All true, but Bill's point was that those numbers are lower by far than in any other advanced economy, and they would be probably be higher without Biden's policies.

You need to re-read the numbers, because Gas isn't up and the economy is expanding, so no, not shrinkflation, not stagflation, in fact, barely even inflation anymore. Are you hoping for deflation? Is that what this post is trying to say? Because deflation is even worse than inflation. We had 2 years of terrible inflation and people are learning the hard way how much that stings. But unemployment is near record low and we haven't had a single recessive quarter.

A pound sugar cost a dime at one time.

@@ricardosolano2559 A 12 pack of soda went from $5 to close to $8.

@@ronpetersen2317 Soda is not a great indicator. The price of eggs, bread, and milk is better at showing how serious it is. Inflation is a problem, but not to the level claimed. And you probably have the resources to pay for the non-vital things, like soda.

The US is doing better economically than every other developed country in the world right now and it's not even close. The Eurozone pays 8 euros for a liter gas and has roughly the same GDP they had in 2008. Japan and Korea are in terminal demographic decline. Canada's private sector is so monopolized that it's become inefficient. If you want better than the best economy in the world, then you want a fairytale, not reality, because this is the best there is. Sorry that life is hard.

@@tjt5055 And what do Dems do? Try to regulate and control it all more and more, to strangle it.

@@tjt5055Eight euros for a liter of gas in Europe? 😆 WTF are you smoking?

Of course Bill doesn't care about the economy tanking, because he has enough money to insulate himself from all the bad shit.

​@@tjt5055 Bot?.

Both parties have their nut jobs. the left side just has a lot more in the last 10 years for some reason.

Bills best joke in 6+ years, given inflation its about 39

"That line" we americans usually bleep as we blur pictures. But here's the catalog of our assault weapons...

Bill's been hyperbolic about Trump for the past 8 years!

​@@Stephen_Eee Mars bars?

But I didnt get it! lol I'm not from the culture here plz explain it?

​@@ebecker9154when he talks about the housing market rebounding when record amounts of people are living with their parents because it's too expensive to rent or buy a house even with a full time job.

How so? He's literally saying facts

​@@ThePredilection "facts" without context. Stock market is up, but fails to mention the 24% loss in revenue from companies that are not publicly traded (which, you know, make up the MAJORITY of businesses). You know, failing to mention the two trillion dollar annual deficit with over 4% CPI. Those facts? Or how every major credit card company is reporting record number charge-offs because Americans now owe more than $1trillion in credit card debt on top of all the other debt, including those that bought cars priced tens of thousands over MSRP at climbing interest rates that they can no longer pay back, so there's a massive recall of cars and a massive wave of defaults that many banks will likely not be able to recover from because those same vehicles are no longer valued at the price they were financed for. This also has trickle down effects for people looking for loans in the future which puts the brakes on spending... which as we know in a capitalist economy is a BAD THING. But let's focus on how good those stock prices are doing...for the investors and inside traders in congress that own stock. Oh let's also say "the housing market is great!" while the housing market continues to cool because those people that bought houses they couldn't afford at interest rates that are too high are now being foreclosed on. Do you know who is coming in to buy these houses? It's not you and me. It's Wallstreet. It will give this illusion of an okay market while also neglecting what increased home values are doing to property taxes...which again, means that homeowners that were able to afford their homes no longer can. The percentage of people who rent rather than own is going up, and those that haven't locked in affordable rates at affordable prices are not going to be buying homes in the foreseeable future. And the job growth? Over the last 4 months, those impressive job numbers have been revised to be over 100,000 jobs less than what was reported. Most of the job growth ISN'T in the private sector, either. It takes just a drop of common sense to know why this is a BAD thing long-term... hell, right now, it's bad in the short term. Why don't you look at other 'facts' instead of what is being parroted here. The only goal the media has right now is to make the current administration look good while the administration does everything in its power to delay the inevitable. It's coming, and boy is it going to hit the ground hard when it does. But let's keep up the illusion so that big bag Trump doesn't take the Whitehouse again (which at this point is almost inevitable).

He is rich and suffers from Trumpaphobia. He is good on other topics though.

