Posted on 05/11/2022 6:09:36 PM PDT by RandFan
In the closing monologue from a recent episode of his HBO talk show, Bill Maher cataloged a series of social conditions that he suggested were hampering stand-up comedy and imperiling free speech: cancel culture, a perceived increase of sensitivity on college campuses, and Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars.
Near the end of his remarks, Maher invoked the comedian George Carlin, a personal hero whose iconoclastic spirit, he seemed to believe, could never thrive in such a thin-skinned and overly entitled era. “Oh, George,” he said, “it’s a good thing you’re dead.”
Carlin, the cantankerous, longhaired sage who used his withering insight and gleefully profane vocabulary to take aim at American hypocrisy, died in 2008. But in the years since, it can feel like he never really left us.
On an almost daily basis, parts of Carlin’s routines rise to the surface of our discourse, and he is embraced by people who span the political spectrum — they may rarely agree with each other, but they are certain that Carlin would agree with them.
Carlin’s rueful 1996 routine about conservatives’ opposition to abortion (“they will do anything for the unborn, but once you’re born, you’re on your own”) became a newly viral phenomenon and was shown on a recent broadcast of the MSNBC program “11th Hour.” A video clip of a Carlin bit about how Americans are ravenous for war (“so we’re good at it, and it’s a good thing we are — we’re not very good at anything else anymore!”) has been tweeted by Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota. On the right-wing website Breitbart, Carlin has been cited as an expert on bipartisanship (“the word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out”) and hailed as a rebel who didn’t acquiesce to authority.
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Note the article says there is a special on May 21st on HBO.
They must have plenty of gems in their archive and I'm eager to see....
60s hippies would HATE the current fascist ‘Rats.
You’re joking, right?
They ARE the current fascist rats.
Their philosophy has changed.
Most ‘Rats-in-charge are now WELL over 30 yr. old....
+10000
“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.” George Carlin.
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Rand Paul often says “it’s not your grandfather’s Democrat Party” any more.
He uses this line in Kentucky where Democrats it may surprise you have a registration advantage over the GOP.
George Carlin once said if he was reincarnated he wanted to come back as a dog.
“Why not? What does a dog do? He wakes up, gets fed, lays around until his person gets home, chases a ball, stick or frisbee, craps, pees, eats again and sleeps. And if he’s bored he lays there and licks his balls! Man, is that the life or what!”
Read later.
“60s hippies would HATE the current fascist ‘Rats.”
No. The opposite in fact.
Many are the 60’s hippies you cite.
See #4.
2022 is NOT 1967.
Especially for those who were protesting in the 60s.
Technically he’s not wrong.
It is an axiom that any genuine grass roots movement will be infiltrated and re-purposed. The “Hippies” were no different in that regard.
By 1966 at the latest - the “Hippie” era was over. Curiously the C.I.A. expanded their utilization of L.S.D. on America throughout the 1950s well into the 1970s, and for a “counterculture” was widely catered to by Madison Avenue and very much a corporate affair.
The “Militia” movement, the “Tea Party” , “Black Lives Matter” even, perhaps. There’s a long history of Populist movements getting the stink eye from the major power centers in government, that’s for certain.
Yes they would if they kept their hippie values.
But those who went into politics didn’t. They saw the temptation that they criticized their parents generation and succumbed to it.
Except they don’t have the moral decency to repent of their arrogance.
They ARE the current fascist Rats.
“...they don’t have the moral decency to repent of their arrogance.”
Indeed.
2022 is a direct progression from the New Left and hippies.
Carlin had several heart attacks, surprised he lived as long as he did. He had the same heart condition Dick Cheney had.
They do in WV also. No where near as much as it once was, but an advantag non the less.
Looks like I lost an e or two.
George had some very
Good Rants on saving
Mother Earth.
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