New Rule: That's Not Karma | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

and finally new rules stop saying that whoopi goldberg getting yanked from the view right after she attacked me on the view is karma there's no such thing as karma sorry sorry but life is random the only word to describe it when a big game hunter gets trampled by an elephant and then eaten by lions is hilarious now i mentioned this karma stuff on the show last week because i was relating how many texts and emails i got from people congratulating me on receiving a karmagram from the universe in the form of whoopi goldberg's chastisement so i thought this would be a good time for a little tutorial on karma which as americans understand it is nothing more than an extension of the common logical fallacy called post hoc ergo proctor hawks which means after that because of that it's the fallacy that happens when someone assumes that if one thing follows another then the first thing must have caused the second thing like i wore green socks every day last year and i never got into a car accident green socks must prevent car accidents [Applause] people make this mistake all the time but honestly washing your car doesn't really make it rain yeah if it did we would have tried it here by now but this is how americans see karma but karma is not a system of reward and punishment that's catholicism karma is a sanskrit word meaning action you make the conscious choice to put good out into the world karma is the memory of our souls the sum of a person's actions in previous states of existence that decide their fate in future existences of course that's all too uh i mean i mean i mean reincarnation really if that was real wouldn't we have some evidence by now a a raccoon spelling out in acorns help me my name is herb zahler and i got trapped in this raccoon body i have a meeting next week and i can't show up as a raccoon so yes the buddhist version of karma is well certainly unprovable but at least it's a beautiful positive thought but what americans did was take karma and like everything else in this hateful spiteful country turn it into something bitter and nasty we use it like you took the last cupcake and god will have my revenge ellen was mean to her staffers and then she lost her show karma [Laughter] you voted for trump and now you have covet karma now die we took something that was meant to be gentle kind and hopeful and turned it into a tarantino movie someone did you wrong and then sometime later something bad happened to them karma no something bad was bound to happen to them at some point because they're alive if you keep living some bad things will happen only in this dumb country do we all make it about ourselves and connect the two and call it karma you stole the parking spot i was waiting for at trader joe's enjoy your early onset dementia [Laughter] no what americans really mean when we say karma the foreign word that really describes our feeling is not found in sanskrit it's found in german shatten freud meaning getting pleasure out of someone else's misfortune but your old high school boyfriend didn't wind up a janitor because he dumped you a week before the prom he's a janitor because he got 600 on his sats and whoopi goldberg getting suspended by the view is in karma and i wouldn't want it if it was people have to learn to disagree in this country and not hate for it whoopi said i was flippant and immoral for saying it's time to chuck the masks and get back to normal well our 43 states here in america and the entire nations of england denmark sweden and finland flippant because they're saying the same thing now covet is so much more complicated than just i'm for more safety than you are and therefore i'm a better person but whoopi is misinformed on many aspects of the covet debate after she got it recently she said that being vaccinated quote doesn't stop omicron and that's the problem of the variant because it gets stronger actually it usually gets weaker as is the case with this one but that's okay she's allowed to be wrong it's 11 a.m who who can think clearly at that hour i'm still in rem sleep and as i mentioned last week how could a nation like america have maintained an apartheid state for the vast majority of its history and expect the views of the races to match on all matters it's amazing they match on any whoopi goldberg shouldn't have to conform to or apologize for her views on race as much as i disagree with them and she certainly shouldn't have to sit out like a child and think about what she did the view suspending someone for sharing a view is like firing pat sajak for selling a vowel we have got to get past this endless unforgiving zero tolerance mindset bent on punishing and disappearing anyone caught saying the wrong thing the right response to speech you don't like is more speech not the lazy cowardly response of canceling people [Applause] this is a big country with lots of people who don't think like you we all only need to agree on free speech itself that's my religious belief that's the timeless principle i live by i don't like what whoopi said about race she didn't like what i said about covid so what the real essence of karma by the way is non-attachment letting go it's very zen oh and by the way no one knows what that means either you

Channel: Real Time with Bill Maher

Views: 3,617,698

Keywords: Ricky Williams, NFL running back, entrepreneur, weed brand, Highsman, Vivek Ramaswamy, biotech entrepreneur, author, NYT bestseller, Woke Inc, Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam, Marianne Williamson, political activist, blogger, Substack, TRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson, host, The Marianne Williamson Podcast

Id: tLLzVw70nSs

Length: 8min 21sec (501 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 12 2022