Overtime: Doug Jones, Ali Velshi | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

[@cathyholland2744]

greatful to see Velsi-great informative guest!

[@JimboInTheHouse1]

This generation doesn't feel loyalty to their employers because employers abandoned loyalty to their employees a long time ago. It was inevitable and this is where we are.

[@ViFabulous]

The truth is you, me or anyone could die in their chair, behind the wheel.....and you'd be replaced tomorrow. Everyone is replaceable. Companies have long operated based in that mode. I HATE the generalizations and labels. "GenZ, Millennials..." STOP Yes, occasionally an entitled brat enters the workspace, often times their name is Trump, but most are willing to learn and earn their place in the workspace.

[@owenokane9643]

8 bucks 50 an hour and peeing in a bottle and they're talking about loyalty to the employer. Even the older generations had unions. Today you have to fight through a court to join one. Why would you have loyalty?

[@wolvestasty]

You're gonna flip them burgers and you're gonna fuckin like it.

[@GrandChessboard]

@@wolvestasty You will own nothing and be happy...

[@wolvestasty]

That's right. The New World Order is coming to take all our stuff!!!

[@ekrenz5268]

Employees also want better and fairer pay.

[@GrandChessboard]

No. They want gender transition parties for employees. The CEOs said so, lol...

[@g.d.graham2446]

Indeed

[@DarylBark]

Sorry Bill you need to look at things from a new perspective. My children were born in 2000 and 2004 and grew up here in Germany. They don't have to worry about Healthcare or Student Debt, they both now work in jobs were they have 5 weeks paid vacation every year and great benefits. Maybe the problem in the U.S. isn't the young folks but the harsh reality they face of working in a broken system that doesn't give a rat's ass about them! Edit; and the same goes for all the crime and scams in the U.S. The system in America rewards the con man and the grifter and makes it near impossible for honest people to even make a decent wage. So maybe if we fixed a few systemic problems we could once again have a motivated and well rewarded work force, until then things will just continue to get worse and the rich will get richer etc., and the out of touch talking heads on the T.V. will get farther and farther away from reality as the world burns around them. Put that in your pipe.......

[@jayswartz6446]

During the late 1970's I noticed that in the US Justice System that White Collar Criminals were treated differently than Blue Collar Criminals. For White Collar Criminals the benefits out weighed the risk and for Blue Collar Criminals the risk out weighed the benefits. Over the last 40 years I've watched an increase of rewarding bad behavior among Celebrities and the Rich and Powerful. Every time I watch the slow moving "Wheels of Justice" concerning the January 6th Insurrectionist, I'm reminded that if I got caught stealing a loaf of bread to feed my family, that I would be arrested, incarcerated, and linger in jail while waiting for trial if I was unable to post bond. I watch as powerful politicians and their partners in crime go about their lives freely without charges, arrests, incarceration, and most will likely never be charged. These are the inequities in our Criminal, Law Enforcement, Judicial, and Penal System Industrial Complex. As far as Washington Politics goes.... We have the Foxes Guarding the Hen House. 😮 Don't even get me started on 4 Day Work Weeks and 5 or more weeks a year of Paid Vacations based on many European practices.

[@junanougues]

Thank you, the gall of trashing young people. Typical, our idiotic, a-moral parents turn over THIS mess to us. And then, adding insult to injury, beyond arrogance, tell us it's our mess, now. That they just want to retire to enjoy the fruits of the loot. To continue to loot our planet and everything we are going to need to live and build our future with, from retirement! While complaining about the snotty kids that keep bringing up unpleasant subjects for conversation. PSYCHOTIC ADULTS!! And in my country, not only do young people have to worry about the collapsing ecosystems, also no health care and a monthly morgage of student debt. BEFORE getting married and building a family. (Because its really so considerate to put these vultures in position to exploit of all things, the education of your kids. Just starting out into their adventure with life and an education they are going to need like water! Gee, thanks for that mom and dad. For putting the banks in control of how much they can monetize our dreams and investments in acquiring training and new knowledge, very noble. And, don't forget, if we want to have kids, which most of us dont because who wants to bring kids into the ecological equivalent of a horrific train accident, add a new morgage for every kid! Average pre-k in my country is at at 1000 $ ! So, just peachy, we get to begin our families with THREE morgages!! And then, there is more. Not just the planet on the brink of total collapse, thanxs to previous asshole tenants, including asshole grandpapa comedians. These moron adults are also working dilligently to lose our democracy!! Now they just want to hand it over to the neo-nazis and KKK; gee, thanxs great grandpa and dad and mom. For continuing to do such a great job setting us up for success going into the future! You really think of everything. So we dont just have to fix a natural world catastrophe that we did not create. Now we are also not going to have the institutional means or the rule of law to try to fix any of your f**** ups. Because, our government, thanks to you, is now also going to be in the hands of dystopian warlords with nuclear bombs handy and at the ready for any rebellion eventuality in the provinces. And here comes our anti-cherry on top of this pile of shit. Ready?? The cherry on this pile of horrible global wide problems with irreversible damages. Mostly created by the feckless and psycho greedy boomers. Who had everything handed to them by their parents. Including the defeat of fascism and communism, the most prosperous economy in the history of the world, clean oceans, thriving and beautiful ecosystems with amazing biodiversity, a man on the moon. But, instead of following up on their parent's example, they turned into the most useless and most entitled, ungrateful generation EVER, and not just in American history, in the history of people and humanity!! So here comes the anti-cherry you have been waiting for on top of this boomer criminal enterprise with no limits: As if all this were not enough, we ALSO have to put up with Bill Maher!!

[@toddgilbert]

So you mean we need more handouts like you have?

[@junanougues]

@@toddgilbert Handouts? It's called building a smart community of people that know how to empower one generation to the next. Take Norway that has public everything that is important to help have the best and most inclusive quality of life for everyone. Less crime, significantly less poverty levels, but with more safety and recovery nets available, more time off to enjoy your family life, easier and widely available access to education and public culture, healthier and happier kids, lower infant mortality rates, no extreme wealth gaps, less overall unemployment, all the time retraining and helping workers transition to new fields, more stable democracy, more rule of law governing and less corruption, way cheaper and more accessible hospitals, treatments and medicines, a cleaner natural environment, great public transportation and trains that connect everywhere to the rest of Europe AND, taxes so far ahead in terms of creating wealth for the community that they are actually paying two generations ahead; handouts?? Moron!! You are being brainwashed and had. You are not a citizen of anything, just a slave to clever and unimaginably wealthy masters that have you tied up around their big toe, and have you spewing hatred to others and, also, most critical, have you convinced they contribute so much that they don't need to pay taxes, either! 'Handouts!!' Funny. They taught you that word real well, too! Mooooooron!!

[@suthenick]

@@toddgilbert LOL imagine rejecting the 5 day, 40 hour workweek and labeling it a handout. You prefer to work 6 days a week with no protections or benefits? Why don’t you go back to the medieval ages, serf. Incredible how Americans continue to fight against their own wellbeing.

[@christophermills9289]

Get out of the mindset that everything has to go through banks. Best line of the whole conversation was at the very end.

