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[@debbihinson1629]

I'm a liberal Democrat and two years ago I moved from one of those hip, cool, cultural cities to a small, rural farming town in the mountains of western North Carolina. I absolutely love it. I don't miss the traffic, crowds, inflated prices and oh so cool hipsters. I've found my like-minded peeps, retired hippies, just regular down to earth folks, and artisans and craftspeople. I don't miss the bright lights, hip city at all.

[@papa1964me]

Yep, that sounds like Asheville, NC.

[@debbihinson1629]

Actually, the cool, hip, tourist town I left was Charleston. sc

[@familykaplan1341]

Asheville!

[@Tom-cn4cm]

So you moved from a left place to a left place. Big whoop.

[@Daniel-jv1ku]

I just visited Tennessee and it blew my mind. It's amazing.

[@duxnihilo]

Yes, billionaires should be benevolent. On that note, politicians should be honest and the public should be informed.

[@thehellyousay]

And drinks should be on the house

[@muhammadsaqeeb5298]

Obviously this is idealistic, but at least we are pointing out this then just pretending each side is evil

[@adrianlouw2499]

I bet billionaires pay more money in taxes per year than I will earn in my entire life...how about you?

[@Matthew-wz8ig]

@@adrianlouw2499 what a stupid statement of course that's true but that's like saying it would hurt you to put a nickel in the Make-A-Wish jar at the gas station

[@Hooyahfish]

A benevolent billionaire is a paradox because you cant be benevolent and make billions of dollars. The proof of that is the fact that most CEOs display sociopathic tendencies. Same thing goes for politicians. www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwip3c_CmNHgAhWnTd8KHYedBnEQzPwBegQIARAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fceos-often-have-psychopathic-traits-2017-7&psig=AOvVaw0vEWitoXoCTvSE8XV9ESPz&ust=1550988492894302

[@healthymealthy775]

It amazes me that people are finally starting to get it, including Bill Maher. This has been a huge problem for decades and only growing. Most of the good jobs are only in certain areas. Many people move into these areas and the housing and rent prices skyrocket, making it a pay check to pay check existence. If the jobs were spread apart we wouldn't have the problems of extremely high costs of living.

[@GrassPossum]

Mate there are fewer good jobs in those areas and Bill Maher is a very wealthy privileged person whose ignorance of orinary people and their lives is showing here. For someone who is not an American and extremely glad of it, I found watchjing this arrogant uninformed wanker to be repulsive. He is roundly insulting a lot of people. Many of whom are far smarter andplenty also who are better educated than he is. his simplistic outlook assumes that there is enough for everyone to have what he describes when it is not so, and only 1% of the population would have anything like what he describes and the educated percentage as such will not by any means be all Progressive or Liberal voters. Furthermore not all uneducated and backwards people are religious and not all religious people are unedducated and backward. He is the winner in a system which keeps the majority down. he is in no positionto pass judgement on the rest of that system. Just as the USA remains rich by looting the world and keeping much of it in chaos and poverty so too the 'elites' in the USA maintain their position on the back of keeping the majority poor and fearful.

[@timf7413]

Here's the thing, those big companies companies in thriving fields like tech are also competing for skilled workers who want to live in the areas that have the amenities and (for lack of a better term) "cool stuff" Bill mentioned and most of that needs a certain population density (and all around critical mass) in order to thrive. It's not as easy as saying "spread out", when the people who can afford it actually want (for the most part) to be clustered in those few hip areas.

[@karlhungus545]

@boss 630 End-stage capitalism is the problem in the USA...which is now just another oligarchy like Russia.

[@karlhungus545]

@boss 630 Yes, it would. It's called 'Canada' or 'Sweden' or 'Finland' or 'France' or 'Slovenia' or any number of countries far better than the USA that don't have the almost laughable issues that the 'Republic of USA' now has. Sorry, I forgot that the USA is the 'greatest country in the world' 🤣😂🤣

[@karlhungus545]

@boss 630 Her name's Angie actually. The name is from the Big Lebowski, which every self-respecting man is aware of. Good luck with that. Your senate sounds like a clan meeting in the Congo these days...

[@64standardtrickyness]

If Amazon was interested in doing good, they'd give their employees a bathroom break so they don't have to pee in a bottle

[@sheikyobooty9334]

Maga fools need education and mental healthcare not guns and walls

[@avedic]

Sex is healthy....it's vital for mental and physiological health. And a life of increasing abstinence is not a good idea.... Less baby making? Yes. Absolutely. But I think younger people have so LITTLE sex these days....isn't such a good idea. Young people in Scandinavia fuck like crazy....in Saudi Arabia? Not so much. I just think this argument is made poorly when having sex is equated with pregnancy. Seperate the two.

[@brux7650]

@@avedic wtf comment were you replying to? or did u just go on that rant with no context haha

[@avedic]

Meritocracy and Capitalism absolutely have their merits. I definitively believe that. BUT.....then there's Jeff Bezos. I am 100% convinced there is not a single human being alive, or who has ever lived, or ever will live....who deserves or has "earned" a BILLION DOLLARS. That's absurd. That's impossible. A human being cannot do ANYTHING to deserve THAT. And this guy...has over 200 times that. At that point, I'm sorry....but you are in fact a sociopath. No human being deserves or is capable of earning that much wealth. You are simply an extreme outlier at that point....that somehow concocted a situation in which you were able to amass orders of magnitude more wealth than you could possibly earn in thousands of lifetimes. And we're supposed to feel excited for you getting to go to space? Neato. Have fun while you can Jeff. Because if you and people like you keep this shit up.....given history, we all know how this ends. Poor desperate hungry people can and will and have killed people like you in order to......you know.....survive. The gross thing is that I get the distinct impression Jeff feels zero shame or empathy. He probably doesn't even think about it. He doesn't understand how gross he is as a human being. I think it's our job, the other 99.9999999% of us.....to get him to understand how gross he is. I just hope we're up to the task, because right now....we're pretty goddamn distracted from reality.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

But Bezos needs another mega yacht...SIGH

[@blackday1013]

You had me at Chinese food. In all seriousness though, it would be nice to be able to use my college degree for something without having to leave the place I grew up in for 23 years

[@zacharyhenderson2902]

So why don't you do it? What's your degree in?

