because Republican wouldn't win if it's a real democracy? The last 8 years or so had been Republican congress and senate. If you had complain regarding immigration, you should really calling the republican congress.
I’m from Maine and he’s right.
Go figure from main
So, it is the senator, you, Stephen king, two lobsters and a bear
James Kelley from on Kelley to anotger I whole heartedly disagree . They knew the election rules going in. It's not fair for a border state to let illegals in to get more voters. It's like baseball saying home runs should count more than other runs. Or a team saying that after losing. You have s great name by the way
Tim Kelley There is not a shred of evidence to support what you’re suggesting.
How can anyone really argue against voter ID?
I’ve seen this at least 10 to 15 times. And every time that population of Maine line is said, I can’t help but laugh 🤣😂🤣
So hard to look back and know what was to come. It's only getting worse and yet we just stand by.
If I were Ted, I would never eat anything prepared by anyone outside my circle... as it is, I imagine that if he ate anything that wasn't 20% spit, he'd furrow his brow, and send it back for 'tasting funny'.
For the record: There are actually 4 lobsters, not 2, currently residing in Maine
How many lobsters are there?
Into necrophilia, eh?
Not any more....yum !
I think one of the biggest ironies with the electoral college is Trump’s supporters support the electoral college yet Trump HIMSELF has said MULTIPLE times that he would prefer to go by the popular vote.
That’s one policy I wish he would be able to do: remove the electoral college but it’ll never happen and I doubt Trump cares enough to.
Dems are going to like the Electoral College a lot more when the Repubs win the popular vote but the Dems win the White House by EC total... this could happen as soon as '020... I'd be honored if some fellow concerned citizens would check out my acoustic piano & vocal covers of 80s/90s classic songs on my channel. Covers include Sting, Prince, George Michael, Radiohead, Tom Petty, Phil Collins, the GooGoo Dolls, Billy Joel, Earth Wind & Fire, plus a couple of '010s classics from Bruno Mars and Coldplay. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and peace.
There is no chance a republican will win a popular vote unless the person running for the party is The Rock
Trump can’t decide that, would need 2/3 of states and constitutional amendment . It will not happen
If the outcome were based on popular vote, then Trump would have won that also.
LINER011 except, he didn’t?
"Steven King, two lobsters, and a bear" LOL
I'm a republican but I like bill because he recognizes what his party is doing wrong and he's just a funny guy
It has been a long time since I enjoyed overtime with Bill Maher...totally agree with his assesment..
Thank you bill...one addition to your comments...the Democratic party is part of the problem...think about it
Stephen so vote for anyone who calls themselves a Democrat even if they suck wrong I'm tired of voting for lesser of two evils
Three years later and Bill's argument remains valid! 😓
Bill is right. How can 1,6 million people (North and South Dakota combined) get more senators (4) than 39 million Californians (2). US politics is stupid at times.
Max D - I think you mean we have population representation in the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Congress refers to the entire Legislative Branch.
America has 2 different legislative bodies because the original 13 states couldn’t agree on how many diplomats each state should have. Smaller states like Rhode Island and Connecticut thought each state should have the same number of representatives, regardless of population size. And larger states like Virginia thought the number should be based on population size. (Also the issue of counting slaves as part of those populations was a whole other can of worms)
This was such a major issue that it threatened to tear apart the young Union before it started (remember, they were still WRITING the Constitution at this point, the closest thing to an actual government was the Colonial militia). So they decided to use both ideas for their fledgling government. This 2-part legislature has been a part of American politics since the very beginning, and will most likely always be there.
So lame asses like you don't give our country away to your feelings
So true...let's go vote Nov 6th...don't forget
This is great! So on point!
slurp slurp slurp these liberal tears TASTE SO GOOOOOD!!!!!! mmmmmmmmmmmm
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@Kay Kay Everything you wrote is drivel! Innocent until proven guilty???? Where have you been living that you haven't noticed that there are a huge proportion of people accused and convicted of crimes that they didn't commit they are called MINORITIES! It's a fact look it up, plenty of cases..