[@tinoyb9294]

We can't do that because we have to privatize everything.

[@AcidFlash123]

@@tinoyb9294 Well then use the Mafia to distribute it. You can tell them we expect you to skim off say 15% for you and your buddies, but the rest has to go to the people. I would sooner trust the Mafia then I would banks. The mafia is more trustworthy.

[@cookandrideflorida]

The banks throw a lot of money at Congress so this is what happens. The banks charge a big administrative fee and aren’t responsible for paying back any loans so they have no skin in the game. Their campaign donations are dwarfed by the amount collected in service fees so it’s money well spent. Congress is full of people who are little more than legislative prostitutes.

[@ubuu7]

@@tinoyb9294 Maher is helping the movement to privatize everything by shitting on everything public without context.

[@g.d.graham2446]

Indeed

[@palefaced1]

I don't hire assholes. - Elon Musk Totally disagree with a company taking a political stance. If members at that company want to make donations personally, then fine. But as a company or corporation, hell no.

[@kkots]

I agree with you but.... the cat is out of the bag on this one. Every Fortune 500 company not to mention every industry trade organization that companies big and small belong to raise money and hire lobbyists to do their bidding in local, state and national gvts. It has been going on for decades.

[@Bradgilliswhammyman]

@@kkots The reason is because if we don't get climate change under control...there won't be a human civilization in 100 years. This is possibly the first great filter in the Drake Equation.

[@srkh8966]

Citizens United says otherwise

[@jayswartz6446]

So Elon Muck only has 10 employees? 😮

[@tubester4567]

He has terrible taste in women so I dont know, he also has some crazy ideas like the hyperloop.

[@kenfletcher8855]

Business is too involved in politics now. Lobbyist are our downfall. Corruption abounds because of business involvement. All of our representatives only represent business,not the masses.

[@onomatopoeia162003]

That goes back to the conservatives in the 1920's. Then you get the SCOTUS rulings recently. That they are people, etc.

[@SalManila1]

Free speech don't you get it?

[@dasatec5126]

I've said for Years, and it's become more evident now... welcome to the USA, Inc. Businesses run this nation, not the people. If Citizens United was Illegal, then a companies like Disney, Comcast or Publix could not invest unlimited amounts of money to support campaigns. Before Citizens United Pass & until Clinton vs. Trump, an election never cost anywhere near $1 billion.

[@LavishPatchKid]

"We have a worker shortage" - meanwhile, in reality, 10s of millions have given up to the point they don't even look for a job. They're full of shyt, even when they're not trying to be full of shyt. The 'expert/professional' class are worthless.

[@BishopWalters12]

I agree

[@bobwoww8384]

Corporate America isn’t short of workers! Corporate America is short of HUMANITY, GENEROSITY, DECENCY and MORALS!!!

[@pattitinsley4899]

Ali said it! Finally, hallelujah! "We have to get out of the mindset that everything we do has to go through banks."

[@ViFabulous]

One would think after the meltdown of 2008, the government would have realized that truth!

[@metrorealty7631]

I wouldn’t trust the government either to have their own checks and balances.

[@briane173]

Here's the problem -- when pretty much ALL of the COVID relief money is borrowed money and the Fed has to print it to generate it, banks are going to get involved whether we want them to or not; otherwise there's no way to take the money back out of circulation and inflation spikes even higher than it is now.

[@g.d.graham2446]

Indeed

[@commonsensecraziness7595]

That was just them passing the buck. Oversight starts with the people giving the money. You think there will be punishment for the people that mismanaged the money? Don't hold your breath.

[@cjbojangles8867]

I'm so sick of hearing people gripe about my generation. I work in a hospital employing over 10,000 people and the ones running to HR with every little complaint are the ones from Bill's generation that have been here for ages. You can't paint my generation with such broad strokes. I work my ass off - and especially have been the last two years.

[@Siveth-ff3jy]

Agreed, give this man 50 years back, lol and hear what he has to say, or look up his old stuff

[@Mlckey]

Coming from someone from Bill's generation, I couldn't agree with you more. Also coming from a longtime fan of Bill, I am getting sick of his long-winded "kids these days" rants. They should film this show in his front yard and call it "Get Off My Lawn, With Bill Maher". Blaming everything wrong with the country on millennials and gen z just shows how out of touch he is. My son and daughter (both millennials) work their asses off for what they have. They both live on their own and pay their own bills.

[@Molecular-Brainwaves-Translate]

Bill needs his soundbite. He even said he hires young people.....as a young person it doesn't bother me. I make fun of old people too. It's just the way of politics these days. Everyone already knows we can't get rid of the other, and old people are on their way out the door anyway.

[@colmd7680]

Bill Maher loves a fucking soundbite. Lots of Gen Z people in our company and they work their ass off like the rest of us. And they face uncertain times in owning their homes and having a sustainable future

[@chrisrusso4512]

Bill has no first hand experience with the gen z’s he was criticizing. He said himself he hear’s business OWNERS, and hes so removed from standard employment he doesn’t realize employers hate labor

[@tans3015]

Bill is 100% correct. There should be checks and balances for that kind of money!!! Come on...

[@HH-gv8mx]

A couple of my neighbors down here in Florida got away like bandits during the pandemic. It blows my mind how much money they got for doing nothing

[@billturner8823]

@@HH-gv8mx Sounds like Eric Trump.

[@marvinmartion1178]

Katie Porter!

[@gerrycartwright788]

remember it was trump and republicans that gave out most of that money

[@seajay958]

@@billturner8823 Hunter and Jim Biden, don't forget the big guy

[@ZachGood]

I don't want any company I work for to take stances on any social or political issues - I want them to pay me a fair wage and leave me alone after work.

[@suzanne9150]

So many companies in the South pay low wages and are very political because of the owners' religious beliefs....Look at Chick fil-A and Hobby Lobby just as an example sticking their noses into Women's Reproductive Rights. It's none of their damn business whether women use birth control. Women being fired if they speak out in favor of it. Not every woman wants to be a "breeder" and do nothing else with their life besides change diapers and wipe snotty noses.

[@jonny-b4954]

1:30 FUCKKKK that. Only a rich person could say something like "corporations should be leaders." Ugh, no. No they shouldn't. And their money should be banned from politics too. Or they will literally, mark my words, straight up take over the government out-right; likely within our lifetime here.

[@jameslacey5474]

Right you are.

[@lindadurbano9269]

They already do.

[@gdbruin777]

@@lindadurbano9269 you beat me to it.

[@jonny-b4954]

@@lindadurbano9269 Own the government? Yes. But not utterly control it, not yet. I'm talking Cyberpunk shit where the corps are the literal government.

[@jcdulos1]

Does bill Maher think millennials are still in their 20’s? I’m sure we’re all nearing 40 now.

[@bxi1547]

He dislikes anybody who isn’t his age.

[@BNSF39]

@@bxi1547 Common sense and thick skin. Something your generation lacks.

[@christinebenson518]

I'm a millennial and I am only 33. Millennials are from 1981-1996.