[@Ravie1]

As someone who is in a (super) flyover state where there happens to be those kind of jobs, it's about how to find a place to do that that is affordable, i'm graduating soon and i'm not staying where I am because while it has employment opportunity and a nice quality of life, the housing market locally is bat shit crazy and I would rather save 100K on my first mortgage. I'm eyeing the areas of Texas that have jobs but low housing prices.

[@ChardonnayJohnny]

Such a big world out there. I'll probably end up where I grew up but I've looked for jobs in other cities to get something new n have amazing experiences. But hope you get That job you seek!

[@brettb9194]

this is a function of choosing the right degree, or taking a vocational college/apprenticeship instead: it annoys me no end when a youngster takes four years of art history and expects to work anywhere but a metropolis - even as a teacher their qualifications would be limited to the large centers because the market for students in these non-producer humanities areas is small. it's not that they're unimportant it's that we need only one for every hundred hundred thousand welders, mechanics, service technicians. nice work if you can get it

[@CBlargh]

I used my college degree to GTFO of the Red State sh!thole I grew up in for 23 years. That's what it was for.

[@collectorstartrek1036]

My city has over 60 churches (tax exempt) but no natural history museums.

[@chrisbucci5769]

Not sure what city that is but I truly feel sorry for you.

[@kaladan1890]

and how many imaginary people live in your imaginary city ?

[@CloudsGirl7]

My sympathies. I have a similar situation in my town - really hillbilly-ville - where you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a church, and I have to go out of state to see a museum. (Of anything regarding science.) At least there's a nice, stocked library...

[@jettsoma]

CloudsGirl7 Sounds like my county, but at least we have lots of legal weed. 😏

[@SekaiNoGaijin]

I am so glad I am not american. Hang in there!

[@marymiller6188]

The people who are pissed about him supposedly dissing red states are missing he point. Amazon could revitalize a city instead of driving up the cost of living in an already expensive city.

[@MsBhappy]

Exactly!

[@Krazyyerttle]

No i get it he is just so arrogant to assume everyone else is jealous of overpriced and overrated styles of life he literally talked as if we all just eat chef boyardee and beat our wives because thats all we have

[@Vennytube]

lol, don't make excuses, EVERYONE got his point. It was very clear, the problem is that his point alienates more than half the country with condescending elitism.

[@ubcphysicsyangbo]

Mary Miller Amen to that!

[@movienight7448]

His point is the same one Hillary made when she called half of the country deplorables. Just because he was funny when he said it doesn’t mean he’s not in the same exact boats idiot ass Democrats have always been in. Trump 2020

[@msyrdahl]

I think you're all missing the point. The point of the whole thing was to show that Amazon could make a huge difference in many parts of the country, bringing jobs and a better economy to areas that need it. No matter what you think of his tone, or what your politics are, or that you think he's condescending, he has a good point.

[@dvchel]

Even though Bill Maher is right on many points, there is still *no* need to be this condescending. Drawing viewers away instead of attracting them, since we've gotten so bored by these sharing of views of Conservatives and middle America etc.

[@narata1541]

Umm... We got the point of the video. You're not better than us because you think you're the only one who knows what this is about

[@thehellyousay]

Amazon would make a bigger difference if it's shareholders and board of directors were hanged en masse

[@mariog1490]

Mary Syrdahl bru stfu there is no good point. Oh I’m from California and yesterday my feelings got hurt because I could go to the bathroom I preferred. 🤜🏿🤜🏿👌🏿😂😂😂😎😎🤭😬🤭😬🤑🤑🤑🤣🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🌶🍆🥵🅱️😂😂😂🌶🍆😬🤬💪🏿

[@sheikyobooty9334]

Build a wall around ignorant redstate racists

[@tuck2727]

Amazon should really go to Detroit.

[@bmel7718]

I say Flint but proximity counts

[@CBlargh]

Yeah! My thought as well! Poor Detroit can't catch a f--king break...

[@christiancoates6505]

W

[@psychobergmuis6281]

Why

[@bugeye8749]

No job or life security

[@mikescarborough9196]

Translation: If you want people to understand progressivism, maybe you should start out by showing them some progress.

[@bigwitt187]

Yeah, you do realize that republicans are conservative? You further realize what conservative means when referencing republicans? They aren't fans of change, including progress, even if it benefits them.

[@shagdad76]

give us progressives an opportunity to show you what we can do; and you will be asking hillary who ????

[@fludblud]

@@bigwitt187 If they didnt want to progress then why were 230 cities mostly in red states practically begging Amazon to move there by offering every legal tax break possible? Theyre angry and conservative because theyre dirt poor and have nothing left. If liberals are serious about progressivism then their first priority should be reaching out instead withdrawing into tiny bubbles and leaving the rest of the nation to rot.

[@bigwitt187]

@@fludblud For one, cities aren't filled with conservatives, even in red states. For another, what the fuck does offering tax breaks in order to get a company HQ have to do with progressivism? We can't force the ignorant fucktards to help themselves, especially when they're putting regressive dipshits like Trump in power.

[@IAmGeorgeLucas]

Well put Mike, I'm gonna steal this one :)

[@joshuakyle5887]

I'm super late to the party, but the main cities in WV (Charleston, Huntington, Morgantown) and their metro areas are very diverse and full of stuff involving the arts, different cultures, etc. Hell, we even have Pride day celebrations.

[@istvankovasznai]

"And before you know it, there's legal weed and decent healthcare and the schools are teaching science again" - that's the real pipe dream right there. You tell'em, Bill!

[@334miked]

Nailed the closer!

[@sdog300]

Legal weed would be nice. And cheaper medical “options” But the science classes actually teach science and not dogma that goes against actual science.“some People” get mad when other people look at them like people used to look at punk rockers that had chains and crazy hair. That generation could handle it why can’t ours. you don’t see to many punk rockers nowadays do you. Oh they have different styles now. Wait they grew up and made decisions and didn’t get mutilated before their brain was done developing.

