Valuetainment - January 27, 2026


＂Straight Up Communist＂ - Bill Maher SHREDS Mamdani Over Socialist Taxpayer Giveaways

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Patrick Bet-David
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Bill Maher Mamdani Joe Biden Trump Future Looks Bright George Bush Jr. Anthony Weiner Club Random Humberto Vinny Obama Dude
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Length

8 minutes

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177.61

Word count

1,480

Sentence count

175

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Toxicity

12

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Summary

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Bill Maher is not happy with the mayor of Los Angeles, and Rob is here to explain why. Plus, the latest in the Bernie Sanders vs. Bernie Sanders debate, and why Bernie Sanders is not a socialist.

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00:00:00.000 And so Bill Maher is not too happy with Mamdani. Here's what Bill Maher had to say about Mamdani.
00:00:04.560 So Bill is minding his own business, doing his own show, and then all of a sudden, boom.
00:00:09.060 Here's Bill Maher on Mamdani. Go for it, Rob.
00:00:11.980 It matters that the mayor stands by, and so I assume stands with, someone who says things like,
00:00:20.400 if you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize private property, it's over.
00:00:25.460 Seize private property. Home ownership is racist.
00:00:30.000 Elect more communists. 0.87
00:00:32.900 Private property, especially home ownership, is a weapon of white supremacy.
00:00:37.680 Really? Even among the 20 million black Americans who own their own home?
00:00:44.660 I mean, these are the kind of utterances I might forgive as something a dumb white girl said while she was at Brinoir. 0.99
00:00:54.460 Because it's the kind of privilege-hating you can only learn for $95,000 a year. 0.98
00:01:02.700 But these are statements made as an adult.
00:01:06.240 Yes, for co-eds from elite private colleges, you're only a lesbian until graduation, but the communism lasts a lifetime. 1.00
00:01:14.300 Democrats seem to be having this debate whether or not Mayor Mamdani is a socialist or a democratic socialist.
00:01:22.180 Let me settle it. He's a straight-up communist.
00:01:25.640 How do I know this?
00:01:27.080 Look at the clapping.
00:01:28.160 Not that much.
00:01:29.540 Positive, positive right there.
00:01:30.480 By the way, they pull up the clapping sign, and 80% is like, no, I'm not doing it.
00:01:37.180 I like him.
00:01:37.460 I'm not doing it for this.
00:01:38.540 It's a crowd. Tough crowd.
00:01:39.660 It's not a tough crowd.
00:01:40.780 No, it's a white liberal crowd in L.A.
00:01:42.320 What I'm trying to say is credit to him for saying this in front of a crowd that doesn't support him.
00:01:48.340 Heck yeah.
00:01:48.740 How many people clap?
00:01:50.040 Go back, Rob, five seconds.
00:01:51.200 20%.
00:01:51.520 No, I think it's less.
00:01:53.340 Go back.
00:01:53.820 15.
00:01:54.100 10, 15%.
00:01:54.500 Go back and play it.
00:01:55.680 Play it, Rob.
00:01:56.260 Let's hear the clapping.
00:01:57.800 How many claps?
00:01:59.340 Well.
00:01:59.720 What hand is that?
00:02:00.800 Go back, go back, go back.
00:02:01.520 Can you do me a favor?
00:02:02.700 Is this HBO, Rob?
00:02:04.360 Yes, sir.
00:02:04.800 Okay, so let's find this out.
00:02:05.880 When Bill Maher does his HBO show, how many people are usually in the audience?
00:02:15.520 100 to 150.
00:02:16.460 I want to know what the number is.
00:02:17.320 It's about 100 to 150, right?
00:02:18.660 That's the number?
00:02:19.560 Have you been to it?
00:02:20.160 You've been in front of Bill Maher?
00:02:20.860 It's about 100 to 150?
00:02:22.240 Okay.