@@ThePredilection His BS is off the charts. it is political propaganda at best. Job growth ... that is because people were layed off during the lockdowns and are starting to come back. Note they are saying job growth and not the unempolyment numbers. He thinks Mars bars are up to the prices from a decade ago. I shop the cheap stores and they are about a $1.70 to $1.80 ... I checked two local grocery stores online . Over $2 if you go to a convenience store and he thinks they went up from a buck to a buck twenty five???? Most of the "facts" are lies of omission. like the job growth bullshit.

1000% ❤

Keep in mind Biden isn't running the country right now anyways. His advisors and secretaries are. The guys has nothing left upstairs. So a vote for Biden is essentially the same thing we have now. Though what I expect happens is he steps down and Harris takes over. And the other guy I don't see lasting long either, he seems close to having a stroke. So vote for whatever VP sounds good.

I hated that Stewart said that. He still thinks Trump will have people in the government trying to rein him in. Trump now knows what to do. It’s going to be worse. We have to stop this “both sides-ism” that’s perpetuated by CNN and sadly, Stewart.

No but if it’s one particular person then the environment is for sure doomed, and so is NATO.

⁠@@jimmym3352yes im fine with the same. Normalcy

Yeah but there's practically no blind loyalty on the left (I would argue they're too hard on their own) I'd go as far as to say nobody voted for Biden. 70,000,000 voted against Trump!

um some of us actually listen/read what trump says and note the lies and truths

@@ros8986 For the record I'm as anti Trump as you can get. That's mainly who I was referring to.

People only seek out the news they want to believe. Truth doesn’t seem to matter

​@@TheMotiveDJ Were you alive in the Trump administration? He was blamed for everything, including people who eat too much and got fat.

Yah that adds up quick when you are poor ... or like me use to do kinda ok and now poor. A few hundred a month makes a difference

Show the facts please

And Trump will change that somehow???

There were "numbers for this stuff" when Trump was president.

Numbers are one thing, reality for average folks another. "Lies, damn lies, and statistics" applies.

Exactly! Especially when all the numbers are false.@@BeSm-qq6rs

​@@BeSm-qq6rsyour kind live by the truth is not the truth and law and order for thee but not for we republicklans TRAITORS

LIKE TWUMP AND FAKENEWS

Untrue. Most of us will end up voting for RFK Jr 😅

Well, to be fair, neither could FDR

FDR could, at least, go up and down ramps... but that's still hilarious 😂

"So what if prices are now 25% higher".

False equivalent...Always bill and the Dumbocrats

Ah, a fellow Saiyan of culture, I see.

And lemme guess, TeamFourStar is some kind of video game reference.

@@OMGWTFLOLSMH Ehh, close enough. It's a KZfaq parody of an anime series

@@OMGWTFLOLSMH I mean you took a decent stab at it. The line "I'm bored. You're boring me" was used directly by 2 characters in 2 different episodes of their parody series. It's so specific that I almost feel like one of Bill's writers must be a fan. Type in "I'm bored. You're boring me" in Google and you'll see the first thing that pops up.

@@azinoodhomi4419 It's from an episode of _Futurama_ during it's first run on Fox.

I see that with everyone I know near Chicago. Everyone under 45 still lives with their parents. And this is where the Dems and Biden are having their convention? The success story

@@DaleGribble1 So, what is the government supposed to do when a 45yr old individual is too lazy to go find work and get their own place? Send them more welfare checks? In Capitalism, companies will continue to raise prices for goods and services to maximize their profits. The results is some people will not afford it. The government have social programs to prevent people from falling through the crack. But at the end of the day, the US is is hyper capitalist society, and people just have to deal with that.

yeah....since the beginning of the world.

​@@DaleGribble1But good news Biden was talking about in a superbowl commercial that he doesn't get enough ice cream. Because places are using less food for the same price that's first on his agenda and not the housing crisis. Gotta stop having the giant corporations coming in buy these homes slapping down some wood flooring and raising the price up 250%

Who asked you to make 4 kids when you can’t afford them?

Probably because of CNN's unfair right wing propaganda gaslighting millions of americans.

Because people confuse the correlation of their current struggles with thinking that they were caused by whoever happens to occupy the executive office. Correlation is not causation. These people also think that electing the orange NFT hawker will somehow return prices to 2019 levels, even though that is not how economics work.

@@masterchinese28seems like you’re saying our elected officials have nothing to do with the economy. Or anything else for that matter. It’s just a popularity contest with no real word consequences. You’re really smart. I’m glad you’re voting.