And while we're at it Susan Collins looks like a man in drag herself.
@@afrocrumble8721 Moron!
@Kay Kay I refuse to go back and forth with you. I called what you said drivel because it was a whole lot of nothing. And you don't have to be in jail to know what's going on in America and feel other people's plight. But you choose not to be woke and look the other way then try to justify it, but ironically you are woke when it comes to this whole Kavanaugh accusal thing. Don't worry about where I got my education from since you choose to throw shade at me, and I'm fine with us having nothing in common I wouldn't want to have anything in common with you. Nothing but good to you bye.
@Kay Kay And please notice that I responded to you without hurling insults like you did and without being a racist..
“Stephen King, two lobsters and a bear!”
And me ! I'm in Maine , I'll be voting blue ! Love your show Mr Maher !
The Maine, joke was Killer!😀...but to be fair Stephen King is liberal.
FU Radical Libs your words are Shining on me. Not.!
The Lobsters are JP fans and the bear doesn't vote.
You're a liberal if you want people to live you're a conservative if you don't care if people die.
So is the bear.
jdez10 I lost it when he said it 😭😭😭
Don't kick Repubes out of restaurants, let them eat the spit in their food, the staff worked so hard to sneak in
@Rick O'Shay with a side of ball sweat
You sound like an upstanding citizen.
Maher being 100% right yet again.
Say whatever you want about Bill Maher, he keeps it real, I love it!!!
Bill, spot on. Love your show always. It is such a comfort knowing you are on our side as a Democrat.
Stephen King...a liberal needs to unseat Susan Collins.
At this point, I'd take the bear over Collins. Or either of the lobsters.
I'd vote for Stephen King. He would write so many Bills that everyone would agree to sign them, just to get him to shut up.
@ L Whitby ....Lol... For sure!!
Susan Collins is my senator and she has done a fantastic job for 22 years... she always votes her conscience and she always has the interests of Maine and the United States in mind. NO ONE has been tougher on Russian election interference than Sen. Collins... I refuse to condemn her just because she made a decision that i don't agree with (and it's not the first time).
Will... honest and appreciated
More Puerto Ricans are living in Florida. After Hurricane Maria, many of us RICANS moved there. Rosello, a Republican, is endorsing Florida's DEMOCRATIC candidate for governorship. trumpf thought that throwing paper towels at us was funny? Wait until we RICANS help turn Florida BLUE! WE are mobilizing and getting folks to VOTE! WE will see who has the last laugh, CABRON! #PuertoRicansVoteBlue 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
That's excellent. You guys have the voting power and must use it.
Yve LA BELLA
After you turn Florida Democratic, no one will throw any paper at you. You will be like Venezuela without toilet paper and like California with a shit map to know what places full of shit on the streets to avoid.
Im puerto rician and voting republican.
@@gigiontube Perhaps Gigi would volunteer to go clean up the masses of dead fish, turtles and manatees stinking up the best Florida beaches in the country.....due to "RedTide Rick Scotts" cut backs of funds to the waterways protections branch to the tune of 700 million dollars, which has created the worst red tide due to polution, in the history of the state.
Republicans only know how to destroy well thought out regulations conceived by people who have a clue about important things like our environment. They pretend environmental deregulation is about helping the little business owner get started leading the country to massive prosperity, but all it is, is a con job to allow already massive cash rich corporations to earn a few million more for the Ceo's and shareholders by not having to abide by common sense regulation to protect we the peoples air and water.....and guess who gets stuck with the clean up costs once the water and air damage is done?.....oh that's right....we little people and our government taxes pay thru the nose to clean it up.....the corporations of course continue to pay less and less taxes because of republican theft from the people.....and for what reason?.....corporate profits are at an 80 yr high.....trillions parked in offshore accts hidden away from contributing to our planets well being.....