[@arginchik]

At least older end of the us are nearing 40. At least I am.

[@MrBrock314]

Depends which millennial you mean. It has two different meanings. It originally meant those who came of age at the millennium (Gen Y) and they are roughly 40 (like me). The other ones which are Gen Z are those born at the turn of the millennium and they're 20ish. He said Gen Z, he's referring to the early 20s employees.

[@boblozaintherealworld3577]

Doug Jones is right on point when he brings up the specifics of government payouts. All those PPP's were handled by private banks or lenders and they were out to make a profit. I know because I had to fight 'citibank' for six months to get the loan forgiveness that i rightfully deserved. Sometimes Bill gets a little too high on his "I know everything" horse.

[@HopeWins777]

I was surprised Bill wasn't given that legislation history for the show. The original language absolutely did have the oversight part of it. And I distinctly remember Pelosi insisting on keeping that part of the legislation intact. She lost.

[@ryanhall7827]

yea he was kinda ignoring that we dont prosecute white collar crimes for the most part and thought that low level people were somehow responsible for the fraud and that most of the trump cronies used it as an opportunity for massive grift

[@commonsensecraziness7595]

The point still stands that there wasn't any oversight to ensure the money went towards what it was intended for. His comment just passes the buck to the banks when the people giving the money were supposed to be responsible. The banks did something? Then punish them (you know as well as I do that they won't). This is just yet another excuse of "you don't know how hard we're working" from another corporatist politician.

[@Bonnah-]

I remember Trump wanted to send money Direct to people and the speaker of the house said no!! So it the speaker Fault

[@boblozaintherealworld3577]

@@commonsensecraziness7595 ok, fine. who exactly is responsible for oversight within 3 months of a bill passage? I was there. I got a PPP loan (self-employed) from Citibank. So easy to blame the blame the SYSTEM or the CORPORATE structure. I've experienced all this BS yet have made a fairly good living on my own initiative. Most Americans work for a Corporation one way or another. Puh-lease. The Obama administration DID punish banks. No offense, but you seem to be unaware of how things work in the real world. Start your own business, get a REAL job, buy a house, sign up for health insurance, etc. The actions you propose do not happen just because someone says so. Grow TF up. Again, no offense.

[@RobertMichael]

I worked in PPP loan oversight as a consultant during the height of the program and Bill is right. Banks were simply foaming at the mouth sign these loans and gain business and did not always follow a level of due diligence that would be scalable to the size of applicants. There’s no question a ton of it went to fraud and we should’ve handled it far better.

[@justincase9337]

Companies are not short of workers because of social issues 😂 that’s BS … they are short of workers because of the PAY! 15 dollars and hour or less is not going to cut it anymore. Prices of everything is sky high… but your pay barely moves!

[@HarvestMoon2049]

💯✔👍

[@pabramsarch]

Bill is out of touch with what is actually happening in middle class reality. There are about 10 millennials who work in my office, we are all salary and we usually put in about 50-60 hours a week and we still live paycheck to paycheck. We don't get Starbucks every day or eat avocado toast every morning either. I'm glad to have a sack of dry oats mixed with peanuts during the day. The cost of living has gone through the roof and wages have been stagnant since I first started working 20 years ago.

[@notbraindead7298]

P A: Welcome to reality. My brother was a laborer for a large factory in the Buffalo, NY area. The didn’t have a pay raise for 16 years. Not a penny. During that time the company dropped their health insurance.

[@dmr6390]

There is no need for a company to tweet out its position on bills that are passed. Nobody cares what a company thinks about any of these cultural issues. We want companies to provide us with good products at a reasonable price and to treat their employees well. That’s it.

[@SuCKeRPunCH187]

i feel like when someone says nobody cares about such and such on whatever issue, it really seems like you specifically don't care and the reason you don't care is because they are on the side of the issue you don't agree with.

[@dmr6390]

@@SuCKeRPunCH187 i personally think it’s just irrelevant to the company’s purpose. But yes, a certain percentage of people are what you just described and they are hypocrites.

[@gayeenglund1907]

People do care about certain issues but I agree that treatment of employees should be a priority.

[@JungleBoi9]

They have the right to exprezs themselves

[@chrisrusso4512]

Why do they need to demonstrate a need to avoid being punished for speech?

[@candie1230]

I work in a grocery store bakery. We have a lot of younger people working with us. One of them refuses to use the broom to sweep the floors because our manager won’t buy her special cleaning gloves.

[@jonny-b4954]

Would be fired that quick if I was the boss. You can't perform the most basic of tasks without stipulations, what good are you?

[@EastSide-qc5oy]

I actually don’t think providing cleanup staff in a grocery store with cleaning gloves is such a huge ask. Why is the grocery store so cheap that they don’t provide proper cleaning equipment to people who do the cleaning? I get the frustration with young and entitled workers but I don’t think gloves are all that big an entitlement. Even the ones for people with skin allergies aren’t that expensive. I washed dishes and swept for a cafe when I was a kid and everyone had access to gloves. Your management might actually suck. PS: unless you are talking about some outrageously expensive and rare specialty gloves. That would be a different story.

[@kevinjohnston4923]

We don’t have a worker shortage, we have a wage shortage. Young people don’t want corporations to be political, they want good wages.

[@g.d.graham2446]

Agreed

[@bipolarminddroppings]

and yet, if Papa John offered them $50 dollars an hour but they had to wear a button saying "No to Gay Marriage" how many of them would take the job?

[@tranceformerfx]

Wrong. Gen Z and Millennials ABSOLUTELY want their workplaces to be political.

[@veilmontTV]

Boomer Maher is getting worse every week

[@sandyunderpants4376]

And this is new? The only thing new, is that people apparently figured out how to live without having to work. Let me know how that is done, please.

[@lorileifer613]

Bless you Bill Maher!

[@toobasaurus23]

I'm so glad I work in a great small business with less that 10 employees, that habitually recognises our work and value to the business. We get time off, regular pay rises, and our opinion on business changes and progress is valued. In return, we have very low staff turnover, we have job satisfaction, and we all work above and beyond what we are paid for because of it. As a result, the business has grown 300% over the past 10 years. Our employer recognises that our cultural knowledge of the business is incredibly valuable, as it takes almost a full year to replace any one of us. The directors are also nearing retirement and they are empowering us to take on more responsibility to run the business as they take more time off. All business, no matter how large or small, should run this way. As soon as you treat employees as disposable, you will fail.

[@Lord_Scabtree]

Wow! Sounds unbelievably ideal and certainly a model other companies should emulate. What small business is this again?

[@HH-gv8mx]

I find it to be the same with the landlord/tenant relationship. If a landlord is fair to the tenants, keeps the property maintained addresses and fixes maintenance issues in a timely fashion.. and then his tenants will respect him. But when a huge company comes in and doubles your rent stops mowing the lawn, does not reply to any maintenance issues let things break and leaks happen without being repaired, the tenants start to not give a shit about the property and they throw their trash in the front lawn.

[@viswaprasanna941]

This is fantastic to hear. Companies with great cultures and employees who feel valued are the gold standard, matter what they make or what they do. The Great Resignation is just a symptom. If a company doesn't care, neither will it's employees. But if it does...😏 Thanks for the share.