@@RM-jb2bv Didn't see the Fed on any ballot, and that is for a reason. American businesses thrive because of access to capital, highly-skilled labor and an effective judicial system. If we need proof, note that the last time there was a balanced budget was under Clinton, and we know that Democrats don't balance budgets. It's also good to know that you are a thinking person. You are obviously smart enough to know that you can find many more cases where business thrived despite, and not because of, the person who held the executive seat. You are obviously smart enough to know that it is a binary, where things only work when A is in power, but not B.

@@RM-jb2bv the economy has little to do with whose butt is in the oval office. If you'd ever studied economics, you'd know that. Far too many people have this idea that the US President has the power to do anything he wants. If that were true, history would read very differently.

Imagine if he said Palastine

Yeah, it says he's wrong, but he's too blinded by centrist ideology to see it.

The Voldemfort effect. Read about it. Lol

About how they were offended, or about how it wasn't funny?

​@@sub-zero710 About how they actually thought there is a war on the master-race of women in the western world.

70% of Americans contribute to a 401k fund which is linked to the stock market. To Bills point, STOP WITH THE BS DRAMA 🙄

Thank you

I promise if the stock market was in the other direction, you would definitely feel it. It's basically back to normal. I dont agree with it but unless people have a revolution like they did in France this is what you get. America is the engine of the world. Our culture isnt concerned about each others long term welfare. We only perform emergency goodwill acts and then it's back to the money!!!!!

But the stock market being low, does mean a lot for the 60% of Americans you talk about

4 stocks holding up the entire market. Bill knows as much about the stock market as Trump knows about Magnets

No all jobs are up. Maybe you need to get resume help! Just because you’re not getting hired doesn’t not add up to no jobs.

Ya, no insurance for part-time makes employers hire em more in a bad economy

Shhhhh... Talk like that won't get Biden (or his replacement) re-elected.

@@Dnobs005 I just saw the recent report that was released 4 days ago. Fulltime down by a little over 150k and part time up by 500k. The report is out there but let's be honest, you dont care to look for it. That report destroys the comfy bubble that you live. So you would rather attack the person than the argument. Signs of low IQ.

If you look at the job market from before he got into office and today, the job market hasn't recovered. If a company had 2,000 workers, pre-covid, and things were running smoothly, then government mandates cause 1,000 to be fired or quit, you're hurting. After those people left, the older folks at that place retire due to their age and not wanting to keep doing their job because it just got 3x harder to do, so now you have 900 people left to run the place. Now you might get people hired in due to incentives to get new blood in there, but most quit before they've been there a month and more regular people quit. Fast forward 4 years and the place might have 1,700 working there today. The government says they've created jobs because 1,700 people are working there when they compare it to the 900 they had before, but the business is still 300 people short of where they were 4 years ago.

Actually what they aren't saying and everyone that isn't a moron understands this ... people were layed off from their jobs during covid ... a ton of people were out of work because of the lockdowns ... and slowly during 2021 people started going back to work. OMG job growth ... no fucking shit ... people are going back to work they were layed off from during the covid

the answer is to not buy candy bars

Shows how long it's been since Bill went out and bought something himself.

Same here its $2.69 for a regular here in WA State. Are candy bars $1.25 in L.A. or NYC? Not sure where Bill lives.

Full sized 1.55oz Hershey bar at Walmart $1.17. Available for pickup curbside.

1.9oz butterfinger at Walmart $1.34. Full sized Snickers bar at dollar tree $1.25. These are prices online that literally anyone can google. Maybe if you’re paying more than that, you’re just a chump.

You are partially correct...It was brought back & discontinued a couple of times after that...relaunched in 2016 and is available in specialty stores

Well, he wouldn't know. He hasn't had to do his own grocery shopping in over 20 years.

​@@thewickedwalker4983 to be fair that's a decent amount of people now

We still have them here in Canada.

@@jodaman1519 Wasn't that the point-----using something that was fake----to get across a point?

