Posted on 04/15/2024 7:47:53 AM PDT by Twotone
Comedian Bill Maher said over the weekend that if Americans wanted to see what would happen to the United States if it continued down the path to “extreme wokeness,” they should look no further than their neighbors to the north.
Maher argued — during Friday’s broadcast of “Real Time” on HBO — that Canada should serve as a “cautionary tale” for Americans who wanted the progressive utopian ideal and thought that they could see it just across the border.
Maher began by saying that he agreed with those who said American liberals should learn from progressive countries that were getting things right — but then he pointed out that it was equally important to recognize and acknowledge flaws when they were present.
Giving two examples, Maher noted that unemployment in the United States was 3.8% compared to Canada’s 6.1% — and that air quality in Canada was measurably worse than in the United States.
“They say in politics liberals are the gas pedal and conservatives are the brakes. And I’m generally with the gas pedal. But not if we’re driving off a cliff,” Maher said, adding, “Canada was where every woke White college kid wearing pajama pants outdoors who had it up to here with America’s racist patriarchy dreamt of living someday. I mean, besides Gaza.”
“There’s only one problem with thinking everything’s better in Canada: It’s not. Not anymore, anyway,” Maher said, arguing that the housing crisis in American cities was nothing compared to what was happening to the north. “The median price of a home here is $346,000. In Canada converted to US dollars, it’s 487. If Barbie moved to Winnipeg, she wouldn’t be able to afford her dream house and Ken would be working at Tim Hortons.”
Maher went on to note that the liberal dream of single-payer health care — which Canada has — is also not living up to its promise: “Their vaunted health care system, which ranks dead last among high income countries, and access to primary health care, and the ability to see a doctor in a day or two. And it’s not for lack of spending. Of the 30 countries with universal coverage, Canada spends over 13% of its economy on it, which is a lot of money for free health care. Look, I’m not saying Canada still isn’t a great country, it is, but those aren’t paradise numbers.”
“If Canada was an apartment, the lead feature might be America adjacent. And if America was a rental car, Canada would be America or similar,” Maher concluded. “And again, honestly, Canada, I’m not saying any of this because I enjoy it. I don’t because I’ve always enjoyed you, but I need to cite you as a cautionary tale to help my country. And the moral of that tale is ‘yes, you can move too far left, and when you do, you wind up pushing the people in the middle to the right.’ At its worst. Canada is what American voters think happens when there’s no one putting a check on extreme wokeness.”
The other side of the coin is on the Southern Border...........
They always do this when they overplay their hand.
we wouldnt be diving off a cliff if it weren’t for leftists and their anti-American agenda!
You’re getting what you voted for, genius.
And yet Maher still says he’ll do everything to make sure Trump doesn’t win.
(Bears repeating)
Its strange he picks “air quality” of all things. I don’t know his statistics, but its probably a very localized and population-specific measure, caused by traffic congestion in the Toronto and Vancouver area
Far more important, over 25% of people living in Canada were not born there. It continues to allow in over 1 million per year. Being “Canadian” really means nothing. It most closely resembles a massive globalist woke corporation.
It has a bloated, expensive, woke government and all the regulations that come with it. So prices of everything are high, wages are suppressed, and Taxes are crazy high
Its got the 1970s “Dutch Disease” but much worse.
Canada seems to be a beta version of what Davos/WEF/Bill Gates have planned for the Western World.
In recent times Bill Maher has,at least a few times,stumbled upon a rational idea regarding matters of national...and international...importance.
“Bill Maher Warns Canada Is A ‘Cautionary Tale’ For U.S.: ‘We’re Diving Off A Cliff’”
Bill Maher is a philosophically bankrupt drunkard and nothing more.
He voted for it didn’t he? He sure as hell didn’t vote for Trump.
Don’t worry they only plan to starve us, destroy the middle class and single family homes, flood us with drugs, crime, no education, impoverish, no ability to travel and improving yourself is “being white”. Plus racism.
What can go wrong.
thank you captain obvious.
[snip] “Their vaunted health care system, which ranks dead last among high income countries, and access to primary health care, and the ability to see a doctor in a day or two. And it’s not for lack of spending. Of the 30 countries with universal coverage, Canada spends over 13% of its economy on it, which is a lot of money for free health care. Look, I’m not saying Canada still isn’t a great country, it is, but those aren’t paradise numbers.”
“If Canada was an apartment, the lead feature might be America adjacent. And if America was a rental car, Canada would be America or similar,” Maher concluded. [/snip]
Ya just figuring that out? His initials remain the most appropriate in history.
So, America is bad, but not as bad as Canada?
Why not just say Trump is bad, but not as bad as Biden?
And get on with it!
Have read that Kaus is seriously ill, wonder if he took his own JAB.
He was sooo sure he was smarter than anyone else?
The unseen hand is quietly dealing with human insanity.
Given the 2020 election, 2022 election, recent flip flops on renewing FISA and monstrous spending, and shoveling (laundrring) money overseas, maybe the response is: "or did you really vote for it?"
This is what you have pushed your entire life Bill.
Canada has Justin Castro as Prime Minister.
Chip off the old block.
It’s no surprise where Canada is headed.
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