And you gullible ignorant mofo's who vote for the GOP keep wanting to hand them ever more power, while cheering when the GOP attack unions and workers rights and civil rights for you and your kids.
Republican voters are the most uninformed ignorant gullible people on the planet......and guess what Jethro....if you keep falling for their schtick....the planet will not be around for your kids and their kids futures.
@@pillipilli7908 Well then you are a idiot because Republicans hate minorities.....the fact you want us to believe you are latino is hilarious...GTFOH!!..😂
Spot on, Bill. Enough with the protests that achieve nothing. Expend energy on get-out-the-vote efforts.
Yep Electoral College help Conrad bone spurs become president get rid of the Electoral College
At the very least it needs to be adjusted. One state shouldn't determine who the next President is, but one section of the country's votes shouldn't be worth ten times everyone else's.
A handful of states already are set to vote based on the popular vote regardless of state results. But not enough states have joined in to make it work yet, and won't go into effect until that happens.
The electoral college saved the Country many times...
Electoral College is fine:
>Representatives + Senator = # of Voters
>Divide population by amount of voters in state
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Key:
Representative (Rep)
Senator (Sen)
~ Round
Read:
~12345 Citizens: 1 Voter
Estimated 12345 citizens make up 1 voter.
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States with small population:
*N Dakota: 755.393K Population* RED
1 Rep 2 Sen = 3 Voters ~251798 Citizens:1 Voter
*S Dakota: 869.666K Population* RED
1 Rep 2 Sen = 3 Voter ~289889 Citizens:1 Voter
*Wyoming 579.315K Population* RED
1 Rep 2 Sen = 3 Voters ~193105 Citizens: 1 Voter
>Small states average 200K per voter.
States with large population:
*Minnesota 5577K (5.5M) Population* BLUE
8 Rep 2 Sen = 10 Voters ~557700 Citizens: 1 Voter
*Maryland 6052K (6.052M) Population* BLUE
8 Rep 2 Sen = 10 Voters ~605200 Citizens: 1 Voter
*Ohio 11600K (11.6M) Poulation* RED
16 Rep 2 Sen = 18 Voters ~644444 Citizens: 1 Voter
*New York: 8538K (8.5M) Population* BLUE
27 Rep 2 Sen = 29 Voters ~294414 Citizens: 1 Voter
*California: 39000 (39M) Population* BLUE
53 Rep 2 Sen = 55 Voters ~709091 Citizens: 1 Voter
*Texas: 28300K (23M) Population* RED
36 Rep 2 Sen = 38 Voters ~744736 Citizens: 1 Voter
>New York fits well to small state ratio.
>While "Large" Red states are actually more underrepresented than "Large" Blue states, large states are more underrepresented than small states except New York.
So there are under representation on both sides.
And this is going toward left's favor since it may include illegals and unregistered in the population count...
Btw this disproves Maher's lackluster claim as number of representatives heavily rely on population count.
The state governments need a say in the White House. Hell, they've already been kicked out of the US Congress.
No other federal republic has ever enjoyed such self-determination of a country's subdivisions. We need to protect that.
"The story of liberty is a history of the limitations of government power, not the increase of it." -Woodrow Wilson (democrat), 1912.
lol that's the opposite of what today's Democrats want
Regardless who you support we shouldn't stoop so low to harass & bully people no matter who they are, its ignorant, immature, wrong, & Biased. Everyone should have a right to eat where ever they want whether they are Democrat or Republican. It makes Democrats who are attacking these Republicans look really bad! Its about right and wrong and its wrong to bully people PERIOD!
I ❤️ Bill Maher.
Awesome New rules.