Biden was running and eager to get to the top. Trump can only waddle at best

Not really, that was one time for Donald

Yeah, "and there are very fine people on both sides" Please get your news from facts rather than memes, or would you like to laugh one more time about how Trump suggested we inject ourselves with bleach. Only a little analysis of what was actually said or done in context will prove the shallow mindedness of how these fake news stories perpetuate. Biden falls up the stairs and Trump goes cautiously down a slick ramp whilst wearing smooth soul leather shoes. What makes the comparison?... "There are many fine people on both sides" but only the critical thinkers examine the whole context rather than going for the tagline! Have a nice day :)

@Stevenirons Trump wears makeup and wants to date his daughter

​@@Stevenirons Oh christ, can't we roast the guy? He's JUST as fun to roast as Biden is. Smile, Steven, we ALL need it.

Bidenomics!

She doesn't look like it

As far as I know, scarecrows don't die.

The Coultergeist never dies

Did she get her tïts done?

Remember her "There's no racists in America" tour? 😂

Yeah - exactly.

@@mikepetitti Bill’s contribution is having guests like them on his show so they can spout their garbage.

@@margo3367Bill Maher is one of the worst garbage-spouters of all. Was all for woke and COVID tyranny until it became abundantly obvious that public opinion wasn't with him any more. Total grifting clown.

He parroted bullshit this time.

The stock market DOES matter to regular Americans. You think ppl would be out spending money on houses, cars, furniture, vacations, restaurants etc… if the stock market was way down? It’s about a general “environment” of investments and economic growth. Jobs and wages would suffer if the stock market was trending down. How convenient to downplay the good economic trends while a Democrat is in office.

@@ericjames4887 Got nothing to do with Democrat vs Republican. Trump was just as happy to play it up during the pandemic, despite the fact that the stock market's success even during a pandemic would NOT mean much to regular people, especially those dying or who lost family members to Covid. And no, it does NOT matter to a regular person unless they have stock in a company. The stock is and always has been pure speculation. The only reason is isn't "gambling" is because real returns can be made based on the financial health of a company. But that financial health and success is beholden to investors" emotions and hesitation. Most people don't base their wealth or even standard of living and salary on stocks. Capital gains are just one way of earning money, but you have to have money first to invest before you can turn it around for even more money. And that's something many Americans don't even have the luxury of being able to do that much. People want to see gains realized TODAY. NOT weeks, months, or years from now. They need money to put food on the table now. And only a higher salary guarantees that. Stocks mean nothing if consumers can't afford the products and services that these companies sell. Or simply aren't interested in said product/service (see AMC stock).

@@ericjames4887 50% of americans have no stocks meaning the fluctuations DO NOT Matter. You may wanna suck Joe Biden dry but the stock market doesn't help most people, it's a general gauge for RICH people. So sure, both Biden and Trump are have done a fantastic job for the rich. But not for the "filthy" poors

The numbers are there , All you have to do is look . Simple

Yes, that's the reason experts study the economy and publish their conclusions. So people won't be confused into thinking their individual circumstances must reflect the economy as a whole.

Bro, did you not invest in bit coin or gamestop when the people were trying to fk the machine, then those people got rich and flooded our streams with what us dumb dumb forgot to invest in. Are you a Boomer? Bro you should have been rich for 3+ decades

Especially when they go to the grocery store and pay double the price for everything now. Then they really know Democrat policies are working as predicted.

​@@robfromvanI am still waiting for the Republican plan for lowering inflation. Is it with the Trump healthcare plan?

I think this was more of a Dollar Tree joke, when they increased prices from a dollar to a 1.25. I'm sure you can find a Mars bar at their store.

@@Vegan4Everything You can, I just did a couple days ago.

Yeah, if you're dumb enough to buy them at the convenience store.

@@scarpfish They're $1.69 at the supermarkets around here. Supermarkets, not convenience stores. Not double, but also a noticeable increase over the $0.99 that they were 6 years ago.

Shrinkflation

Im also surprized he critisizes conservatives this time, but he managed to squeeze in culture wars again. Hes lost.

​@@noldo3837 💯.

Segments like this make me wonder why I watch. He is more sensible when he isn't wrestling with his Trump derangement syndrome.

Wages are stagnant as ever.... Might want to look that one up. Just a suggestion. Cause if you're making the same then you might want to look for another job?

@@michaedove3562 u might want to use your brain. I wasn’t taking about myself I was talkin in general.

@@dfri1754 Wage increases are not keeping up with inflation is an honest statement. "Wages are stagnant" isn't. And Gas prices were over $4 a gallon and it went down to around $3 a gallon now, so your other statement is also provably flawed. Might not want to call other people stupid if you're saying provably stupid stuff? Just a suggestion.

