I like how Jon Stewart said it about whoever is in the White House doesn’t mean we’re saved or doomed. We still have to live everyday for the rest of our lives.
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.
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.
Yeah we have jobs but we still can't afford to rent a house you have a family of six living in 2 bedroom apartments if they are lucky and both parents have to work and still live check to check
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.
@@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%
"Jobs market is up" Part time jobs are up but they are jobs like servers, waiters etc. Fulltime high paying jobs are down by 150k. So technically right but not a good look.
@@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.
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.
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 :)
When Hitler was planning to invade Czechoslovakia in 1939, he invented the myth that the German inhabitants of the Sudeten region of Czechia are oppressed by the Czechs. A British correspondent who went after the facts, couldn't find any evidence of oppression; but nevertheless all German people whom he met believed it was true -- including the Sudeten Germans themselves! The moral is: There's no point in pointing out lies. Trump supporters would enjoy the booming economy and their new well paying jobs, while still believing that Biden had ruined the economy. They know, because Trump had told them so.
@@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.
@@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).
@@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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
Because demand keeps going up. Look at all the Americans traveling for leisure. The airlines are among the entities driving costs high because of the correlating demand for fuel. Not to leave out, of course, car travel, train travel, cruise travel, etc.......
@@andydrewlinger9301 still not buying it. If travel and demand for oil to fuel said travel went up, it was to match pre-pandemic levels when we were still using our own pipeline and gas was cheap. Fast-forward a few years, the pandemic is over, travel opens back up, but we're not using that pipeline anymore, which makes us more dependent on foreign oil. Combine that with current levels of inflation and there you have it.
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?
@@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.
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.
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
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.
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. 😂
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
"Unemployment is low. The stock market is high" That's your problem right there. These factors are actually negative considering the rise in prices, primarily due to gouging, not inflation, and the stagnancy in wages. Add to that the predatory companies that doesn't give full time employment to their workers to avoid paying health insurance or even a decent wage, and the rise in employment suddenly makes sense too... Nowhere else in a rich country does people have 3 jobs to make ends (barely) meet. TLDR: Corporations are doing great. No one else is.
I love how mainstream outlets and programs refuse to acknowledge RFK’s campaign. He’s polling at record numbers for a third party candidate…. Down with the uni-party!
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.
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.
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.
WHAT!?!?!??? So when Trump said that all the current economic numbers were because of him and him only, he really meant that he was putting the economy into a recession……Now it all makes sense, Trump IS the “deep state” and he is purposely crashing the U.S. economy-since “October of last year”-so that he can take credit for rebuilding it when he becomes Leader again and unleashes a tidal wave of vengeance on the Biden Crime Family. Dude, you’re a genius!!!!!
No one who lives in the US can say inflation is "down to normal levels" honestly, Bill lives in the lap of luxury not the USA. I work at Walmart, my COLA is 3% and CPI is up 10%, and I for one feel it.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
Love Bill, and he makes great points here as always, but sad to see he is going along with the mainstream media lie that we have a Trump vs. Biden rerun while RFK Jr. is out polling both of them in candidate favorability....
I think a lot of this is caused by a (probably deliberate) lack of education in America as to what our politicians actually do. For example, we place an extremely excessive importance on who occupies the presidency. We act like we’re electing a deity that controls our lives. When in reality, the actions of the president have little to no actual effect on our lives. Meanwhile, political positions that DO heavily affect our lives, like state and local legislatures, district attorneys, judges and local sheriffs are almost completely ignored. Again, I think this is partially by design.
The GOP in particular do everything in their power to suppress education. It's the only way they can now get elected, relying on people's sheer ignorance.
I do my best to listen to both. Fox makes me cringe nowadays though. They lost every single "reporter/ journalist" who had any kind of a positive reputation. So I'll read Politico or Reuters instead.
This is one of the more useful bits I’ve heard from bill lately. Other than his implication that the war on women in this country isn’t real. Robbing an entire demographic of agency over their own bodies and punishing them for seeking healthcare counts as waging war against them.
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.
Are you kidding? Anyone who is anyone knows the gas station convenience stores are always among the highest of prices on multiple items. They know they can get the impulse buyer to buy something(s) when they stop in for gas...especially if they have to go into the store to pay for the gas--not just use a credit card at the pump.
Any oil/gas pumped doesn't go to the US. It goes on the general market. It doesn't make the US more energy independent. If it went to the US it would need to be publicly owned, which will never happen in the US
"Any oil/gas pumped doesn't go to the US. It goes on the general market. It doesn't make the US more energy independent. If it went to the US it would need to be publicly owned, which will never happen in the US" Yep; Unfettered Capitalists sell to whomever/wherever they can maximize their sacred, almighty profits !
