Obamas, Civil War, Civility | Overtime with Bill Maher (HBO)

okay we're back and here are the questions of the people Bradley Whitford how would your West Wing character Josh Lyman know yeah Lyman was the last name yeah I didn't know that Josh ever yeah oh you would know I remember would your character West Wing character fare in the Trump White House what a crazy question how'd he fare yes he wouldn't be in the trouble he's stupid question number one really Ryan Astrid Barack Obama be leading the left into the midterms or is there a better option I don't know if there's a better option but the question I would ask about that is you know Obama keeps saying he's playing the long game what's what's he waiting for it's about I would I would hope that he would yeah I mean now would be the time and I think he will I think Obama would be very much better it would be Michelle I think though he may be the only choice by the way for 2020 to solve your problems probably the most popular woman in America right yeah okay which would be the best strategy for Dems in 2018 taking the high road or fighting dirty we already answered that Michael Moore which of your movies would you most like to make a sequel to no kind of interesting well sadly they're all still relevant so I I mean you know I was gonna ask you about Bowling for Columbine in about guns yeah now that fascism is coming to America and their side has all the guns any second thoughts 78 78% of Americans do not own a gun right and they're all the liberals and there's right there's 7 million Americans that own 160 million guns they have stockpiled them this is you this is the elephant in the room in terms of the discussion of what are we all going to do putting our bodies in the line what does that really mean we'll do it not violently but we people are afraid people were afraid people who voted for Hillary were afraid that she would win because of he told my second amendment people this is gonna be a rigged election get ready get your guns he was calling for an armed revolt if Hillary won and ask yourself that question if had gone the other way where where he won the popular vote and she won the electoral college that civil war would have already happened no or and that's what everyone's afraid of and we don't have we don't own the guns but there's more of us and I think the military is still with the question and they've got bigger guns and more guns and I never comes to that but do you think the military snow well it's a huge question actually huge got that question he's the commander in chief are you worried that that I got that question from a sitting senator when we were talking about the war in Yemen and I was trying to talk him into declaring it unconstitutional and getting us out of the damn war and he sent everybody out of the office and we talked for a few minutes and he sort of presented that to me Wow it was in the terms of maybe a lost massive loss in the midterms which I don't think it's gonna happen now but let's say it did and then impeachment proceedings proceeded with haste from both parties and Trump would then call his legions into the street with their guns and what would the military do and frankly I couldn't answer it no I said I don't you can't I mean it's worrisome because for him that we have to listen yes all the constitute it's worrisome because the military is in general conservative but also because he is their commander-in-chief here's an interesting point though to sociologists did a paper recently called a casualty gap they studied the world war one world war two Korea all the wars we have good down on granular data on they found there has always been an imbalance poor people die of more than rich people everybody knows that I think as a brain but in the last 17 years of war the gap has grown astronomically so they wanted to see if that had a political impact they went and did a very fine poll with controlling factors for other answers and so forth came to find out that most of the families who'd lost someone or had someone wounded badly voted for trauma there's a political result of what we're doing right now which is letting poor people die overseas or get our bleed or come back with post-traumatic stress for all the rest of us the Republicans have always had this amazing ability to be in an abusive relationship with their voters the more they hurt them yet the more the voter yeah I had a teamster guy in the Midwest he said to me that Trump groomed economically vulnerable Americans like a pet harassed like wow like would a mr. said that yeah I was like wow change his vanity in search for love to fill the god-sized hole in his soul which is not intelligence but it's as inevitable as water rushing down a hill right he will go for that love and and yeah that's the that's the bait and switch what there's economic anxiety oh wow blaming immigrants works you know that turns it up and then you and I get a tax cut that's that's you know the switch given the commonality of threats Cameron asks made on social media by mass shooters should the government take a more active role in monitoring these sites not Donald Trump's government no I really don't want to thing that I feel more than Mark Zuckerberg as Donald Trump so but you know we haven't talked very much about what happened in Annapolis the person who was fermenting violence the most is the president the United States Peter he's the crowd on journalists a hooting hollering screaming mass of people he individually picks out journalists for them to direct their ire he calls us the enemy of the people he says that we are unpatriotic that we do not love our country and were surprised when someone picks I I feel it on the street the way people drive angry and I feel like more than ever they're over the line like the line in the middle of the road I'm always honking like get on your side of the road I don't know if it's maybe some of that is texting but I never I don't remember that before I think I think they'll worse than anger most people I think a lot of people in this audience are filled with despair and and well it was a bad week it this was a week that it was like 1940 when France fell it was like 70 AD when the Temple of Jerusalem you know I mean if that's how it felt if there's another Impa thank you 87 defense these conservative justices it bothers me the Supreme Court throughout its history has always shown a deference to national security issues it rarely weighs in on national security issues whether it's the Patriot Act unconstitutional Wars we're gonna get a court probably that's gonna be even more so that way and so that's more supportive of the national security state we have become the warfare state we've become and that's very very dangerous that's what Eisenhower yeah today had to remove a t-shirt that they have for sale and the t-shirt said rope tree journalist some assembly required and enough uproar about it and they they are not selling anymore what were they doing selling it in the first place right and I'm telling you it's but he has as general the Trump has perpetuated this yeah this level of calling for violence and then that's where this civility like I said to bend that's where the civility debate if we're gonna get back to some place we got to do it from let's not be threatening each other and when I say each other we're not doing it to them it is unprecedented even presidents that who I totally disagree with they won't they did not actively want to separate us this guy wants to separate us one little piece of hope my mother has been dead for a while but she was born in 1915 earliest memory everybody's dying from the flu she goes to college the depression happens it looks like this country doesn't work it looks like Western civilization doesn't work she gets married has two kids Pearl Harbor happens she takes my dad thinks she's never gonna see him again it looks like Hitler's gonna win it looks like Hitler's gonna win they lived through that then McCarthyism takes out you know poisons the country she would say just understand well life is we we are used to a very comfortable time and that is not normal and we have to fight to defend those values you have to but we can cut it we can come back we come back because all those victories Bradley that they occurred because women took to the streets to get the vote because my father and your mother joined up in World War two all those things that happens because people fought back and and you know this is never gonna come together unless people wouldn't leave the boat it needs to go to Maine and tell l.l.bean and it means to surround the goddamn capital and and maids tale Wednesday [Laughter] [Applause]

Channel: Real Time with Bill Maher

Views: 874,057

Keywords: Ben Shapiro, The Daily Wire, The Ben Shapiro Show, podcast, Westwood One, Bradley Whitford, activist, actor, The Handmaid's Tale, A Happening of Monumental Proportions, Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, Right Turn blog, MSNBC, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court, Lawrence Wilkerson, Visiting Professor, College of William & Mary, Chief of Staff, Colin Powell, Michael Moore, Academy Award, filmmaker, bestselling author

Id: lbPW4T7K0z0

Length: 10min 16sec (616 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 29 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/rudekoffenris]

It was interesting to see there is a little Josh inside of Bradley. I hadn't really seen it before.

[u/gowronatemybaby7]

He's been on a few times actually. He's pretty political IRL. Almost certainly took some cues from Sheen.

[u/reds139]

love his passion.

[u/vicRN]

That’s my boy