I carried $150 worth of groceries inside in one trip on my arm. That's a problem.

Bro borned in a depression, died in a depression

Well apparently you were asleep when you wrote that comment too because it bears no relation whatsoever to the content of the video.

He referenced the “American dream,” which has factually been destroyed. Unfettered capitalism and corporate capture destroyed it for us. Joe Biden is just the hapless tool. Throw in elites consolidating wealth from the middle class, and POOF. No more nice little dream life for ordinary Americans who cannot even get cancer treatments covered by insurance. The EU treats people better.

George Carlin a man who lived out his dream as life as a comedian. A little fun irony there.

STHU, i am living and it took me 10 yrs to get there

It’s throughout the Muslim world

​@@MuskeljudentumOr any underdevelopped country.

Also on Figueroa St in LA, Soft White Underbelly podcast can testify to that.

When they're banning abortion and zero'ing in on contraception, the war has started here as well. American women shouldn't have to wait until they're banned from going to school past the 8th grade to read the tea leaves.

Did you hear that gasp when Bill mentioned it? Why are Americans so pro-hijab when Iran’s government literally murdered women to enforce it?

The candy bars at the checkout counter at grocery stores and CVS are usually around that price.

OMG, people are being so pedantic over this chocolate bar. If you want to be pedantic, Bill said $1.25, not $1.50. Costco sells Mars in an 18 pack for .69¢ or less here in Canada. That's .51¢ US for a full sized Mars bar.

I definitely agree with your statement. There were several days during the Trump years that I was scared to look at the news in fear of seeing a headline that Trump nuked someone because they didn't agree with him.

Get a hobby.

True Facts

Go outside.

@@bobwoods1302 quit supporting wannabe dictators.

Lol 80% is Biden pulling Covid sized budgets ($7T) long after pandemic.

Two of these things aren't real.

I don't care that my restaurant is serving smaller portions. I never ate it all anyway.

Those are all the same things

@@candaceewell9582 Google them.

I haven’t seen a mars bar in years!

He’s rich. He doesn’t Pay attention to prices anymore.

They weren't $1.25 even before the inflation. But he has the ratio about right. They went from about $1.75 to $2.15.

Where tf are you FINDING a mars bar😂

They are a Canadian dollar here.

Bill is doing his Vote Blue No Matter Who grift I pity you and your friends for not seeing through his speech. French milk? Make sure you dont remind the audience about Americas grocery prices. Dem voters wont notice the difference. Mars bars? "Lets minimize the reality of inflation costs and make it about junk food and a fun joke. Democrat voters need feelings facts not facts. We need them to avoid reality"

Try PBS for real news

Try Beau of the Fifth Column. Real journalism.

Speculation porn is perfect. Can I use that with my friends?

​@@DaleGribble1I just drove by about 1000 half million to a million dollar homes. Plenty of people are doing great

Answer: politics. See OPEC. Blame the corp, not govt on oil issue. Everytime they have a huge increase in money for gas big oil makes record profits. You would think the number crunchers could do us all a favor. However, the rule of capitalism is profit to be sure. And they stop at nothing except regulation which is govt job. But see donors to politicians. They own both sides.

Your vehicle is too large and consumes too much fuel. I have an 18-year-old Prius that takes a trip to the gasoline station once every six weeks, where I fill it up for about $25 or less.

its calle d greed. have you not seen how the oil companies report record profits every quarter?

Gas is up in states where the decline in gas prices results in politicians there thinking it’s a good time to add taxes to fuel. Over a a 1.20 a gallon in tax in CA! Asinine at best, greed at its worst.

Why are fuel prices up? Corporate Greed taking advantage of an underinformed consumer class.

in the world...but less here then the rest of the planet...perspective maybe....that's the point...voting on the economy is the dumbest thing stupid people do.

Agreed, the inflation calculator says between Jan 2020 and Dec 31 2023 inflation is almost 20%. That is a big damn number and it hurts. If it was only the mars bar we wouldn’t care but that’s almost 20% avg on everything.

@@markanderson4163no, after our freedoms it’s the most important thing, gov policy has a huge impact on our economy and lives over time.

Stupidity at its best. Inflation is not a USA problem it’s a world problem.