[@jeremypenn1]

Maybe try to solve the problems in California, like homelessness, gangs, drug addiction, pollution, corruption, greed, before you come try to fix the rest of us.

[@avinashreji60]

@@jeremypenn1 Everywhere is controlled by Neolibs idiot

[@NewMessage]

CSI: Lubbock 🎶Whoooo is ya'll Who, who, who, who 🎶

[@moonlit6311]

Lol!!😂😂😂

[@noeldown1952]

I wonder who will get the part of Judge Henry Allan Laudermilk

[@Nathan-gd7xq]

@Web Grep Bye, bot.

[@ceciliaFX]

I'd watch that show

[@brandonbeard4019]

Give Lubbock the CSI show, but let Abilene have the factory lol!!

[@redwoods7370]

"We're the Royal Family and they're Meghan Markle's dad." That made me laugh out loud!

[@CCEkeke]

That was perfectly put.

[@blaisea.3820]

"...and the schools are teaching science again." LOL

[@TaylorKnightCosplay]

It’s funny because it’s true

[@fahimp3]

@@TaylorKnightCosplay Is it really that bad or is most of it exaggerated?

[@Levitiy]

@@TaylorKnightCosplay Would be true if peasants existed in America.

[@carlsnyder4833]

I live in a red state and i own a home with a yard and multiple vehicles all on an average income. I remember visiting another office within the company I work for in San Francisco where I met my colleagues all of whom shared this same sentiment of arrogance combined with pity for those of us not blessed to live in such a wonderful city. You can imagine my bewilderment when I left the building and had to sidestep human feces and dirty needles.

[@hunterscott5836]

Carl Snyder the smug liberal thinks their shit don’t stink

[@Makermook]

And you went back to the home you own instead of a postage stamp sized apartment that you pay $4000/month to live in.

[@popcultureodyssey4459]

Exactly I'll never understand it...

[@g.p.1101]

You hit the nail on the head! Warren Buffett living in Omaha, Nebraska would laugh in Bill Maher's face if Bill said to him "You want to be me because I live in a Blue state and you live in a Red State". According to Bill, there are couples sitting in their million dollar homes in Texas right now saying to each other "Those broke people living under bridges in Portland are so lucky to live in a Blue state! I want to be one of those people so bad!"

[@blaisemacpherson7637]

You know, I'm from Idaho (a liberal college town) and now I live in deep red California (Fresno) and work in an ag related job. I roll my eyes any time anyone suggests that the big metropolis people have out better than I did in any way. I wouldn't trade anything for unpaved dirt under my steel toe boots.

[@skiingracer509]

My god. This is the most accurate assessment that Bill has done in months.

[@joryjones6808]

cothan VN economics and ethics is complicated being a dick to everyone else to reinforce your direct world view isn’t.

[@Vennytube]

Apparently your "god" only cares for orchestras and people driving teslas...figures!

[@skiingracer509]

cothan VN That was word diarrhea that I didn’t even try reading.

[@noelhausler8006]

@cothan VN Approximately 32 million adults in the United States can't read, according to the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Literacy. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that 50 percent of U.S. adults can't read a book written at an eighth-grade level

[@MrMagnusFogg]

@cothan VN Just stick to Miss America, it'll be less arduous on your brain...

[@qpSubZeroqp]

4:00 OMG Amazippi hahahahaha 😄😂🤣

[@muhammaddawood4382]

Its not a problem in America its a problem in the Whole World. The Developed Cities keep on developing and the under developed remain under developed. Within one country are two countries.

[@babyteano1977]

I agree to disagree, America is so focused in their precious wall that Trump will get military budget to build it, America is moving backwards

[@danielsteel5251]

@J. Dawood I empathize with what you might be feeling right now, when someone explicitly refuses to comprehend your plain English. Globalization means global rich and global poor, in _every_ country.

[@kaladan1890]

true , the divid between rich and poor is getting wider, the middle class disappearing into poverty, people used to bring balance with revolutions ... something that can't be done with today society, take a look at france, all this rioting for this little results.

[@666Tomato666]

@@kaladan1890 we already had a time when the countries were far less intertwined and the capital was far more centralized, it was called the feudal age globalization and concentration of capital are two separate things and one does not directly force the other

[@jflack6]

I live in TN (Appalachia) and some of us in the mountains and wedged between the hills don’t have much but we are close to nature, our families and are happy.

[@badman477]

“Amazon” “Do the right thing” That’s the problem right there

[@robertmoore6149]

Companies cant be trusted to do the right thing. That's why there are regulations.

[@harshitmadan6449]

@@robertmoore6149 Regulators can't be trusted to do the right thing either. Free market ensures that companies that do the right thing prosper and the companies that do the wrong thing go broke. Government meddles with free market to create disasters.

[@robertmoore6149]

@@harshitmadan6449 Well regulators wont kill, injure, or destroy me. Companies can and do.

[@morganghetti]

@@robertmoore6149 True. Governments have never killed anyone, right?

[@g.p.1101]

@@robertmoore6149 Tell that to the over 260 million people killed by government last century.

[@Linkacide]

Is this what bill was talking about when he said try not to drive them on to their side 🤔

[@kennethdower7425]

Most folks are so afraid of change, they'd rather be angry and put the blame on someone else.

[@marklo6283]

They are stuck in a bubble

[@tompeterson4998]

Chang unto itself is a meaningless word. There is bad change and good change. Turning into a disease infested hellhole, to most rational people, is a bad change.

[@dupp2424]

@Scion of Madness I like this I'm going to borrow it

[@Wolfboss7]

Kenneth Dower Sad, but true, especially for these places where life had changed too much for their liking, but rather than adjust they just take their frustrations out on everyone else.

[@JezielProdigalSon]

Ironic - You say that, while pointing the finger, blaming someone else.