[@JohnDuthie]

You can't even be a plumber anymore without contract work. Advertising budgets rule the roost.

[@g.d.graham2446]

Indeed

[@TWE_2000]

I'm gen z and I could not give a you know what about the company I work at supporting/opposing a political issue, just pay me what I've earned and don't have a toxic work environment. Most people I know don't care about politics, definitely not enough to risk being unemployed, it's only the few hyper partisan activist that get all the attention and make companies think they need to be super "woke" or else they'll lose all their workers and customers, they won't, all they'll lose is Elizabeth and her 2 blue haired friends

[@CuriousGeorgio59]

No one cares about their company taking stances on political issues, he’s just here to gaslight you and make sure we all stay divided so that we remain in this two party duopoly until the end of time

[@Nushka1962]

Companies need to be super woke or they will lose old people, huh?

[@BishopWalters12]

@@CuriousGeorgio59 I agree, Most people just want get away from politics at work and nobody wants to be lectured or feel pressure to support a political movement from an employer. That's a dangerous road to go down.

[@Son3002]

I agree. Young people I know don't give a shit about their company's political stances. Bill has clearly never hung out with young people in his life.

[@gayeenglund1907]

If companies treat all their employees well and pay fair wages, they are probably already on the side of building fair communities.

[@mark2359]

I have to agree with the former Senator about how much was still left on the shelf after all of the theft. Reminds me of a murder case where the defense pointed out.?" Sure the defendant chopped of the victims head..But did anyone notice that he left the rest of the body fully intact? That's gotta count for something right?"

[@N9mber]

😂 whatever makes you sleep at night

[@womanofsubstance8735]

I was just about the say the same thing. Bill needed to shut up and let the Senator finish talking about how much money never got distributed. And yes, Bill, that DOES/DID matter! People like me, who WORKED through the pandemic, got $1400, while the unemployed and those who CHOSE to not work got multiples of their normal earnings! Small businesses went out of business because they "didn't qualify" for the Covid relief "loans."

[@larrybarnhouse9989]

The banks decided who got the money, and the rich always can get money from banks! Direct payments to everyone with a Social security number should have gotten an equal amount of money if you made less than $100,000 a year in income! period Split $5.7 Trillion dollars to 330 Million Americans and Everyone in the United States would be doing great right Now!

[@Paul-ew5st]

@@larrybarnhouse9989 17 grand apiece

[@jayswartz6446]

@@Paul-ew5st Adjust that for people that only "made less than $100,000 a year in income!".

[@natetaylor9002]

"It's a good thing that companies are trying to sway Gen-Z worker loyalty by pandering to their woke idiology!" .....what a piece of work that guy is!!!!!

[@Wingedbull751]

That is the same people who were crying about cooperation in political affairs in the Obama era. These people are the worst.

[@eddydede4275]

I can’t tell you how hard I rolled my eyes listening to him. I hate that I’m associated with this generation

[@thegodfatherofthesec1748]

Overtime! Hello Doug Jones 👋from Alabama.

[@curiouscat3384]

I want to see Ali Velscher do a long interview with Elizabeth Warren. She needs to be the banking czar again! Love Ali

[@itznoxy7193]

Yeah right lol elizabeth liar

[@curiouscat3384]

@@itznoxy7193 Surely you can come up with something more interesting and relevant than that. Just calling anyone and everyone a liar is stupid.

[@beckydavis1820]

Katie Porter and her white board!

[@turquoise_hexagon_sun]

She’s a liar

[@jkinder1982]

@@itznoxy7193 what did she lie about?

[@Overcaffenated]

I am in my 50's and I hate when people of my age are bashing the younger generation. The sad thing is in 30 years millennials and X-ers may do the same.

[@JuICyBLiinGeR]

Fran didn’t return for overtime. Come on! Unfiltered is what she does best.

[@ZapataE]

She’s old, it was past her bed time .

[@chrissullivan4496]

Donut brains

[@mattconstantine9884]

what would be the point of her talking to these mopes? WORST pane ever. if not? pretty close.

[@Tempo_Gigante]

Hate when it's too much to ask of them to spend a little more time on overtime - most interesting part of the show.

[@Lord_Scabtree]

She was already back at the airport waiting for a delayed flight to resume her epic world tour 😂

[@60zeller]

We are not short of workers.just short of people that are willing to show loyalty to companies with no health care.

[@annahr4990]

And working to make only enough to pay the bills with no life outside of work. We want to work to live not live to work.

[@piconano]

I loved the bucket analogy.

[@jimbaker5110]

Ali Velshi makes some good points and brings up very good ways and solutions to many of the world’s and the USA’s problems. We should all listen.

[@mattm8932]

So does Doug Jones. Maher undermining his points is a bit counterproductive

[@jimbaker5110]

@@mattm8932 Doug Jones didn’t say squat…stop it. He just gave a typical guest answer type of performance. You are clueless.

[@Vanderearden]

Jim Baker: Yes, if Velshi had his way, America would have boots on the ground in Ukraine right now, engaged in a proxy war with a nuclear power. By all means, lets listen to that guy.

[@shaanpaul5625]

🤣

[@jimbaker5110]

@@Vanderearden Oh be quiet. We are not getting involved in that war…stop spreading FUD

[@torwxHawks]

This just in...older generation shits on younger generations. Such a hot take.

[@captnpunch99]

Nice to see Bill fully embracing the classic old man trope of trash talking the younger generation with broad brush stereotypes, no matter the actual topic of conversation. For a guy with no kids he's nailing the cranky grandpa act.

[@margo5919]

Exactly!

[@YoungDirtyMexicanOfficially]

used to like bill. i can see he needs to go out and hang out with young people.

[@Wildcat82164]

@@YoungDirtyMexicanOfficially I got mad when he said we as a country we are not moving back. I'm like Bill I'm from Maine one of the top 5 gay friendly states in the union and now Republicans in Maine are trying to pass anti LGBTQ Bills shit 10 years ago the Maine GOP was a big help in passing same sex marriage.

[@bold1066]

The issue I had with PPP loans were that they went through the employers before it would go to an employee. Turns out it is really easy to mail people checks directly.

[@jso6790]

For real, think of those stimulus checks that Trump delayed so he could write his name on them, or the covid tests. Took me 4 days to get mine after ordering it.

[@emailbenbenson]

Or just deposit it straight into your bank account. The IRS has all your information already, they can have you verify online that it is correct and deposit. Could take a very short amount of time to complete. Then you're SSN is marked as funds paid and done.

[@PhoeFireaga]

@@emailbenbenson the IRS did directly deposit covid checks to people who filed taxes the previous year. If they had your current/correct information, and you fell into that income/tax bracket, they deposited it. They provided a website for people to check eligibility and verify their identity to claim their payments. They said something like millions of dollars in covid relief checks went unclaimed.

[@emailbenbenson]

@@PhoeFireaga You are correct on this.

