Real Time With Bill Maher: New Rule: Eat The Rich

"It wasn’t that long ago when liberals thought shooting people who don’t share your politics was bad – or at least a micro-aggression." 

Source:Real Time With Bill Maher I guess is very hungry, politically.

From Real Time With Bill Maher

From what my colleague Rik Schneider wrote about Luigi Mangione back in December: 

"If you are let's say a Baby Boomer (someone born in the 1940s or 50s) like a Bernard Goldberg, or older than that, or you are just someone with a solid understanding of American history, but are younger than a Boomer, then you are familiar with the militant far-left in America. Groups like The Weather Underground and the Symbionese Liberation Army, Students For a Democratic Society, and others from the 1960s and 70s. 

These groups have always believed that progress is not enough and sometimes democracy is not enough to achieve their political objectives. And sometimes you need violence and undemocratic means to achieve their goals and you need to "take a strike at The Man", even if that means murdering people, to bring attention to the issues that these groups care about. 

That's what Luigi Mangione was doing when he murdered United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson a few weeks ago. He was "striking out against The Man" to bring the attention to what the far-left sees as problems with the American health care system. They hate the facts that our health care system is private and for-profit. 

So when a Luigi Mangione, or some other militant leftist comes along and does what this guy did and he also looks like he could be a Hollywood actor, or a boybander, they celebrate him as some type of a rockstar, doing what they only had the guts to do themselves... 

From The New Democrat

As I wrote about Luigi Mangione back in December: 

"But there's only 1 political faction in America that could possibly believe that killing a CEO of a health insurance company, simply because they are a health insurance CEO, and the killer thinks that person is part of the problem... if not a good idea, is perhaps justifiable homicide, or something. 

And there's only 1 political faction in America that would make a murderer of a CEO a pop culture, rockstar, or something, and celebrating this man online and on social media and trying to profit off him with all the videos and the merchandise. And that would be far-left in America, which are made of of some Democratic Socialists, but militant Socialists, the WOKE Left, who believe that progress is never enough. Because it's the system that's the problem itself, who believe that we'll never achieve a "just and fair society", until we take down the system. Or as they would put it: "The Man". 

To the WOKE Left in America, Luigi Mangione is a "totally awesome rockstar", who took a brig strike at "The Man". So they've been celebrating him, at least since he's been the news and they read his manifesto. But for the rest of the country, including people who also don't approve of our health care system, but who believe in the rule of law and who are pro-life in the real sense, (meaning people who believe in protecting innocent lives) Luigi Mangione is just another famous murderer in America. And unfortunately we've had too many famous murderers in America... 

From The New Democrat

I guess I have a couple reactions to Bill Maher's monologue here. He basically said that: 

"I remember a time when Liberals believed it was wrong to shoot people and use violence against people, simply for disagreeing with them". 

Guess, what, Mr. Maher, Liberals still believe that. He called himself an "Old School Liberal" in the same monologue. What is an "Old School Liberal"? Someone who believes in liberalism. (In case that isn't obvious enough) Someone who believes in liberal values which comes from liberal democracy. Liberal values are free speech, personal autonomy, property rights, the rule of law, the Constitution, and in law & order in the real sense. Not the made up Nixonian sense. 

So Maher calls himself an "Old School Liberal", but then makes the classic mainstream media mistake of equating Liberals with everyone and everything that is considered to be politically left, including left-wing militantism, whether it's Luigi Mangione or some other WOKE militant. 

And my other reaction here has to do with fast food and Bill Maher essentially blaming fast food chains and perhaps even grocery stores for the obesity problem in America. Unless you've been kidnapped and were forced fed whoppers, big macs, candy bars, packaged cookies, etc, and then someone poured nothing but soft drinks and chocolate milk down your throat to wash the junk food down, you don't have anyone else to blame except for the person you see in the mirror (assuming you are small enough to be seen in your mirror) for being a fat ass. 

I mean people blaming fast food joints and grocery chains, for their own obesity... I mean next alcoholics will be able to sue liquor stores and liquor companies for their alcoholism. I mean again, unless you were kidnapped and your kidnappers poured nothing but alcohol down your throat during your capture... who's to blame for your alcoholism? And if that's the case that your kidnappers forced you to drink nothing but 1 bottle after another of alcohol during your capture, maybe you should thank them. It probably made that experience for you better. Not that I'm making fun of kidnap victims.

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