 So by now I hope that most of you saw this but if you haven't watched the latest episode of real-time with Bill Maher It was one of those episodes where you have to watch it It's it's a must-see and I never say that about real-time with Bill Maher because he's become insufferable over the years as He shifted to the right in fact I was a little bit apprehensive about talking about this because I'm currently in a copyright dispute with HBO Because I used a Bill Maher clip in a segment from a couple of weeks ago I mean I'm legally allowed to share their clips under fair use if I follow the guidelines of fair use, which I do But I thought that if I react to it this way where you know I'm doing a screen share and I'm stopping it all the time to talk about it Maybe it wouldn't be picked up by their copyright detectors. I'm not necessarily sure but either way Crystal Ball was on the panel this week and this is the first time that Bill Maher has brought on a leftist in probably years and It really goes to show you why he doesn't do this more frequently This is because leftists bring facts data and they make the case and makes Bill Maher look like a hack and He is a hack but just watch when you see the way that they interact with each other crystal ball She came prepared. She knew the facts and it shows so let's watch Refer this to the Justice Department. Why why isn't that moving into that realm and if we don't it will just happen again? No, I Think that there is a Fundamental lack of seriousness from the Democrats when it comes to Solving the problems not only that led us to January 6th, which I actually think is the deeper issue and the deeper question here How did we get to a place where a good percentage of the country is convinced the election was stolen where they would listen to this maniac? Where they actually think that they're patriots storming the capital to restore democracy. How did we get there? And then you can see that they're not actually serious about how existential this threat is by the fact that they are propping up Candidates who believe this nonsense. I mean in Pennsylvania. This is what's actually really scared the Democratic Party is redoing the Pied Piper strategy and they're propping up Maga extremist candidates actually running ads Attacking rhinos for voting to impeach Trump Democrats are paying for these ads because they want to run against the more extremist candidates They did this in 2016 Hilary Clinton did this with Donald Trump and it ended in catastrophic failure and they're still doing it So for crystal ball to make this point I don't think anyone has heard this point who watches cable news Exclusively if you listen to YouTube shows you've heard this but this may be the first time they've been exposed to this fact about the Democratic Party How fundamentally unserious they are? My question. I mean, yes, if a guy robs a liquor store, let's look into why he did that But also he needs to be arrested for robbing the liquor store. He's so smart Consequences of this and I think that Donald Trump was a menace and he may have committed crimes but he did commit crimes just consequences of Prosecuting a former president who might run again, you know Gerald Ford. I'm the same consequences Yeah, because if we don't prosecute him, then that's gonna be worse than prosecuting him That's not to say that it wouldn't be a shit show if Trump was prosecuted, but it's either you Hold presidents to the same standard that we all are held to or you let them get away with whatever and they grow more and more tyrannical with each President that we elect it. Just this is this is just ridiculous here for it in 1975, you know after what so 74 In the Watergate crisis, he did the right thing by pardoning Richard Nixon, you know There was a long national nightmare and it ended and I don't and I and I would be very careful about about how this cock shit Nixon did not try to undermine democracy itself Actually have no issue with Trump Trump being prosecuted and I have a lot of issue with elites being Left unaccountable for the crimes that they commit number one. Yeah number two. That's not gonna solve our problem Do you think that Ron DeSantis is gonna be way better than Donald Trump? Yes He's not gonna be the enemy of democracy in the same way I'd like to answer that. Yes, I do I don't know how you can say that because he's clearly modeled himself in the footsteps of Donald Trump I think that them being overconfident here is going to lead to the downfall of democracy Trump Absolutely has changed the game for GOP politics But to say that other Republicans after seeing Trump Insighted insurrection and possibly get away with it. They're not gonna follow in his footsteps I mean Ron DeSantis is copying Victor Orban Victor Orban in Hungary Consolidated power by weaponizing hate. He did don't say gay laws in Hungary and that's what Ron DeSantis is doing even down to the strategy that Victor Orban uses after passing these laws that Forced teachers into the closet. He said, oh well I'm an ally of LGBTQ plus people and Ron DeSantis now just last week said oh well We won't tolerate hate in Florida after he fomented hate for the past year against LGBTQ plus people So for them to think that Trump is the only fascist and if you defeat Trump fascism is done That's incredibly naive with that being said Trump is the biggest most clear and present danger to democracy But I think it's incredibly naive on Bill Mars part to think that if we just defeat Donald Trump and prosecute