[@crosslink1493]

Tax credits and direct payments they talk about around 8:40; here in California the state government took responsibility for the money, and the unemployment department still got fleeced for about 1/2 of it. Lots went out of state and even more was sent to P.O. boxes that each had a variety of names of individuals for each box. Also, the 'farms' in places where there were no farms - there are farm corporations that have their HQ in places like New York City, so that's not unusual. But if those NYC farms come up they should trigger (at least) a cursory investigation.

[@adambomb30]

Didn't the unemployment department send money to guys in prison as well?

[@scottcarey5635]

This is the first comprehensive conversation I've seen about Covid fraud since this began over 2 years ago. That's why I watch Real Time.

[@BigScienceDP]

If this is the first you’ve heard reported on it, I implore you to check out Breaking Points or Kyle Kulinski for some more informative, less BS news… but yes, I agree, of the mainstream you really aren’t going to get much more depth of relevant topics than real time imo

[@zachramsay]

Probably because, if you looked into it with a scalpel and a microscope, you might even find reporters, media, and company interests associated with reporting it were ALSO involved with some of the PPP fraud or other fraudulent claims/reporting of headcount which took place. Obviously bigger businesses who already have accountants and compliance officers in place (dedicated red tape people) know what the government pockets offer and don’t offer, what they watch and don’t really audit. But we’re any large or small media conglomerates involved with any Covid distributions? Has anyone checked to see how much money Sinclair Broadcast Group or others applied for and received?

[@deanok306]

@@BigScienceDPI stopped watching kyle as his a stooge for TYT and the fake progressives. Jimmy dore or gavin mcinnes are far more honest actors. Who talk about bidens corruption or dementia.

[@christophermanley3602]

@@BigScienceDP Ditto on the Breaking Points endorsement.

[@shogreene9215]

Plandemic. Greatest wealth transfer in American history was no mistakes or incompetence on their end

[@wildnight8776]

The first 1:15 of Ali Velshi has to be false. People care about money not phony positions on silly social issues..

[@SiddharthaRoychowdhury]

That's true for most of US but you haven't met the kids in NYC and SF.

[@Quarknjaguar]

better make up a statistics too, then we can be sure you know your stuff

[@ronshaddox2382]

Ali Velshi is a economist. He’s way better educated than pot head Bill Maher

[@jonjonson5730]

Yeah, money over morals🙃

[@anthonysonaty7332]

Why because we're sick of corporate greed

[@Ericshadowblade]

No emplyees dont want companies taking standards they want a fair wage and benefits thats why you have a worker shortage problem

[@dreamcoyote]

Most of them are convinced that's not possible, so the next best thing for them is social issues?

[@katieking8830]

Yup, vote Bernie!

[@auntyconnie3941]

Senator Douglas Jones is intelligent, fantastic lawyer, great man, and fearless lawyer that defended Black people and won in one of the most racists States in the United States of America (Alabama).

[@Chris-jo9sv]

He did absolutely nothing for the state of Alabama and there's states up north that's more racist than Alabama.

[@TioTeo111]

I don’t talk politics at my job and I don’t want my company taking a political stance. That is how we get more divided.

[@sqlb3rn]

I voted for Doug Jones when the other option was Roy Moore.

[@blondiegreeneyes4802]

God Bless You!

[@geekishgir]

He seems like a smart decent guy who thinks deeply about issues rather than just jump to party line. I don't know if he'll win again but I hope so

[@judyjeanson7742]

Bill has to let people talk. Doug had things to say and bill kept talking over him as he did with Fran.

[@DaveLL500]

He's even worse when he's stoned on weed like during his podcasts.

[@ladymeropi]

Totally AGREE with you. Invite guests and you answer the questions you pose to them, and then insinuate that they don't know the 'real' deal. Would have loved to have heard more from Fran, but Bill just had more to say....

[@judyjeanson7742]

@@ladymeropi Fran has a whole lot of topics and he was jamming the Depp thing on her. She was obviously not prepared or interested and I’m surprised he’s so fixated on that mess. He used up all her time.

[@donnaknokecobb3988]

Great show!

[@mandalorianactual1215]

Rest assured, they will go after the grifters, but none of them will pay. But God forbid the mom and pops around miscalculated one cent, those people will be the ones to end up in jail. Not the big corps.

[@K1600-l7f]

The “moms and pops” simply cannot afford the legions of attorneys compared to what “corporate America” can.

[@Blanco8x8]

Retail employees: "They don't pay me enough to stop thieves." Government worker: "They don't pay me enough to prevent fraud." Morale in the American work force is at an all-time low across the board. This is not a problem that can be solved overnight, but we need our leaders to take some action now.

[@colombiantom]

security guard (whose actual job is paying him to stop this): They don't pay me enough to do my one job

[@eyesthatsmile-heartthatlov8050]

@@colombiantom I was just going to say that. If the retail employer wanted security; he would have hired security guards.

[@xirfan]

It was private banks sending out the money not the government.

[@colombiantom]

@The Paradox Destroyer If that were the case, how can a bar bouncer get physical with anyone and throw them out of the bar? The law was made to remove work from the already overwork police department by not focusing on small things like this, but this does not mean that if someone violates a company policy you cannot be kicked out.

[@stevechance150]

I worked a Security Guard job during graduate school. The rule was literally "Observe and Report". The security company absolutely did not want their employee tackling someone and accidentally doing a George Floyd.

[@timparker4627]

There's no such thing as an employment shortage. It means companies don't want to pay market rates. And would like to import cheap labor.

[@Mrbink01]

The "market rates" aren't real when people are still paid not to work.

[@at1970]

Flood the country as we are now doing with uneducated, unskilled people from south of the border and low wage Americans will pay the price. Supply and demand still applies.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

No Bill. The US Armed Forces was preparing for a conflict prior to WW2. George Marshall was the Chief at this time, and he was preparing the Armed Forces for it, and was slowly ramping up modernisation efforts for the forces. This explains why the US was able to field a relatively “okay” force to the North African theatre in 1942. America did not sit idly by while Europe and Asia burned. Pearl Harbour was a shock however, Yamamoto knew he couldn’t defeat the US so he had to do it in a shock, but strategically failed to hit any carriers.

[@rustyyb8450]

So the military leadership was vigilant, was the country?

[@jeffreypierson2064]

@@rustyyb8450 Most of the economy was already on a war footing. The USA had sent old destroyers to the UK, so shipyards were busy building new destroyers for the USN. The USA was selling M-3 tanks to the UK and those product lines were ramping up. The newest theory of how to stop the blitzkrieg, the tank destroyers, had been developed and put into production, the M-3 GMC. The supply ships to take these across the Atlantic were being sunk, so the Liberty ships were being built across the US. The Army and Navy had pilot training programs going from the late 30s. The amphibious boat, popularly known as Higgins boats, but correctly called LCVP were in low rate production. The National Resources Planning Board (NRPB) controlled most of the economy. So to answer your question, yes, the country was ready.

[@pepper13111]

Maher just doesn’t listen, his opinion only

[@marvinmartion1178]

Hit the carrier's a whole different scenario! We already knew that battle ships where no longer viable!