Come on man if you need to plan your meals around $20 a week get a fvcking job! That's how that works it's not that hard with record low unemployment. 😂

Inflation is not what things cost. Inflation is the rate at which the prices are going up. Inflation can go down with prices still going up, because the rate at which they are rising has decreased. How do so many people not understand this?

He obviously doesn't have to do his own shopping or check the prices before buying anything, but you would think that someone on his writing staff would have some clue about how much things cost.

And yet Americans are getting fatter and fatter.

Maher is clueless and has TDS

I Got Mine from a Loot Shoot A Buck ...

and smaller

$15 and up for minimum wage ain't too bad😅.

I have had 0 issue finding a job in heavy industry ever since I entered the industry in 2013. I've built passenger train cars, compression rotors, general tooling (currently I build compression rotors)... There's no shortage of those types of decent jobs out there. In fact the bigger problem was finding people competent enough to work them. Still an issue to this day.

​@@bkkfarang4749rent is 1400 minimum and a house is 350,000 minimum Everyone I work with from 19-45 still lives with their parents

California wants to raise minimum wage to $50. Doesn't sound too bad. I may even move to California and become a fast food worker. It would be a huge wage increase for me.

You'd also probably get a good deal on your meals.

Bill has no idea what you're talking about....he's a millionaire.

That situation got worse under TFG. Life went to heck in a handbowl when TFG tried to run things. His way of running was straight into the ground. Geez.

It's not the interest rates. Back when "the dream" was alive, interest rates were this high or higher. After the 2008 crash, the fed lowered rates to near 0%, which was sounds great on the surface, but made the economy very unstable. It went against everything you learn in a Macroeconomics 101 course. The core problems are stagnant wages and rising prices, all stemming from greed, not healthy economic factors. Too many people are investing in real estate, and it's gutting everyone else.

@@Marty_WanlassYeah that $1.90 gas was awful. Just awful. Not giving a trillion dollars to Ukraine and Israel with 2 hot wars and a 3rd on the way sucked ass too! 3% interest rates on a home were terrible. You’re a clown

When Obama and McCain ran against each other I had a feeling it would be the only time in my entire life I would actually like both candidates. Boy, do I hate being right sometimes.

I'd settle for one!

Need a time machine🙂We used to get serious candidates, now they are either afraid to run, due to being imperfect, or underfunded.

There is only one ! The one that's not a Traitor !!!

Nothing will get better until you get ranked choice voting, which Republicans are now trying to ban in several states. Surprise, surprise.

I will be sure to tell that to the dozen or two homeless I pass on the way into work.

That claim sounded strange to me too but when I went and looked at the graph I do think he can say it with a straight face. When you Zoom out to 10 or especially 25 years you can see that it's only a small stretch to make that statement.

Sorry, I can't forget how gasoline cost me $2.52 when Trump was in office and went over 4$ when that guy got power. Yeah, the claim may have some basis, yet there is a basis that it should have NEVER been that high.@@moretac

@@ernestcote3398 I agree, inflation should never have been that high. But I think a major contributor to that massive inflation spike was the exorbitant spending which Biden AND Trump were responsible for during the pandemic

Well, that dang pandemic! It did seem, at least to my untrained eyes, that the economy was pretty good until that was unleashed. I do clearly remember paying $2.52 a gallon a gas in CT in 2018. Yet I have to shudder when I contemplate that Joe only got two of the seven trillion he wanted and look what that did to inflation. It could have been back to the Carter days when I was just contemplating how to save for retirement at a 20% inflation rate. As a side note; When are China's leaders going to be brought to the table to explain their actions in the interest of humanity during that time? @@moretac

The media is owned by the same people who fund the two-party system, so they generally aren't interested in anyone outside the system. RFK Jr isn't on the ballot in most states. Unless he can change that he's not going anywhere with his campaign.

Yes, he might be a nice guy but he is a partisan hack through and through. As a grown man and a TV news commentator, he should be embarrassed by his election night crying.

That guy walked the black community off a cliff.

Knock it off. Van Jones is great. He said something very relevant a few years back about "safe" spaces. I'm quoting inaccurately but he said that nobody should be unsafe in their person. Nobody should feel threatened or intimidated. However when it comes to a safe space from ideas? What did you go to college for? Don't you want to hear new ideas or be challenged. Excellent distillation of what the truth is.