[@laughsngasps]

He could have put it in Detroit

[@MrSinister718]

Why would they go to Africa?

[@derdytrout7123]

Or rebuild Detroit's past auto industry into the cannabis industry. refurbish the warehouse into grow houses, etc. House employees into abandoned houses that companies can purchase and rent low cost or no cost to employees. It can-niibs be done!!!

[@muzerhythm2242]

Was thinking same. My family moved from Michigan in 81 and when we check back with relatives...it just keeps getting worse. Detroit WAS the motor city...but now it needs to reinvent itself.

[@drac464]

But he doesn’t want to travel to his headquarters with cases of water

[@drac464]

MrSinister718 because they can’t cross the border wall to get to Mexico

[@taloar1]

Thank you Bill. Excellent plan. BEzos needs to hear it.

[@LlamaOccident]

Does Bill think everyone in “liberal cities” are as wealthy as he is? What party is talking about?

[@GrassPossum]

He has never met anyone else, so why wouldn't he?

[@GrassPossum]

@Zack Smith he is wrong.

[@gibsonflyingv2820]

Democratic cities are the richest most prosperous cities. It's a fact.

[@Wheelsanstuff]

It’s a general stat, duh

[@Donillini]

Yes, cities don’t have money, but the rural areas have negative money. They’re in the red.

[@---ly4se]

I live in San Diego and majority of us wear target and eat chef boyardee ravioli.......and still have our xmas lights on haha sorry billy but ur out of touch

[@LEDGER0404]

And you also live with so many homeless, and shit in the streets and needles and illegal criminals and all the leftest "government", so pretty much HELL

[@kevino6416]

Michelle Lee - I also live in San Diego and I love Chef Boyardee. I like the mini raviolis. I also like the Beefaroni, I eat them straight out of a can. I do wear Walmart and Kohl's though. And yes California is a liberal shithole.

[@bobgriffin6315]

No bill's not out of touch , Who can afford to live near San Diego? If you eat chef boy ardee in San Diego WHY!!?!! California allows you to buy hot food with food stamps and general dollar/dollar general is ripping you off with fake starch food.

[@---ly4se]

Yum agreed can't forget the spaghetti-os too @@kevino6416

[@---ly4se]

I don't have food stamps billy bob @@bobgriffin6315

[@javaughnmallett4019]

Hey man I’m from Toledo not cool lol

[@zipeilei4840]

You got Mahered pal.

[@cf9844]

Cause if you're gonna be homeless it's the best place.

[@javaughnmallett4019]

Idk red states are pretty bad Alabama Kentucky are pure shit

[@happytimeharry363]

C caymer,...Then live in Mississippi, or Alabama.

[@kaladan1890]

@C caymer yes there is more poor people in california simply because poor people tend to stick to big city where they get more help, i would bet any top rich people living in california has more cash than all the middle income people of any state combined, im pretty sure billionaires don't hang in virginia, i could bet they like california better, hence why even if there is more poor people in CA the overall cash flow/owning is still bigger than in let's say : colorado

[@nocheating6521]

I work for amazon it doesn’t matter where they land at this point, they have basically cancelled there competitive wages so you will be making a much as a chicken cutter or prison guard.

[@ArcangelGamingEntertainment]

I don't think the wage is fundamentally the problem though. I just don't think people wanna still be going down mineshafts all day.

[@robertcowan7610]

Amazon are on my short list of most evil companies. Along with Wal-Mart, Monsanto, Halliburton, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Hershey, Google.... I'm sure you see where I'm going with this. ( Most people aren't familiar with the evils committed by Hershey. If you're not then research what their baby formula division did in the third world a few decades ago.).

[@Lodogg]

I feel like this was the ultimate back handed compliment anyone has ever given to the Red States. Not sure if I’m supposed to laugh or be pissed.

[@bjl510blkman]

Doing both will just be fine

[@countrymorgan2942]

Keep talking down to the people you disagree with 👍🏽 people love to be insulted

[@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869]

Enter the PANERA CARED PARADIGM

[@shemsumudsir7071]

This is why I like Bill

[@daveinindy]

Do you think his attitude helps anything?

[@fionatanzer5270]

Bill Maher is good at using humour and irony to make serious social points and suggestions

[@davidsummers4820]

What is the suggestion? That America should look to Silicon Valley for answers to serious social and economic problems? If so, that's a terrible suggestion. See Zuck's fuck-up in Newark. Then read Anand Giridharadas' Winners Take All.

[@ds.6647]

Yeah, just not in this video

[@stealthtigerasmr5353]

cothan VN Oh so your against insulting the president were you against that when Obama was president? Not being able to insult the president sounds a lot like the authoritarian countries you claim that Medicare for all would bring when you talk about Medicare for all you should talk about Sweden, Norway, Iceland, and France not VeNEzUela

[@Aloysius10]

Actually I would move to a flyover state if I could just for the chance to own something. On the coasts you make enough to barely be a serf unless you’re rich.

[@John-vp2jq]

This is honestly one of Bill's best "New Rules."

[@RobbieBackpacking]

Help a dying city come back to life! Well said!

[@markoneill3945]

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[@Carly8Corday]

The second part of the bit WAS well-said. But it was strangled at birth by the first part of the bit. He didn't win Amazon for Mississippi, he won the re-election for Trump. And he knows it! But he does what feels good down there in his pants. THAT is how dems keep losing. Even when dems win, their president simply continues all the policies of the previous repug administration. Remember anti-single-payer healthcare War President Oh-Bah-Mah? I'm wasting my education and intelligence on the Democrat side of this audience. Y'all's best hope is that no Red Staters saw/heard Bill Maher's ending bit on Friday, February 22, 2019. If they hear it they will love it, and for all the wrong reasons, LMAO.

[@hustle5150]

It may have it's flaws as some in LA and NY see it, but I love living in this so called "flyover" state.

[@kevinbarrera3272]

Bill Maher - bring Andrew Yang on as a guest. Running for president and has some great ideas. Super smart guy.

[@ChelseaATea]

Love you Bill!