00:02:23.020 So it says about 100.
00:02:25.060 Okay.
00:02:25.440 Of the 100, how many clapped?
00:02:27.440 In that room?
00:02:28.220 Yeah.
00:02:28.620 10 max.
00:02:29.980 Go back again, Rob.
00:02:31.060 I really want to go back 10 seconds.
00:02:33.400 Go back 10 seconds.
00:02:34.320 Keep going.
00:02:34.600 Okay, go ahead.
00:02:35.100 Right there.
00:02:35.440 That's good.
00:02:36.480 Straight up communist.
00:02:38.300 How do I know this?
00:02:40.460 10.
00:02:41.040 It's not 100.
00:02:42.840 So his own audience is not happy with him.
00:02:45.000 Go ahead.
00:02:45.260 Keep playing it.
00:02:45.760 Between the lines, when one of his major advisors says,
00:02:49.300 elect more communists, which is fine.
00:02:53.420 It's fine.
00:02:54.360 It's a belief system.
00:02:55.640 He's allowed to believe it, and people are allowed to vote for it.
00:02:58.760 But if liberals deny it, like he's just going through a goth phase,
00:03:02.860 they're going to lose more elections.
00:03:06.440 This is not a communist country.
00:03:08.980 And this is the pendulum never lands in the middle problem I'm always bitching about.
00:03:13.820 Really, the choices we get here are either the worst version of crony capitalism or communism,
00:03:20.740 either a side deal for the Trump family every time he does business overseas,
00:03:26.200 or the lady who says, impoverish the white middle class. 1.00
00:03:30.600 Oh, yeah, there's a great campaign slogan for you. 1.00
00:03:34.660 Honestly, as New York mayoral races go, I was less creeped out by Anthony Weiner's dick. 0.98
00:03:40.060 What do you think about what he just said? 0.99
00:03:51.800 Pat, I'm spitting, like this guy.
00:03:53.780 As a guy from, by the way, take 30 seconds, tell the audience your background so they know where you're from.
00:03:57.740 No, I'm sitting on the right all the time.
00:04:02.960 That's why I'm spitting.
00:04:03.800 Country.
00:04:04.060 Where are you from?
00:04:04.700 Go back.
00:04:05.260 Go back a little bit.
00:04:06.160 Who's Humberto?
00:04:07.520 Who's me?
00:04:08.120 Well, I was born in Chile, grew up in Dubai under a monarchy, best system.
00:04:13.860 Then came to school here.
00:04:16.000 I like democracy better, though.
00:04:17.900 You're a fan.
00:04:18.520 But I came here, went to school here, you know, and then I went back to Chile, ran out of eyeballs,
00:04:25.320 and then I sent an email to value team.
00:04:28.640 I was like, hey, there's not enough Chileans.
00:04:30.720 Like, I need more eyeballs.
00:04:31.660 You apply to us from Chile?
00:04:33.440 Yeah.
00:04:33.820 Stop it.
00:04:34.680 Yeah, I wouldn't have been hired.
00:04:36.540 Wow.
00:04:36.940 Wait to find out.
00:04:37.700 Okay.
00:04:38.120 All right.
00:04:38.700 Well, welcome here.
00:04:39.480 So now go back and tell your story of what you think about what Bill Maher said about-
00:04:43.800 This guy I love and hate at the same time.
00:04:46.400 No, I'm telling you, scripted Bill Maher, he's the best.
00:04:49.920 Like, I think he's funny.
00:04:51.200 He's witty.
00:04:51.940 Scripted.
00:04:52.360 He is scripted.
00:04:52.740 But when he's on Club Random, I'm like, who is this guy?
00:04:55.440 You know what I mean?
00:04:56.320 Like, I don't miss the HBO show, but I can't watch his podcast.
00:04:59.260 Like, I don't know if I'm alone here.
00:05:00.780 But he has some funny jokes there.
00:05:03.940 Yeah, but you make a great point.
00:05:05.180 You know why?
00:05:05.600 Because he has over 10 to, I want to say, 15 writers writing that monologue.
00:05:10.600 And at least they're-
00:05:11.240 Great delivery.
00:05:11.800 He's adjusting-
00:05:12.220 Yeah, they're adjusting to the time, though, because he-
00:05:15.220 Dude, they're not- 0.99
00:05:15.620 You think they're dumb? 0.99
