The United Kingdom has fallen. It’s a country where people are jailed for flipping off traffic cameras, where social media posts can also land you in prison, and where smoking is now banned for anyone born after January 1, 2009. That’s just the tip of the iceberg, and it makes one proud to be American that they are not part of this chaos. And HBO’s Bill Maher was not shy about discussing it either.
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Gillian Tett, provost of King’s College, Cambridge, was a guest, where the comedian peppered her with questions about the smoking ban, the United Arab Emirates not sending their students to the UK out of fear of radicalization, and wondering how this country got so leftist:
What’s happening in the UK has Bill Maher realizing just how “f*cked up” the country has become.
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“Every time I think this country’s too woke, I look at what’s going on in your country, and I’m like, ‘Wow, these people are really f*cked up.’”
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“Every time I think this country’s too woke, I look at what’s going on in your country, and I’m like, ‘Wow, these people are really f*cked up.’”
“How did England get so leftist?”
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That means if it’s the year 2040, and you’re 30 years old because you were born in 2010, you still can’t buy cigarettes.
It might sound like a good thing to some, but Maher can see it’s just another wing of the nanny state deciding what you can or can’t do as an adult.
“It’s illegal to buy cigarettes. Why? I mean, don’t people get to make their own mistakes? Don’t we get to do what we want to do? I mean, you’re an adult, and you can’t have a cigarette if you want?”
Maher’s British guest suddenly got defensive when he pointed out how the United Arab Emirates paused government scholarships for students wanting to study in the UK, citing fears they could become “radicalized” over there.
Tett tried to downplay the no-go zones occupied by Muslims, where Maher and New York Times columnist Brett Stephens mentioned that two Jewish people were recently stabbed on the streets of London.
