{"id":76940,"date":"2021-08-01T13:56:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T17:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=76940"},"modified":"2021-08-01T13:56:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T17:56:21","slug":"when-this-ultra-liberal-social-commentator-totally-bashes-the-woke-mentality-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=76940","title":{"rendered":"When this Ultra-Liberal Social Commentator Totally Bashes the Woke Mentality (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Bill Maher Rips Woke Mentality Now Driving Olympic Games: &#8220;Belongs In Stalin\u2019s Russia&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Young people have to stop flattering themselves that they\u2019re Nostradamus and would have foreseen had they been around back then everything that is unacceptable now,&#8221; Bill Maher said in his latest commentary on what he&#8217;s dubbed the\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Bummer Games&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0after the Olympics have gone woke.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted multiple firings of top Olympic officials over comments that in some instances they made literally decades ago on\u00a0Friday night&#8217;s episode of &#8220;Real Time&#8221;. &#8220;<strong>Why do we allow the people who just want to bitch always win?<\/strong>&#8230; This is called\u00a0<strong>a purge<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>It\u2019s a mentality that belongs in Stalin\u2019s Russia<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1421335013446938625&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fbill-maher-rips-woke-mentality-now-driving-olympic-games-belongs-stalins-russia&amp;sessionId=101931301b6ea1a43895ed5c9733da20644380dc&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=e9dfb5f%3A1627539779275&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1421335013446938625\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\"><\/div>\n<p>He had introduced the segment by decrying that wokeness exclusively wants dour audiences to meditate always on the &#8220;sad things and bad people of the world&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Please don\u2019t turn the Olympics into the Oscars,&#8221; the comedian and liberal commentator said during Friday\u2019s episode of &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher.&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;Oh, what was that? They did already?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, back in April, when the Oscars aired, I commented in this space that the theme of that evening was &#8216;We dare you to be entertained&#8217;\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<strong>lest your mind waver from thinking about the sad things and bad people in the world<\/strong>,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/565762-bill-maher-mocks-woke-attitude-at-olympics\">Maher said<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maher continued: &#8220;How bad does this atmosphere we\u2019re living in have to get before the people who say cancel culture is overblown admit that it is in fact an insanity that is swallowing up the world?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a particularly glaring instance, the Olympic Games ceremony director was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-57924885\">fired for a comedy act<\/a>\u00a0that included a Holocaust joke after footage had surfaced\u00a0<strong><em>from the\u00a01990s<\/em><\/strong>. There were a number of other similar firings of officials for things said or done in the far distant past.<\/p>\n<p>In another example, &#8220;The creative director of the Olympics, Hiroshi Sasaki,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/543794-tokyo-olympics-official-resigns-after-demeaning-comments-about-female\">resigned in March<\/a>\u00a0after comments he made about a female entertainer\u2019s weight resurfaced,&#8221; according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/565762-bill-maher-mocks-woke-attitude-at-olympics\"><em>The Hill<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bummergames.png?itok=RzSopnat\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bummergames.png?itok=RzSopnat\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/bummergames.png?itok=RzSopnat\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"277\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"31b1db69-e1dc-49f3-bcea-7b8cb6e77cc0\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is yet another example of how the\u00a0woke\u00a0invert the very thing that used to make liberals liberals. &#8216;<strong>Snitches and bitches.&#8217;\u00a0That\u2019s not being liberal,<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0he continued.<\/p>\n<p>During the segment he further called all the outrage over cultural appropriation &#8220;the dumbest thing of all&#8221;\u00a0in the &#8220;woke penal code.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/bill-maher-rips-woke-mentality-now-driving-olympic-games-belongs-stalins-russia\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/bill-maher-rips-woke-mentality-now-driving-olympic-games-belongs-stalins-russia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Maher Rips Woke Mentality Now Driving Olympic Games: &#8220;Belongs In Stalin\u2019s Russia&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}