00:05:16.320 They're not watching the trends of mainstream media? 1.00
00:05:18.840 You got to play both sides.
00:05:20.320 That's why he's tolerable and why the show keeps going.
00:05:22.920 If he was just all anti-Trump, he went and sat with Trump.
00:05:25.820 You think he really wanted to do that?
00:05:27.920 Absolutely not.
00:05:28.740 It's a great show, Vinny.
00:05:29.820 No, by the way, if you think I sit there and watch that show, I just watch the clips
00:05:33.380 like in moments like this.
00:05:34.960 But at the end of the day, you heard what he said?
00:05:37.020 It's either crony capitalism or that guy.
00:05:40.960 Oh, really?
00:05:41.580 Or what?
00:05:42.500 Joe Biden?
00:05:43.620 He doesn't mention Joe Biden.
00:05:44.740 He doesn't mention Obama. 0.98
00:05:46.080 He doesn't mention George Bush Jr., the freaking- 0.99
00:05:49.180 The war guy. 0.98
00:05:50.900 Like, come on, man.
00:05:51.920 It's like, you're never going to get something perfect.
00:05:53.340 Who do they want?
00:05:53.860 They want a perfect candidate.
00:05:55.860 America's turning 250 this year.
00:05:57.660 And by the way, we're doing something special on the 250th, 4th of July.
00:06:04.100 Stay tuned.
00:06:04.760 I'll announce it to you when it's ready to announce.
00:06:07.380 It's going to be wild.
00:06:08.060 But we're going to do a handful of special pieces of merch, limited edition, numbered.
00:06:13.700 Okay?
00:06:14.120 This one's going to be out of 250 with the number 250.
00:06:18.240 So it's numbered out of 250 for the 250-year celebration of U.S.
00:06:22.420 It will not last long.
00:06:23.980 Rob, play this clip.
00:06:25.840 Future looks bright.
00:06:26.820 But we're excited about this year with all the chaos that's happened.
00:06:30.060 And when we break down to you what is really going on or makes sense to you.
00:06:33.340 But having said that, Rob, go ahead and play this clip.
00:06:36.080 We don't just make products.
00:06:39.060 We carry a legacy.
00:06:41.600 Built on American craftsmanship, intention, and pride.
00:06:46.680 250 years of history.
00:06:50.260 Refined for today.
00:06:51.400 Every detail tells a story.
00:06:57.720 Every piece stands for who we are.
00:07:02.780 This is tradition.
00:07:06.080 Reimagined.
00:07:06.960 This is our 250 years, limited edition collection.
00:07:14.080 The future looks bright at 250.
00:07:16.200 All right, guys, this is all I'll tell you.
00:07:21.900 Good luck if you sat on this one.
00:07:24.840 If you wait, by the way, for some of you guys that unfortunately will watch this this afternoon
00:07:28.260 because you wait for the clips, you can find the items that people buy on eBay.
00:07:32.940 That'll be the only place you'll be able to get it.
00:07:34.620 The hat will not last a long time.
00:07:36.340 Again, it's limited merch.
00:07:38.040 So it's numbered at a 250.
00:07:40.000 If you go to eBay afterwards, you may find it because these things are not going to last
00:07:43.620 but 30 minutes.
00:07:44.860 They'll be gone in no time.
00:07:45.900 Every time we do limited merch, the hat comes in a box that says Future Looks Bright
00:07:51.960 and the logo, VT, right on there.
00:07:54.600 So go to vtmerch.com.
00:07:56.560 Place your order.
00:07:57.320 Go to vtmerch.com, Rob.
00:07:58.880 If you could, just go to the website.
00:08:00.280 If you go to vtmerch.com on the cover, you'll see the 250.
00:08:03.500 Get the sweater because it's cold.
00:08:05.160 Get the shirt and get the hat.
00:08:06.700 And if not for you, buy it for somebody else as well.
00:08:09.460 Having said that...
00:08:09.980 Can we get close up to the shield?
00:08:10.740 That shield is just amazing.
00:08:12.180 It is amazing.
00:08:13.020 It is amazing.
00:08:13.700 It's sick.
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