Ep. 2031 - Bill Maher Goes OFF On Rising Socialists, May Vote Republican
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What are the primary election races and why are they important?
This episode is brought to you by Cardiff, America's favorite small business lender, with over 12 billion funded since 2004, applying under three minutes for same-day funding, up to 500,000 at cardiff.co.noles. Voters headed to the ballot box yesterday for primaries in Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, and Washington to choose between radical DSA socialists and ordinary center-of-the-party Democrats. And the problem is today, there is basically no difference. We will get into the candidates and the results. Then the Cambridge City Council votes to restore supposedly racist gunshot detectors after black racial activists got another black man killed. And Politico reports that the GOP has a groiper problem.
But there's more beneath the surface. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
Thank you.
welcome back to the show my pals at the Oxford Union have gone viral for a recent debate starring Tommy Robinson the anti-Islam activist the clip has a Muslim student at Oxford making a joke about how Tommy would be ripped apart and killed by the angry Muslim mob outside if not for the rules and decorum and privileges afforded by the Oxford Union and the right is apoplectic over this they're missing some key details of what's going on. So we'll get there in a moment. First, though, the elections. This is pretty wild. This is a live issue right now because we're now at Banana Republic, so we can't conduct elections in a single day. Now it takes days and weeks sometimes to finish our elections. But really tight races all throughout the country are
over these candidates, especially in the Democrat primary. That's what really matters. You have the DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America, really on the rise, huge faction of the Democrat Party, now more popular than elected members of Congress among rank and file Democrat voters. And so this was the story of the election is, will the centrist, moderate, mainstream Democrats be able to fend off the insurrection from the socialist wing of the Democrat Party. But that framing just totally misses what's actually going on. So one of the key congressmen who is being targeted here is this guy, Sri Tanadar. Sri Tanadar, last time I checked it right before the show went live, they were really in a neck and neck race, still counting the votes.
It's probably gonna drag on for a little while though. I'll ask the producers to give me an update if they finally make a call. The official story of this election is that the socialist challenger, Donovan McKinney, is trying to unseat this two-term congressman, the more establishment Democrat, Sri Thanadar, for this Detroit area seat. Sri has been in Congress for two terms now. The way that you... In this audience, the creme de la creme over here, right-wingers generally might have experienced Sri Thanagar. Actually involves me. It was when I was on Piers Morgan's show, what was it, eight or nine months ago. We were debating the Insurrection Act, some of the ICE protests and the deportations. And this congressman, Thanagar, came on and he said...
you know, this is an authoritarian, tyrannical power grab by Donald Trump, and he has no right to do this, and this is terrible. This was when Trump was threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act. And I asked the congressman a simple question about it that he could not answer.
There is this raging argument now about whether it is constitutional to do what Trump is rolling out in places like Chicago.
It's unconstitutional. The solution is empower the local law enforcement.
Congressman, are you familiar with the Insurrection Act?
Yes, I am.
So what do you think that's for? You said that this was illegal for the federal government to send National Guard into cities and states. What do you think the Insurrection Act is for?
Congressman, do you actually know what the Insurrection Act says?
Well, look what we saw happen in January 6th in the Congress. That's insurrection. Are you familiar with what the Insurrection Act allows?
Yes, I am.
Look, this president has used all kinds of excuses to break the law.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the primary election races and why are they important?
0:00–6:47
2
How is the Democratic Socialists of America influencing the Democratic Party?
6:47–12:07
3
Why did Bill Maher say his vote is ‘up for grabs’ and what does that mean?
12:07–19:40
4
What happened with the Cambridge City Council’s ShotSpotter decision?
19:40–26:51
5
What is the ‘groiper’ problem in the GOP and why does it matter?
26:51–33:43
6
How does liberalism lead to modern ‘isms’ like socialism and anti‑Semitism?
33:43–39:49
7
Should children have proxy votes and why is this being debated?
39:49–46:12
8
What alternative political philosophy does the host propose for the future?
46:12–51:05
Speakers
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