Yeah,how come a state so small as Wyoming gets as many senators in Washington as New York and California? 🤔
that question dates back over 200 years. Virginia and Georgia were the largest colonies and demanded a house of representatives based on population. Rhode Island and Delaware so hell no. If were going to be United then each colony must be equally represented. Let's do two senators each. After much arguing they said fuck it. Lets do both a house and senate. One on population and one on equality among colonies. As you can see it today, CA has 55 votes in the house and in presidential elections. WY has 1, so there's your population representation. But you can't have 1 state completed over running smaller states. Otherwise, those smaller states have no reason to want to be "United" with the larger.
And still has more senators then Porto Rico and Washington DC which I’d guess have larger populations.
Everybody gets two senators each state has two senators it's the house of representatives that have different numbers depending on population
Also, a small state like Vermont gets as many senators as Texas.
Thank slavery for the electoral college.
Can you elaborate?
www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/electoral-college-slavery-constitution
so you prefer the hunger games model
I prefer letting peoples votes count.
shedd45 so you think the electoral college shouldn’t exist.
I voted for Trump. Twice, for the Office of the President of the United States in 2016 & 2020. Hateful comments are welcomed!!
I love you Bill Maher, but just so you are aware Wyoming hosts four major river basins in the western United States.The Yellowstone, Wind, Bighorn, and Shoshone rivers in northwestern Wyoming; the Tongue, Powder, Belle Fourche, Cheyenne, and Niobrara rivers in northeastern Wyoming; and the North Platte and Laramie rivers in southeastern Wyoming are all headwaters of the Missouri-Mississippi River Basin. Not to mention the headwaters of the Snake into the Columbia and the Green River into the Colorado. We suck at sending decent folks to DC, but we are great at sending water to major portions of the U.S.
You mean headwaters
Which is awesome, in terms of geography but, states like Wyoming, Arkansas (low population states) could REALLY be amalgamated together to form meaningful state governments and to reduce the overall size/costs of their governments. It's just a numbers game.
He meant a partition between other states. Obviously Wyoming has rivers.
Bill maher is the best ever and he is so handsome
Oh Bill, I feel your pain even tho I’m a foreigner living outside the US. I’ve always respected the USA as the fairest strongest superpower, but maybe it’s reign is coming to an end. I don’t see it surviving this “internal self-destruct mode”. Unless of course you guys get a miracle
We got our wish bud your new world order is done for good say by by to your union trump is fixing the world n thats that ha ha
jenifer cronin, OMG another crazy conspiracy theorist
Now's not the time to pick on North Dakota. We need to help Heidi Heitcamp get reelected.
So let's get rid of South Dakota instead.
Lmao. Not happening. She voted yes to make sure her future employers are happy.
Did you listen to her press conference? She said it was a vote of conscience. It was *not* to her advantage politically.
What do you mean by her future employers?
@@kristinkulman3221 the lobbyists... Who she will go work for once she loses. The dem donors wanted to see a no... So she provided the no.
Kristin Kulman elitists can’t help their elitism.
Teach! Preach! and please people remember the facts!
Way to go bill maher!, rip that constitution to shreds!
Ikr, took a page out of GOP playbook.
The part about the Senate and the Electoral College is clearly outdated. The majority is now subject to the tyranny of the minority, and the minority has so rigged the system where it is pretty effortless for them to maintain power. If the Dems ever manage to get all three branches again, the Constitution needs to be amended to erase this disparity.
yea yea why should the right get the benefit of the doubt?, Rip it up! rip it up!
@Shade Bleu trump is the dumbest person on the planet. You worship dumb.
Well, Bush picked his scotus justices in his 2nd term, when he won the popular vote.
Yeah but he wouldn’t have had the second term without the first one, the one he LOST.
@@ella_encantada Why?
He could have run again.
@@MonkeyDLuffy-fc3qb presidential loser can't win another election. that's kind of unspoken rule
@@xuanquang9815 Grover Cleveland did in 1892.
@@MonkeyDLuffy-fc3qb point taken. but Bush is not Trump, and 2004 Kerry is horrible
He’s right. We always end up on the losing get side:(
We're not racists or rapists so... no.
