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BILL MAHER RIPS AMERICA-BASHING LIBERAL CELEBS WHO VOWED TO FLEE COUNTRY UNDER
TRUMP: THEY’RE ‘STILL HERE’

By Joseph A. Wulfsohn, Fox News

Published Feb. 13, 2024, 5:50 p.m. ET

“Real Time” host Bill Maher called out fellow Hollywood liberals for their
previous vow to leave the country under President Trump but are “still here.”

In his closing monologue on Friday, Maher bashed Americans who complain about
living in the U.S., beginning with politicians like a progressive state
representative candidate in New Hampshire who posted on social media saying “I
need to get the f— out of this country” and former President Trump who said he
“could’ve been relaxing in… the south of France” instead of running for
president. 

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“Again, I’m confused by this political message: Vote for me because I hate it
here,” Maher quipped.

“Now, does America have big problems? Yes. I’ve often cited the ‘America sucks’
list. Things like being 54th in the world in infant mortality behind Cuba, 19th
and literacy behind Russia, 72nd in female representation in government behind
Iraq, a lot of work to do here. And is it possible for a country to lose itself
so much that leaving it is justified? Yes, but we’re not there yet. Not by a
long shot. And we don’t need quitters. We need people who will stay and fix
it.” 

“Maybe the problem isn’t that America isn’t worth defending. Maybe the problem
is that lots of people today are entitled whiners who have no perspective and no
idea how good they have it,” Maher continued, sparking cheers from his
audience. 

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The HBO host shamed the “59% of liberals” who said in a poll they considered
leaving America for good, telling them “You want so badly for every immigrant to
come to this country and experience the good life but somehow it’s so terrible
you want to leave?”

He also bashed the conservative movement in Texas pushing for a secession,
joking, “They have two bumper stickers in that state, ‘America: love it or leave
it!’ and ‘We’re leaving it!'”

He then listed “liberal celebrities” like Lena Dunham, Cher, Snoop Dogg, Bryan
Cranston, Susan Sarandon, Al Sharpton, Whoopi Goldberg, Chelsea Handler and
Barbra Streisand among others who “swear they’ll go if a Republican is elected
and no one ever does.” 

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“Real Time” host Bill Maher called out fellow Hollywood liberals for their
previous vow to leave the country under President Trump but are “still here.” AP

“Miley Cyrus once said ‘I am moving if Trump is my president. I don’t say things
I don’t mean.’ Here she is looking miserable having to endure America at the
Grammys last Sunday. I guess she flew back from Tajkisistan,” Maher said.

“In 2016, Eddie Griffin said, ‘If Trump wins I’m moving to Africa’ – apparently
very slowly because in Trump’s four years, he only got as far as Van Nuys.
George Lopez once said that if Trump won, he ‘won’t have to worry about
immigration. We’ll all go back.’  George Lopez, still here. And it doesn’t look
like the migrant traffic is going back.” 

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“The New Republic just ran a story about the vulnerable minorities who want to
flee America, including the author- a gay man trapped in the dystopian
homophobic hellscape that is New York City. I wonder if he knows that there are
66 countries where just being gay is a crime,” Maher continued. 

“Cute story in the news last month. Burundi’s president called on his citizens
to stone gay people and not in the good way. Wow. suddenly the ‘Don’t Say Gay’
law doesn’t sound all that bad. And Uganda, oh, they don’t just give you a
ticket for parking in the rear, you can get the death penalty for it! In China,
they have the death penalty for almost 50 crimes and in 13 countries, atheism is
punishable by death and 61 impose restrictions on women’s clothing so bring a
scarf.” 

Maher continued with his list of countries with lack of individual liberties:
“According to Amnesty International, paramilitary groups kill the government’s
critics in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and arbitrary detentions are
widespread in Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua. If you’re wondering how
that’s just like no cash bail, it’s not. In Russia, just referring to the war in
Ukraine as a war can get you 15 years in the fabulous prisons made famous by
some of the world’s most famous novels. You think America’s evil because
we didn’t nominate Margot Robbie for an Oscar, just wait till you get thrown out
the window of your very own dream house.”

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Maher bashed Americans who complain about living in the U.S., beginning with
politicians like a progressive state representative candidate in New Hampshire
who posted on social media saying “I need to get the f— out of this country.”
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He also mentioned how thieves have their hands cut off in countries like Saudi
Arabia, Nigeria and Sudan, joking “if you’re coming from San Francisco, do your
shoplifting at home” and how protesters are “shot” in many countries. 

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“It almost seems like the world is full of suffering, intolerance and oppression
on a scale we can’t imagine. But that can’t be true because if it was, we’d be
protesting it. It must only happen in Israel,” Maher quipped. 

The host continued, “And for your exile, if you do wind up in some comparatively
luxurious place like Canada or Japan or the UK, not that they want you, at best
you’ll be trading a bunch of stuff you hate about this country for a bunch of
stuff you’ll soon hate about your new home. It took me only four days in
Amsterdam to learn that while I admire Amsterdam, I don’t want to live there!
The buildings are cramped and shaped like needles, the food is awful, the TV is
in a different language, it’s wet and cold, the people are polite but cold, and
they do a bunch of weird s—, the explanation for, according to my friend, was
‘Just remember, they’re high.'”


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