him That's it the threat of fascism the threat of you know threat to democracy that the GOP poses is over Absolutely not and that's what crystal ball is trying to get through to them And also she's trying to make the case about how you can't just not be fascist Democrats have to deliver for people so there is no Popularity no appeal to fascism because I and I've made this point before too on the show if You are desperate if you can't put food on the table if you struggle to make a living wage Then you don't know why you're in this position But if a demagogue comes along and says it's because of immigrants or queer people you're more likely to believe that That's not to say that if we had socialism that you know racism would go away because I'm not a class reductionist I don't believe that but that is to say that people would be less susceptible to radicalization if they weren't so fucking desperate And this is what liberals like Bill Maar refused to comprehend Contempts He has his own police for election integrity. What are they talking about? As if mean tweets were the core problem with Donald Trump moving on to the second clip also courtesy of case study QB I believe this is the part that went the most viral that I wanted to share Let's talk a little politics because I see Joe Biden. Oh boy His I mean every midterm the party out of power usually gets creamed I mean the party in power and but this year, I mean Biden's approval rating with 18 to 34 is 22% among Hispanics. This is part of the base 24% but yet a couple of weeks ago Bill Maar was shitting on the idea of canceling student debt Wow, he's losing young people, but yet he should do nothing to win young people over. I Just like I feel like they want to have it both ways They want to shit on young people and do nothing to reach out to young people But also complain when young people don't deliver for Democrats. It's truly a bizarre mentality But this is the typical Liberal elite mentality 49% among African Americans. That's the base base and that's what got him the job So, you know, he's calling himself Hunter's dad now. No I'm just But there's whispers now that are getting louder and louder that he needs to say I'm not running again Okay, I did my job. I removed the queen from the board or however just works but So my is kind of a drag queen He's totally can't very camp with the hair. Oh my god, you know that ridiculous outrageous comments all the time I just don't find this funny at all. It's very stupid very very stupid comedy I Don't even think this is boomer humor my older audience members will have to tell me if they Think that their friends would find this funny because this is genuinely stupid I've been thinking we've all been thinking it so Here's my question about Joe Biden for you too. Has he pandered to the far left a too much be Too little not at all because I OC would say not at all. Well, if you other people would say he panders way too much to the fire you look at the okay This is brain rot to think this to say this You have brain rot if you think this now, thankfully there is for the first time in years again A leftist on the panel to correct him and this is where crystal ball collapse them cheeks Jectory of his presidency at the beginning of his presidency He did some of the things that myself as a person on the left would like him to see he passes the covid relief bill and low and behold He had very high approval ratings. You're not always on the left then I am on the left Bernie Sanders left the popular is economic left and then there's the woke left Okay, so in any case, let's what is that it? What does what does that even mean? There's the populist economic left and then there's the woke left I don't even know what that word means the term woke is used so much that it has no meaning effectively at this point So I don't even know what that means. Why would you even disaggregate the woke left from the economic left? What he's actually done so in the beginning of the administration passes that very high approval rating Doing extraordinarily well, and she's right. He puts absolutely left agenda in the build back better And then it fails and he stops delivering for the American people explain By the left agenda in the build back while there's universal pre-k on that It's not everything that I would want right no Medicare for all. There's no green new deal But you had universal pre-k you had affordable childcare. You had elder care You had an expansion of Medicare. You had things that would have been to be clear She has to put meat on it and explain these policies because bill more probably doesn't know What was in build back better because I doubt he followed it for the American people That falls apart partly because of mansion cinema and parliament to all of that that falls apart and since now American people are feeling incredible pain with inflation and gas prices and unable to put food on the table and put gas in the car And he's basically seeded the ground and said there's not much I can do. I just hope the Fed gets this under control Yeah, the approval ratings have fallen off a cliff. That's nothing to do with the left I wish the left had more power in fact I think the left is the only part of the political spectrum that has offered anything to deal with inflation Gas prices in the current economic situation that doesn't just involve. Hey, let's trigger a recession and kill people's wages Well, I mean part of this inflationary problem is because we put too much money into the