Valuetainment - January 27, 2026


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


Episode Stats

Length

8 minutes

Words per Minute

177.61421

Word Count

1,480

Sentence Count

175

Misogynist Sentences

2


Summary


Transcript

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.
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.
00:00:54.460 Because it's the kind of privilege-hating you can only learn for $95,000 a year.
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.
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.
00:03:30.600 Oh, yeah, there's a great campaign slogan for you.
00:03:34.660 Honestly, as New York mayoral races go, I was less creeped out by Anthony Weiner's dick.
00:03:40.060 What do you think about what he just said?
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-
00:05:15.620 You think they're dumb?
00:05:16.320 They're not watching the trends of mainstream media?
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.
00:05:46.080 He doesn't mention George Bush Jr., the freaking-
00:05:49.180 The war guy.
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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