[@cizia69]

How to denounce contempt while displaying it.

[@MusicandGamesandStuf]

​@Have / Hold Hatred is a perfectly normal response to being abused. Hatred is a great thing to feel against enemies. It's what it's built into us for.

[@cizia69]

@Have / Hold Contempt is not hate, it is closer to disdain paired with an innate sense of superiority.

[@kimmaidment5590]

Absolute twat!

[@sinistar99]

So how has continually electing Republicans worked out for red middle America? WHAT HAVE THEY DONE FOR YOU? Lol instead of being mad at Amazon for not even considering their states, theyre mad at AOC for not licking Amazons boots hard enough to get them to ignore their states. If Republican middle class America wants to see what "dismissive contempt" looks like, check out your tax returns. You voted for a NYC billionaire thinking "this guy represents me" lol he HATES you.

[@wilmob4924]

@Emperor Augustus The new ruling class are hostile, alien people.

[@benjaminwhite3585]

I'd agree with this, if Amazon wasn't a horrible employer.

[@shortchubbyneckbeard1681]

Benjamin White I hear they’re a good employer for tech jobs But for warehouse labor related jobs they’re God-awful

[@suzannelipscomb9231]

Love you Bill. I've been saying this same thing for at least a decade.

[@ursaltydog]

Amen.. that's what I've been saying..

[@dwayneaustin6818]

My sentiments exactly about Amazon! Been making this very same argument since Amazon decided to not to go to NY.

[@mattington3001]

You're confusing Hollywood with every day Americans. All my friends and family in California don't go to Wolfgang Puck Restaurants. And they don't have red carpets and limos. And no one asks them what they're wearing. And if you got a good deal on something, they brag about it.

[@a.roydendsouza8803]

This is one guy who makes me not totally hate the liberals!! This guy is real!!

[@paulramos4037]

Agree, Amazon should put shop in Nebraska and other red states.

[@blackviking2079]

@The Truth really? Californians and Newyorkers are the ones who are fleeing to Texas

[@AdhityaMohan]

@@blackviking2079 Texas is not deep red tho, Ted Cruz won by a pretty narrow margin, and even in Texas most of wealth in big cities like Austin and Dallas.

[@petergallo7997]

Good thing AOC kicked them out of NY

[@terrikukla5017]

@@blackviking2079 New Yorkers are not fleeing to Texas.

[@terrikukla5017]

@@batboy3746 if they continue to vote for Republicans then then its not ever going to change..if they want change..change.. Dont continue to do everything the same.

[@CorvusCorax.]

Love this guy

[@johngiandonato7430]

You have Bud and we have Bud, and here in Colorado, we have both!

[@fiener42484]

That you do, enjoy!

[@alishaygan9844]

Wow. Bill Maher was hilarious AND simultaneously being so insightful about what ails us as a nation. Never thought of geography from this perspective before but he’s correct on every point.

[@donaldbadowski290]

And he says all the with Donna Brazile sitting right next to him. Am I the only one who finds that ironic?

[@leeann3920]

She's paid for, too.

[@xempire7069]

Wut? Plz explain

[@donaldbadowski290]

@@xempire7069 , Donna is the former DNC strategist who gave Hillary the questions before a debate with Bernie. She was vilified for that. But she is also someone that Bill considers is a perfect example of what is wrong with the Democrats. They are manipulative, controlling and sold middle America down the river. And there she is, on his show. Go figure.

[@xempire7069]

@@donaldbadowski290 well that is pretty damming I'll look into it thanks

[@mintleaf27]

I’m from Toledo, and I think that the joke he made was funny!

[@kateyrice4912]

Hahahaha me too 419 :)

[@kur1tan]

I'm moving there. What should I expect? Grew up in Frankenmuth, MI... currently living in Washington, DC.

[@jakefelty]

I went to college in Lubbock. Last shout out they got was in Django

[@tamaraw2546]

Congratulations, you'd be one of the few commenters with a sense of humor.

[@loweman25]

New Orleans here. LA is a weird state. We like to live and eat and watch LSU football. We are def the deep south but culturally different in different regions of the state. I certainly think some of the coastal attitudes are silly and some times off-putting, but I get what Bill is saying. The global market place is in a race to the bottom for wages, tax credits, tax havens...it's all gotta stop.

[@Empire6u]

Absolutely the best monologue of your entire career.

[@jesusgonzalez6715]

Isn't it weird that the party that has a death grip on the flyover states is also the party that opposes any sort of investment in rail, the one mode of transport that doesn't fly over anything?

[@erniellerena]

Look at Califonia

[@mjgoffice]

We would be called roll through states...

[@mapleace6185]

Who wants to invest in rail? Literally nobody

[@jesusgonzalez6715]

@@mapleace6185 Warren Buffet and Richard Branson...

[@OTPulse]

@@mapleace6185 Who? Well anyone who is actually serious about "Climate change" or excessive emissions is who. Trains, especially high speed rail is a much more efficient mode of transport.

[@titochdry1150]

"Amazippi" just killed me, not litterery. But in a Bill Mahr way. If I was Jesus , I would have been born many times already.

[@ShovelChef]

Flint, Michigan? Would Amazon be good for Flint?

[@fozziebumble8361]

Mabey and so would clean drinking water .

[@jacklizzard1428]

Flint needs clean water much more than it needs Amazon!

[@ohpahleese8306]

No, they were the center of car manufacturing and the left destroyed it.

[@vanaphill2454]

Fix the water supply and hire poor black people!

[@tannerpost9154]

Hates us cuz they ain’t us - Dave Skylark

[@childwaters]

Well, there WAS "Hot in Cleveland." LOVE Betty White.

[@brianr6651]

Typically Republican states? No?

[@johnjarecke2921]

@@brianr6651 .... ⅝

[@jeanwinterflood8594]

Nah, Mr Amazon will only set up HQ within 10 miles of one of his homes. Gotta be close enough to send a drone over to pick up a butt scratcher...

[@jsmeswagner6104]

He needs somewhere close to a port and a major highway..