economy There's way too much government spending and that's why we have inflation. So that's a large part of that I mean most of the inflation is From corporations taking advantage of the headlines when the news Reports that inflation is going to become a thing Corporations then increase prices to increase profits because people are expecting it like it's part of a Momentum effect as well as a self-fulfilling prophecy in many ways, but that's not the only explanation for it But the difference is that they will make it seem as if that is the only explanation You know when you put money in people's hands Well, that's the problem. So the best thing that you can do is I guess Not put money in people's hands do more austerity perhaps like I don't want to speak for him But crystal ball is actually going to explain What's going on here an explanation that I don't know if they've ever heard And you a little bit of money they got more than we spent in World War two, so you don't act Really quick here, so he's getting really smug really arrogant because he doesn't like when people get money But this is when crystal ball Smacks him the fuck down and he hasn't been put in his place like this in a very long time Like we had to react to the pandemic exactly the way we did we Compared to other countries are shot at Wall Street for some reason people don't get upset about that The trillions of dollars the Federal Reserve shot at Wall Street shot the stock market and the bond market No one gets upset about that even though that was a massive What do you mean shot at Wall Street? What are we talking about that? We're talking about buying assets buying stocks buying bonds buying Treasury bills so that they expand the balance sheet This is during the crisis Crisis when the stock market crashed that is what the Fed did they went into action. They shot But the stock market didn't crash during now it's crashing it's crashing now it crashed and the Fed came in and backstop That's what happened. It crashed and we never heard about it. No it crashed. Go back and look at it This is genuinely embarrassing this man has a television show and he doesn't follow basic fucking news It is humiliating When Treasury bond markets stopped functioning and the Fed took extraordinary action. It's never taken in history I've seen this clip so many times and it's still mind-blowing to me at this point Somehow nobody gets upset about the rich people who got tons of money and tons of support Way more than working-class people did sure they got people were able to feed their kids They had a little bit of money in their bank accounts. It was the worst thing in the world No, that is one small part of the inflation story and it's by the way Not the only thing that we can deal with to get out of this mess Gas prices we can largely attribute to an administration that's been waging war on the fossil fuel industry That's ridiculous. They've drilled more than ever but I mean that's the US US production Okay, no a talking point is saying that Biden waged the war on the fossil fuel industry he's I Swear to God like this is not a very substantive critique And I don't have to be as substantive because I feel like crystal ball really comes with the facts But these people have worms in their fucking brains They just they consume nothing but corporate media corporate propaganda and in every single thing that they say is At the behest of these of these fucking Companies. Oh, well, you know this administration waged a war on the fossil fuel industry They're making record fucking pros profits. They're doing stock buybacks. Does that seem like you know an industry? That's fucking hurting you dipshit. God damn US production is up. Well, it will be at record levels next year Okay, well the companies themselves are flushed with cash But will not invest in new drilling because they would let rather give it to their shareholder Okay, that's the truth of what's up. Here's the truth. I mean I just read it today And if you notice he had no response the other guests no response because what she's saying is Undeniably true it is Empirically correct so they can have these talking points and accuse her of having talking points Oh, that's a talking point, but she's speaking facts Look it up. Google it So, you know, this is why they don't want to bring lefties on because they can't just say things That is, you know a talking point that they hear on MSNBC or Fox News. They actually have to Back up what they're saying and if they say something incorrect a lefty will say actually This is the truth. Here's the facts. Here's the data and they don't like that They like to live in their bubble and you know, it gets uncomfortable when he he's faced with actual arguments that he hasn't heard Biden said no more drilling on federal lands. No more no keystone pipeline. Yeah How is he antagonizing Saudi Arabia? Because he wouldn't he's he signed an executive order saying I'm not going to sell them weapons For you know offensive purposes, but then he's like, okay Well, I'm still gonna sell them weapons, but just because these are defensive as they do a genocide in Yemen. I Mean every single thing that they say it oozes disingenuity and I feel like you know, if you're a normie and you consume this There's got to be at least some instinct in you like your bullshit detector has got to be going off I'm saying all right and then you can shoot well And Antagonizing the Saudis with his with his Iran deal policy and now he's going back to Manhattan. He