What are you talking about? Since Carter it went...4years Dems, 12 years Rep, 8 years dems, 8 years rep, 8 years dems, 4 years rep,. Keep in mind that Dems are trying to change the country to Communism, higher taxes and take away guns and the hate religion....its a tuff thing to sell!!!
Real Time with Bill Maher LOOZER
as European I applaud these short segments. Very good and informative. I know more about the USA with this show.
Actually Bill forgot to fill you in on a few things. The perceived inequality of the Electoral college is quite intentional. The United States is NOT a Democracy. We are a Republic of States...United. One of the issues leading to our fight for independence from the Brits was about representation. We developed a system that bucks the trend of pretty much every other country. The electoral college decentralizes overrepresentation of highly populated areas and ensures all the states that make up our Republic have a proportional say (not equal, but proportional).
I gave a thumb up but I'd like to disagree. Shouldn't PEOPLE be the ones represented, not AREAS? I have real difficulties with the idea that the president of the US, with all that immense power he has (filling Supreme Court seats, e.g.), can be someone who achieved ("won") 3 000 000 votes less than the other candidate. @@apollyonzorz
90% of our problems can be fixed with one very simple thing: term limits. Unfortunately it will never happen. The careerists of both parties are so addicted to their power and privilege that they won't give up their hold on either. To quote Orwell: "The creatures looked from pig to man, man to pig, and pig to man again; but already it was impossible to tell which was which."
Best joke, 2:45 "Why is Wyoming even a state?" LOL
Thanks Bill for the explanation
That slide with Al Gore and Hillary, followed by Bush and Drumpf. My heart sank.
I take exception to the disparaging of the Connecticut Compromise. Yes every state has two senators but states with more people have more representatives.
That doesn't explain why we need two Dakotas. Should we split California into seven states to give liberals 12 new senators?
It is not a question of need. That was a decision that President Harrison made and Congress at the time. IN 1889 the Republican party was the Liberal Party. I guess you could ask the question, why do we need 50 states. I come from the 3rd smallest state but 29th biggest by population.
Cody Davies it was never one Dakota though
It was the Dakota territory and both North and South Dakota were admitted on the same day. So, instead of two it could have be one state.
This video be so true tho
sifu kiefer nope, so much wrong when it comes to the electoral college and giving ex felons the right to vote so democrats win ? Lol gtfo!
@@THELANKANCOMRADE question
No it's not. Its ridiculous
Well done Bill!
I'm sure Stephen King was mollified that he at least got top billing among Susan Collins' constituents.
"The constitution is not on our side." Well, at least you're being honest here Bill.
To be fair the Democrats are not on the Constitutions side either.
@@aronkovacs1386 Lol no
@@aronkovacs1386 Really? Have you reviewed the legislative record of the 116th Congress, or are you just bloviating your general "feelings?" Have you read the (Democratic) House's first bill, HR 1, the "For the People Act?" Among other things, it proposes strengthening voting rights, as guaranteed by the 15th and 19th Amendments, addresses (unconstitutional) gerrymandering, the preposterously unconstitutional findings of Citizens United v. FEC, voting rights for the disenfranchised and Supreme Court ethics. I'm guessing you did not. No matter, the Republican Senate killed it on arrival. Nothing fair about your comment, mate. Nothing informed, either. Mindless partisanship.
On the ball again funny
How democrats feel the underdog after 8 years of Obama Biden still puzzles me
I HATE THE ELECTORAL "COLLEGE."
#WalkAway
California should be 3 states
NYC needs to be a state
Please come back to reality. California has appropriate population representation in the House. As do all states. The Senate is to protect the rights of states who do not have the population with equal representation. Perhaps try to understand more and listen to Bill less. He has zero context.
And those states would be a) Libtardia, b) MexicoDos, and c) Farmerland.
+Carey McDowell Interesting take. So Wisconsin, for example, has a population of just under 6 million. While California has a population of just under 40 million. More than 6x as much. You seem to be saying it's perfectly fair that 6 million people get the same voting power as 40 million people. Why is that fair? That seems to be the exact opposite of fair.