[@socialdemocrat1645]

Dona Brazile looks like the villain from the little Mermaid

[@jacklizzard1428]

That's Trumps favourite movie!

[@SGGCREATIVES]

OMG!!! Iv'e been trying to remember where I've seen her before!!!!

[@1980bcman]

@@jacklizzard1428 You're not even American so mind your own countries business. We spell it "favorite" here you filthy foreigner.

[@beingplainjane584]

Social Democrat isn’t she?

[@socialdemocrat1645]

@@beingplainjane584 she is worse. At least there is a happy end at the end and the villain does not potray herself as the hero at the end.

[@ThePolaris87]

"Spacial Geographic Inequality". This is a brilliant new perspective, and an important observation to highlight that a huge portion of the entire globe's jobs and economic growth are migrating to only a tiny handful of key cities/companies on the planet (example Amazon/Jeff Bezos). It is having an immense impact society and explains a lot of the problems. Difficult to imagine a solution to this though. Universal Basic Income is looking like more and more like an inevitable requirement.

[@dojoparsnip9905]

UBI will never be a good solution. it doesnt incentivize job creation. all a UBI will do is drives cost up higher in population dense cities. Businesses will raise prices knowing there is more money out there. If they dont also raise wages to keep employees, business will shut down. Our world isnt even close to being fully automated by AI anything.

[@chocolatasm1255]

The best monologue! Bravo

[@janmorgan471]

When Politicians decide to work for the people instead of CORPORATIONS.

[@brianwalendy3735]

That's half of a sentence. What happens..?

[@jsmeswagner6104]

Never happen..they all think we're people to be stepped over..

[@fcdl61]

I don’t fully understand your statement. Do you think Democrats don’t pander to corporations?

[@1uponyou189]

Somebody calling it for what it is. The talking points are smoke screen. The Economy is and will always be the number one issue.

[@SIX6SIXer]

lol... this didn't age very well... How's city life treating ya Bill? us simple country folk aren't dealing with lockdowns, quarantine, outside dining, or businesses being shut down... It's a silly world... isnt it?

[@EEM1978]

My favorite “New Rule”.

[@faceoff3315]

*Make America Great Again Impeach Donald J Trump and Mike Pence from Office*

[@chiciu]

So you want Mitch to be president? :))

[@alexeilindes7507]

So true

[@muhammadsaqeeb5298]

This is just approval, thats what the like button is for

[@muhammadsaqeeb5298]

@@alexeilindes7507 This is confusingly anti-semetic?

[@alexeilindes7507]

@@muhammadsaqeeb5298 no no it's simply what you want to hear darling. And I'm sure to please you like you felt everyone was when you posted. Now move on there are homosexuals to throw off the roof right?

[@muhammadsaqeeb5298]

@@alexeilindes7507 are you okay bud? this is some disturbing mindset you are in to assume my intentions as sinister or assuming I'm disagreeing with you, when I'm not?

[@rubenmendoza1864]

Maher at his BEST. Keep it up, Bill!

[@Purebredbrute]

There’s young country kids out here in Texas making six figures working in oil and construction while PHD grads are stuck serving coffee to those kids at the local Denny’s 🤣

[@redneckamerican6241]

Zions shoes could have saved trump from his bone spurs

[@muhammadsaqeeb5298]

This is funny

[@jamesvaughan3394]

Clever clever

[@alwaysincentivestrumpethic6689]

😂😂😂

[@scottmcfadyen293]

"the locals meet people of different races and backgrounds and sexual orientations .. none of whom kill them." Bill Maher.

[@dpfabie]

yes but the locals often kill the people who are different

[@unodosxx]

Not really familiar with the racial make up of all those southern flyover states are we.

[@TheStompboxer]

unadosxx He mentioned West Va., specifically. Not exactly the most diverse place I’ve been.

[@Aloysius10]

@@dpfabie That’s why the ones that do move to the red parts have to have enough ruthlessness to fight back.

[@johnaweiss]

Companies like Amazon should be REQUIRED to do business in depressed regions.

[@mystuff8570]

I live in Texas and he’s not far off the mark. Time to pay more attention to the “Red Sea” than the tiny blue islands

[@pikespeaklosangeles]

Pay more attention how? Their States turned down Medicaid expansion, Infrastructure spending and a bulk of their citizens vote for the Party that make sake rich people richer on their own dime, then proceed to lie and say they're forgotten. They're going to have to change their outlook.

[@kev3d]

I've lived in Texas and L.A. He's full of shit. Does Texas have problems? Sure. All states do. Does L.A. have tremendous problems? Absolutely. If Maher actually poked his head out of his comfort zone a little he would recognize that Dallas alone has a Symphony Orchestra, A Flight Museum, a Museum of Nature and Science, a Texas Heritage Museum, A Presidential Library, the Dallas Holocaust Museum, Nasher Sculpture Center, an African American Museum, a Botanical Garden and so on. And that doesn't include Austin, Houston, Fort Worth, or San Antonio and more. Dallas even has a Wolfgang Puck as if that matters. For the record, L.A. and all the coastal cities have plenty of Chef Boyardee as well. Don't don't expect Maher to actually look in his own back yard before denouncing others.

[@2126Eliza]

kev3d he's not talking about Dallas, which is a city. He mentioned Toledo and Lubbock. I guarantee he's been to more towns and cities than you

[@visualcleanse]

This was Hilarious!!!!

[@HeathenGeek]

Wow. The paid laughers are really obvious in this weeks show.

[@FunnyMav]

Very good points about bridging this gap.

[@maxinefreeman8858]

In Southeast Kentucky we have blacks, Asian, Arab doctors. Our rural county with two small towns has 3 Mexican restaurants. They're owned by Mexicans that came here almost 20 years ago. The coal mining industry brought blacks, Italians here for jobs a hundred years ago. We do need industry now that the government is shutting down the mines. It has hurt the area. Stores are closing. A Chinese woman that owned a restaurant here for years has had fund raisers to help children of the laid off workers. Back in the past people would go to Detroit, Ft.Wayne, Cincinnati, or other northern states to work when the mines would slow down. There's no where now to go. That trade agreement that took the factories over seas has hurt everyone. I know Bill will never read this. I just want people to know how the other three-fourths live. The Elites have no idea. I'm educated. I'm a retired nurse.