[@rustyyb8450]

Maybe Bill just thinks a war footing means prepared and vigilant. Pearl Harbor was not vigilant. The armed forces were seemingly a long way from being staffed. Production of war goods were increased and old stocks rotated out but not for increasing our own stockpiles. Maybe prepared in his eyes means you already have all the materials you require. .... was the world prepared for Covid. You could argure 'YES' because we had the means to produce what we needed.

[@cf5341]

Politicians are rarely experts on anything. It's lobbyists (AKA groups/companies out for money) that write the bills. It's not politicians or their government employees. Lobbyists will bake in ways to get extra profits from the spending bills.

[@emailbenbenson]

Exactly. You expect a high school drop out to understand the in's and out's of economics, scientific theory, and biology, even people with advanced degrees in these subjects know their single subject well, not all the others.

[@agny369]

Yep. ALEC, The Heritage Foundation , The Federalist Society, write all the laws to give to the politicians they bought.

[@MrBrock314]

To be fair, part of that is the people's fault since they frequently elect less and less qualified representatives. You get what you voted for. If you pick Reagan over a lawyer, you get an actor President. If you pick Trump over Hillary, you get a celebrity president instead of a policy nerd. If you pick Oprah next, you'll get another celebrity President. It's not their fault people vote for unqualified candidates.

[@beauxtx1959]

Corporate America should produce goods and services, not "lead" America on social issues.

[@GladysAlicea]

They've done enough damage already, and getting richer while they do it.

[@rheticus5198]

What they said was that corporations are following the lead of their employees.

[@kimbeebee8176]

Stand for something or fall for anything!

[@jamesmiller5331]

They will pay lip service to social causes and then otherwise be business as usual. And the lowest common denominator will like it

[@tallard666]

Exactly!

[@bryana8357]

I worked for one of the largest, oldest corporations in America. Their marketing and PR output is very progressive-oriented. They produce internal memos before every national election recommending employees vote for the Republican candidates " in the best interest of your financial future". Businesses exist to make money for the shareholders. That is all. Full stop.

[@metrorealty7631]

Then this is an argument against companies getting involved in politics including a company like Disney.

[@buckchile614]

@@metrorealty7631 Yeah, so when the left starts to make in-roads in corporate America it's suddenly time to change. The Right leads the hysteria and nothing ever gets done

[@visser247]

Not that I am against Unions in any way. I actually think they are a very positive factor even in their diminished capacity for our economy. But to be fair unions usually send out voting guides also. But I do agree that companies being totally tied to the bottom dollar and their shareholders wallets has a net negative effect on their employees compensation.

[@blondiegreeneyes4802]

Corporations should have employees on the board of directors. The workers produce; they must have a say in how companies allocate those resources. Workers NEVER vote to have their jobs shipped to China to save the company a few bucks! Corporations despise Labor Unions for a very good reason.

[@bryana8357]

@@metrorealty7631 No, it's it's observation on companies being willing to say or do whatever will benefit their bottom line and not being held accountable by us, including Disney.

[@lizannewhitlow1085]

Gentlemen guests were excellent.

[@chrisdyer5879]

Like most people, I've been working since I was a teenager (37 now). Been working full time since 22 after college. Pretty typical. I've never in my life given a good damn what my company's politics were. I was always told to check your personal and politics at the door. I think Ali is full of it.

[@kkots]

Chris I have the same background except I have been employed with publicly traded, large companies and every one of them have political agendas. Some even have PAC's that meet on the company grounds and encourage political donations and other actions..... They are members of industrial trade and lobbyists groups that spend millions to look out for and influence get officials by making legal donations, etc to get a seat at the table. Most of the companies take stances on political issues that are tied to their ability to do business and make money.

[@Free4Ever-grace]

@@kkots Wow, that sounds just like my church, except the publicly traded part and being tax exempt. The PAC is all kept on the downlow and in a shell company so all is good to keep the 301c status. 😂😂😂

[@chrishowell4845]

Well said....I don`t know if it was said to me like it was to you, but my thought was....any personal problems, leave them outside the front door of your place of employment.....same for politics, same for religion, etc......once you step inside the door of your place of employment and clock in, you`re there to work, and all your energy should be directed towards that. Now, once you clock out at the end day and step outside of the place you work at, THEN you can start thinking about the other things.....I should say though, that I`ve been retired for a few years , so I imagine things have changed quite a bit.

[@bukovinian]

lol I remember the time when saying “corporations are people” was a really bad thing.

[@jamesdavis7915]

You know what people want these companies to do is actually pay the workers and hire leadership that doesn't worry just about themselves

[@LunchboxGaming]

Everyone was thrilled when Hobby Lobby and Chick-Fil-A took a side. We don't want reasonable pay or dignity. We want more of this. Pander to me.

[@NewMessage]

You do have to expect a certain amount of criminals, yes... that's why you should set up a way to weed them out in the first place.

[@KB-sv7fm]

There is no way to weed them out perfectly.

[@rsr789]

@@KB-sv7fm Correct, there is no perfect system. But, you know, actually going after these white collar criminals would be a good first step... including the death penalty.

[@AdrianColley]

And it's Velshi with the steal, right at the buzzer!

[@TheMauf]

DJ actually had a good point that he wasn’t able to convey about the money left

[@michaeldunson2531]

What he was trying to say before Bill interrupted him was that they couldn't just do nothing and let the economy collapses just because there would be fraud and theft! They should have just given the money to the workers and not to the bosses because a lot of them just kept the money and still laid off workers or the workers kept working making money for the company so they didn't need the money to pay their workers!

[@emailbenbenson]

If the estimate that nearly 50% was fraud, what is the missed argument? It could have been worse?

[@michaeldunson2531]

@@emailbenbenson Where did you pull that % from!

[@7orqu3]

never seen a more our of touch man in my life.

[@fatheranthony4pope]

Let's go!

[@afridgetoofar1818]

where to?

[@chrisrhodes2]

This guy thinks employees want fake stances by employers instead of living wages?

[@mattm8932]

America in a nutshell: Doug Jones was unseated by Tommy “CRT brain” Tuberville. Disgusting 🤮

[@thomasprovancher157]

Let's all get along together!

[@Raznac]

So the banks took tax payer money…what’s new? More importantly how much of that money returned to politicians for “speaking and consulting” fees from those same banks?

[@dvolsung1527]

Strongly disagree with companies being openly political. I want corporations to be completely out of the process and I want them to take their money with them. Younger generations do not understand the corporate dystopian world they are asking for by demanding the corporations be "involved" imo.

[@rh81454]

Get DeSantis on the show, Bill.

[@katieking8830]

That’ll never happen! LOL

[@teenanguyen217]

Loyalty is earned, not demanded. We aren't slaves, we can choose our masters.

[@rickl3547]

Bill definitely broke some barriers with tonights episode. Felt great to have someone in his position of influence finally say the talking points that a relevant.