@@davidhutchinson5233 Your defense is that he said something relevant once a few years back?

@@davidhutchinson5233 that definitely sounds like the kind of applause-chasing line Van would say. Vapid remarks for the easily impressed. To each their own…but you might as well have him arguing against Deepak Chopra and a fortune cookie.

It wasn’t about clapping. It was because of this frustrating idea that it is somehow Islamophobic to point out the religion’s blatant violations of human rights.

@@lacountess I think it was because Maher hand waves the war on women in America because somehow we should be get credit for not havinge to wear burkas here.

yeah, he sh*ts on his own audience more then anyone else you will see...even when they moan in agreement...

Not everyone is employable. You need a modicum of smarts and personality. My partner, in her 50s, has a basic high school education and was offered 3 different jobs last month at $26/hr, one with full benefits. It's not the best salary, but it's not the worst. She already has a full time job but she's looking for a change. It was easy-peasy. I guess it depends on your city, what's in demand and the type of work you're capable of.

@@OMGWTFLOLSMH No

The facts are there, kiddo. Inflation has cooled.

Who knew, government printing money for poor folk does eventually come around to harm mostly poor folk.

​@@vidmasterK1 glad you white liberals are feeling some relief 😂 us minorities aren't seeing any changes and we'll remember that election season

So the price of cola at walmart is somehow your measuring stick.

Most of the inflation (growth in prices) has slowed or stopped. They have not, however, come back down. Nor will they ever, since most of the inflation was spurred by corporate greed.

Lefties tend to be sensitive

@@TY9941_ You're preaching to the choir, TY. I used to be one. And while I'm still a super emotional nutbag (I was always this way anyway), I got out of the far leftist environment. I'm a strong liberal but I feel like I got stuck in the wrong era. Leftists have massacred the old fashioned (and pragmatic) liberalism and radicalized it while calling themselves liberals as a mask to hide their extremism. They aren't even close to liberalism and it's humiliating that I get lumped up with them. I'm just surprised no one cheered about this particular issue, it's like the audience last night was filled with people who don't believe women should have equal human rights and freedom. Like wtf? And that was a damn novel. Apologies. I guess I had to vent.

Well, he does drive that point home every show, like clockwork. Maybe not everyone in the audience is watching Bill for the first time? We know he hates Muslims. For a supposed Atheist he has all the time in the world for Zionism, I watched him cup Bibi's balls a few months ago, but that's his prerogative.

It's not weird when you consider the grip extreme feminism has on the left. Sadly, most liberals don't know that feminism and women's rights are not the same thing, just as animal rights and animal welfare are different. Not surprisingly, both feminism and animal rights use the same tactic by making themselves synonymous with moderate positions, all while subtly steering the narrative towards their extreme views. And also not surprisingly, both originated with the same people. I suggest doing a deep dive into feminism and its true history, and especially their core literature. Misandry and misinformation have been there from the start. Support women's rights, but not feminism.

​@@LemurWhoSpokewhatever Einstein get a life

Inflation is always going to happen, the issues is are wages keeping up. Don’t be so upset that things are expensive. But rather use that frustration on wages and salaries not going up.

Saying "inflation is a problem" is sensible. Saying "Biden caused inflation, Trump is the solution" is profoundly stupid. The US government under Trump quadrupled the amount of money in circulation, from $4 trillion to $16 trillion. And people wonder why we had inflation in 2021 onwards. Don't get me wrong, Biden contributed to inflation as well. But people only think he's the main cause because most people are dumb enough to assume "it happened at the same time as X" means "X caused it". Neither Biden nor Trump is fit to deal with this problem.

Nope, and in another interview he was called out on this. I don't know why he's trying the same lie twice.

He's just mad his political party is running off its constituents with wars and authoritarian policies

I do and prices are pretty much back to normal! Inflation spike of 2022 caused by corporate greed is long gone!

@@ricomajestic So there is no more corporate greed?

@@consv Well it is not in their interest to keep raising prices since people would stop buying all together and start buying from overseas producers directly if necessary.

Hard to believe she's 62 years old.

Yer mum

Lmao.

Pete Davidson’s joke, it was great. 😂

@@ItalianoYMexicano You mean, like regular people do? Or, used to do? Now people can't hang out together unless they agree on every single talking point and if you don't agree you have to be at least 500 miles away or your skin melts off or something.

