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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Maher today was the best
I certainly agree with one point - and I have made it before - that historians telling us that "this, too, shall pass" are wrong.
No, we've never had times like that before. I, personally blame social media. It just put everyone on hyperspinning.
Even here, on DU, most of the "greatest threads" are twits.
This https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/23/nazi-german-american-bund-rally-madison-square-garden-215522 was scary. No, he said, this is not Nuremberg 1934, this is Madison Square Garden in 1934.
And I agreed with Barbra Streisand complaining about the networks showing the clips of all of Trump rallies. We start watching the network news, or one of the MSNBC programs and I just tune everything out. I just cannot watch this.
Bari Weiss was the first guest and it was heartfelt.
I hope that it will soon be posted here. Rhiannon12866 please?
kimbutgar
(21,172 posts)question everything
(47,510 posts)kimbutgar
(21,172 posts)question everything
(47,510 posts)and I like it that she separates the clips
https://www.democraticunderground.com/12232744
mnhtnbb
(31,399 posts)but it's less than $10. a month. Worth it to me.
applegrove
(118,734 posts)is a good one. The US is not immune. 60 Minutes did a story on that last year: they went to villages in eastern Europe where the parents of people alive today participated in the mass killing of Jews in WWII. It was only when the parents passed on that the people who were children at the time pointed out the known graves to war crimes investigators. Their parents did not because they felt complicit. In village after village the same thing happened. Liberals think they are immune but they are not. No human is immune. No country is. Genocide is a purely human series of events that take place under certain leaders and circumstances. We need to own what the US could become if we don't fight. If we don't get out the vote of everyone we know.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)applegrove
(118,734 posts)Blecht
(3,803 posts)I have the show recorded and will watch it later.
I was originally planning to skip over her segment -- she is always such a horrible proponent of bothsiderism -- can you tell me why I should listen to her tonight?
question everything
(47,510 posts)She was the first guest. Talked about the victims that she knew, about the increase of anti semitism.
And at the end, chastised those Jews who still love Trump because of his support of Israel and told them that it was time of reckoning, of realizing that supporting him is against the traditional teaching.
If you watch the clip - already on the Video forum, she is from the 7 min to the 15.
Blecht
(3,803 posts)I can't stand her NY Times work, and her previous appearances on Real Time have pissed me off to no end, but this sounds different.
misanthrope
(7,419 posts)did she also not try to label those who take issue with policies and actions of the Israeli government as anti-Semites, i.e., bigots? I could easily be mistaken as I was half-listening while working on my computer but I thought I heard her say as much.
question everything
(47,510 posts)it was really mostly to mourn the victims and to talk about the rise of anti semitism and, I was glad, to link this to Trump.
Rhiannon12866 managed to separate the various clips.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211350673
question everything
(47,510 posts)applegrove
(118,734 posts)a lot.
mnhtnbb
(31,399 posts)The first interview with Bari Weiss was excellent. The interview with Barbra Streisand at the end was great. I love her point--and question--whatever happened to being kind?
He also played segments of her new song Don't Lie to Me.
It was a terrific show.
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)However, he still makes me laugh on occasion.
question everything
(47,510 posts)He thinks that this keeps him on edge.
The man, after all, is 61 (or 62?) by now.