hasn't joined the Iran deal again. I mean This is just it's so fundamentally untrue Antagonizing them with the Iran deal policy the Iran deal if Biden wanted to get back into the Iran deal Don't you think he would have been back into it. There's so much pushback against the Iran deal Which was a peace deal by the way To increase their production, but I bet you're a favor of the Russian oil ban Yeah, the Saudis are Raping a country right now No, I didn't say that. I didn't say that there are allies Instead of let's just talk about why these things really happen, but what about what Saudi is doing to Yemen I mean, there's no consistency and that's that's great that crystal pointed that out be consistent They're not consistent. They're fundamentally inconsistent. It's just whatever benefits Corporate America and I don't know if like this is a literal shill for like some corporate fucking industry I have no idea, but it's a distinction without a difference because everything that he's saying He's just parroting from mainstream media who does get advertising dollars from the fossil fuel industry health insurance companies So, you know with time what people in mainstream media what the pundits in mainstream media say it just reflects What their advertisers want because they don't want to scare away those advertising dollars So they just parent what the industry wants and and you know a lot of this is subconscious The industry will disseminate these talking points and they probably don't even know that they're being unwitting idiots for these of these industries But at the same time, you know, somehow these talking points got into their brains And I don't know if management is directly saying you have to say this talking point But either way it doesn't matter like it's it's untrue and you see that it's really crystal clear When you have a progressive like crystal ball here is people think that they can we look I wish we were all off fossil fuels forever But the truth is that when people get off fossil fuels before they have a replacement They wind up going back to even worse fossil fuels. Germany said we don't want nuclear power anymore Which is the cleanest that's true. I wanted to have to go back to coal and Russian gas and basically the same thing happened here We said Saudi Arabia go fuck yourself You killed a journalist and now Biden is going over their hat in hand begging them for oil because people want That's just pathetic and by the way, the only issue with oil is not just supply and demand because as I was just saying We actually have a fairly significant amount of supply It isn't at you know, extraordinarily low levels if you look at the recent past We don't have an extraordinary amount of demand. We're not even back to pre-pandemic levels you do have a massive amount of Wall Street speculation that is also causing an increase in gas prices Yeah, so again, this is what I'm saying that the only people who are talking about and some people There's a lot of price. There's a lot of gouging So you ask you ask whether you ask whether Biden is not Handering to the left The left are the only ones talking about those issues about the fact that you have monopolies that have jacked up prices far above What they need to because they can because they can use the excuse of inflation and CEOs are bragging on earnings calls about how they've lifted prices and gouged consumers God so that was great because They couldn't do anything but nod their head in disagreement and you know nod disapprovingly She has facts. You have fuck all my dude. So look if you want to see Basically her full panel appearance if you go to case study QB on Twitter He's uploaded most of it. So definitely be sure to check it out He does a great service for leftists and he gets all of the best clips So you don't have to subscribe to HBO to watch this while we're talking about crystal ball I will plug my appearance on crystal kyle and friends from last week. I went on the show and um, yeah I think it was a great appearance. I'm really thankful that they brought me on but yeah overall Phenomenal appearance. This is why we need more leftists on mainstream media because Their viewers for the first time hear arguments that they haven't heard But that's also simultaneously why these pundits like the more don't invite lefties on that frequently It's because these arguments contradict what they're saying and even if you know They don't necessarily have a stake in these companies for example like bill marr. He isn't like You know, he's not making Some pro corporate argument because he wants to get rich off of them But it's embarrassing to have someone contradict everything that you're saying He probably doesn't even realize that he's parroting what he hears off of MSNBC and Fox News, you know But either way he is doing it and he you know He sounds foolish and he doesn't want to sound foolish, which is why he probably won't bring on crystal ball ever again Because you know, she she knows her shit. So yeah, that's what I'll say about this I won't play anymore because I'm already kind of pushing it but go watch the whole thing It was just an incredible great job to crystal ball. This is what we need to see We need more lefties to get on mainstream media and push back in this way because I think that is the key to winning people over Once you started shilling for the DNC, I stopped watching So I definitely won't be hitting the subscribe button or turning on notifications By clicking the bell. No way. It's very sad