[@KingOfMadCows]

But there have been many attempts to improve things in red states. There are start ups that create programs to train laid-off coal-miners in other industries like solar and coding. Tech companies are trying to improve broadband infrastructure in those states. But the Republicans don't want to help those businesses or create government funded programs of those type.

[@juhRave]

Nigga a democrat in New York just killed 25k new jobs and a boat load of economic activity. And you're going to talk about republicans not wanting better for those states?

[@atarileaf]

If learning to code is so great, why is the left having a temper tantrum when it's suggested to the laid off babies of buzzfeed?

[@juhRave]

AtariLeaf Or better yet, saying that theres programs for fackin coal miners to learn to code. That doesn't actually sound like it would be too popular a career change for coal workers haha.

[@nutt1674]

@@atarileaf You're absolutely right. Tweeting "Learn to code" will automatically get your account suspended on Twitter. I read where it was tested on a couple brand new accounts. The first tweet they sent was "Learn to code" and it was suspended on the spot...lol.

[@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing]

Economic Roadkill regions are as much at fault for their own problems as outside trends

[@muhammadsaqeeb5298]

This is inaccurate, its the republican capitalist are fault for this not the voters

[@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing]

@@muhammadsaqeeb5298 And who do you think voted for them on blatant economic falsehoods, fake values, and region-specific prejudice pandering?

[@thehellyousay]

There are good reasons people leave the states of illiteracy, insanity, and religious zealotry that have little to do with economic improvement, yes.

[@Observer-cp4if]

@C caymer Please stop moving to Texas. I don't care who you want to vote for. Don't come here!

[@muhammadsaqeeb5298]

@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing people who have shitty educational system? who are uninformed because their parents live in a poor area because the american dream doesn't exist if you live far from promising high paying jobs and proper education?

[@realdukeofthemidwest]

Bill maher should put his money where his mouth is and put his show in Arkansas.

[@calisugah9125]

Ohh Yes Indeed..lol🥰🙏🏾 #Peace #Opportunities #Togetherness✍🏾💯

[@wwbaker3]

Also consider this, Bill, Amazon wouldn't just hire locals from Nebraska or West Virginia - they would hire from out-of-state citing lack of available talent. The only reason why they would do business in a flyover state is tax benefits. The only thing they would bring is additional economic hardship for the people that live in those states but don't qualify to work for Amazon. There's a term for that - gentrification.

[@PJ-vh6jr]

I disagree. If more people move to your town the demand for everything goes up. Mechanics, doctors, cooks, janitors, tailors, retail etc. Question is are these ppl ready for change.

[@joebin3286]

Your wrong PJ. Go look at what happened in Monroe LA when Centurylink built their new headquarters and was forced to bring in so many jobs. Transplants moved there. Housing cost sky rocketed way more than anything would have in NY from a cost difference and once the two years were up people got out of there ASAP. Now inflated housing costs are dropping and people are losing money. It is not always good for some of the smaller communities.

[@PJ-vh6jr]

@@joebin3286 Amazon would be more permanent than 2 years tho. The question, as i said, is are these communities ready for that kind of change? ppl complain there are no jobs while simultaneously fighting to keep their town as is. U can't have it both ways.

[@n8style]

The audience laughing at the "backwards" jokes are exactly the type of people the whole segment was aimed at

[@Hirnlego999]

Well, quite a lot of what goes on in many of the states are self-inflicted. Refusing to change, keeping the old ways when the world moves on.

[@andrewfotopoulos7766]

Including the one giving the commentary....

[@michael2351]

This video is facts

[@grantgraham5828]

There's always more to Bill Maher than political satire and comedy, there's a message often hidden between the punchlines that force you to think alternatively. He was spot on with his comments about Amazon and the impoverished red states.

[@danidejaneiro8378]

Amazippi killed me

[@diamond852]

Bill is absolutely right. I was expecting him to bash NY but he actually bashed the people who deserve it.

[@TheJinjo75]

@@atarileaf What does AOC have to do with it? New York is a Union state. Plain and simple. By the way, not defending AOC. I'm giving credit to the regular people who really deserve it and showed what we accomplish.

[@atarileaf]

@@TheJinjo75 you haven't been paying attention. AOC inserted herself into it and claimed victory when Amazon left. She even thinks tax cuts are money as if that 3 billion is real and is sitting around for her to use. He's been lambasted by both side for her unbelievable stupidity

[@atarileaf]

@Nick Starkey Christ you're as stupid as she is. What bullshit fake news do you watch? You think it's fake news? Listen to the moron herself say they could take that tax cut and use it for teachers and infrastructure. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmmylp9robuEd6c

[@TheJinjo75]

@@atarileaf It was 2.5 in tax breaks an the rest was in grants and she never claimed victory for anything.

[@josephang9927]

He would not criticize his zombie viewers.

[@BillyJr68]

The audience’s laughter at Bill’s jabs at middle America says alot

[@LabTech41]

Yeah, he spends 5 minutes saying that the problem with big business and politicians is that they don't consider the feelings and aspirations of the red parts of the map... and in the same breath he spends the rest of those 5 minutes shitting on the same red parts of the map, basically saying they're full of drooling hicks. Bill is 95% in lockstep with the very same mentality he's attempting to chide others for.

[@arieldelgadillo1591]

Sob!! I swear I never saw it like that, makes all the sense in the world

[@orangefox1231]

Other funny thing. That's not Lubbock. That's San Angelo, Texas. I've been in that exact spot by the river so I know lol.

[@ThatGuy-ot9uv]

As the heartland likes to say "Life is hard. And it's even harder when you're stupid". It applies to them more than any community.