@@catastrophicbroccoli4065: It's specifically to compensate for the population differential. Without it, the heavily populated states could steamroll over the less populated states at will. This way, in the Senate anyway, all states carry equal weight. They're proportionally represented in the House.
+Brother Karafuchov I understand the "justification" for it. But what you are effectively saying is "40 million people want one thing, and 6 million people want something different. It's a tie!" No sane, rational person would agree that is a fair system.
One of the best parts about the sheer wrongness of Wyoming is the fact it isnt named after a local river, tribe, person, etc.
It's named after a valley in Pennsylvania.
Anyone can Quote a famous writer and give advice.
In 2020 commit to your civic duty and ......
As an outsider, kinda sounds like he’s sneering at the Smaller states.
shut up, snowflake
It's undemocratic - a small state with 700k population gets two senators and CA gets two senators even though it's 40 million people - so the voters in the small state are over represented and CA is under represented
@@joeexotic2545 you are absolutely right, my friend.
@@joeexotic2545 The US is not a democracy. We are a constitutional federal republic that uses representative democracy.
How is it that so many people want to complain about the country, but have no idea how things work to begin with?
@@CaliMeatWagon don't tell me that , tell that to all the american politicians who've been calling America "the world's greatest democracy " for as long as I can remember
Liberal tears ……. I LOVE THEM!!!!!!
Somebody once wrote, "Those who don't vote get the government they deserve." Unfortunately, those of us who do vote also get that government. We've had two minority presidents already in this short century. But if enough people voted, that wouldn't happen-even with gerrymandering and voter suppression. GET OUT AND VOTE! (Apologies for yelling, but some people have a hard time hearing this.)
Haha, "why is Wyoming even a state?"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wyoming
Here you go!
DESPAIR
Yo know who u are JOE MANCHIN
Joe the man China
No......Joe Manchin is a Conservative just with a D next to his name. I hope that Manchinoses to that Republican. The people of West Virginia wont know any better
Tjk 92 no hes a REPUBLICAN that wishes he could be a small democrat
heeeeheeeheeeheee!!!!!!!!!!!! SenAtor Collins! God Bless it!!!!! That WAS HILARIOUS!
False Equivalency, every state has two Senators, regardless of population, purposely set up that way, so every voice has an equal voice(vote) in the Senate. Now the House of Representatives is where the population dictates the amount of votes, California has 53 and Wyoming has 1, you don't bring that up right, since it doesn't help your point? Congress was set up as a bicameral legislature, each having their own responsibilities as a form separation of powers, to help prevent the consolidation of power.
President Incitatus strikes again. (I know he's not a horse. Just another horse's caboose.) Sigh.
Another reason you didnt win.
The hate that you shovel forth makes you a real beta. Betas hate ALPHAS , so...
Haha... Help give 1.6 Million Felons the Right To Vote in Florida... Truly the Party of Ideas
Sky Fall felons have to pay taxes... They should get a vote!!!
3spy1rex3 Go ahead, tell that person who assaulted a random guy on the street you want to give him the privilege of deciding who runs the country. Oh wait, you all advocate for that shit, nvm. I thought I was talking to the party of Kennedy, not fucking Joseph Stalin.
Traveller Leng Do some research before you write something even more idiotic here. Violent felons are NOT part of that 1.4 million people trying to get their votes back. Those guys lost their chance permanently, this is for the lesser ones, many who didn't even actually DO the crime they were convicted of.
^^^ SKY FALL ...Florida does restore voting rights to ex-Felons just not automatically once they have served their time & paid their debt. They have to wait 5 Years before they can apply to have their rights restored. Only 2 other states do this. These people need to have their right to vote back!
Quyzbuk Gotta get that straw man doesn’t even qualify as strawmanning. What the fuck did I say that you proved wrong.
This guy should be your next president