[@MrBandholm]

unfortunatly Bill also made a lot of hot-air arguments that simply didn't mean what he thought it meant. Bill was also very bad at trying to understand the arguments that his guests were making, because he was too deep into his own lines of arguments. Saying that young people didn't want to work in the office, because they were "afraid of COVID"... Claiming the US car-manufactories didn't make any cars during WW2, that the US armed forces were not preparing for war ect. There were a lot of bullshit comming from Bill, simply because he had made up his mind, and weren't interested in considering the options.

[@Hirnlego999]

@@MrBandholm he has started to repeat some talking points hasn't he?

[@MrBandholm]

@@Hirnlego999 Yeah, and not always the thought out stuff sadly.

[@Hirnlego999]

@@MrBandholm Nope, because a lot of it is rightwing talking points. He claimed 5 year old were taught about sexuality, he skipped the part to question how often this even happens.

[@MrBandholm]

@@Hirnlego999 yeah

[@kbrom60]

very good show

[@BottleConcreteBlond]

Bill just can't stop screaming "get off my lawn!" He just can't get off this subject and let's be honest--HE DOESN'T WORK IN AN OFFICE.

[@bobwoww8384]

@Dan MCV Bill is an interesting and intelligent comedian. Unusually fortunate in addressing politics but a comedian nonetheless. Everyone deserves the right to fk up

[@kingjbird92]

Another thing that companies need to do to keep employees…PAY THEM MORE MONEY!

[@subgirl3739]

$7Trillion was spent on that war, you are worried about $7bill left behind is 1% - my guess is most companies would be happy to have a 1% shrink rate.

[@shaybeb.8636]

good point! plus, some things like physical buildings would have cost MANY times their value to take down and ship back to USA.. besides remember the Orange guy who got giddy about ordering an airport runway while at Mar-a-Lago showing off for other diners? That stupid drill for Former Guy's thrill cost us just under $1billion -- THAT was a waste. So, perspective is appreciated Sub Girl.

[@douglasslotolowicz9454]

Every close up of Doug Jones reminded me of Dick Van Patten, the father on the old Eight is Enough show.

[@geosync9742]

Re: the equipment left over, it was all gear given to the Afghan army and air force who deserted immediately as the Taliban closed in. They were supposed to put of a fight but didn't. It wasn't like US owed apaches, -c130s and NVGs were just dropped on the floor as Americans ran for the C-17s. This fact has been widely reported in every article I can find even in the MSM and a key difference than the headlines and narrative.

[@jonny-b4954]

Exactly. It irritates me to no fucking end that NO ONE EVER mentions that. It wasn't just equipment we left because our men broke and ran and we didn't care enough to remove it. I'm sure some of it was simply an economic decision "fuck it, we ain't putting in effort and time/money to move that, just leave it. It'll be combat ineffective in 6 months max." It is the equipment we provided to the Afghan Army, ya know, because it would have been ignorant to not have supplied them. Even more worthless than not leaving them it and would have been even more of an outrage.

[@geosync9742]

@@jonny-b4954 yep.

[@Bradgilliswhammyman]

most of the gear was left non functional.

[@johnpublic1623]

Not to mention how much this total included things like built infrastructure? Basic things that were used to house service members and create an environment to be able to conduct missions and the like. Did we need to ship back every water tank assembly and electricity generator? Every empty fuel tanker? Given the number and having seen the sheer amounts the DoD paid for contracts on the like, I'm seriously surprised the number wasn't higher. Just like the equipment numbers mentioned. Yes it was given to the Afghan army and air force with the intention that they would fight, this is true. We need to look at the flipside of the argument as well. What would the cost have been logistically to move that equipment back? I would venture to say it would've been as much if not greater than calling it a loss. With regards to Iraq and that departure, make no mistake the US made deals and handed over equipment like say M1 Abrams tanks because long story short it was more cost effective to do so. Shipping back worn, old, outdated equipment to immediately be mothballed or sit in a depot in perpetuity would be even more of a loss.

[@dreamcoyote]

To be somewhat fair to the Afghan soldiers, some of them weren't being paid or even being fed by their Afghan Army superiors. Not much reason to fight for people who are starving you. Likewise, some places were caught between the Taliban, which at least shares some cultural/religious background with you vs some people far away in a city. All the larger equipment (including the trucks) at the bases were completely disabled. I blame a lot of this on mythical American Exceptionalism. The Taliban, AQ, and whoever else hates us was supposed to stay safely away while we did whatever we wanted as we left. BS. Retreating from a war zone is always extremely dangerous and all told, it went about as good as it could :(

[@dnate697]

Ali Velshi is a great mind!

[@victoriaman117]

Turns out younger generations don’t want to sacrifice their lives to not own anything

[@amyo.garcia2365]

The best comment was, "we need get over the idea that everything has to go through banks"! Amen!

[@Ho11is2Ho11ywood]

"Employees don't have loyalty to their companies" Gee I wonder why smh

[@jaster6056]

Have loyalty to your coworkers, honour your commitments to show up, to do your job well to contribute to an harmonious supportive workplace. *Don't* have loyalty to a corp.

[@platovid4]

i usually agree with you Bill; but the employees that express their opinion to their bosses are not the newly hired.

[@boscopappas234]

Doug’s comment about how much was still left on the shelf is a prime example of why he’s an ex-senator.

[@TheExplorder]

The fact that he ran as a democrat from Alabama, didn't help either

[@lanceypants9]

I can see Doug's viewpoint though.

[@Matthew-ve7uv]

Not really. The payments did a lot of good. There was also a lot stolen, but all he said was that the cost of the theft should be taken in the context of all the good achieved. What's wrong with having a nuanced view?

[@JDubbs07]

I actually don't think any stance Doug takes matters to the reality that he's now an ex-senator. Remember that he barely won, running against an accused sexual predator with actual restraining orders on record to protect underage girls. Voters in Alabama are now *confirmed* to rather vote for a pedophile than a Democrat. That tells you everything you need to know.

[@wolvestasty]

A nuanced view? Did you pay attention to the numbers here? That isn't nuance. It was supposed to help far more people AND did you hear the examples of some of the "legit" beneficiaries? There was ALOT wrong with that bill that wasn't even mentioned here. And that is the nuance that is missing. He didn't even really get into the full detail and extent of the hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud. "It also helped some people"... the WHOLE POINT is that hundreds of billions was effortlessly siphoned from the people it was supposed to help. But that's really bullshit too, because the bulk of this was a handout to massive corporate entities. What else is new...

[@computerstar9883]

"That seems pretty good for us" 7 Billion WOW😂

[@Free4Ever-grace]

I BLAME the contractors for leaving the equipment, vehicles, and artillery behind! They did the same thing in Iraq. It was their responsibility to account for it all and they failed.

[@DrJohnnyJ]

Because if they lose it, it has to be replaced. More contracts for new weapons.

[@dleet86]

@@DrJohnnyJ Contracts could require a maximum accounting via physical verification and presence of 88% of assets bought, or their contract will be reduced by the % missing.

[@roykliffen9674]

Yep .... that's how Democratic government interprets accountability ...... blame the other guy.

[@gayeenglund1907]

​@@roykliffen9674 How do republican governments handle accountability?

[@marvinmartion1178]

Sorry dude, but private company's do this all the time! Of course the republicans bail them out then!

