“You’re not going to win the battle for the 21st century if you are a silly person. And Americans are a silly people,” Bill Maher said during his monologue Friday night. “Do you know who doesn’t care that there’s a stereotype of a Chinese man in a Dr. Seuss book? China. All 1.4 billion of them couldn’t give a crouching tiger flying fuck because they’re not a silly people. If anything, they are as serious as a prison fight.”
Maher used the vast monologue to stress the advancements China has performed, though he recognized the authoritarian nature of the regime.
“There’s got to be something between an authoritarian government that tells everyone what to do and a representative government that can’t do anything at all,” he said, reporting that China has “built 500 entire cities from scratch, moved the majority of their huge population from poverty to the middle class, and mostly cornered the market in 5G and pharmaceuticals” in two generations.”
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“In China alone, they have 40,000 kilometers of high-speed rail. America has none. … We’ve been having Infrastructure Week every week since 2009 but we never do anything. Half the country is having a never-ending competition deciding whether Mr. Potato Head has a d— and the other half believes we have to stop the lizard people because they’re eating babies. We are silly people,” he added, referring to America as an “impacted colon of a country” in terms of moving legislation and getting things accomplished.
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“We see a problem and we ignore it, lie about it, fight about it, endlessly litigate it, sunset clause it, kick it down the road, and then write a bill where a half-assed solution doesn’t kick in for 10 years,” Bill Maher said. “China sees a problem and they fix it. They build a dam. We debated what to rename it.”
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“We binge watch, they bingebuild,” he continued, touting what the communist nation did when the coronavirus struck Wuhan, the place of origin of the novel coronavirus .
“When COVID hit Wuhan, the city built a quarantine center with 4,000 rooms in 10 days and they barely had to use it because they quickly arrested the rest of the disease,” Maher said.
Meanwhile, China, he said, does not get distracted by cultural issues that often control the establishment media and the political left.
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