Plus, the oil companies already own our elected politicians, which means nationalization of our oil production would never be permitted in the first place. @@lacountess
Bill seems a bit out of touch and I don’t know how unemployment rates are reported these days but there are massive layoffs happening.. People are not getting jibs they want . Things are not as amazing as he’s trying to present here
Everything has gone up in price a lot! Food, gas, insurance, cars, etc. It doesnt matter to rich people like you Bill, but for everyday people, its a real financial hardship!
Yeah, the Mars bar went from 1.25 to 4.25. lol Tell me you haven't shopped for yourself in decades - without telling me you haven't shopped for yourself in decades.
There's a difference beween "inflation" and "prices". Inflation is the rate at which the amount of money increases compared to the amount of goods. It's entirely possible that the rate of inflation is the same as it was 3 years ago, which means prices are rising at the same rate as 3 years ago. It does not mean prices are the same as 3 years ago as if 3 years of high inflation didn't happen.
@@BeSm-qq6rs Suess is doing fine. Dr. Seuss Enterprises said it decided to discontinue six titles, they did it themselves to remove racist content and poor sales.
Notice how Bill didn't understand that the lack of laughter after he said there is no war on women went right over his head? Everyone in that audience disagrees and feels there is certainly a Republican war on women's rights and it has been an overwhelming priority for women voters. States where Trump won by 20 points have voted down any state legislation restricting women's rights. He thought it was about the Afghani women in Burkas.
I'm so pissed off about it I'm refusing to buy from any price gouger unless it's dire. No underwear. Bare essentials. The assholes who have been price gouging bc they can get away with it -- and LAUGHING about it in boardrooms, CEOs raking in record profits -- do not deserve our money. Boycott if possible. I realize certain things are necessary. Everything else, nope.
Going to McDonald’s or Taco Bell used to be the cheap option where even teenagers could go out to eat and not feel violated or guilty. Now it’s close to $10 for a single meal, but most obese Americans eat 2 of those at a cost of $15+ when just before the pandemic it was 40% cheaper.
@@tanabhensleyYeah, Bill might not have to deal with day to day purchases like an average American, but one thing he has right is that inflation-just like the pandemic before it-is an international problem that ultimately ends up with winners and losers. And out of all the G7 countries (go ahead and throw Russia, Iran, and N. Korea in there as well) the U.S. is having by far the best performance out of all of them when it comes to taming inflation and overall economic performance.
I'm 78, and the last 2 years have financially been the best of my life. I love the price of gas, my small 401K is growing at a nice clip, and I see lots of sales in the grocery stores. Some people just need to gripe.
I really used to like Bill Maher (hell, I paid money to see him live) but he is the only comedian I see on TV who gets mad at the *audience* when a joke bombs or doesn't get a laugh. His constant pausing, waiting for the audience to clap and pay tribute to his holiness, is just grating. It's like watching Jeb Bush say "Please clap," but over and over again.
I'm ending my sub after Curb ends. Used to be bill John and Curb, and OG programs but it's all went gay af, gay is ok, gay as fk is not. And if this bans me for hate speech so be it. 24 hrs ban lol
Just the fact that this show exists is proof that we are a good country, here we are given the tools to flourish all we need is the energy, no pun intended.
When I was young the world still had respect for the experienced old people who had been through a lot and had much knowledge to share. Actually, it was that way for centuries. I believe our Constitution was conceived by mature experienced folks. Think about it.
Job growth is up because of Government hiring and a huge rise in part-time work. Good quality full time jobs have been in decline. Hours worked are declining as well as tax receipts. But yeah, everything is rosy.
@@ppbur it’s all on the fred website and detailed in the jobs reports. This information comes from the Government. But sure, keep drinking the kool aid.
@graemedowler8980 1.5 million new manufacturing and construction jobs. 16 million applications for new businesses. Gotta get that minimum wage up tho. Everywhere I drive I see road construction thanks to infrastructure bill. Chips bill helping also for manufacturing. Dems introducing bill on corporate gouging. Going in right direction.
The Biden administration really needs to make it more apparent what good things they have done on the anti trust front and on the issue of ticket fees.
Sure everyone who wants a job can find one, but everyone who wants a job they went to school for cannot find that specialized job. Still a problem. Our bottom line is rising but that's not good enough.