[@ingridtullos3956]

Ali Velshi is really sharp.

[@jermelpurse3018]

Companies have always taken positions on public issues they just normally took those positions behind closed doors with a lobbyist. Ask any company their position on tax regulation they won’t tell you what it is but be guaranteed they have a lobbyist stating their position. Ask and oil executive their position on the environment they won’t talk about it but they have a lobbyist that will. The same is true for any industry you can bring up a public issue on healthcare or hospital so yes we want everyone to have healthcare coverage they want wade into the area of Insurance reform publicly but privately behind closed doors rest assured they have a lobbyist or a few hundred lobbyist working on their behalf. So let’s not act as if companies don’t take positions on major public issues they do we just don’t often hear about it because they take those positions behind closed doors.

[@marklasky3555]

Any employee that wants their company ( it isn't their company) to take political position should be fired as a future cancer to the business.

[@60zeller]

There were no war profiteers in WW2? Come on Bill, research just a little.

[@georgeklimes7604]

He did not say that. He said systems were in place to aggressively prosecute them.

[@TentaclePentacle]

Bill: "Who or what we blame for this?" no one will say the obvious name. let's go brandon

[@Trryshrt]

Doug Jones is the second coming of Dick Van Patten.

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

Who needs to be a senator in Alabama when you're the king of Druidia?

[@StepSev7en]

divide the defense budget by every man, woman, and child. how much is that? let's do one year, any year.

[@astrokiddd11]

Bill why don't you ever point out that the IG supposed to oversee the PPP rollout was sidelined by Trump?

[@larrybarnhouse9989]

Sidelined? Trump fired every Inspector General and gave Jared Kushner the job of looking after all of that money! Ask Kushner where all of that money went and where are all the account books!

[@matthewrider6453]

There's who should've been your United States Attorney General. Much more prosecutor, ZERO judge!

[@jimbrown1559]

The full show was pretty good, but here, Bill continues to shout down guests who know a lot more than he does. Some of the history he was quoting was wrong! Before we entered WWII, it had been going on for a couple of years, but the country was isolationist. Roosevelt had been doing his best to bring the country to the point of entering the war, but it took Pearl Harbor to bring the public there.

[@dreamcoyote]

Yeah.. there was a LOT of preparation snuck by the isolationists. Thankfully some people learned from all the fiascos before the US entered WWI. There was such a rush for WWI (we had no offensive military force to speak of) that there were gobs of mistakes and tons of money wasted of emergency efforts. You don't build battleships in a month, and it takes a while to design a tank.

[@mrmuttley1]

@@dreamcoyote World War One was such a disaster that Wilson set up The Committee for Public Information to wipe away all the disasters. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Information

[@gerrycartwright788]

yes as soon as things make sence you end it

[@Opus313]

You would think Ron DeSantis was a bigger fan of Disney. He has Goofy ideas and runs a Mickey Mouse administration...

[@projectmayhem3688]

Sort of like Biden?

[@keithhoss4990]

Are you a Democrat?

[@burtnation1357]

U haven’t even watched the vid yet bruh

[@rn6710]

I think you mean Joe Biden.

[@oakvillan1277]

Lame joke

[@christopherbrown6891]

When they start making fun of you, it’s time to quit.

[@Tenmar.]

Companies have always been involved in politics and social issues since the start of business itself and they made decisions one way or the other even if it is apathy. In regards to age though Bill Maher needs to realize this. The oldest millennial is now FOURTY years old. They're middle aged and yet we're still being talked as if we have just graduated college which was TWENTY years ago. But the bigger problem that at one moment Bill Maher gets and then forgets it the next is how broke people are. From one bread winner in the family to both parents working and the daughter is on Twitch leading people to her OnlyFans and the son is either at an Amazon Warehouse or has three gig jobs for Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash while trying to build a portfolio on KZbin because employers don't value education anymore. You need to prove that you can do the job before you get the job. There is no training from companies anymore. Millennials and Gen Z are seen as disposable in the eyes of companies. Amazon, the second biggest employer in the USA has a turnover rate of 150%. That's a surefire way to be short of workers young and old when after working on individual quotas that constantly go up where the model is to fire the person. The reason there is no company loyalty is because companies aren't loyal to people. People have been a disposable resource to companies the moment unions became weak, pensions went away and employee wages became part of the bottom line of profits in an accounting sheet. Company stock buybacks are more valuable than hiring anyone at a company now. If you want to fix the problem of employment a lot needs to change and I don't see corporate leaders fixing it because they are so disconnected from people and the companies they work at that they don't see people as people because they aren't local to the company anymore. It's a lot easier to be compassionate and actually be a leader if you're living in the same place where your employees are living and a good leader doesn't want the place they're living in to be a shithole. And I get there are plenty of millennials and Gen Z who are off the rails. But who do you think raised them? Who do you think gave them an environment where there are so many chemicals in their food and water that they're basically impotent? Who do you think taught them or made rules where any and all violence was not allowed where even self defense got kids suspended or expelled from school? Who do you think took away all the trades skill classes like workshop, autoshop and cooking? Yeah, there are millennials and Gen Z who have zero mental fortitude to deal with problems and they're going to have to learn that the world doesn't always accommodate them and their problems be it physically or mentally, because it can't. But when you have a society that has created a stacked deck against millennials and Gen Z through policies and bureaucracy with stagnant wages, jobs where you're disposable, student debt that they can't pay off which delays owning a home that causes them to live with their parents and can't afford to or be in a situation to bring home a date nevermind actually start a family. It honestly sucks to be a Millennial or Gen Z right now.

[@mbburry4759]

No kidding. We were brought up to think companies were loyal, but it hasn't ever seemed to be the case. Well I suppose it is, if you're talking about staying in a low wage job with no future defined

[@basicstickfigure1087]

@@mbburry4759 Democrats should have never signed those Free Trade agreements, that sent our jobs over seas. We never really recovered from that. They were the ones who supported the Working Class ? They fucked us harder than the Republicans ever did. Such a bizzare move

[@johnburns8660]

The generation that raised them dismissed the role that unions had played in creating a prosperity that they were told was a consequence of their rugged individualism. They bought this crock and dumped their kids into it. I watched it happen. Thanks for taking the time.

[@dasatec5126]

😥 don't disrespect bill for making comments that make some of us feel like we can still be in our 20s. Seriously though... Unfortunately we're in the "Great Recession" which is caused by the lack of education, lack of loyalty, and how the C-Suites are taking the money the employees earn & putting it in their pockets. And you're right about being able to first prove that you know how to do the job before you can get one. An old friend of mine worked for Paramount in NYC and couldn't stand working there. They went off and taught themselves a couple of programming languages, and last I heard they were making $120k, again because the educated themself.

[@basicstickfigure1087]

@@johnburns8660 Unions ? They didn't value unions when the Democrats shipped our jobs over seas. It always boils down to Free Trade kicking the Americn middle class in the nuts.

[@bobwhite3895]

I watched my company go from a great place of mutual loyalty to the newest generation of sociopaths who care nothing for the staff.