And thats Bidens fault how. Trump is the inflation generator

In what way has the housing market rebounded for anyone not making 150k a year?

If you purchased one you are a fool. Prices are increased like this because they know can get away with people purchasing a totally different product.

i was going to say, ni'd sell him one for 4.25@@MrPJDIMILIA

MTG and Boebert, especially adding in the MTG nasal voice. Coulter looks amazingly good, not all plastic like Melania. She's still a CU Next Tuesday, but looks pretty good.

Leave Inculter alone. She is ignorant but a cool person.

Ann has been on Maher's programs for years. I believe she was on the last episode of PI if I'm not mistaken.

OP and the losers who liked are the same turds who whine about trump's mean tweets

@@shells500tutubo If Boebert is scaring the crows, who's on the hand job?

What size Mars are you buying for $4.25?

Bro you absolutely pulled that number out of your 💩

where are you spending $4.25 for a candy bar??? geez...shop around a little instead of vending machine purchases...GD people are stupid.

@@gemkid85 Dude, candy bars went from $1.00 to $1.25 in 1995. lol I know. I was there.

Agree. Of course there is a war on women and the supreme court are the generals in this war. Perfect audience response by the way. It shows they were actually listening to All the words.

Probably all that funny money we printed during the pandemic, especially those PPP "loans" that got forgiven. I hope people understand the inflation rate is a 'year over year' metric. Now that we're more than a year past the inflation peak in the summer of 2022, the numbers are going to look a lot rosier than the real world situation we face.

​​​@@scarpfishby me rent is still 1400 minimum and houses are 350,000 minimum Still nearly double

@@scarpfish And both Presidents are to blame for that massive increase in government spending. I'll give both of them a little leeway, people didn't know how bad Cov!d was going to get. So they overreacted with the government spending. Turns out most people just started ignoring it and ignoring the old people dying from it.

It's called post pandemic after the world ground to a halt.Check out the rest of the world.

have to disagree, while in the 3 different grocery stores I frequent this past week, I was pleasantly surprised to see that almost everything was on sale....hint, prices are coming down.

I think what he was saying is that the ultra low iinflation you were used to was not, in fact, normai, and what we have now is.

@@mr2981 Little to no inflation is supposed to be normal. You can't live in excess and on credit for ever, eventually it bites you in the ass.

Deflation is what’s needed, but the wealthy don’t like paying back loans with money more valuable than when they borrowed it but they love it when they pay loans back with money less valuable than when they borrowed. Cheap money chases away good money.

You are confusing prices and inflation. At zero inflation, prices stay the same. It isn't at zero or less than zero so prices aren't dropping.

@@mr2981 except that it's been over 40 years since inflation was this "normal".

Corporate greed is the largest component of inflation.

​@@rcpilot179right. Because anything to do with the lockdowns and the fallouts ruins the Dems 'price gouging' scape goat You fell for it

Maher is so out of touch in his own Southern California multimillionaire bubble that he trivializes the issues people are facing by comparing the situation regarding risen food prices to a candy bar costing 50 cents more.

Maher has gotten worse with that as he ages. @@zachhoward9099

Yes, it's nice if you're rich, sucks if you're poor. Always the case here on Earth. The point is, we in the US have it much better now than since the global pandemic hit and screwed everything up, it keeps getting better here and we're doing much better than in most other countries. But yes it still sucks to be poor.

people have been saying that for decades....Minimum wage isn't suppose to be forever...get training or education and move up...there are still plenty of jobs that pay WAY more then the minimum...it's just that too many Americans don't want jobs that require actual work.

This is just an unimaginably low iq response. @@markanderson4163

Cost of bacon and eggs is the barometer for the poor .... Well lunch meat ham now ... I can't afford bacon ... it costs WAY too much.

He wanted Amy Klobuchar. He obviously doesn't care how bad the candidates are.

DIdn't he just have a Nikki campaigner on his show last week? Some of his guests speak highly of various politicians. Not saying I agree with them all...

He's just another talking head.entertaining and nothing more..

True enough. I used to agree with more of his commentary. I still watch because I sometimes like him and at least one of his guests. @@jimmypage1808

It’s a literary device. He’s making fun of himself at the same time by going through that whole rigamor.