[@jmpolak24]

Thank you! This is why as a conservative I still love bill. Because hes right I cant get behind hardcore left but I'm ok with middle of the road. I hate kale but I love common sense! For the love of God give me something I can support and I'm yours! 🤣🤣

[@muhammadsaqeeb5298]

This is not a good position to take, its the uninformed position and we should not appreciate someone who doesn't understand what the leftism is. What he is saying is actually more left than the neoliberal stance

[@muhammadsaqeeb5298]

@thebestever475 this is not going to change anyones mind

[@jmpolak24]

Ok I get your points however I see his point threw his own jovial stance as this....NYC dosent really need Amazon places like Detroit do. The amount of good Amazon could do in a place like Detroit would be exponentially greater then NYC.

[@brainflash1]

You do realize that just because the cashier says "Happy Holidays" doesn't mean you have to say it back, right?

[@kaladan1890]

i think one of the problems in u.s.a is that the right extremist are so loud that people forget there are still common sense people like you that exist, ex : yesterday i heard fox saying : this green deal is gonna ban car and planes and cows. all i could think was : how stupid people can be to believe that !!! and then i saw this horrid man wearing a maga hat (west virginia republican lawmaker eric porterfield) say that if one of his child was gay he would take them on a boat and see if they can swim .... ON T.V ... it's hard to believe the right still have common sense people when you hear stuff like that.

[@WildwoodClaire1]

Bill's really on to something here. I grew up in the south. Admittedly, it WAS one of the more progressive parts, where sheets came with pleasing pastel patterns, exclusively used to cover matresses, BUT, it WAS the south nonetheless. Seemingly overnight, DIVERSITY hit us HARD! Mexican and Chinese restaurants sprang up! There was EVEN a Thai restaurant. And then, there were JEWS among us. Next thing you know, there was live theater and BOOK STORES! And before we knew it, we lost our identity as card-carrying hayseeds entirely. Some of us even eschewed our distinctive, traditional regional accent...TRAGIC! BUT! I have to admit the conversation and the cuisine are much improved. :))

[@rvb5944]

Best video ever to advertise why you would want to live in a red state. Real Americans I’ve there.

[@soonny002]

Rich cities are coastal cities where global trade take place. The inland seems stuck.

[@dafttool]

Circe When the oceans rise, there will be a mass exodus from the coasts to inland. Millions upon millions of American refugees in America will reshape the country’s interior. New cities will have to be built.

[@Dannymiles1987]

dafttool don’t bother letting them know that. Or that all of SF was built on a Marsh that was underwater 210 years ago. But whatever

[@rs72098]

True, but inland states produce oil, food, manufacturing, raw materials, and inland commerce. Many coastal cities would be in major trouble without them. Coastal cities need them just like they need coastal cities. We are bound to each other whether we like it or not.

[@sum1rllyspecial]

There is a reason 85% of Australia lives on the coast, and we’re only slightly smaller than the US, (mostly cause we hot af)

[@bradleybowen7286]

Rich cities also have some of the poorest people on the planet. The ghettos of Brooklyn, Detroit, Baltimore, etc. Are some of the poorest places in the country and to some peoples surprise the cities in the south and midwest are better off than people.actually think. They just look at wealth and dont realize that usually a.very.small percentage of people actually hold that wealth.

[@holyland6380]

It's so true. 25000 high paying jobs won't help us in NYC. It'll drive cost of living through the roof to the sky and outer space, because our cost of living is already through the roof. We're already overtaxed and overcrowded. Many people in NYC can't afford to live here anymore. They're living in the subway and on the streets. Everyday taking the subway, there're multiple people begging for food and money. Multiple cars are occupied by homeless people. We as residents pay a lot of taxes. It's utterly offensive when the biggest company in the world comes here and pays no tax. Amazon should go somewhere else where the people can benefit from them, and Amazon should not extort any towns or cities for handouts. Google, not that it's any better than Amazon, has announced plans to invest billions in NYC and to hire up to 12000 people and Google does that without asking for any handouts. Screw you Amazon.

[@MrSinister718]

Take the homeless and feed them to the poor. Problem solved. But yeah, diversity really works out for NYC. great food, shit hole area. Sounds fair.

[@dylanvitt2449]

Amazon was going to pay over 20 billion in taxes. It’s just that, over ten years, they would have payed 3 billion less than other companies would have.

[@dylanvitt2449]

monokhem What bullshit? It’s true.

[@MrSinister718]

@monokhem Enjoying paying 1000 a month for a closet and traveling on the subway full of scum for the price it costs for yearly auto insurance elsewhere.

[@nonmagicmike723]

Technically, it's not a handout, since all the wealth to be taxed will be created by Amazon itself. A tax break just means the city will take a lesser portion of that additional wealth. So even if the city takes zero, it's still not "spending" anything on the business, and it's still a net benefit in the additional number of people who'll have paychecks and more money to spend and be taxed in that area. The subsidies we give to certain farmers and other businesses like City Bank, Boeing, and even Google, _that's_ a handout, because the government takes money from the taxpayer and gives it to the business, aka corporate welfare. And you're not mistaken in feeling overtaxed. New York is the #1 highest-taxing state in the nation (per capita). California's #3. But you guys like Democratic policies and heavy government involvement and programs, and that's their cost. And de Blasio isn't done yet: www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-state-of-city.html

[@briheartsgames7651]

As someone from Toledo OH I can guarantee that Real Housewives of Toledo would be so trashy and people would watch it endlessly.

[@mushypork2132]

If only there were other industrial companies in America, like car manufacturing, electronics assembling, clothes manufacturing, etc.

[@LaktostheIntolerant]

Well Damn, that sounds like the seed of a much better progressive agenda.

[@movienight7448]

I visited New York, but being from the superior state of Texas, I have to say it was just a nice one time visit.

[@ednorton3026]

It is great when you talk about positive aspects of our society. Good ideas were presented & there was no bashing the other party just because they are the other party. If I want to hear the constant sound of venom & bias & hatred, I will go back to watching the late night shows.

[@sudhanvabhat3100]

Please run for president, My Man!